I work in AI for a living, and I do my best thinking with a fountain pen.

Most people read that as a contradiction. I read it as the method.

I'm Regina. For years I've built AI and cloud systems, at AWS and now at Microsoft. I know these tools well enough to respect what they can do, and well enough to be wary of what they quietly take. The more capable AI gets at producing output, the easier it becomes to stop doing the one thing that actually makes you good at your work: thinking.

Why listen to me?

• I built AI and cloud based systems professionally at AWS and Microsoft
• I write technical content for a living
• I use analog systems daily, not as nostalgia, but because it helps me think clearly
• I built this method myself over years before turning it into a 1:1 coaching offer

I keep a notebook within reach at all times. I capture by hand, slowly, on purpose. Then I let AI do what it's genuinely good at, connecting, summarizing, and resurfacing what I've already thought, inside a system I own. Deliberate input, intelligent retrieval, work that compounds instead of evaporating into a chat window I'll never reopen.

This site is where I write about that: how to think clearly in the age of AI. Analog habits that protect your attention, AI used deliberately instead of desperately, and the occasional ink drawing, because I'm also an artist and the two halves of my brain refuse to stay separate.

If you'd rather build your own system than piece it together from blog posts, I run a 1:1 program called the Second Brain Sprint, where we build it together. And if you just want to read, the weekly note is free and lands in your inbox once a week.

I work at Microsoft, but everything here is mine, and all opinions are my own.

Glad you're here.