Practical tools for makers and learners. 2026-06-27T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/ Em 2026-06-27T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-06-27-how-to-run-a-project-build-day/

How I organize and run a single focused day of building, end to end

2026-06-21T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-06-21-how-to-make-your-vibe-coded-app-not-look-vibe-coded/

Your app doesn't look off because of the code. It looks off because of the defaults you never changed. Here's the checklist.

2026-06-06T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-06-06-how-to-stop-chasing-every-new-ai-tool-and-actually-keep-the-ones-that-earn-it/

I tried about fifteen to twenty AI tools over the past year. Six are still in my weekly rotation. Here's the three-question framework I use to decide whether a new tool earns a permanent place.

2026-05-30T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-05-30-playing-the-visibility-game/

Algorithmic platforms reward signals that have little to do with whether your product is any good. So I stopped trying to become a content creator and built a pipeline instead.

2026-05-23T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-05-23-nobodys-waiting-for-you/

I posted polished content and it flopped. Then I posted a voice note transcript in a teacher subreddit and got 87k impressions. Here's what that taught me about the difference between broadcasting and actually going to people.

2026-05-16T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-05-16-empire-of-ai-book-review/

Karen Hao's account of OpenAI's rise reads differently when you're actively building with their tools. Some parts were uncomfortable to sit with.

2026-05-03T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-05-03-manuscript-to-moving-characters/

The pipeline to turn your creative work into video just got short enough for a solo builder. Not because the AI got smarter. Because the right tools finally fit a weekend.

2026-04-25T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-04-25-the-hype-cycle-is-older-than-the-internet/

The AI-expert wave looks new because the tools are new. The shape under it is ancient — and recognising the shape doesn't make you immune, it just gives you somewhere to stand.

2026-04-19T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-04-19-the-forests-are-always-thinning/

A podcast about the Maya collapse on a weekend run, and the familiar shape of it — the way discipline quietly unspends itself once the pressure eases.

2026-04-12T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-04-12-rejuvenate-with-moon-joy/

Watching Artemis orbit the Moon with thousands of strangers online—and finding that same wonder showing up in my AI work.

2026-04-05T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-04-05-work-of-giants-living-wiki/

On the gap between seeing the ruins and understanding how they were built — and what that eighth-century anonymous poet has to do with how we're using AI right now.

2026-03-29T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-03-29-what-do-you-do-when-the-ground-keeps-moving/

Every great civilisation adapted to change. But adaptation has real costs and real losers. The Khmer Empire and the AI moment we're living through have more in common than you'd think.

2026-03-21T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-03-21-the-bottleneck-moved-karpathy-agent-workflow/

Unpacking Andrej Karpathy's No Priors conversation on coding agents, AGENTS.md files, AutoResearch, and what the shift to declarative workflows means for solo builders.

2026-02-16T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-02-16-spqr-book-review/

A thousand years of Roman history that feels uncomfortably relevant to the present. Dense start, brilliant payoff.

2026-02-16T00:00:00Z https://creativemindhabits.com/posts/2026-02-16-two-months-later-what-happened-after-zero-signups/

In December, I launched to zero signups. Two months later, here's what the pause taught me and what's different now.