THE LAB / SIDE PROJECTS / SINCE 2026

I took a sabbatical to learn AI by building real things.

Every project here started with a problem I couldn’t stop poking at. I build a small system, put it to work in real life, and write down what broke.

Latest entry → FrigoTime public beta, Sept 2026

PARADIGM MAP 7 paradigms, 4 families
GenerativeStructured extraction
RetrievalGrounded generationRAG via NotebookLM
AgenticTool useScheduled agent
Classical ML / NLPnext
MultimodalComputer visionSpeech-to-text
Learningnext
Lab log

What I built and learned

Small builds

Quick experiments, one paradigm at a time

short builds, quick lessons
Aerial yoga video library A file watcher picks up new practice videos, transcribes them, pulls out timestamps and files each one in Notion, so I can search my own classes. Speech-to-textin use
Daily coaching loop A scheduled Claude Code routine reviews yesterday, sends a start prompt in Slack, and a coach logs progress on a ladder of small reps in Notion. Scheduled agentruns daily
Book summary rescue Before a subscription ran out, I scraped my saved book summaries into Markdown and fed them through Obsidian and NotebookLM. RAG via NotebookLMused
Directory prospect list For a friend’s small business: 4,563 public directory listings filtered down to 417 regional prospects, with resumable, rate-limited runs. Automationdelivered