piddonkadonk
Everything I have written down.
Five pillars, one pile. Pick a tag to narrow it, or scroll and take your chances.
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Sep 28JournalI built a watch club so my family would stop texting the same documentary
wen streaming? is a shared watch list for a crew: one list, one Thursday sweep across the big streaming services, one email. Here is what it is, why it exists, how it is built and what comes next.
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Sep 19Tools & TechBATNA, explained with a concert booking
Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement sounds like a minor Batman villain. It is your plan B, and it sets the floor for every deal you make.
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Sep 16Tools & TechThe Claude Code setup I stopped fiddling with
Six weeks of tweaking, then a month of leaving it alone. The instructions file, the skills, the MCP servers that stayed, and the ones I deleted without ceremony.
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Sep 15Tools & TechWhat an AI quality checker does all day
Part editor, part teacher, part playtester. A plain-language tour of reading AI answers, grading them against a rubric, and explaining why the good ones are good.
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Sep 9The ResistanceFinal boss energy
Authoritarianism runs the same script as every end-game boss: a big health bar, obvious tells, and a room full of people who can win once they stop soloing it.
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Sep 8JournalNew site, same donkey
Welcome to piddonkadonk. Here is what lives on this site, what the five pillars are, and what to expect from each one.
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Aug 28JournalTwenty-five years of yes
A forest, an agency, a booking CRM, and one very loud night in New York. What twenty-five years of saying yes bought me.
The first one is on the bench. New posts go out through The Nonsense Emailer before they show up here.
Good Lord!
Seven posts in, the early ones are the throwaways that build the history.
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