Hey, I'm Josh.
Product manager by day. Builder and tinkerer by night.
I spend my days building Salesforce workflow tools in regulated industries, and my evenings experimenting with AI tools, automating my home life, and figuring out how to share what I learn along the way.
This site is my digital home base. It's where I keep track of what I'm building, what I'm learning, and what I think is worth paying attention to in the AI space. No corporate fluff, no thought leadership branding exercise. Just a place to think out loud and show my work.
Poke around. Most of this is just me figuring things out and writing it down.
A little more about me
I'm a product manager in Wilmington, NC. Thinker, builder, big idea guy. I spend my days building Salesforce workflow tools in highly regulated industries, and I genuinely love it. Give me a room full of smart people and a whiteboard (or these days, a Miro board) and I'm in my element. My wife Bailey and I spend our free time traveling, hosting game nights, and managing our lives through an unreasonable number of spreadsheets. We share the house with a floppy coonhound and a fluffy Maine Coon who both think they run the place.
I got a taste of building AI tools working alongside some really smart people through my job in AI software, and it flipped a switch. Now I'm constantly discovering and experimenting with the newest AI tools, always curious about what's out there to help me move faster. The last few months have been wild: Claude Cowork, Gemini Gems, and a wave of tools that are changing how individuals work. This site is where I store all of that, along with a bunch of other thoughts and things I care about, before I nuke the rest of my social media and just have this.
What I'm Working On
View all →Forsaken Kingdom: The Missing Manual
The missing manual for Warcraft 3's new Forsaken Kingdom campaign: every hero ability, talent and item with the real numbers, plus my picks. Yes, for a 23 year old RTS.
Claude Starter Kit
Three pastes for getting Claude to handle real work. Personal Preferences, a flat-folder workspace, and the Research / Plan / Implement workflow. Public on GitHub.
Personal Website
This site. Astro, Tailwind, Vercel. Done, and permanently under construction.
Latest Learnings
View all →Which Crash Are You Worried About?
Every AI argument is about one of three crashes: carjackers, toll roads, or the car taking the wheel. Ask which crash someone is worried about, then check how they get paid.
Peak AI Frenzy
You AI everything. You automate all the things. Then you find the checkpoints, realize you overbuilt, and come back down to using less. The comedown is the healthy part.
Explore
Featured Guide
I Automated 70% of My Job in Two Weeks
A guide I wrote to convince my friends to try Claude Cowork mode. If you're curious about AI-assisted workflows, start here.
Featured Guide
Build Faster with AI
A practical AI automation guide for nonprofits and small teams. Three steps to get running, then pick a real problem to solve.
Tools I Use
The stuff that's actually stuck. Everything else got cut.
Wispr Flow
Voice input that actually works. I do almost everything faster through voice now, and it changed how I interact with every other tool on this list.
Granola
Still the best meeting-notes tool I have used. It is not approved at my current company, so I run Notion for work notes now. The link stays because the recommendation is real, and the gap between the best tool and the allowed tool is where regulated industries actually live.
Claude Cowork
The closest thing I've found to a second brain that works the way I do. Connectable, fast, and the backbone of most of what I build.
Incogni
Scrubs my personal data from broker sites automatically. I pair it with Claude for monthly manual sweeps to catch what automation misses. The family plan covers my parents and Bailey too.
Read the full story →MCP Connections
The glue between tools. Connecting Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, and GitHub straight into Claude so it can read and act instead of chat. This is where AI stops being a chatbot and starts being useful.
Google Suite
Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar. The boring backbone that holds everything together.
More coming as I find things worth recommending.