Archive - Retired Techie

A Familiar Town Hall, a Sharper Edge

What people are asking now, and why protest keeps coming up

Mar 24 • Stephen Pao

Separating Meaning from Voice in Product Marketing

How AI enables a clearer division of responsibilities, and where that division breaks down

Mar 16 • Stephen Pao

Vibe Coding in Practice

What building a real scheduling tool taught me

Mar 8 • Stephen Pao

The Unreliable Assistant

Notes from the bleeding edge of AI deployment

Mar 2 • Stephen Pao

February 2026

Running OpenClaw AI

Three tradeoffs I did not expect

Feb 22 • Stephen Pao

I Switched My Internet Provider

It Will Not Be Enough

Feb 15 • Stephen Pao

Teaching a New Assistant How to Be Useful

Lessons from a day of configuring OpenClaw permissions and constraints

Feb 13 • Stephen Pao

Grilling, Suburban Life, and Impact to Health

And some props out to the Seattle Seahawks!

Feb 10 • Stephen Pao

AT&T, ICE, and My Internet

Why I May Leave QuantumFiber

Feb 3 • Stephen Pao

January 2026

An Accidental AI Convert

There is hope even for a Retired Techie

Jan 31 • Stephen Pao

Am I Being Nudged?

Right-wing foreign policy media hitting my feed

Jan 25 • Stephen Pao

Questions I’ve Been Asking Myself

Another step in the transplant journey

Jan 20 • Stephen Pao

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