A running chronicle of what I’m learning, building, testing and following.

Zen Plasma started with AI.

I had already been using AI to organize ideas, work through projects, and even build my real estate website. That felt especially significant because I’ve been building websites in one form or another since around 2000 — from FrontPage, to template-driven platforms like Wix, to real estate systems that worked but left very little room to actually create.

AI changed that feeling. Suddenly, building became much more direct.

Then a friend showed me a prototype for an AI voice agent called Valentina — something that could potentially become a real business service. I took a live call with it to see what it could actually do.

It was a simple business conversation, but when the call ended, I had the feeling that I had just seen something before I fully understood what it meant.

That pushed me to start learning AI much more seriously — partly out of curiosity, and partly because I could see a real business opportunity in front of me.

So I started reading, testing, writing and asking better questions.

That curiosity became this Zen Plasma website.

I had wanted my own blog for years. At first, I thought Zen Plasma would simply be about AI. Then I realized how much I enjoyed having a place to write.

For a moment, I thought about starting another site for everything else I was interested in. Then I realized I already had the place I wanted.

So I widened Zen Plasma instead.

And now I just put things here.

Things I’m learning. Things I’m following. Things I’m building. Things I can’t stop thinking about.