Real experiments.
Useful lessons.

What was reviewed

The local editorial archive maps 104 LinkedIn posts dated August 2024 through July 2026 into 34 themes. Four newer original posts were reviewed in the signed-in activity feed, alongside 18 project write-ups and current public repository information. The archive is not a claim to contain every lifetime LinkedIn post.

Multiple posts about one subject become one lesson to avoid repetition. Personal anecdotes and private project details are omitted; the exercises use invented or public examples. A project lesson does not imply its source product is finished, clinically validated, or production-ready.

The three additional foundation guides cover your first prompt, tool setup, and publishing a static site. Setup references the official OpenAI quickstart. Tool interfaces and access can change.

The four newer posts

• Original post ↗ · Build a useful free tool: lessons from Reach
• Original post ↗ · Prototype a one-level game with AI
• Original post ↗ · Add a learning loop to a game
• Original post ↗ · Check an AI answer for made-up facts in 15 minutes

The 34 archived themes

Post numbers refer to the preserved local coverage map. Where an individual original URL was unavailable, the archive theme is identified instead of inventing a link. View Patrick’s LinkedIn activity.

1. Sodium Is the Final Boss

   Archive post numbers: 1. Try the lesson ↗

2. Black Belt With Wi-Fi

   Archive post numbers: 2. Try the lesson ↗

3. The Best AI Use Case I Built Was Not About Productivity

   Archive post numbers: 3. Try the lesson ↗

4. The Floor Has an Aggressive Onboarding Process

   Archive post numbers: 4. Try the lesson ↗

5. My AI Read My Week, Compared It With My Goals, and Chose Violence

   Archive post numbers: 5. Try the lesson ↗

6. Future You Does Not Need a Vision Board. He Needs Receipts.

   Archive post numbers: 6, 7. Try the lesson ↗

7. The Saturday Laboratory

   Archive post numbers: 8. Try the lesson ↗

8. The Twenty-Dollar Software Company

   Archive post numbers: 9. Try the lesson ↗ Original LinkedIn post ↗

9. The Collector’s Pen and the Danger of Outsourcing Every Sentence

   Archive post numbers: 10. Try the lesson ↗

10. Duolingo Did Not Teach Thai, So I Built a Game That Did

    Archive post numbers: 11, 12. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

11. The One-Person Agency Is Not a Theory Anymore

    Archive post numbers: 13, 14. Try the lesson ↗

12. I Gave My House a Brain and Refused to Give It the Internet

    Archive post numbers: 15. Try the lesson ↗

13. Software Is Judged at the Top of a Telephone Pole

    Archive post numbers: 16. Try the lesson ↗

14. Stop Asking Which AI Is Best. Build a Bench.

    Archive post numbers: 17, 39, 40, 77, 78, 85. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

15. Turn Messy Inputs Into Visual Systems

    Archive post numbers: 18, 19, 69. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

16. The Thousand-Dollar Website That Needed an Apology

    Archive post numbers: 20. Try the lesson ↗

17. I Built the Future From the Corner of a Hospital Room

    Archive post numbers: 21. Try the lesson ↗

18. Study Like a Record Producer

    Archive post numbers: 22, 53, 73, 91, 92. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

19. If You Want People to Understand AI, Give Them Something to Watch

    Archive post numbers: 23, 27, 58, 61, 63, 66, 67, 80, 93, 98, 99, 100, 103. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

20. Ask Why Before You Ask How

    Archive post numbers: 24, 26, 28, 30, 41, 42, 44, 45. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

21. I Told GPT to Take the Wheel. It Built Debugging Tools.

    Archive post numbers: 25, 34, 35, 37, 38. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

22. My First Technology Empire Sold Illegal Nintendo Games to Ten-Year-Olds

    Archive post numbers: 29, 60. Try the lesson ↗

23. Three Missing Teeth and the Difference Between a Loss and a Curriculum

    Archive post numbers: 31, 65. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

24. Stop Working Smarter. Become Usefully Lazy.

    Archive post numbers: 32. Try the lesson ↗

25. I Spent More Time Building the Music-Video Machine Than the Music Video

    Archive post numbers: 33, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 56, 59. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

26. I Asked My AI to Analyze Me. It Found a Prototype Graveyard.

    Archive post numbers: 36, 49, 79. Try the lesson ↗ One of the original LinkedIn posts ↗

27. Play With Your Food: The Kitchen Is an AI Classroom

    Archive post numbers: 43. Try the lesson ↗

28. The Communication Tool That Needed No Mouse and No Voice

    Archive post numbers: 50, 51. Try the lesson ↗

29. Use a Side Business as a Flight Simulator for Leadership

    Archive post numbers: 52, 57, 82, 87, 88, 90, 94. Try the lesson ↗

30. A Marketing Campaign Before Dinner

    Archive post numbers: 62, 70, 81, 86, 89, 101, 102, 104. Try the lesson ↗

31. I Turned My Job Search Into a Music Video

    Archive post numbers: 64, 95. Try the lesson ↗

32. Give Your AI a Code-Review Conscience

    Archive post numbers: 68, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76. Try the lesson ↗

33. The First Vibe-Coded App Is Supposed to Be a Little Embarrassing

    Archive post numbers: 83, 84. Try the lesson ↗

34. Train the Image Model Before It Trains Your Taste

    Archive post numbers: 96, 97. Try the lesson ↗

The project write-ups

• Build a tiny offline roguelike — public repository ↗
• Build a daily quest planner — public repository ↗
• Build a small language-learning game — public repository ↗
• Make a shareable 3D character test page — public repository ↗
• Build an event page that answers real questions — public repository ↗
• Build a tracker that works without the network — public repository ↗
• Build one mobile combat encounter — public repository ↗
• Build a small Markdown publishing system — public repository ↗
• Build a service website people can trust — public repository ↗
• Build a research assistant from sample listings — public repository ↗
• Plan a game as small playable milestones — public repository ↗
• Organize an AI video production pipeline — public repository ↗
• Build a searchable prompt library for your team — public repository ↗
• Learn game fundamentals by building Pong — public repository ↗
• Build one secure full-stack interaction — public repository ↗
• Model private information in multiplayer — general architecture exercise; source repository private
• Prove a phone can reach your API — general architecture exercise; source repository private

How to use the lessons

Read the prerequisites, adapt the prompt and verify the output yourself. The duration is a suggested first practice session. Coding labs are intentionally small; a reliable public product needs additional engineering and testing.

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