Wesley Phillips
Builder & New Dad in Vancouver
I built an AI assistant that runs my mornings, tracks my trades, and remembers what I forget. Now I'm figuring out what else is possible. I write about the things I can't stop thinking about—AI, systems, money, books, and learning how to be a good father to Flynn.
Recent Posts
AI, systems thinking, and building an intentional life
Building Spark: My Personal AI Assistant
March 6, 2026
I spent over a year getting to this point, from a crude N8N bot to OpenClaw to building my own persistent AI assistant with real memory. Here's how Spark came to be.
Taste Is the Last Moat
February 21, 2026
AI flattens all knowledge into consensus. When everyone has the same execution power, the only moat left is taste, your personal, non-replicable sense of direction.
Creative Destruction: Distill to Rebuild
February 14, 2026
Rick Rubin strips demos to sheet music. Charlie Munger inverts problems. The Cult of Done says destruction is completion. What they all know is that expansion is easy, distillation is hard.