Posts tagged "claude"

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You’re in the driver’s seat: will you choose to stay awake with AI?

| In AI
| 16 minute read

„Nah ist / Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. / Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, Patmos (1803)

(Near is, / and difficult to grasp, the god. / But where danger is, grows / the saving power also.)

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled Thinking with Claude: why Cyborg writing works better than Centaur writing. In the LinkedIn comments, a reader named Christopher pushed back: Leaning on AI to help me write, he argued, was training my brain to “surrender executive function to external sources.” Examples: freed prisoners overwhelmed by everyday choices, ex-military struggling with civilian life, people leaving long-term institutional care. The source doesn’t matter, he wrote. The offloading pattern is the same.

While my initial answer was along the lines of “using your executive function is a choice”, I think it’s not that simple, after all, and I owe Christopher a real answer. In fact, his comment pushed me into a weeks-long thinking journey, during which I looked for research, came across interesting related articles, and reflected a lot on my own AI use. I also jammed with Claude, and yes: I used the very tool Christopher warned me about to think harder about his warning. We’ll get to that contradiction later.

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Michael Leibovich: How I Built My AI Chief of Staff

Link| In AI
| 2 minute read

Detailed write-up by Michael Leibovich on how he used Claude Code (inside the Claude Desktop app) for implementing his own Chief of staff setup.

As someone running a very similar setup myself, I particularly liked his use-case descriptions and the insights coming out of “externalizing your thinking”. I can totally relate to that!

Also, I agree that installing Obsidian and giving Claude access to it through its REST API plugin and MCP are great for giving it a structured, extra memory layer beyond its own memory mechanism. Claude can write Obsidian-style Markdown documents directly to the file system which is faster than going through the MCP/API, but the real value is the ability to search for existing documents through MCP that allows Claude to discover notes, make cross-correlations and more.

I would add a few things from my own perspective here:

In a Marvel comic-style recreation of the nucleological center from *The Fifth Element*, a futuristic command hub features glowing orange controls and blue monitoring stations. A man in a blue suit with a red tie grimaces as a woman leans in to whisper to him, with a speech bubble reading ‘You have 19 more meetings after this one.’ Behind them, several crew members in blue uniforms work at stations, while a large illuminated circular portal or control interface dominates the center wall with its warm orange glow. The scene captures the iconic sci-fi aesthetic of the original setting, reimagined in bold comic book art style.

Welcome Claude, my Chief of Staff

| In AI
| 28 minute read

Most people use AI like a search engine with extra steps. Ask a question, get an answer, move on. I did too, until I accidentally stumbled into something completely different.

Over the week, I’ve turned Claude into my personal Chief of Staff. What’s a Chief of Staff, you might ask? Think of these people who follow executives around, whispering important things into their ear, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

If you’ve watched The Fifth Element (go watch it, if you haven’t, it’s a great movie!), you know the scene: the president’s aide leans in and whispers something absurdly specific like “You have 19 more meetings after this one.” That’s essentially what Claude does for me now. Except I’m not a president. And thankfully, I have less meetings. I’m a freelance consultant living near a forest in Bavaria.

This post is a bit of a recap: how it happened, what the system actually looks like, three lessons I learned along the way, and, at the end, an unedited interview where I asked Claude seven questions about what it’s like to be my Chief of Staff, with some interesting insights. Don’t miss it!

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Video: What I actually do with AI every day

| In AI
| 2 minute read

Here’s a video I just uploaded to YouTube, walking through 7+1 examples of how AI has woven itself into my daily life — from the mundane to the surprisingly useful. No demos, no hypotheticals, rather what an actual week with AI looks like for me.

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Invite your heroes into your AI conversations

| In AI
| 7 minute read

I had a problem.

I wanted to create a YouTube channel and had my first video ready to go, but then… nothing. Weeks passed. I had ideas, I had equipment, and I’d watched enough tutorials to edit like a pro. But I couldn’t get myself to shoot video number two.

Classic procrastination.

So I did what I often do when I’m stuck: I talked to Claude. But this time, I didn’t just ask for advice. I invited two experts into the conversation to help me figure this out.