Danvers Fleury

Working My Life Into Burnout A personal experiment in applying professional project management systems to personal life - and the surprising results.

So, I spent two weeks trying to be my own personal executive assistantto build a stronger mental model of an AI admin. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! sociotechnica.org/notebook/lif...

Can AI Cure My Addiction to Overcommitting? Exploring how AI can help manage the balance between work and life when you're overcommitted to both.

Good news: In my pursuit of work life balance, the scale is balanced at 50 / 50.

Bad news: The scale can't handle this much weight.

Can all the latest AI model breakthroughs now save me from myself?

WorkSquared Labnote #5: sociotechnica.org/notebook/ove...

I saw a few larger resistance accounts sharing they were feeling discouraged because of all of the accounts who were blaming Dems for the murders in Minnesota. Pls know that the right deploys thousands of bot accounts to try to discourage us. It is a big part of their plan to get people to give up

Beyond the Symbolic: Humanizing AI Tools Exploring Alan Kay's UI design philosophy through the lens of Bruner's learning stages, from DOS to Snap Circuits to Claude Projects.

Many people get very little out of AI chatbots.

What if we applied old school "edtech" (Kay / Piaget / Bruner) to humanize the AI experience?

WorkSquared Labnote #4: sociotechnica.org/notebook/sym...

Innovation Session Planning using AI How we used AI to plan an innovation session.

A 6 hour innovation sprint with Claude 4 Opus.

Maybe 4 days worth of work in 2023?

A play-by-play write-up with example prompts. sociotechnica.org/notebook/pla...

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I was seeking UI inspiration for an AI native workspace. Plot twist: the best UI education was in my childhood games. Join me on a nostalgic 16-bit journey through retro games that solve the complexity paradox better than most modern day apps: sociotechnica.org/notebook/ws-...

Listening to The Dirty Nill (Canadian Rock) at work today. It won't be long before this gets tariffed too, so need to get some reps in while it's cheap. linktr.ee/thedirtynil

Concerned about Autocracy? Click differently. Spring 2025 - Weird in the USA These days, it's tough to be a U.S.

Most of my corporate friends are afraid to publicly speak out or protest against Trump. I'm putting together a series of articles on how to quietly and conveniently resist by personally de-platforming from big tech. Future write up will be on firing Twitter ;) www.linkedin.com/pulse/concer...

Sorry HAL, it's not me, it's you.

We gave an AI our credit card to trade NFTs, then had to fire our digital intern after 3 months. Here's what happened when we tried to make $5/day with AI agents...

🧵 A Q1 2025 Update from SocioTechnica