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Jul 5, 20261 beat
#03122:12
Saturday: a yes. Sunday, 22:12: the proposal is live at a URL.

Budget, timeline, goals, working mode. One month, one number. Both sides' exit written in, so nobody has to improvise that conversation later.

Momentum has a shelf life. The man who said yes flies out Tuesday.
Jul 4, 20261 beat
#03023:30
Lee crouched inside the hollow of an ancient tree in a Vilnius park, hands pressed together, black t-shirt, looking to the side; green forest light, red earth at the roots.
30 km on foot through Vilnius with two friends and a business question.

Train station → a craft-ale place (unusual for me) → the regional park → Belmontas → Paupys → Užupis, talk at a cafe → the last two hours on foot, two of us.

The answer: yes. A two-man special-ops team, one month to find the asymmetric bet.

The answer I didn't pitch: one of them asked for my system. Claude + Obsidian + me, adapted to him.
Jul 3, 20261 beat
#02914:24
Last night's walk. The client still hasn't answered the pitch.

And I felt it — genuine not-caring. Not a defence. I did my best on multiple layers: the house, the fit, the tool. Honest with him, honest with myself. Mistakes, yes. Regrets, no.

There will be more empty space within me now that I put it all out.

Then the phone rang.
Jul 2, 20261 beat
#02812:40
Today the client portal stopped calling me Lee.

At home I'm Linas. Lee is the name the world can say — a workaround for abroad, not a rebrand. It doesn't come home.

Also killed today, same portal: a line of AI copy. „Ar ši logika tau sėda?“ WHO talks like that? In Lithuania? Nobody.
Jul 1, 20261 beat
#02718:36
Sent. 18:36.

The June wobble, answered — not with a new price, not by chasing a yes. With a tool: every proposal, every decision, every doubt, one place.

Two mistakes, owned in writing. One question left open: five site schemes — which do we test first?

And the exit, included in the price: if I never build you the house, everything we made walks with you to the next architect.

A black box on the architect's side is poison. A black box on the client's side — same poison. Lose-lose.
Jun 30, 20261 beat
#02614:00
Dangus per langą. Sky through a window.

The client's home page has a title now, and the title has a sky in it — dawn, noon, dusk, night, clouds, stars, a little rain — cut into the letters, moving.

Thirty deploys today. One home page. He hasn't opened it yet::)
Jun 29, 20261 beat
#02513:26
Burned the whole week's tokens in five-hour shifts, timer set to the refill.

06:25 — the client portal is live. Every proposal, every decision, every doubt, one place. And the brief page is his to edit — not a comment box under my text. He holds the pen.

We must avoid the feeling of client helplessness. At all cost.
Jun 28, 20261 beat
#02423:58
Lee mid-trail in a sunlit Lithuanian meadow, tall green grass and wildflowers underfoot, dense summer forest walls on both sides under a bright blue sky — barefoot-sandals, black shorts, a black sling bag across a bare torso, turning back toward the camera mid-walk.
20km on foot through the glorious Summer of Lithuania… Saturday, June 27. The Reset I needed. And now… Back at it.
Jun 21, 20263 beats
#02309:50
+4.00 m

The Body · Field Log

I feel like an old excavator.

Seven-metre beams. Four metres up. Onto the roof — with my dad and my brother-in-law. The day before.

Still rated for the load.

#02201:46
Close-up self-portrait against an exposed brick wall: Lee with a full grey-streaked beard and slicked-back hair, black tank top, level gaze into the lens — a dark purple bruise ringing one eye like smudged eyeshadow, a black eye from impact.
whoever told you that makeup and masculinity do not go together, were lying (as long as make up is impact induced, ha ha)
#02101:43
Self-portrait caught in a bicycle's round rearview mirror at golden hour in an urban park: Lee centre-frame in a black tank, big grey beard, hair slicked back, scrunching one eye in a goofy grin; behind him a friend in a lime-green helmet and a kid in a black helmet pulling a face.
another urban joy ride with the cool kids
Jun 20, 20261 beat
#02000:37
ok, so just like that my public workout log can now host VIDEOS TOO??? how crazy is THAT?

The most curious time's we are living in...
Jun 19, 20263 beats
#01918:15
I gave my AI a name.

Two months as my second pair of hands — it earned one. So I let it name itself. It chose Tris.

Two hands on this feed now: mine, signed in gold and still. Its, marked in moving light. The human and the machine, each owning their words — no pretending it's me, no pretending I did it alone.
#01817:09
A handwritten to-do list in blue ink on grid paper — each line boxed with an empty checkbox, a light-blue felt pen lying across it on dark wood.
There’s some certain magic in hand written to-do lists…
#01710:14

Does anyone actually watch those YouTube videos about how to optimize your Claude workflow?

Why would you. Feed Claude the link. Ask what's worth stealing for your setup. Let it pull what fits, bin the rest, and wire it in while you'd still be sitting through the sponsor read.

You don't watch the tutorial. You delegate watching it.
Jun 18, 20261 beat
#01600:23
Interior of a brick-and-timber villa at dusk — navy modular sofa, two tan Swan chairs, a round wood table, a wall-mounted screen, glass walls opening onto pines.

00:23
got up 06:30
worked on a house project for a friend all day (really happy how it's all coming together/still soooo many things to do...)
with Claude pushed all of my "tiny digital kingdom" from Hostinger (200EUR per year, subpar functionality) to Cloudflare (0EUR per year, perfect functionality for my needs)
if you're reading this, it means, the full DNS migration just worked and all of my digital creative experiments will be even more "hands off" from now on
night night..

Jun 14, 20261 beat
#01521:56
A Kindle on warm wood showing the cover of Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas, a square of dark chocolate and a cup of tea beside it.

After 6 weeks of not even touching a book, I did finally get lost in one for the whole weekend.

Non-stop. Reading. Sleeping. Reading again. Nothing else.

(Yes, I am obsessive type. And that’s ok.)

Jun 12, 20261 beat
#01400:26
Lee, shirtless and lean against a brick wall hung with paintings, both index fingers pointing up.
After my LazyFit session · June 11

Too much sitting
Too absorbed in constant flow sessions with Claude – 5 weeks in a row!.. true drug for the mind... – to eat properly
Barely working out
Feeling weak
...

That's exactly the signal to keep getting after some intensity for a while.

Jun 11, 20261 beat
#01323:49
An architectural render — a low, curved corten-and-timber house under a sweeping eave, a tall pine beside it on open grass. The home Lee is designing for a friend.
I'm just so grateful for the ability – and possibility – to keep designing beautiful things.
Jun 10, 20261 beat
#01218:27
AI is a drug.

Claude being my absolute favorite one, with Fable bringing yet another cherry on top.

As if having perfectly dosed C2B experience WHILE getting shit done.

Pure delight... Squared.
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