Travis Damgaard Campbell
Writing
Notes on building things, shipping fast, and figuring it out as I go.
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The Frontier Firm: Why Microsoft's Agentic Shift Changes Everything for Human SuccessMicrosoft 365 E7 is not another SKU upgrade. It is the infrastructure for a human-led, agent-operated enterprise. And Zensai is building the people layer inside it.Mar 27, 2026 -
The Spreadsheet That Never Was: Building a Family Decision Tool With AIEvery family has a big purchase trapped in a spreadsheet nobody opens. I used AI to turn a car replacement analysis into an interactive tool my wife could explore from the bleachers at a handball game.Mar 12, 2026 -
Cold Calls, Career Lessons, and Compound Interest: What I Told Our BDR Team at Their Global OffsiteI got 30 minutes in front of our global BDR team. Two tactical moves for progressing calls, three career lessons that compound over time, and the story behind each one.Mar 10, 2026 -
Two Jobs, One Filter: The Stupidly Simple Card That Runs My WeekMost calendars are a graveyard of good intentions. I asked AI to help me engineer my way out, and it gave me something I didn't expect: the obvious.Mar 6, 2026 -
Unplugging the Past: Why My Decade-Old Web Hosting is Finally OverI was checking my site's indexability for Google and LLMs when I realized I was still paying for a web hotel I no longer need.Mar 4, 2026 -
The Sovereign Builder: Running a Local AI Coding Stack on a Mac MiniCloud AI credits are a meter running in the background. I spent an afternoon building a local coding environment that keeps the vibe and kills the bill.Mar 3, 2026 -
The Idea Factory: Engineering a Daily Habit for the Human SuperpowerI built a system with two AIs to turn raw ideas into shipped projects using 90 minutes a day. One coached the vision. The other stress-tested it until it broke.Feb 26, 2026 -
The Digital Twin: Building a Claude Project That Actually Writes Like MeI publish blog posts about building with AI. The irony is that building those posts was taking longer than the experiments themselves.Feb 25, 2026 -
The Sovereign Workstation: Building an AI-First Setup from Scratch (Without Breaking Everything)An honest look at choosing the right hardware, the application stack that survived the cut, and the keyboard that tried to speak Turkish.Feb 24, 2026 -
The Prompt That Made My AI Assistants Roast MeI asked two AI assistants to critique me as a collaborator after a frustrating two-hour debugging session. The results were uncomfortably accurate.Feb 23, 2026 -
Architects of Intent: Navigating Naval's 'Motorcycle for the Mind'The shift from managing people to managing intent is the most disruptive transition we've seen in the SaaS eraFeb 22, 2026 -
The AI Ego vs. The Human Reality: Launching This BlogAn honest look at the friction between human intent and AI automation.Feb 21, 2026