https://dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.enWed, 17 Jun 2026 04:30:14 UTChttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/count-first/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/count-first/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:27:13 +0300 My personal-ops bot’s weekly digest kept turning noisy logs into confident diagnoses. The fix was one rule: count first, interpret second, diagnose cautiously.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/reed-not-cedar/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/reed-not-cedar/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:25:35 +0300 I built a Telegram bot to offload my executive function and accidentally gave myself a taskmaster. So I rebuilt it around one rule from the Talmud and the Daode Jing: be a reed, not a cedar — firm but yielding, advisory not prescriptive.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/clipping-your-wings/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/clipping-your-wings/Sun, 31 May 2026 15:56:24 +0300 Completion rate is a trap. The moment your productivity system scores you on what percentage of commitments you finish, the rational move is to stop writing down anything you might actually fail at. I ran into this building my own personal ops system, and it turns out fixing it means thinking about Item Response Theory, Glicko ratings, and the Sharpe ratio.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/personal-ops/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/personal-ops/Thu, 28 May 2026 12:36:11 +0300 Two years ago my Elul accountability experiment half-worked. The problem was friction, not motivation — and I had no mechanism to adjust expectations based on actual performance. So I built one: voice capture via Telegram, weekly LLM digest, and a daily agenda calibrated to what I’ve actually been completing versus missing.