Day 365: Your AI Supercharger

Three hundred and sixty five days ago I started writing one article a day. Today is the last scheduled one. I want to close the loop by stating the thesis as plainly as I can.

The business problem has not changed in a decade. Technology moves faster than most operators can absorb. The gap between the best-equipped builder and the average one widens every quarter. AI makes this worse and better at the same time. Worse because the surface area is enormous. Better because the gap can be closed faster than ever if you know what to reach for.

First principles

Everything I build sits on three beliefs.

Simplicity wins. The system with fewer states survives longer.
Processes are everywhere. Most agents are just written-down processes with tools.
Tools collapse decisions. A good tool is one that removes a choice you used to waste energy on.

These are not novel. They are stubborn. They hold up in every engagement I run.

The skill soup

On top of those principles I hold a pot of skills. Django, TypeScript, Python scripting, brand design, sales, AI tooling. None of them are rare alone. The combination is. The combination is what lets me sell outcomes, not hours. It is what lets a solo consultant keep up with a team of five. The pot is the moat.

A skill soup has three rules. Each skill must ship real work. Each skill must share a base with another so the flavors blend. Kill any skill you have not used for a client in a year. The goal is a pot you can stir without straining your wrist.

The AI supercharger

On top of the soup sits the supercharger. It is not one tool. It is a short list with a shared purpose. Each one removes friction between thinking and shipping.

Claude Code for multi-file work
Cursor for the inner loop
Plain scripts for glue
Vercel for deploys
DynamoDB single-table for most serverless data

The supercharger is not the skill. The skill is knowing when to reach for which. The supercharger is what you press down to go faster when the skill is there.

The stack

First principles at the base. Skill soup in the middle. AI supercharger on top. When all three are lined up, a day of focused work outputs what a team used to output in a week. I have watched it happen in my own engagements and in those of friends who adopted similar practice.

What a year of daily writing taught me

Writing forces integration. You cannot publish a coherent article about a topic you half understand. Daily output is a test. Most of the growth I made this year came from writing my way out of confusion in public.

If you are thinking about starting something similar, do not wait for the year-long plan. Commit to thirty days. See what sticks. Extend if it matters. The only way this series finished is that I never let myself skip two days in a row.

The ask

Pick one first principle this week. Pick one skill to add to your pot this month. Pick one AI tool to master by the end of the quarter. That is a year's worth of compounding. See the Anthropic research on building effective agents and Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy as starting points. The rest of the library here has the specifics.

The closing line

Simplicity wins. Combine skills. Press the supercharger. Ship every day. Write about what you ship. A year from now your pot will be fuller and your decisions will be sharper. That is the whole game. Thanks for reading.