Category: The Operator’s Notebook
Proof the method travels. Leadership essays, career lessons from seven acquisitions, and builds-in-public where I apply the same AI-native approach to everything from a garden operations site to a home cooking system. If the operating thesis works, it should work outside the office too. Start with Treat What You Know Like Software and The Builder’s Edge.
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Treat What You Know Like Software
A year of garden planning was trapped in a doc and my head. So I shipped it as a fast, public, version-controlled site. Here is the method, and why it transfers to any knowledge worth keeping.
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The Builder’s Edge
BLANE WARRENE shares insights on the latest trends and challenges in AI development. APR 22, 2026 What changes when product leaders can ship the things they spec For most of my career, there has been a predictable distance between the product I could describe and the product I could build. I had the vision. Someone…
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I built a prompt that builds free Claude courses
Most prompt training courses I’ve seen are written for people who already think like engineers. Too much theory, technical terminology, and “as a language model.” The operators and consultants I speak with do not need any of that. They need to turn a messy meeting transcript into a clean exec brief before their 2 pm,…