AI Journal
Experiments in using AI to close the gap between curiosity and creation.
Most of the AI discourse I read these days falls into one of two camps: existential dread or breathless evangelism. AI will displace all our jobs, or AI will transform our productivity overnight. Rather than subscribing to either, I prefer to simply dive deep into using these tools and see how best
Long before tools like Claude and ChatGPT came along, Notion was already my note-taking app, task manager, to-do list and second brain. I still use it that way today, but AI has changed how information gets into the system.
This online journal started out as NICKTONG.md, and goes by the same domain name. The .md was a nod to CLAUDE.md, the instruction file convention used by AI agent frameworks, and to Markdown, the plain-text format behind most of what I build. For anyone in the developer world, the domain name was a
Most people probably think better AI output comes from better prompts. There is some truth in that, but I increasingly think context matters more: whether the AI already understands your work, your terminology, your stakeholders, your preferred formats, your tone, and the standards you apply. A good
My work as an in-house legal counsel often requires me to build PowerPoint decks: internal training, external engagements, and consolidated summaries for leadership. When I am free to choose the medium, I now prefer HTML over PowerPoint.
Part of my job involves tracking gaming regulation across more than a dozen markets: new laws, regulator guidance, enforcement actions, and how other publishers respond in public. I built a legal-regulatory wiki to organise that material into something I can query: not just a record of what happened