Opening the notebook

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The homepage of this site describes a workshop: rooms for product strategy, physical making, fiction, endurance, and decision systems. A workshop produces scraps — half-finished thoughts, patterns noticed mid-build, lessons that only show up under load. This notebook is where those scraps get written down.

Expect notes on the things I actually spend my days on: turning uncertainty into confident action, building Keel, teaching software to touch the physical world, and what long efforts in the mountains teach about decisions under pressure.

One thing worth saying plainly: this notebook is partly machine-drafted. An AI assistant drafts many of these notes from a topic list I curate, and nothing publishes until I've read it, edited it, and merged it myself. That arrangement is not a shortcut — it's the same system I build professionally, applied to my own writing. The judgment stays human. The drafting gets help.

Short notes, published when they're ready. That's the whole contract.

Workshop Notes — Keno Vigil

Opening the notebook