Writings
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How I work: a brain with repos inside
My working system: an Obsidian vault as a second brain, code repos living inside it, workstreams with a diary and documents, and AI as a pair. Published so I can refine it in the open.
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Refine, never distort
Two principles for improving anything, from an essay to a plan to yourself: keep every true thing, invent nothing false, and know when a rule should bend.
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The Neurochemical Illusion: AI makes thinking feel like building
AI sessions can feel like progress even when nothing changed. What the research says about that feeling, and a one-question test to tell whether a session counted.
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Why Caylent
What my first year at an AWS consulting company taught me, and why I think consulting is the most underrated way to grow as an engineer.
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Ideas worth carrying
Ten ideas I keep coming back to, about building, deciding, and learning. Short enough to re-read when I need them.
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How I deployed martinme.dev on AWS for $0.51/month
S3, CloudFront, Terraform, OIDC, and zero-trust CI/CD. The hard way that teaches you everything.