Ian Bezanson Writing about AI tools, productivity, neurodivergence, and the gap between what AI promises and what it delivers. https://ianbezanson.ca/ 2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z Ian Bezanson https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianbezanson/ 3 Million Words Into AI: What I Actually Learned https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/3-million-words-into-ai/ 2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z Seven lessons from an unreasonable amount of AI usage. Starting with: it's not 10x. Ian Bezanson The AI Director Protocol: Stop Chatting, Start Directing https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/the-ai-director-protocol/ 2026-04-12T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-12T00:00:00.000Z Named AI personas with backstories produce dramatically more focused output than generic role prompts. I built 13 for one project. Ian Bezanson AI Unlocked My ADD https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/ai-unlocked-my-add/ 2026-04-13T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-13T00:00:00.000Z AI didn't make me faster. It made me broader. How thousands of AI conversations became the cognitive scaffolding my brain always needed. Ian Bezanson The Conversation Is Disposable. The Context Is Not. https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/the-conversation-is-disposable/ 2026-04-27T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-27T00:00:00.000Z AI conversations die. The decisions inside them shouldn't. How I stopped losing project knowledge and started extracting it. Ian Bezanson Stop Measuring AI by the Stopwatch https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/stop-measuring-ai-by-the-stopwatch/ 2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z AI didn't make me faster. It made me better. Two real builds, one fast and one slow, and what the '30 minutes' LinkedIn genre misses. Ian Bezanson The Two-Message Rule https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/two-message-rule/ 2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z The single habit that takes mediocre AI answers to useful ones. Two messages, in this order, beats one ambitious one. Ian Bezanson Your AI Has an Agreement Problem https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/your-ai-has-an-agreement-problem/ 2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z AI doesn't have opinions. It has agreement reflexes. Here's what that means for anything you're using it to decide. Ian Bezanson The Work Doesn't Disappear. It Moves. https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/the-flexible-sidekick/ 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z AI doesn't make delivery cheaper. It shifts effort to heavier planning up front and finally gets the testing, docs, and polish we always meant to finish. Ian Bezanson Comfort Isn't Sophistication https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/comfort-isnt-sophistication/ 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z A study of 1.4 million AI interactions found the best AI users aren't the most comfortable with the tool. They're the ones who stay in the work. Ian Bezanson Turn Google Docs Into a Gemini Knowledge Base https://ianbezanson.ca/posts/gemini-docs-knowledge-base/ 2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z 2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z Attach a Google Doc of your rules and prompts to Gemini and it acts like a knowledge base: it follows them, remembers, and updates when you edit. Ian Bezanson