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The one default I changed in Claude Code
The little setting nobody mentions, and the day it stopped me feeling like a fraud at the keyboard.
Read the issue →I'm Annette. I started a tech company in 1995, raised seven kids, and built things on three continents. Now I'm 57 and learning to create with AI out loud, the wins, the flops, all of it. Come pull up a chair.
One honest, jargon-free essay a week about actually using AI in real life, real projects and the parts that went sideways.
The little setting nobody mentions, and the day it stopped me feeling like a fraud at the keyboard.
Read the issue →Not a tutorial. The honest story of deciding the train had not, in fact, left without me.
Read the issue →What a longevity panel and an AI research helper taught me about reading my own labs.
Read the issue →They kept telling me AI was for young people. They were wrong.
I'm not here to lecture you from some glossy expert's chair. I'm just a little further down the same path, turning around to say: come on, the water's lovely, and you're far more ready than they've made you feel.
Every week I share what I'm building, what broke, and what I'd tell a friend over coffee who asked, "okay, but what are you ACTUALLY doing with this stuff?"
One sunny, jargon-free email a week about actually using AI. Free, and you can wander off anytime.