Thinking

Posts about thinking.

• The Brain Is Rented, the Mind Is Owned: My Personal AI Agent on a 2013 Laptop

  Thinking
  13 Jun, 2026

  I moved my self-hosted personal AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes and run the whole thing on a thirteen-year-old laptop. Why I switched, why ownership beat features, and how I keep it portable, swappable, and backed up.

• Mental Models for Builders: How to See the Unseen

  Thinking
  18 Feb, 2026

  Exploring the mental frameworks that help us navigate complexity in building anything of value.