Your Daily Choices Matter More Than Your Eulogy
Legacy isn’t what people say at your funeral – it’s what you’re building through daily choices right now. This book tears apart everything you think matters.
Small Gestures Beat Grand Plans Every Single Time
You don’t need a grand plan to make things better. Small actions – the thank you note, the conversation, the reusable bag – add up to actual change. Plus they make your life less hollow.
AI Agents Work Best When Treated Like Humans
AI agent teams work better when you treat them like emotionally intelligent humans – understanding each agent’s strengths, managing their cognitive load, and letting them collaborate naturally.
Managing AI Agents Is Just Managing People
Managing people and orchestrating AI agents use the same core skills – just applied to code instead of conversations. Recognition becomes observation, pattern analysis becomes prediction, and conflict resolution becomes debugging.
Why AI Coding Assistants Need More Constraints
You’re using AI coding assistants wrong – they don’t need more freedom, they need better rails. 30 years of coding plus 8 years of AI work taught me why constraints beat creativity.
AI Coding Needs Rails Not Autonomy
AI coding isn’t about autonomy – it’s about constraints. After 30+ years coding, I’ve learned the real breakthrough is “agents on rails” with precise specs.
Your AI Instructions Are Sabotaging Your Code
After 30+ years coding, I’ve watched teams waste hours on AI that generates creative but wrong solutions. The AI isn’t broken – your instructions are missing.
Why Time Speeds Up And How Empathy Slows It
Studying empathy for twenty years taught me why time speeds up as we age – and how paying attention to other people’s micro-expressions can literally slow it back down.
Your Weirdness Is Your Competitive Advantage Actually
A book that reframes failure as growth invitations you can’t decline and argues your weirdness is actually your biggest asset – not the fluffy self-help you’d expect.
How Gratitude Rewires Your Brain For Kindness
Gratitude doesn’t just make you feel good – it rewires your brain to see people differently. Three practices turn appreciation into genuine empathy and kindness.
Thank You Notes Rewired My Brain Chemistry
Writing thank-you notes rewired my brain in an unexpected way – gratitude and empathy feed each other, creating an upward spiral that literally changes how we connect.
AI’s Pattern Matching Trap Blocks Real Intelligence
We’re training autocomplete engines and calling it intelligence. The next breakthrough probably won’t come from bigger LLMs – it’ll abandon pattern matching entirely.
AI Agents Will Replace LLMs Within Years
After 30+ years coding and 8 years in AI, here’s my bet on what comes after LLMs: agents that don’t just respond but actually *do* things autonomously.
Why AI Projects Fail: Wrong Problem Size
Spent 30+ years coding, 8 with AI. The secret isn’t the tech – it’s breaking problems into chunks AI can actually handle. Most people fail because they dump entire projects on it.
AI Flipped Programming From Following Orders To Partnership
After 30 years of coding, I watched workflows evolve from rigid sequential tasks to adaptive AI systems that think, learn, and self-organize – flipping the human role entirely.
Why Intentional Communities Fail But Ours Thrives
Living off-grid in Mexico’s mountains with solar power, spring water, and WiFi. Most intentional communities fail – here’s what we did differently at Rancho Cicada.
How To Actually Listen In Relationships
Most relationship advice tells you to “listen better” but never explains how. Here’s what actually works – and why your current approach isn’t cutting it.
Why Empathy Actually Drives Better Business Results
Stopped reacting, started understanding – and watched miscommunications drop, anxiety dissolve, and people show up differently. Turns out empathy isn’t soft, it’s strategic.
Stop Drowning In Everyone Else’s Emotional Drama
You’re absorbing everyone’s emotions and burning out. There’s a type of empathy that lets you understand people without drowning in their feelings – it’s strategic compassion.
Your Brain’s Bad Wiring Ruins Good Relationships
Your relationships aren’t failing because you’re not trying hard enough – they’re struggling because you’re working with faulty wiring that makes you react before you understand.
I Tested Every Coding Assistant For 300 Years
I tested every coding assistant for 30 years. Most are just fancy autocomplete. Roo Code is the first that actually gets it – runs locally, open-source, and keeps you in flow.
AI Finally Cracks Developer Collaboration After 30 Years
After 30 years of coding, I found the first assistant that actually collaborates instead of just guessing. Roo Code runs specialized agents that handle different dev tasks.
After 30 Years I Found My AI Teammate
After 30 years of coding, I found the first AI assistant that actually feels like a teammate. Roo Code thinks in specs first, uses different models for different tasks, runs locally for privacy, and works autonomously like a junior dev who never gets tired.
AI Finally Replaced My 30-Year Coding Workflow
After 30 years coding, I found an AI that actually understands my entire project, handles spec-to-deployment, runs locally, and acts like a real partner instead of fancy autocomplete.
AI Replaces Processes, Cuts Costs 30 Percent
30 years of coding taught me AI doesn’t speed up old processes—it replaces them. Companies see 30% lower costs and 90% fewer errors with agent workflows.
After Testing Every AI Coder Roo Won
After 30 years building software and testing every AI coding assistant, I found one that actually works: Roo Code. It thinks in modes, runs locally, understands full codebases.
AI Kills Jobs But Creates Instruction Givers
30 years of coding taught me AI isn’t just upgrading work – it’s making entire job categories obsolete. Your value now is giving instructions to machines, not following them.
Can AI Really Feel Your Pain?
AI can understand your emotions and respond appropriately, but it’s not actually feeling anything – just pattern-matching from millions of examples. This matters more than you think.
Why Your Expensive AI Tools Sit Unused
Smart teams buy expensive AI tools that end up collecting dust. The problem isn’t the technology – it’s that nobody wants to fight with it. Here’s how to build AI workflows people actually use.
Why Emotional Intelligence Beats Coding For AI Teams
Building AI agent teams isn’t about coding – it’s about managing dynamics. The same emotional intelligence that makes you good with people makes you exceptional at orchestrating agents through “vibe coding.”
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