An immense wet beach at low tide with the sunset lying across the sand.

Where did you write it?

Add yours if you like. The tide is coming either way.

The tide doesn’t ask how long it took you to learn.

Seniority, experience, your place in an industry: you could bank those year by year. Now the models remember more systematically and the industries move faster. By morning the beach is clean.

Another tide.

And another.

After the tide, one squared block of granite is all that remains on the sand.

Keep more of what you build.

A piece of work can end with the task. Or it can leave one thing the tide can’t take: a method, a tool, a judgement you can use again.

A hand-laid stone causeway runs from your feet out to sea, with one person standing far along it.

Next time you don’t start at the shore.You start from the stone.

a quote a colleague can prepare
the questions every new client gets
a way to build and check a website
a rule for when to stop

At blue hour the rising sea rushes through a stone race and turns a tide mill, with one window lit.

Lay enough stone and the tide starts working for you.

This tide is called AI.

Most people are still building someone else’s wall, or standing on the shore chatting with it. I’m building my own mill.

Find where you’re standing

Oscar Hu at a desk inside the stone mill, holding a mug, with a lantern lighting him from the left and the causeway at dusk through the window.

I’m Oscar.

For over a decade I’ve studied and worked across Canada, the UK, China and Spain. After passing the CFA in 2025 I decided to embrace AI and start building a compounding life, with one rule: every bit of effort has to leave something behind. This is Days Well Made: days lived well, and what they leave.

My story