Building, learning, journaling in public. Entrepreneurship, AI, and what I work on day to day.https://nicolasneumann.blog/https://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/set-up-your-own-agentic-workspace/https://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/set-up-your-own-agentic-workspace/A downloadable starter kit, one CLAUDE.md plus the structure that grows around it, and a ten-minute install guide so you can run the same setup I do.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-20/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-20/A high-leverage day. A paid client walkthrough of my agentic system, then a working session that locked the Handyman partnership and the plan. In parallel the blog got a real upgrade: discoverability, a downloadable starter kit, a public Building section, a newsletter, and multi-language in progress. Written mid-afternoon, Rize numbers to follow.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/222-hours-of-focus/https://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/222-hours-of-focus/My time tracker shows two different numbers for the same data. The gap is the interesting part.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/how-the-agentic-system-works/https://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/how-the-agentic-system-works/A live walkthrough I gave to a client today, written down. What sits where, why a blank workspace plus AI is not the system, and a seed prompt you can paste to start your own.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/i-use-my-voice-mostly-to-talk-to-ai/https://nicolasneumann.blog/posts/i-use-my-voice-mostly-to-talk-to-ai/Wispr Flow showed me where my dictation actually goes. 95 percent of it is AI prompts, not messages to people. Notes on what that number means.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-19/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-19/A lighter, more diffuse day after Day 5's fourteen-hour run. Two posts went out, but the real movement was on the site itself and on Handyman. Productive conversations with locals on the pitch. A meeting locked for 11 tomorrow.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-18/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-18/Monday in Brazil. Build-heavy. Split the agent system into its own compartmentalized workspace, scoped Handyman from a draft brief into a locked technical-scoping draft, shipped Day 2 of the blog. One break for Jiu Jitsu, second session, absolutely awesome. A pitch with a local installer that moved the needle in ways I did not see coming.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-17/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-17/Sunday in Brazil. Built the first version of this blog end-to-end in four hours, picked the stack, scaffolded Astro + MDX + Cloudflare Pages + PostHog, shipped the first build. Quick evening call with a marketing candidate for OneProposal. Walked away thinking about employer risk.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-16/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-16/Saturday in Brazil. OneProposal launch-prep day. Domain swap to oneproposal.app, Stripe live-mode, PostHog cookieless, credit-ledger fix. Walkthrough with a friend surfaced six previously-invisible UX bugs. Friends-and-family share message sent before midnight. Side thread, a conversation with a Brazilian friend about another app idea I am keeping vague for now.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-15/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-15/Friday in Brazil. Forty-five minute beach jog at 5.5 min/km. First Jiu Jitsu session with my cousin, absolutely awesome. Then a heavy client-dev day, eight PRs through main into an n8n migration. Almost missed the primary brief.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-14/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-14/First real day at the new desk in Brazil. Reactivated Rize after two months off. Engine work on OneProposal, prep to start sharing it. Family on WhatsApp. Settling in.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-13/https://nicolasneumann.blog/journal/2026-05-13/The full transit from Germany to Brazil. Off the grid for most of it. The work that mattered was getting to the place where tomorrow's work could happen.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT