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Tool tests and classroom AI notes, plus the workday fixes I kept needing to look up again.
September 8, 2026 · 10 min read
I use Grok Bot every day. Here's how its cloud computer helps with my work, where usage limits get in the way, and why I keep my instructions outside the app.
September 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Astra Commons is coming to Casper. Join me and OpenAIDevs on September 12 at CitiWerks for free coffee, food, and GPT-6 credits.
September 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Grok Bot is awesome, but the rate limits suck. Here's a little trick that's totally legit: run Cursor, Grok Build, Codex, or Google's anti-gravity on Grok Bot's own Linux terminal so the coding work does not eat your usage.
August 31, 2026 · 6 min read
I organize Grok Bot like an org system with a chief of staff, project leads, and shared specialists.
July 25, 2026 · 12 min read
The real prompts, screenshots, corrections, and tools behind a 31.7-second vertical video I edited with Codex and HyperFrames from my phone.
June 18, 2026 · Transcript
A timestamped transcript with Aaron and Kevin labelled in the script.
June 16, 2026 · 4 min read
A night-before anniversary card run left me with a Poke recipe, one dollar-store trip, and a card bench for the next year.
June 15, 2026 · 4 min read
I cleaned up a tiny content ops problem that was getting just annoying enough to matter: one promo slot had turned into a pile of platform rows.
June 4, 2026 · 4 min read
A monthly slide update became a source note: chart, numbers, read of the month, and the manual paste step.
June 2, 2026 · 4 min read
A vague assigned comment had no instructions, so I built slide-ready notes. The deck edit stayed manual because that was the right handoff.
May 29, 2026 · 4 min read
The board already knew what could move and what needed to wait, so the day started without another tab hunt.
May 28, 2026 · 4 min read
A motion piece in Jitter while the designer was out, a Descript API transcript pull to answer a livestream viewer, and a full workshop follow-up that never left Notion.
May 27, 2026 · 4 min read
Opening the day to a ready-made operating card that pulled the real priorities into one place.
May 26, 2026 · 4 min read
A chopped-up day left me with a workshop board and a repo the agents could all read. The content plan got smaller too.
May 25, 2026 · 4 min read
A small prep automation gave the fuzzy workshop lane a page that was ready on Monday.
May 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Four small jobs landed: a watcher, a connector pass, an agent-planning lane, and one hoodie reminder.
April 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Hardware is a Pi 5. Each folder has a SKILL.md, a SETUP.md, and scripts only where a prompt is not enough.
March 27, 2026 · 10 min read
A student told me the tool let him read. The hard part was deciding which friction was still the work. From a Skilling Future Podcast conversation about AI inside a school.
February 20, 2026 · 12 min read
Agentic browsers can move through web assignments in ways revision history may not catch. That changes what a teacher can verify after the work is done.
February 20, 2026 · 10 min read
Cheaper tools did not fix the real problem: creators still have to sound like themselves. Format choices and a few simple systems keep a creator from sounding interchangeable.
March 3, 2025 · 12 min read
Most teacher AI apps are wrappers around the same models. I would start with the frontier tools, then add classroom-specific apps only when they save real time.
February 22, 2025 · 10 min read
Before the app choice matters, students and teachers need a few repeatable habits: give the model context, push for a revision, then check the work before trusting it.
February 17, 2025 · 8 min read
A school AI policy has to answer normal classroom questions about what students can use and disclose, and where teacher judgment still sits.
February 2, 2025 · 15 min read
I made plenty of AI mistakes as a classroom teacher. These are the ones I would clean up first, especially for schools trying to move past panic and tool demos.
LinkedIn and X get some of the rough notes first. The blog is where I keep the version I need to find later.