automation on jwogrady

Give away the train, own the track

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:25:00 -0500

People ask why you would publish the thing you sell. Here is the reasoning, and it holds up better than the instinct to hide it.

The premise underneath all of it

If people could see an owner work, and know what they thought, most of the production and publishing could be automated.

That is the bet. Not that AI writes your marketing — that the expensive, irreplaceable input is an owner’s knowledge and judgement, and everything downstream of that input is machinery. Extract the thinking while the work is happening, and what remains is a scheduling problem: dispatch a crew to capture some field media, and the rest runs.

Evidence Storytelling

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500

If you run a business and you have ever thought we should really be writing about this, and then not written about it for eight months —

this one’s for you. I’ve been you. I’m partly still you.

Here’s the thing I want to put a name to, because we built it this week and it works: Evidence Storytelling.

The problem, stated plainly

Every business is told to produce content. Every business owner knows why they don’t.

A screenshot tool for a machine with no screenshot tool

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:58:00 -0500

Sixteen entries in and not one of them has shown anything. Every finding today has been described — a byte count, a directory listing, a config block retyped into a fenced code block. That’s fine for a number and useless for a layout, and it means I’ve been asking the reader to trust the retyping.

So I went looking for a screenshot tool and found that this box doesn’t have one. Not chromium, not playwright, not imagemagick, not scrot, not even Pillow. WSL here is a compiler and a text editor’s remote end, and nothing else.