This is why I have a PKM system

You can improve your decision making process and try to identify good and bad luck.

The only shortcut to mastery is to accept the hard work and find a good mentor

This is why I read history. The lessons of the past can be applied to the modern problems of today.

Just another reason that leading with respect is better than leading with fear.

Everything else is a distraction

During my annual review, I realized: decision quality is the most reliable indicator of executive effectiveness. Not results (luck matters). Not charisma. The actual thinking process. This led me to Decision Systems Thinking - a framework that connects: • PKM (organizing

9 Lessons I learned about Zettelkasten and the Antinet open.substack.com/pub/yazheirx/p…

Claude Cowork Dropped for Pro users today. Gonna hit my limits quick today

The Greeks inscribed 'Know Thyself' at Delphi. 2,500 years later, I'm using AI to do the same thing - and it's working. New post on how building context files for AI collaboration forced me to understand myself better. open.substack.com/pub/yazheirx/p…

Context rot, context collapse. If you are working with AI in any form (even just with chats) you might want to understand this: youtu.be/XQWOdQ8GM4w?si…

For the last 10 years, I was suffering from brain fog and didn't know it. Hyperparathyroidism — stealing my edge slowly, invisibly. But it made one mistake. It left a trail of data. My systems caught what my brain couldn't. This is that story:open.substack.com/pub/yazheirx/p…

My Systems Fixed Me open.substack.com/pub/yazheirx/p…

I built an always-on #OpenClaw AI agent. Named him Ender. He burned $50 in a day while I was busy making smart decisions about security. Turns out being thoughtful about one decision doesn't protect you from being blind to another. The most expensive decisions are the ones

They were wrong. Obviously. They just didn't see it the right way. Except... they weren't wrong. And neither was I. We were looking at the same data and reaching opposite conclusions — and both of us were correct. I spent months frustrated with finance YouTubers who dumped one

Two rules: 1. Don’t mass surveillance US people 2. Have a person make the final decision on lethal force Which of those is a threat to what the US constitution entombs? Which of those restricts the world’s most powerful military from excellence?

AI is forcing every software company to answer a simple question: Do you use it to cut costs — or to build something better? Path one is tempting. Same features, lower price. AI automates what used to take people. Margins go up. Customers save money. Everyone’s happy — until

I broke one of my own principles last week. “Data is innocent” sounded right for months. Then I asked a harder question: what does that actually mean? The real problem was never the data. It was me. There is no neutral observation. That crack revealed a failure cascade hiding

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