Writing on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, self-development and leadership.

Journal on my endless fascination for all things curious and wonderful.

AI Didn't Break the Rules. It Broke the Way We Check Them

Part three of a series on building AI compliance honestly. With 91% AI adoption and 22% of merged code now AI-authored, the point-in-time check - pen test, annual audit, pre-release scan - can no longer keep pace. When AI is in the product too, the system being secured is probabilistic and the combinatorial explosion of agent execution paths makes pre-deployment characterisation infeasible. Why the only fix is a continuous compliance loop that escalates judgement to humans at the speed AI writes code.

An Architecture for Trustworthy AI Compliance (You Can Read the Source)

Part two of a series on building AI compliance honestly. How the Waivern Compliance Framework treats compliance as code: YAML runbooks and rulesets, schema-validated message passing, connectors that read the real system rather than questionnaires, and why every piece of it is open source. The architecture that keeps regulatory judgement with humans while letting the model earn its place transparently.

Anthropic Just Shipped Claude for Legal. And It's Good News for Waivern

Part one of a series on building AI compliance honestly. Anthropic's Claude for Legal release commoditised the connector layer of compliance automation and reaffirmed that regulatory judgement belongs to humans. Here's why that is unambiguously good news for anyone building compliance tools honestly, a look at how the major players actually handle compliance decisions, and the one question buyers should ask to separate marketing from architecture.

A Recovering Programmer's Diary: 30 Days With Claude Code

As the CTO and co-founder of a company creating open-source tools, I spent 30 days using Claude Code for over 150 hours. After years of being hands-off in tech, I wanted to become a recovering programmer. Here are the lessons I learned about working with AI coding agents, from critical evaluation and workflow strategies to code quality and technical debt traps.

Gen AI for the Media Industry: Two Years On

Two years after ChatGPT's launch, media companies show minimal disruption from Gen AI despite rapid technological advancements. Diving deep, we see a lack of strategic alignment with emerging tech, building redundant AI tools offering little competitive advantage. Meanwhile, AI companies are shifting toward advertising-based monetisation models.What can the established players do?

The Reversal Goal Setting Approach & Beyond

Discover the power of Reverse Goal Setting – a game-changing approach that helps you achieve ambitious goals by visualizing success and working backward. Learn how mental visualisation, innovation strategies, and identity-driven motivation can transform your personal growth, productivity, and resilience. Unlock the secrets used by elite athletes, innovators, and high achievers to set and accomplish meaningful goals.

2024 - A Yearlong Experiment in Going Analogue

My journey of redefining productivity by stepping away from digital tools and embracing analogue systems. After years of experimenting with digital solutions like GTD, Emacs, Notion, and Things, I found these tools unintentionally fostered procrastination and anxiety. Inspired by the simplicity of pen-and-paper planning, this experiment aims to build a more intentional, thoughtful approach to managing tasks and priorities. Dive into the challenges and insights of this analogue transformation and discover why slowing down might be the ultimate productivity hack.

Learning Techniques for Life

learning new skills in adulthood has become essential in today's knowledge and tech-driven world. To achieve more without burnout, we need to re-discover how to learn. Here are some that helped me through my Executive MBA study along with a full-time job for the past two years.

Zettelkasten Note-Taking Method

Taking notes in your own words forces you to think deeply about the ideas beyond the passages. To truly understand an idea is not the same as to merely comprehend the written text itself. The translation process is the essence of note-taking. It integrates the newly-learned idea with your existing knowledge network.

Use mbsync & mu4e for Emails in Emacs

Email is a primary communication medium and I wanted my email system to be able to read, archive, delete and draft my emails offline, store emails as plain text files, search emails across multiple accounts, link emails to my TODO items or notes directly, have powerful search options, find emails instantly, even with hundreds of thousands emails, and more. How do I do it?

Encrypt in Emacs with EasyPG

Emacs comes with a package called EasyPG. It provides an interface for GnuPG-based operations in Emacs. It can operate on regions and files, seamlessly integrating with dired and org-mode. This post demonstrates how to set it up to make GnuPG operations in your daily workflow effortless and keep your information safe online.

Data Encryption with GnuPG

A primer on GnuPG and public-key cryptography for protecting personal data in the cloud - from generating a keypair to encrypting and decrypting files.