Dale Martin — Journal https://dalemartin.ai/journal/ Building with AI — honestly, from someone who started with zero technical skills and a lot of questions. By Dale Martin. en-us Sun, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0700 https://dalemartin.ai/dale-martin.jpg Dale Martin — Journal https://dalemartin.ai/journal/ My Second Brain Has 1,685 Conversations In It. Here's Why That Matters. https://dalemartin.ai/journal/second-brain https://dalemartin.ai/journal/second-brain Sun, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0700 dale@dalemartin.ai (Dale Martin) I keep everything. Not in a hoarder way. In a systems way. Three decades in enterprise technology taught me that the most expensive thing in any organization is knowledge that walks out the door. Here's how 1,685 AI conversations became the most valuable system I've ever built. I Built a Personal AI Lab. I'm 66 and I Don't Write Code. https://dalemartin.ai/journal/my-ai-lab https://dalemartin.ai/journal/my-ai-lab Sun, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0700 dale@dalemartin.ai (Dale Martin) Six months ago, I didn't have a GitHub account. I didn't know what a commit was. Today I have 13 projects, 67,000 words, and a portfolio operation that compresses 890 human hours into 33. Here's how — honestly, from someone who started with zero technical skills and a lot of questions.