Notes on work in motion
Focus, context, and working with AI on a Mac. The ideas behind Tansei.
I Built for One User. Myself.
Build the thing you actually have, explain the problem simply, and use it before it’s finished. Three lessons from building a Mac app as a non-developer.
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Why I Chose the Name Tansei
On sincerity, craft, and the name behind the work.
Read the articleI Thought AI Would Make Thinking Easier. It Made Me Think Harder.
AI is very good at sounding right, and that turned out to be the whole problem. On learning to treat it as a fast, articulate collaborator that still needs managing.
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What Vibe Coding Taught Me About Building Something Real
A marketer's honest take on building a real Mac product with AI: what vibe coding is, why finishing is still hard, and how a small, annoying problem became Tansei.
Read the articleThe Output Is Easier. The Carrying Is Harder.
AI didn’t just speed up work. It changed what a workday contains, and most tools still expect everything to arrive finished.
Read the articleYour Clipboard Was Never Meant to Be a Workspace
Modern work creates small useful pieces all day: links, screenshots, files, prompts, code, colors, notes, and drafts. The clipboard cannot hold them. They need somewhere better to land.
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The New Cost of Context Switching
Modern work no longer happens in one app. It moves between tabs, files, messages, AI tools, and tiny pieces of context. Tansei was built for that space in between.
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