why I'm writing this

I run a small studio and a few other ventures from Miami. The people who are considering working with me, whether as a client, a partner, or a backer, usually want to know how I think before we talk. Marketing pages don't show that. A blog written from inside the work does.

dsmith.ink exists because the foundation of good consulting, partnership, and advisory is being the kind of person whose thinking you can actually read. When the reader has a sense of how I scope problems, how I weigh tradeoffs, and what I do when I've been wrong, the first conversation we have already starts somewhere useful.

What you'll find here

Most posts will be problem-solving in practice: how I framed something, what I considered, what I shipped, what broke, what I learned. These are the trust-building posts. They're also the ones I expect to find easiest to write because I'm doing this work every day already.

Some posts will be observations about tech and AI from inside the build. I'm running an AI agent system that supports me day-to-day, and I'm noticing patterns across the products I evaluate and the tools I'm using. Operator-grade observations, not punditry.

Some posts will be about the tools and systems I'm making, including the agent system itself. There's a long-form post on that coming.

The occasional post will be a recalibration: something I used to believe that I no longer believe. Those are rare. They're also some of the best posts to write and read.

What you won't find here

This isn't a hot-take blog. I don't write about AI news the day it drops. If I have something to say about a tool or a trend, it'll come from work I'm actually doing.

This isn't a personal lifestyle site. Family, fitness, faith, the rest of who I am all matter to me. They just live elsewhere, not here.

This isn't a sales channel. My companies sell their own products and services. This site doesn't pitch on their behalf. The closest thing to a call-to-action you'll find here is an email address in the footer.

What's next

I'm aiming for two posts a week. That's a cadence I can hold for a long time without burning out.

The next one is on its way. If a sense of what's currently in front of me would be useful in the meantime, /now has the month's priorities and /uses lists the tools I'm working with.