Paul Pitchford

Minimal archive direction · first pass

Writing about the things that actually stick with me.

Weight loss. Work. Tech. AI. Life. Less fluff, fewer boxes, more room to breathe. The homepage should feel like a clean reading surface, not a dashboard having an identity crisis.

Featured essay

A homepage shaped like an archive, not a marketing funnel.

This is the first proper start: one lead image, open typography, and a cleaner stream of writing underneath. The next step is wiring this up to actual blog content instead of placeholder copy.

Weight loss

Losing weight without turning my life into motivational theatre.

Honest progress, good and bad weeks, and the bits worth keeping when the novelty wears off.

Work

Running things in the real world teaches you what software people conveniently ignore.

Notes on operations, trade-offs, and what survives contact with actual humans.

AI

Useful tools, sharper judgement, and less patience for hype-driven sludge.

What is genuinely helpful, what is noise, and where automation earns its keep.

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Business owner, software developer, and chronic over-thinker. This site is for useful writing, not personal-brand fluff.