Posts tagged “travel”

Everything Important I Built This Year Started Away From My Desk

A year in review, measured in trips, staycations, and one email read on vacation

VoiceCommit started on a hiking trail. BlackOps features get kicked off from hotel rooms. Spotter's biggest weekend began with an email read on vacation. One year of the same pattern, with receipts.

I've Been Wondering About a Plane for 40+ Years. Claude Found It, and Now I'm Logging All of Them.

Claude found the exact Pan Am 747 I flew on in 1984, down to the tail number. Now I'm logging every flight in BlackOps so none of it disappears again.

I carried one airplane around in my head for forty years. Here is how I used Claude to find it, and BlackOps to log it so the question never comes back.

Flying West

How a Consulting Job Changed the Way I Work

A Razorfish call, an Oakley project, and two and a half years of flying every other week changed how I worked—and turned me into a consultant.

Why Travel Unlocks My Best Ideas

How Hospitality, Not Hustle, Became My Creative Operating System

Discover why travel, hotels and movement spark my most creative ideas, boost deep work, and strip away fake productivity so real focus finally shows up

The Idea That Hit Me 2,500 Miles from My Laptop (And Sparked a New Dev Tool)

How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.