Why I finally started building the small stuff
For years, the tools that would have helped me most never got built — because they weren't worth the effort. That math changed.
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Most useful ideas die at “not worth the effort.” A vocabulary drill for my kid, a score card generator for a boulder competition, a tool to review my own Magic games — none of these justified a weekend of work before. AI changed that math. This is where I write about the small, specific problems I’ve solved because building the fix finally got cheap enough to be worth it — and share the tools themselves, in case one of them saves you the same evening.
For years, the tools that would have helped me most never got built — because they weren't worth the effort. That math changed.