Using AI
How I use Claude and other models for real work, and what public-sector teams can do with them.
Introducing Daf Yomi Dot Dev
I built a Daf Yomi Machine with Claude. I hope it causes me to read a little more Talmud. I explain how I made it. I hope you use it if you're interested!
2026-09
The Only Way to Start Is by Starting
A short paper on how a state or local agency can get real value from AI in ninety days with one accountable owner, a handful of paid licenses, and one well-chosen piece of real work.
2026-09
Music Theory with LLMs
Using Claude Code to write gospel reharmonizations for the fake book, and why next-chord prediction is a natural LLM task.
2026-08
High Floor, Low Ceiling: How Public-Sector Wage Compression Erodes Public Service
Public pay is compressed: a high floor and a low ceiling. Government holds its own at the bottom of the labor market but falls far behind at the top, exactly where elite private pay has soared — software, law, finance, engineering. A data piece tracing the public-sector pay gap by skill, by domain, by level of government, and over time, built from ACS PUMS microdata, BLS/BEA/Census series, and city and state payroll files.
2026-06
How to Save the Government from Microsoft Copilot
Why state and local government keeps defaulting to Microsoft 365 Copilot when the private sector won't, what the head-to-head numbers actually say, and a one-page procurement checklist for getting your agency onto AI tools that work.
2026-05
NYC Property Tax: Who Pays, Who Doesn't
An interactive parcel-level map of New York City's effective property-tax rates — plus the long answer to why two identical brownstones across the street from each other can pay wildly different bills.
2026-04
Jazz Fakebook Maker
A Python tool that converts plain-text chord charts into a searchable, bookmarked PDF fake book — built for reading on a laptop on a piano stand.
2026-02
Other categories: Public Safety, Music, City Government, State Government, Healthcare Policy, NYC