Field Notes
Lessons from building AI products, transforming workflows, and learning in public.

Founder Story6 min
Why I Started Journaling to Find My Inner Compass
The 37-year story behind BECOME.
Read the story

Building BECOME4 min
The App Made Me Cry
What two days of debugging the Inner Compass taught me about rest.

Shipping5 min
Three Weeks From PRD to Live
What shipping BECOME solo taught me about my own pace.
More Topics, Coming Soon
- —Why most AI projects fail before they start
- —Why most chatbots are terrible (and what "good" actually looks like)
- —Designing AI people actually trust
- —Shipping vs. waiting
- —What government transformation work taught me about change
- —Muay Thai taught me more about product management than most frameworks did
- —Monthly build logs — what I'm learning, testing, breaking
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