Start with a story
I have stopped knowing what a productive day feels like
A personal account of producing more while finding it harder to know when the day’s work is enough.
Essays, tools & guides
Work, money &
everyday life.
Writing by George Pu about AI, work, money and the choices behind them.
A builder's perspective, with room to question it.
Then try it yourselfThe task got faster. Did your week get shorter?
Compare your workweekFind something useful
A question to start with.
AI at work
Did AI save any time?
Compare an AI workflow with a real baseline using accepted output, review time, costs, failure handling and a named owner.
Evaluate a workflow
Money decisions
What can you actually spend?
Calculate cash runway, distinguish gross from net burn, and stress-test customer payments and founder expenses.
Work through your runway
Building responsibly
What stops without it?
A worksheet for examining customer concentration, platforms, suppliers and founder dependency through recovery tests.
Map your dependenciesConceptual, AI-generated illustrations. The guides use explicitly hypothetical examples.
New to checking AI?
It said Friday.
A short fictional exercise in checking a source before repeating a claim.
Try the storyFor returning readers
Latest writing
I approved AI work I didn't check
What would let me say no?
The people still using what I'm moving on from
Two daily Vinci users keep returning to a product while I think about the company's next direction. What do I owe the people who stayed?
I forgot how unusual my AI use had become
My work now depends on AI in ways I had stopped noticing. My parents and a friend reminded me how different the same technology can feel.
My Coding Agent Shouldn't Have a Boss
Claude Code is one of the best products I use. That is exactly why realizing how little of it I controlled became uncomfortable.
About the publication: Founder Reality is changing