I want to be known as a builder.

Right now I am nearer the start of that than the end, which is the whole reason this site exists.

This is where I document what I build: what it was, what actually happened, and what I would do differently. Publishing the reasoning matters more to me than publishing the result. I learn things properly when I have to explain them to someone else, so treat this as me teaching in public and getting better by doing it.

Most of what I am curious about turns out to be one question wearing different clothes: what compounds?

AI is where most of my attention goes right now. Not the discourse, the actual capability. What can these tools really do, where do they fall over, and how do I use them to move faster without ending up owning work I do not understand? I have first-hand experience with that failure mode. It is the first project on this site.

Investing and personal finance, because money is the most legible example of compounding there is, and because the habits that work are boring in a way I find reassuring.

Training and basketball, because a body is a system that only answers to consistent input over years. It keeps me honest about how slow real progress looks from close up.

Small businesses, because I want to understand how value gets made at a scale one person can still see all of.

The plan is to keep building, keep writing it down, and let the record end up more interesting than the pitch.

Reach me

LinkedIn is the best place: linkedin.com/in/michaelttsai