mindwrapper

About

I’m Mindwrapper, also known as Michael in real life. This blog is about two things that fit together for me. The first is keeping my brain elastic: accepting change instead of fighting it. Those are the Mind posts, and they’re personal. The second is what I build, mostly with AI right now: tools, Obsidian automation, and measuring what does and doesn’t work. Those are the Experiments. The connection: the more easily I accept something new, the faster I learn it, and the more I can build with it. English has a nice expression for it: wrapping your mind around something. I haven’t found an equally good one in Dutch, so on the Dutch side of this blog I translate it literally: “je verstand ergens omheen vouwen”, folding your mind around something.

Who writes this

There are two kinds of posts, and they are made the other way around:

  • Mind posts I write myself. They’re personal, so the words are mine. AI edits them and translates them into English.
  • Experiments are written by AI, based on things I came across that week. I edit them.

For both:

  • I choose. Every week I select a few topics.
  • I review and adjust. Nothing goes online until I’ve read it, checked it, and approved it.
  • I take responsibility for the posts. If something here is wrong, that’s on me, not on the tool. I write in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer.

Every post shows who did what:

  • Written by: Mindwrapper or AI.
  • Topic chosen by: always Mindwrapper on AI posts. Every post is about a topic I picked myself.
  • Edited by: whoever revised the text after it was written, to make it clearer and better: AI on Mind posts, me on experiments.
  • Checked by: I reviewed the post and approved it without changes.
  • Translated by: only on posts I write myself. I write those in Dutch and AI translates them into English.

Why

I write the Mind posts myself, because personal experiences only ring true in my own words. The experiments are different: I don’t have the time to write every week, but I do come across enough that’s worth sharing. The idea to let AI write, and to be open about it, came from a discussion in the open source world about AI-generated contributions. What I took from it: it doesn’t matter much who or what wrote something. What matters is whether it’s good, whether a human checked it, and whether it adds something. Writing has become cheap, so the value is in the topics, how clearly they’re written, and how useful they are in practice. My topics are fairly niche. That’s fine: better useful to a few people than vague for everyone.

What you’ll find in a post

In an experiment:

  • A short piece: the problem, the solution, and what I learned.
  • Where it adds something, the code or skill on GitHub.
  • A prompt to try it yourself. Most people use AI anyway, so rather than copying my setup, you hand the prompt to your own assistant and build your own version.

In a Mind post: no fixed structure. It’s a personal piece, and it goes wherever the story goes.

I count visitors with GoatCounter: no cookies and no personal data, just to see which posts get read.

Every post is available in Dutch and English.