Daily log

checking the sights and sounds in the ticker

The founders day event was inspiring and overall vibe was there’s far more happening in our back yard than I knew. Outdoor events are tricky, with the stage and seating area being directly in the blaring sun. This worked in our favour, as 80% of the founders skirted to shade areas, which led to far more networking and candid conversations.

soundbytes from yesterday

Before the founders event, went full ham on trying to capture Strava PB and came up short. 5 seconds from kom record and 11 from season goal 🫠. Dew usually starts on the back side of Stanley Park in late Aug (like any day now), and foot traffic becomes too intense for daytime attempts… extended weather not looking too promising.. maybe 1 or 2 more shots on goal? Claude despite best cheerleading attempts states i’m losing 1-2% on my roller maxxing pace, as a minimum per year, and this might be the top. what a jerk!

It’s back! Just wrapped a few meetings and in the back of an uber (tesla of course ha) on my way to Founders Day. Will try to push a few updates with photos and observations. Pretty stoked to run into some old friends i haven’t seen in a minute. Let’s gooo!

This whoosh! screen shine and keyboard cleaner has been the best purchase under 20 bucks everrrrr

Used to use the magic apple cloth but it greased out. Perfect addition to your laptop bag. A++++++

Built a meta tags checker tool, and manually creating some replacement og images in figma. Maybe next I’ll create a generative open graph image tool.. trying to showcase more wip.. screenshots below

I love bringing ideas to life

Always start with the marketing brief. Even if the client, agency, or founder says you don’t need to.. just do it

Don’t outsource day0 inputs to ai agents.. The context doesn’t carry, and you’ll be forced to come back to the brief

If you token max, don’t forget to allocate 20-25% of your time towards manual creative outputs. Otherwise, you’ll brain rot -> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S294988212500091X

Today I’m inventing v0 of a Junastar deck and prepping for Founders Day this Thursday. Which means practicing what I just preached.

My process: brief first, always. Then pen and paper for the first draft. That’s where the story, the emotion, the flow, and the “what the hell is this thing” anyways gets figured out . Only then do I bring in Claude design systems for a first version, and finish in Figma Slides.

Doing it this way forces me to deeply understand the topic and the nuances between pages and the audience. When I skip straight to whatever Claude or ChatGPT pumps out, it clouds my judgement, intuition, and my idea antenna. Same as teaching. You don’t really know a topic until you’ve had to write or present it yourself. Reps build the clarity, confidence, and user empathy. You know the thing cold, and the audience can feel it.

TLDR don’t skip creative writing days or that morning pages routine.

• Refactored a personal project. Wading through an old Figma file hits differently. The goal is to actually build the iOS MVP in September.
• Refactored this website with a dozen design improvements. The experiment of working without Figma is over, or at least going hybrid. I still haven’t cracked how to make design passable without a design tool, at least to my own bar, and I know it’s something I need to work on. There’s a misconception that teams are shipping great work without Figma or Paper. Maybe for 80% quality. Anything that needs to be 90 to 100% isn’t happening freehand from command line.
• Experimenting, and so far failing, with larger context management projects. Talked to a few other builders this week. Everyone is struggling with this.
• The plan is to keep tightening this site without a huge overhaul. I suspect I’ll end up there anyway: waking up mid-Sept saying yuck, and starting over. In the meantime, focusing on different types of AI reps, processes, and agent trees to find what I like best.
• While everyone is tokenmaxxing and trying to increase surface area, I’m reducing mine. Going deeper with a stronger foundation, higher quality. Red hot coals versus spray and pray fleeting flames.
• Captured 2 KOMs this morning, attaching a video below

funny thing, soo most of my interactions with this website happen from terminal now, not the browser. was planning to carve out three or four days in september for a proper refresh but going to start chipping away at it today instead and see how far I get in the next 24 hours

unrelated. my friends golden says hi

PSA your company or product website is your source of truth. While you may have a brand new launch or product or thousands of pages sitting within Google Docs, Notion, Obsidian, etc What the world knows about you is what is available to the internet eye. It’s even more important in an agentic world That scrapes your website, misses nuance, and has 10 other parallel agents checking potential competitors. Ensure your website is up to date. And lean into what makes you a unique snowflake!

wrapped a few major Health and fitness milestones with 3 PBs. chatting with a few different founders. August is shaping up to be token-heavy, which feels like a dangerous metric and rather meaningless. excited to share a slew of new ships and text on where I think we’re headed next.

biggest struggle atm is what or how much to share in public.

starting a new repo for a quick n dirty new kenny.is website. messing around with some new models, and have this playing in the background

pushing this post as i’m restarting ai outputs after an extended break (sick).

one topic i’ve been exploring is how to think different… how models are predictable and those that are ai pilled have offloaded deep thinking to the models, to blindly march toward reinforcement completion.