I'm rewiring a 7,000-person company to work with AI. I write down what holds up.
Chief AI Officer at Logitech. Beyond Reason is where the frameworks go, with the receipts attached.
Before Logitech: CMO four times, at B2B companies between $40M and $400M in revenue, including Rocket Fuel through its IPO. Then I founded MeetingScience, which Logitech acquired. Philosophy at Duke.
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How I Built My Second Brain
In July I planned to open-source my AI memory system. Here's the full blueprint instead, and why the build stays private.
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Friday Edition: Tips Need Evals Too
A viral prompt from an Anthropic engineer told me to insist on outside validation. So I ran an A/B test on the prompt before I used it.
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I Handed an AI Agent My Family's Life. Here's What It Can Do.
Skydiving logistics, festival lodging, a parking ticket, a chess lesson: two weeks with OpenAI's Dot, and six things to hand yours.
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You're Getting the Model to Do Less Than You Think
Every step, the model re-reads the whole session. Long sessions leave it less room to think and do, and bill you for carrying it.
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How Logitech Uses AI as a Thought Partner to Drive Enterprise Transformation
Google Workspace, Transformation Architects · Video
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What Fills the Room: Rethinking the A in AI
AUTONOMOUS Summit, Board of Innovation · Keynote
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What Happens When AI Adoption Actually Works?
Beyond the Prompt, with Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin · Podcast
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Logitech: From Raw Data to Slides
Google Workspace, AI Boost Bites · Video
For everyone
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TrialThread
Every recruiting clinical trial in America is public. Almost no one can find theirs. TrialThread is a free, open-source agent that reads the eligibility criteria for you in plain English. It will never charge a patient.
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The AI Field Guide
Twenty-two pages on how AI actually works, for the people approving the strategies and signing the contracts. Free under CC BY 4.0.
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True, Then Beautiful
Two AIs decoded the same living-brain ultrasound file five ways. One painting lied, beautifully. The honest five are in 3D.
For builders
Skills and plugins
- family-assistant-skillClaude as your family's assistant: forms, insurance claims, medical info, and travel.
- llm-coding-workflow-skillClaude as a structured pair programmer: a plan first, work in chunks, a human reviews, small commits.
- email-triage-pluginThree-tier inbox triage with alias-aware routing and reply drafts.
- slack-triage-pluginThe same triage pattern for Slack, aware of which channel a message came from.
- voice-as-a-skillTurn your own writing samples into a voice skill your AI writes from.
- second-brain-blueprintThe blueprint from How I Built My Second Brain, as a skill that audits your knowledge base against it.
- pluginsA prompt builder, a brainstorm that goes wild before it gets practical, and a bodyweight coach that reads your HRV. For Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex; they send me nothing.
Servers and systems
- whatsapp-mcp-serverYour WhatsApp group chats, readable by Claude over MCP.
- whoop-my-aiWHOOP recovery and sleep data over MCP, so your AI can ease off on the days you aren't recovered.
- cocaffeinateKeeps your Mac awake with the lid closed while Claude or Codex works, without cooking it.
Personal
Outside the day job.
Dwight Peltzer, 1935–2026
My piano teacher for 38 years, and a pianist American composers trusted with their premieres. I built his living history: 92 documented entries and 18 performances recovered from analog tape, four of them complete 1969–70 faculty recitals.
Contact
Speaking and advisory: eric [at] porres [dot] com. A paragraph on the problem gets a faster answer than a request for a call.
