Point of view
How I think
How I stay
current with AI
I don't keep up with AI by reading about it. I keep up by building with it — small personal projects where I can pressure-test what's actually possible, then carry the patterns straight back into the work.
Build
Ship a personal project
Pick something real and small, build it end-to-end with the latest tools.
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Extract
Find the pattern
What got dramatically easier? What's now possible that wasn't last quarter?
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Apply
Bring it into the work
Use the pattern on a real product problem, with the instincts already earned.
↺ Every application surfaces the next thing worth building.
What I'm building
Where I pressure-test
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[Personal project 1 — name it]
[What it is, what you built with, and the one thing it taught you that you didn't expect.]
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[Personal project 2 — name it]
[What it is, what you built with, and the pattern you took away.]
How it feeds back
From side project to shipped product
The clearest example: building hands-on with AI is exactly what made a first PLG-led demo in two months feel routine instead of risky. The instincts were already there — the work just put them to use.
[Add one more concrete carry-over — a habit or technique from a personal project that changed how you shipped something at work.]
"I don't read about AI. I build with it."