Practical systems for scattered minds.

I've spent 15 years living out of suitcases across Latin America, accidentally learning what actually works when your brain won't cooperate and your office fits in a backpack.

Chronic Scribbler Slop Killer Low-Bar Evangelist
🧉 Currently in Asunción, Paraguay
Nick Quick

Currently

What I'm up to.

March 2026
Making
Quick Fixes — one embarrassingly simple system per week for people who've abandoned every productivity app ever made. (Including the ones I recommended.)
Making
Co-Write with AI — training AI to sound like *you* instead of like a LinkedIn influencer who recently discovered meditation. Whole separate operation.
Making
Signal Loss — audiodrama podcast. Small towns. Unreliable narrators. The kind of dread that follows you home. Probably too ambitious. Building it anyway.
Building
OpenClaw — assembling a team around an open-source claw machine project. No, I won't explain further. Yes, we're looking for people.
Building
A mobile-first writing platform — every writing app assumes you own a desk. I write 80% of everything on a phone screen, standing up, in a kitchen in Paraguay. Different requirements.
Living
Roaming with Butters — 4-pound chihuahua. Has seen more countries than your coworker who won't shut up about Bali. Fewer complaints about the WiFi, too.
Obsession
Horror — the kind where nothing happens for 40 minutes and then you can't sleep for a week. If it made someone walk out of a theater, I want to watch it twice. (Jump scares don't count. That's just a loud noise with a budget.)
"Aim low, but fucking aim."
— The whole philosophy, really
What I write about

Three obsessions.

Not expertise. Obsessions. The difference is I'll tell you when I'm wrong.

AI for Actual Humans

Not for productivity bros or LinkedIn optimizers. For people who want their daily annoyances to just... stop. Prompts, workflows, and automations that survive real life.

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Nomad Life, Unfiltered

What 15 years of living abroad actually looks like. Bureaucracy in five languages, questionable plumbing, and the stuff Instagram conveniently leaves out.

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Systems for Chaos

Frameworks for people whose attention span is also a browser tab. Small enough to actually use, flexible enough to survive your worst week.


Quick Fixes Newsletter

Recent writing

From the desk. Usually scattered.

Newsletter

The Daily Exorcism for Tiny Demons

That text you've been avoiding for three weeks? You know exactly which one. Future you isn't coming to save you.

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System

I Shipped 41 Things Last Year. I'd Forgotten Every One.

How a forgotten notebook exposed a year of self-inflicted gaslighting. Your brain is lying about your productivity.

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Philosophy

You're Tolerating Way More Broken Shit Than You Think

A $12 fix I ignored for 91 days changed how I think about friction. Death by a thousand tiny annoyances is real.

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System

Your Day Needs 5 Blocks, Not 50

I tried time-blocking in 15-minute increments once. By 9:47am I was off schedule and spiraling.

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