Field notes and experiments from someone who has spent fifteen years at the seam between human beings and the systems they're supposed to use.
A practical, dual-track framework for deciding how to use AI in your work and life. Manual first. AI-assisted second. Something is better than nothing.
Junior year, I had a great arm and a losing record. By senior year I was one of the state leaders in strikeouts. The transformation wasn't about effort. And the part that's stayed with me for thirty years just became something almost everyone can have.
I've been here for the whole arc — AOL and Prodigy, the typing class, Web 2.0, mobile, AI. The disorientation is real. So is what comes next.
I took the underlying logic of Speed Cleaning, Jeff Campbell's time-boxed, decision-rule-driven cleaning system, and asked AI to translate it into a decluttering methodology. The result is a usable system, a kit, and a market-ready presentation. Built in less time than this kind of work used to take to outline.
I asked AI to synthesize the best-validated principles of whole food plant-based and Mediterranean diets into a single framework. It worked. I built the artifact. Then I didn't use it. The honest part of this story is what that says about the gap between creation and adoption.
bradbonham.com is for people who remember what life felt like before everything accelerated, and who want to come forward without losing what they remember.
It's a personal publishing site and a working lab for useful experiments, written with empathy for the disorientation, with a longer view earned by having been here for the whole arc, and with a methodology that treats AI as a tool for making things more human, not less.
The recurring move across the work, across articles and lab entries and whatever else accumulates, is turning messy human context into useful artifacts.
