🌱 Finally, the release clarity...

Release clarity. Ai fomo. Headlights.

Author

Mitchell Cohen
July 05, 2026

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.

⛓️‍💥 Release Clarity

My friend Dave coined the term “release clarity” and I’ve kept thinking about it ever since. 

Release clarity is what you feel after shipping something into the world.

Until then, the unfinished ideas pile up into what I’ll call creative congestion. 

My weekly newsletter gives me somewhere to release those ideas, otherwise I'd be more backed up than my toilet last week. (I had to finally buy a plunger!)

We often wait for clarity before acting. 

But really the clarity is only available after release.

🤖 AI FOMO

For a long time, I felt behind on AI.

I was using the tools, but they never had enough context. Even within projects, I couldn’t keep up with adding more call transcripts, examples, voice notes, and background info. 

Then I found Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki concept. 

It solved the biggest problem I’d had with AI and became the most useful resource I’ve found all year.

Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI who now works at Anthropic, says context is one of the hardest parts of using AI. His solution was the LLM Wiki, a system that lets AI organize and maintain that context for you. My exact problem.

So I copied his instructions into my Claude and gave it one folder containing everything. 

Now I can drop in voice notes, transcripts, documents, and half-formed ideas. Claude organizes the files, updates the wiki, connects related ideas, and maintains the system for me. 

Claude Cowork creates the markdown files and I can easily see them in my Obsidian here

Then I connected Claude to my other tools through MCP, so it could pull in all the context from my meeting notes, Slack, email, and the rest of my workflow without me having to keep copying and pasting.

It organizes everything for me, finds connections I would never see, and helped me build my own operating system.

This was the release clarity. 

For the first time, I stopped feeling behind on AI because I had a system that became more useful every time I used it.

AI gets better when your context stops starting over.

🤔 Last Thought

“You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

— E.L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, “The Art of Fiction No. 94” 

Salud,
Mitchell