SOURCES & APPROACH
Real experiments.
Useful lessons.
The guides turn Patrick’s posts and project notes into exercises you can try. They are newly written training material, not a verbatim archive.
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
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.
Sodium Is the Final Boss
Archive post numbers: 1. Try the lesson ↗
Black Belt With Wi-Fi
Archive post numbers: 2. Try the lesson ↗
The Best AI Use Case I Built Was Not About Productivity
Archive post numbers: 3. Try the lesson ↗
The Floor Has an Aggressive Onboarding Process
Archive post numbers: 4. Try the lesson ↗
My AI Read My Week, Compared It With My Goals, and Chose Violence
Archive post numbers: 5. Try the lesson ↗
Future You Does Not Need a Vision Board. He Needs Receipts.
Archive post numbers: 6, 7. Try the lesson ↗
The Saturday Laboratory
Archive post numbers: 8. Try the lesson ↗
The Twenty-Dollar Software Company
Archive post numbers: 9. Try the lesson ↗
The Collector’s Pen and the Danger of Outsourcing Every Sentence
Archive post numbers: 10. Try the lesson ↗
Duolingo Did Not Teach Thai, So I Built a Game That Did
Archive post numbers: 11, 12. Try the lesson ↗
The One-Person Agency Is Not a Theory Anymore
Archive post numbers: 13, 14. Try the lesson ↗
I Gave My House a Brain and Refused to Give It the Internet
Archive post numbers: 15. Try the lesson ↗
Software Is Judged at the Top of a Telephone Pole
Archive post numbers: 16. Try the lesson ↗
Stop Asking Which AI Is Best. Build a Bench.
Archive post numbers: 17, 39, 40, 77, 78, 85. Try the lesson ↗
Turn Messy Inputs Into Visual Systems
Archive post numbers: 18, 19, 69. Try the lesson ↗
The Thousand-Dollar Website That Needed an Apology
Archive post numbers: 20. Try the lesson ↗
I Built the Future From the Corner of a Hospital Room
Archive post numbers: 21. Try the lesson ↗
Study Like a Record Producer
Archive post numbers: 22, 53, 73, 91, 92. Try the lesson ↗
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 ↗
Ask Why Before You Ask How
Archive post numbers: 24, 26, 28, 30, 41, 42, 44, 45. Try the lesson ↗
I Told GPT to Take the Wheel. It Built Debugging Tools.
Archive post numbers: 25, 34, 35, 37, 38. Try the lesson ↗
My First Technology Empire Sold Illegal Nintendo Games to Ten-Year-Olds
Archive post numbers: 29, 60. Try the lesson ↗
Three Missing Teeth and the Difference Between a Loss and a Curriculum
Archive post numbers: 31, 65. Try the lesson ↗
Stop Working Smarter. Become Usefully Lazy.
Archive post numbers: 32. Try the lesson ↗
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 ↗
I Asked My AI to Analyze Me. It Found a Prototype Graveyard.
Archive post numbers: 36, 49, 79. Try the lesson ↗
Play With Your Food: The Kitchen Is an AI Classroom
Archive post numbers: 43. Try the lesson ↗
The Communication Tool That Needed No Mouse and No Voice
Archive post numbers: 50, 51. Try the lesson ↗
Use a Side Business as a Flight Simulator for Leadership
Archive post numbers: 52, 57, 82, 87, 88, 90, 94. Try the lesson ↗
A Marketing Campaign Before Dinner
Archive post numbers: 62, 70, 81, 86, 89, 101, 102, 104. Try the lesson ↗
I Turned My Job Search Into a Music Video
Archive post numbers: 64, 95. Try the lesson ↗
Give Your AI a Code-Review Conscience
Archive post numbers: 68, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76. Try the lesson ↗
The First Vibe-Coded App Is Supposed to Be a Little Embarrassing
Archive post numbers: 83, 84. Try the lesson ↗
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 workplace AI training playbook — public repository ↗
- Build a portfolio that shows your reasoning — 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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