The Cabbage Bath: My Method for an Ultimate Stovetop Chicken Breast
A one-pan chicken breast method that uses a mountain of cabbage and onions as an edible lid, creating juicy chicken and a deeply flavored vegetable side.
Read articleNotebook
Ideas to read, prompts to use, series to play, systems to run, and skills to install.
Writing develops an argument. Prompts define assignments. Series put those assignments in working order. Loops sustain progress. Skills carry a method into the next problem. Quotes keep the sharpest ideas close.
From the notebook
Read it. Use it. Run it. Keep it.
A few recent entries from across the notebook, kept distinct enough to remain useful.
The product contract conformance loop
A product-quality loop that turns a business logic or product contract document into an evidence-backed implementation audit.
Open loopRead quoteDo you want to give it all away, or keep enough to keep building?
Read
Writing.
Arguments, postmortems, technical notes, and ideas worked through in public.
Two reps in reserve: Why stop before failure?
Why stopping at 2 RIR can preserve strength and muscle gains while reducing fatigue—and where training to failure still belongs.
Health Strength trainingRepetitions in reserve
Read article Where will GTM be in 3–5 years from now?
GTM may become almost entirely automated inside companies, but fragmented markets, human behavior, and competitive secrecy will keep the commercial layer alive.
Go-to-market GTM engineeringSales automation
Read article Grok for the browser. Codex for the repository.
My practical division of labor for AI tools: Grok for browser-centered exploration and Codex for grounded work inside a repository.
AI systems CodexGrok
Read article Observability is an extra data layer for production agents
Logs, metrics, traces, and release context give agents a queryable account of production that browser checks and source code cannot provide alone.
AI systems AI agentsObservability
Read article Use
Prompts.
Use focused Codex assignments, fixed prompt workflows, or orchestrators that coordinate prompt series.
Full-cycle product operating graph
A graph-engineered series orchestrator with parallel evidence frontiers, isolated workers, independent skeptics, merger nodes, human gates, and durable cross-series state.
- A production-derived graph manifest covering every unique canonical series node and shared step
- Safe parallel frontiers with disjoint worker artifacts and independent validation
- Per-node traces, skeptic reviews, merger decisions, invalidation lineage, and resumable state
Alternative and workaround discovery
A workflow-observation prompt for mapping manual processes, templates, scripts, services, alternatives, and the reasons people may keep them.
- An alternative map at docs/product-intelligence/alternatives-workarounds.md
- A machine-readable alternative ledger at docs/product-intelligence/alternatives-workarounds.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/alternatives-workarounds-changelog.md
Competitor behavior and change analysis
A bounded competitor-observation prompt that records documented workflows, pricing, changes, incidents, limitations, and tradeoffs without feature-checklist theater.
- A competitor observation at docs/product-intelligence/competitor-observations.md
- A machine-readable change ledger at docs/product-intelligence/competitor-observations.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/competitor-observations-changelog.md
Current product and job baseline
A repository-grounding prompt that defines what the product demonstrably does, its apparent job, and the evidence ceiling for no-contact research.
- A product and job baseline at docs/product-intelligence/product-job-baseline.md
- A machine-readable baseline at docs/product-intelligence/product-job-baseline.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/product-job-baseline-changelog.md
Full-cycle product operating loop
A production-linked series orchestrator that routes observational intelligence, product development, and GTM through one gated, resumable operating loop.
- A production-verified manifest for all three canonical series
- A resumable loop state at docs/operating-loop/state.md and state.yaml
- Evidence-capped routing across observation, product development, and GTM
Observational evidence normalization
A local synthesis prompt that unifies no-contact research streams into an atomic, deduplicated ledger while preserving source kind, directness, conflicts, and bias.
- A canonical ledger at docs/product-intelligence/evidence-ledger.md
- A machine-readable ledger at docs/product-intelligence/evidence-ledger.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/evidence-ledger-changelog.md
Observational opportunity ranking
An evidence-capped ranking prompt that nominates no more than three public problem patterns for Product feedback without authorizing roadmap work.
- An observational ranking at docs/product-intelligence/opportunity-ranking.md
- A machine-readable ranking at docs/product-intelligence/opportunity-ranking.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/opportunity-ranking-changelog.md
Observational problem-pattern synthesis
A pattern-synthesis prompt that groups traceable observations by actor, situation, job, failed outcome, and workaround while testing rival explanations.
- A problem-pattern review at docs/product-intelligence/problem-patterns.md
- A machine-readable pattern model at docs/product-intelligence/problem-patterns.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/problem-patterns-changelog.md
Product acceptance verification
A contract-led verification prompt for proving the delivered increment across behavior, business rules, permissions, failure paths, tests, and declared quality bars.
- An acceptance report at docs/product/acceptance-verification.md
- A machine-readable verification ledger at docs/product/acceptance-verification.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/acceptance-verification-changelog.md
Product adoption enablement
An enablement prompt for preparing onboarding, in-product guidance, documentation, support, sales, and customer communication around an accepted product outcome.
- An adoption plan at docs/product/adoption-enablement.md
- A machine-readable enablement model at docs/product/adoption-enablement.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/adoption-enablement-changelog.md
Product cycle decision
A cycle-closing prompt that combines product outcomes, friction, commercial evidence, quality, and cost into one expand, iterate, maintain, rollback, retire, or rediscover decision.
- A cycle decision at docs/product/cycle-decision.md
- A machine-readable decision at docs/product/cycle-decision.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/cycle-decision-changelog.md
Product discovery synthesis
An evidence-synthesis prompt for testing a defined product problem against authorized research, behavior, support, technical reality, and the fastest remaining discovery tests.
- A discovery synthesis at docs/product/discovery-synthesis.md
- A machine-readable evidence model at docs/product/discovery-synthesis.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/discovery-synthesis-changelog.md
Product friction diagnosis
A diagnosis prompt for separating defects, discoverability, comprehension, workflow mismatch, missing value, and rollout failure before prescribing the next fix.
- A friction diagnosis at docs/product/friction-diagnosis.md
- A machine-readable diagnosis at docs/product/friction-diagnosis.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/friction-diagnosis-changelog.md
Product implementation plan
A repository-aware planning prompt that maps a contracted increment onto current architecture, dependencies, tests, migrations, observability, rollout, and rollback.
- An implementation plan at docs/product/implementation-plan.md
- A machine-readable plan at docs/product/implementation-plan.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/implementation-plan-changelog.md
Product increment contract
A contract-authoring prompt for converting one solution shape into explicit product behavior, business rules, permissions, non-goals, quality bars, and measurable acceptance.
- A product contract at docs/product/increment-contract.md
- A machine-readable contract at docs/product/increment-contract.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/increment-contract-changelog.md
Product increment delivery
A bounded implementation prompt for delivering one contracted increment, maintaining a requirement ledger, preserving unrelated work, and verifying every changed behavior.
- The bounded implementation and relevant regression coverage
- A delivery record at docs/product/increment-delivery.md
- A machine-readable requirement ledger at docs/product/increment-delivery.yaml
Product opportunity prioritization
An evidence-weighted prompt for choosing which product opportunity deserves attention without turning request volume, executive preference, or one large account into priority.
- An opportunity decision at docs/product/opportunity-prioritization.md
- A machine-readable opportunity model at docs/product/opportunity-prioritization.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/opportunity-prioritization-changelog.md
Product outcome measurement
An outcome-review prompt for comparing mature, authorized post-release evidence with the original baseline, target behavior, customer result, and delivery cost.
- An outcome review at docs/product/outcome-measurement.md
- A machine-readable outcome model at docs/product/outcome-measurement.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/outcome-measurement-changelog.md
Product problem definition
A problem-framing prompt for turning one prioritized opportunity into a bounded user, context, failed outcome, baseline, and falsifiable product problem.
- A bounded problem record at docs/product/problem-definition.md
- A machine-readable problem model at docs/product/problem-definition.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/problem-definition-changelog.md
Product release readiness
A release-gate prompt for deciding whether an accepted increment can be exposed safely given operational, migration, security, accessibility, support, and rollback evidence.
- A release gate at docs/product/release-readiness.md
- A machine-readable gate at docs/product/release-readiness.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/release-readiness-changelog.md
Product rollout observation
A read-only observation prompt for reconstructing which approved rollout stages actually happened, who approved them, who was exposed, and where execution diverged from plan.
- A rollout observation at docs/product/rollout-observation.md
- A machine-readable execution record at docs/product/rollout-observation.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/rollout-observation-changelog.md
Product rollout planning
A constrained rollout prompt for converting a release decision into cohorts, exposure stages, migrations, monitoring, human ownership, stop conditions, and rollback actions.
- A rollout plan at docs/product/rollout-plan.md
- A machine-readable rollout model at docs/product/rollout-plan.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/rollout-plan-changelog.md
Product solution shaping
A solution-shaping prompt for comparing materially different product approaches against the problem, current architecture, risk, reversibility, and measurable outcome.
- A selected solution shape at docs/product/solution-shaping.md
- A machine-readable comparison at docs/product/solution-shaping.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product/solution-shaping-changelog.md
Public evidence research policy
A policy-authoring prompt that bounds passive public research by source access, privacy, sampling, data minimization, and no-contact rules.
- A research policy at docs/product-intelligence/research-policy.md
- A machine-readable policy at docs/product-intelligence/research-policy.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/research-policy-changelog.md
Public evidence source map
A source-discovery prompt for choosing a small, contrasting portfolio of public behavior, experience, search, workaround, and category evidence.
- A source portfolio at docs/product-intelligence/source-map.md
- A machine-readable source map at docs/product-intelligence/source-map.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/source-map-changelog.md
Review, complaint, and issue mining
A no-contact mining prompt that separates public statements, reproducible behavior, requests, duplicates, counterevidence, and platform bias.
- An experience-signal review at docs/product-intelligence/experience-signals.md
- A machine-readable signal ledger at docs/product-intelligence/experience-signals.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/experience-signals-changelog.md
Search-demand and question mining
A bounded observation prompt for recording public problem language, desired outcomes, comparisons, and questions without turning search visibility into demand.
- A search-signal review at docs/product-intelligence/search-demand.md
- A machine-readable signal ledger at docs/product-intelligence/search-demand.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/search-demand-changelog.md
Synthetic scenario and edge-case stress testing
A reasoning prompt that uses explicitly assumed scenarios to challenge observational patterns, expose edge cases, and design falsification probes without fabricating feedback.
- A stress test at docs/product-intelligence/synthetic-stress-test.md
- A machine-readable scenario model at docs/product-intelligence/synthetic-stress-test.yaml
- An append-only record at docs/product-intelligence/synthetic-stress-test-changelog.md
Campaign execution
A capacity-constrained planning prompt for choosing at most three beachhead channels, specifying assets and commitments, and refusing omnichannel theater.
- A campaign plan at docs/gtm/campaigns.md
- A machine-readable campaign model at docs/gtm/campaigns.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/campaigns-changelog.md
Channel testing
A pre-registration prompt for testing acquisition channels on the same beachhead commitment, with fully loaded cost and kill rules, without declaring winners from imagined results.
- A channel-test plan at docs/gtm/channels.md
- A machine-readable experiment model at docs/gtm/channels.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/channels-changelog.md
Deal ownership
A founder-led deal playbook prompt covering discovery, a truthful demo, negotiation with walk-away conditions, and close or loss codes.
- A deal playbook at docs/gtm/deals.md
- A machine-readable deal model at docs/gtm/deals.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/deals-changelog.md
Implementation and support
An operating-design prompt for activation, time-to-value, the implementation path, support boundaries, and onboarding capacity the sales motion cannot outrun.
- An onboarding system at docs/gtm/onboarding.md
- A machine-readable onboarding model at docs/gtm/onboarding.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/onboarding-changelog.md
Lead generation and nurturing
A planning prompt for the path from first recognition to a commitment-bearing conversation, with landing surfaces, sequences, and qualification that can fail.
- A nurture path at docs/gtm/nurture.md
- A machine-readable path model at docs/gtm/nurture.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/nurture-changelog.md
Metric tracking
A measurement-design prompt for the few commercial metrics that can change a decision, with formulas, sources, and an honest unknown when the instrument does not exist.
- A metrics record at docs/gtm/metrics.md
- A machine-readable scorecard at docs/gtm/metrics.yaml
- An append-only observation log at docs/gtm/metrics-changelog.md
Pipeline management
A system-design prompt for pipeline entry, qualification that can fail, and stages that move only on evidence, counting purchasing units instead of CRM theater.
- A pipeline system at docs/gtm/pipeline.md
- A machine-readable pipeline model at docs/gtm/pipeline.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/pipeline-changelog.md
Pricing and packaging
An evidence-capped prompt for turning an ICP, market audit, and position into a pricing unit, defensible bounds, and packages that sell the beachhead job without invented willingness to pay.
- A pricing record at docs/gtm/pricing.md
- A machine-readable offer model at docs/gtm/pricing.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/pricing-changelog.md
Process optimization
A diagnosis prompt for the actual commercial path and its constraint, with at most three handoff fixes and a bias against adding meetings, tools, or roles.
- A process record at docs/gtm/process.md
- A machine-readable process model at docs/gtm/process.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/process-changelog.md
Product feedback
A synthesis prompt that turns current-product, customer, usage, support, commercial, and bounded public evidence into product input without letting volume capture the roadmap.
- A product-input record at docs/gtm/feedback.md
- A machine-readable theme model at docs/gtm/feedback.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/feedback-changelog.md
Retention and expansion
An operating-design prompt for retention at the product’s natural cadence, renewal without silent discounts, and expansion only along evidenced jobs.
- A retention system at docs/gtm/retention.md
- A machine-readable retention model at docs/gtm/retention.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/retention-changelog.md
Sales collateral
An authoring prompt for the smallest playbook, pitch, proof appendix, and objection cards that stay inside the position and the evidence ceiling.
- A collateral record at docs/gtm/collateral.md
- A machine-readable artifact index at docs/gtm/collateral.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/collateral-changelog.md
Tech stack ownership
An architecture prompt for the minimum GTM stack, one source of truth per object, and an explicit list of tools not to buy yet.
- A stack record at docs/gtm/stack.md
- A machine-readable stack model at docs/gtm/stack.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/stack-changelog.md
Positioning and messaging
An evidence-capped prompt for turning an ICP hypothesis, and a market audit when it exists, into one comparison, one retrieval noun, and a message hierarchy whose public claims cannot outrun the proof.
- A positioning record at docs/gtm/positioning.md
- A machine-readable positioning model at docs/gtm/positioning.yaml
- An append-only change record at docs/gtm/positioning-changelog.md
Best time for my walk today
A weather-aware prompt that favors cloudy, post-rain conditions while weighing the full remainder of the day to choose one exact departure time.
- One exact recommended departure time after reviewing the rest of the day
- An ideal walk window and one backup time
- A concise comparison explaining why the chosen period wins
Initial ICP market validation sprint
A founder-led prompt for turning an ICP and market audit into a 30-day validation sprint with qualified accounts, commitment-bearing pilots, and decision gates.
- A pre-registered validation plan and machine-readable hypothesis system
- A 10–15-purchasing-unit cohort tied to sprint-critical hypotheses
- A pilot offer, interview guide, and account-specific outreach playbook
Initial ICP-to-market-validation sequence
A portable prompt workflow that infers a codebase-supported ICP, audits its market, and prepares a 30-day validation sprint while preserving earlier artifacts.
- A codebase-supported ICP and narrow initial beachhead
- A bottom-up market audit and traceable prospect universe
- A pre-registered 30-day market-validation sprint
Initial ICP market audit
A bottom-up market-audit prompt for turning a completed ICP into a reproducible account census, economic model, reachable prospect universe, and capacity-constrained market decision.
- A sourced market audit at docs/gtm/market.md
- A machine-readable market model at docs/gtm/market.yaml
- A traceable prospect universe at docs/gtm/prospect-universe.csv
icp-v0.1: inferred from codebase
An autonomous, evidence-backed prompt for reconstructing an implemented product’s strongest initial Ideal Customer Profile from its codebase.
- An evidence-backed ICP report at docs/gtm/icp.md
- A machine-readable ICP hypothesis at docs/gtm/icp.yaml
- Competing segment scores, falsification tests, and explicit Red / Yellow / Green boundaries
icp-v0.2: updated after interviews
An evidence-weighted prompt for updating a codebase-derived ICP with completed customer-discovery interviews while preserving contradictions and uncertainty.
- An interview-evidence-backed ICP update at docs/gtm/icp-v0.2.md
- A machine-readable v0.2 hypothesis at docs/gtm/icp-v0.2.yaml
- A traceable version history at docs/gtm/icp-changelog.md
icp-v0.3: updated after paid pilots
An evidence-disciplined prompt for updating an interview-supported ICP with paid-pilot data across payment, activation, realized value, delivery cost, and repeatability.
- A paid-pilot-evidence-backed ICP update at docs/gtm/icp-v0.3.md
- A machine-readable v0.3 hypothesis at docs/gtm/icp-v0.3.yaml
- An appended v0.2-to-v0.3 record in docs/gtm/icp-changelog.md
icp-v1.0: supported by activation, retention, and economic evidence
An evidence-led prompt for promoting ICP v0.3 only when activation, customer value, retention, repeatability, and unit economics support it.
- An operational ICP v1.0 Markdown and YAML pair only when promotion is supported
- An explicit ICP v1.0 readiness report when the evidence is insufficient
- An appended promotion decision in docs/gtm/icp-changelog.md
Play
Series.
Paginate through an ordered operating playlist instead of picking prompts from a pile.
Full-cycle GTM
A twenty-prompt playlist for owning the commercial engine from ICP through positioning, demand, sales, onboarding, and revenue operations.
- 1. Strategy and market positioning
- 2. Marketing and demand generation
- 3. Sales execution and closing
- 4. Customer onboarding and growth
- 5. Revenue operations and analytics
Full-cycle observational product intelligence
A twelve-prompt no-contact playlist for turning public behavior, language, alternatives, experience reports, and category change into bounded product input without inventing customer certainty.
- 1. Product and research foundation
- 2. Public signal observation
- 3. Evidence and pattern synthesis
- 4. Opportunity and product handoff
Full-cycle product development
A sixteen-prompt playlist for turning customer and product evidence into a prioritized problem, a contracted increment, verified delivery, a controlled release, and the next product decision.
- 1. Evidence and product direction
- 2. Discovery and solution shaping
- 3. Specification and delivery
- 4. Release and adoption
- 5. Measurement and iteration
Install
Agent skills.
Open, reusable capabilities with public source and direct Codex installation prompts.
Reason From Experience
Turn prior coding outcomes into better next actions instead of merely retaining them as memory.
Memory answers what happened. Intuition asks what those outcomes imply here, what is materially different now, and why the next move should work when a similar one did not.
Open skillRun
Loops.
Small operating systems for making progress, measuring it, and continuing with discipline.
The SEO/GEO visibility loop
A visibility loop for improving technical SEO, answer readiness, and AI-search coverage through repeated audits and benchmarks.
- Crawl and query benchmark
- Impact-ranked gaps
- Answer-ready priority pages
The architecture satisfaction loop
A refactoring loop for improving architecture through small, live-tested, independently reviewed checkpoints.
- Architecture target and risks
- Live-tested significant steps
- Autoreviewed and committed checkpoints
The sub-50 ms page-load loop
A speed loop for local sites where the target is strict enough to force measurement discipline.
- Repeatable test conditions
- Every public page
- Under 50 ms load time
Remember
Quotes.
Lines and fragments worth keeping close when judgment needs a shorter form.
Anger is blind
Anger may seem to be a source of energy, but it’s blind. It causes us to lose our restraint. It may stir courage, but again it’s blind courage. Negative emotions, which often arise from a spontaneous impulse, cannot be justified by reason, whereas positive emotions can. Scientists suggest that constant anger and hatred undermine our immune system. Compassion, bringing inner strength, is good for our health.
A reminder that anger can feel energizing while eroding restraint, and that compassion offers a steadier form of strength.
Read quoteBuild a method that becomes stronger
Do not build an identity around being right. Build a method that becomes stronger each time you are wrong.
A reminder to let error improve the process instead of threaten the self.
Read quoteThe measure of progress
The measure of progress is not how powerful the future becomes, but whether the lives already here become better along the way.
A standard for judging progress by whether it improves lives in the present, not only by the power it promises for the future.
Read quoteYour mistakes are evidence of where you've been
Your mistakes are evidence of where you've been—not a verdict on who you are.
A reminder that past failures describe history, not identity.
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