# Sam Collins's Weblog

> A disorderly collection of shared notes. Words by human; code by clanker.

- [Why Fast](https://samcollins.blog/fasting.md): Notes for a friend on why I fast a few days a year — autophagy, ketosis, beating cravings — plus practical tips for getting through your first 3-day fast.
- [My path-to-goal skill](https://samcollins.blog/path-to-goal.md): A prompt to unconfuse the situation with your AI agent and get clear on the goal, status, and the decisions it needs from you.
- [Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers](https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings.md): A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
- [Talking with my books](https://samcollins.blog/talking-books.md): How to use Claude Code as a tutor for a specific book by importing the full text via @file — and the context-window tradeoffs that come with it.
- [Multi-State Checkboxes](https://samcollins.blog/checkboxes.md): An expanded markdown checkbox syntax for tasks with more than two states, designed to render cleanly in Obsidian without plugins.
- [Using caps lock for voice transcription](https://samcollins.blog/caps-lock.md): Three bash commands to remap Caps Lock as a hotkey on macOS — for triggering voice transcription apps that don't support it natively.
- [Bicycle for the Mind](https://samcollins.blog/bicycle.md): On the bicycle for the mind metaphor and what the 1973 Scientific American chart showed me

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