How to Make your LinkedIn Profile Sing - 360Brew Edition

LinkedIn's algorithm has never been intuitive for users of other social media platforms--from its preference for once-a-day posting to how it values different forms of engagement. This got even more complicated in late 2025, when LinkedIn launched the 360Brew algorithm—a 150-billion parameter language model that reads your

Getting Started with Claude Code: Building a Personalized AI System

Every conversation with AI starts from scratch. This tutorial builds the system that fixes that — persistent context, project memory, and a personal vault that makes each session smarter than the last. Built for diplomats, analysts, and federal professionals who need more than a chatbot.

How to Build a Secure AI Agent Setup (The OpenClaw Alternative)

This guide walks you through setting up an AI agent with persistent memory, modular skills, tool integration, and task automation—without exposing endpoints to the internet. Time required: ~2 hours Difficulty: Comfortable creating folders and text files; some terminal use helpful but not required Prerequisites: macOS/Windows/Linux, Anthropic API

Getting Started with GenAI.mil - Dec 2025 Edition

Two weeks ago week, the Pentagon put Google's Gemini for Government on the desktops of 3 million military personnel, civilians, and contractors. If you have a CAC, you now have access to a frontier AI model cleared to handle CUI. Most people will poke at it a few

Seven Steps to Move Teams from Chaos to Coordination

This is for team who know their coordination is a mess but don't have the energy for another change initiative. If you've been putting off "fixing how we track work" because it sounds exhausting, this is the smallest-possible-steps version. You can feel the problem.

Nemawashi: The Coalition-Building Practice That Makes Change Stick

If you've worked in consulting or government transformation, you've probably encountered kaizen - Toyota's continuous improvement philosophy that revolutionized manufacturing. You might know the Lean methodology it spawned. But there's a less famous Japanese management practice that may matter more for organizational

Prompt: Reputation Audit

We all sometimes need to check up on what is published about us (or a friend, colleague, or potential partner) online. While you can certainly ask Claude or another LLM to do your research, it will work far better if you tell it exactly what you are after... Wayan Vota

Linkedin Replaced Its Algorithm and It Rewards Substance

I've always loved LinkedIn as a content platform. Not ironically. I know that's an unfashionable opinion—the site gets mocked for performative thought leadership and quasi-work-related trash. But I find the platform hugely valuable for discovering new thoughtful people and for sharing my own insights about

How AI Actually "Knows" Things

A practical guide for getting more out of Claude and ChatGPT (and written based on conversations last week!) There's a counterintuitive truth about working with AI that took me a while to internalize: more isn't better. Not more training data, not more context, not more conversation

How to Stop Wasting Hours on Slides: A Step-by-Step Guide to MARP

I spent three hours last Tuesday fighting with PowerPoint over text box alignment. Three hours. This is absurd, and we all know it. But most of the "AI solutions" aren't actually solving the problem. They're trying to help you think, communicate, and format all

From 48KB to 5KB: Rebuilding My AI Assistant's architecture to better manage context

Last weekend, I rebuilt my Claude PKM system. Not because it was broken—it was working perfectly fine. But "working" and "optimal" are two very different standards, especially when you're scaling AI collaboration across an organization. Over the past month, my Claude system had

Building a PKM with Obsidian and Claude: A Practical Guide

What This Is: A real-world guide to building a personal knowledge management system that actually works with AI and turns Claude from a chatbot into a genuine thought partner. The Real Problem I'm constantly synthesizing research, connecting patterns across projects, and developing frameworks that integrate insights from multiple