Blog — Jack Stovell

Writing on product, SEO & growth, AI & agents, and personal essays.

• The system that rings me when I go low — Tech, 2026-09-07
  A DIY guide to real-time glucose tracking with SMS and voice-call escalation — a Libre sensor, a small server, Twilio, and the alerting lessons I got wrong first. Includes a prompt to have an AI walk you through the build.
• Why You Keep Rewriting The Same To-Do List — Personal, 2026-09-05
  Rewriting to-do lists is procrastination dressed as organization. The real barrier isn't planning—it's starting badly.
• Topical Authority Is Just Showing Up and Knowing Your Stuff — Personal, 2026-09-05
  Topical authority isn't a hack—it's depth, consistency, and genuine usefulness. Build narrow expertise, validate before scaling, and show up repeatedly.
• Jarvis, six months in — Personal, 2026-08-25
  An honest look at what's working with Jarvis, what isn't ready yet, and whether this solo-built task tool actually solves the problem it set out to fix.
• The Deadline You Set Yourself Is a Lie — Personal, 2026-08-24
  Self-imposed deadlines are usually fiction we create to avoid the discomfort of open-ended work, and the anxiety they cause is just displaced decision-making dr
• The Meeting That Could Have Been an Email — Personal, 2026-08-20
  Most meetings aren't about information—they're about visibility. We schedule them to be seen deciding, not because decisions actually need making in a room.
• Five Dog-Friendly Spots in Hackney Wick That Actually Get It — Personal, 2026-08-20
  Testing Paws of London's directory, I found five Hackney Wick venues where dogs are genuinely welcome, not just tolerated.
• What Jarvis actually gets wrong (and why I'm not fixing it yet) — Personal, 2026-08-14
  Why Jarvis struggles with judgment calls, and why narrowing scope instead of adding more rules is the better path forward.
• The Messy Middle: What Starting Over Actually Looks Like — Personal, 2026-08-14
  Starting over isn't a triumphant montage—it's the boring middle where you're floating in admin purgatory. Here's why that unglamorous stretch is where the real work happens.
• Things I Actually Got Done, and the Ones I Keep Pretending I Will — Personal, 2026-08-13
  Reflecting on what actually gets finished versus what stays on the list, and why having someone waiting might be the real productivity secret.
• What Nobody Tells You About Getting Started — Personal, 2026-08-13
  Starting is harder than having the idea — and the discomfort of beginning isn't a sign you're doing it wrong. It's just what early feels like.
• Jarvis, honestly — Personal, 2026-08-12
  An honest look at Jarvis's strengths and limitations, including where it works well for SaaS validation and where it struggles with niche markets.
• Jarvis, six weeks in: what's actually working — Personal, 2026-08-12
  An honest review of Jarvis after six weeks of daily use, covering what saves time and where it quietly falls apart.
• Ten Projects, One Person: What I Keep, What I Pause, What I Kill — Product, 2026-08-11
  How I run ten public projects solo, and why the paused project and the killed idea matter as much as the live ones.
• Your website is probably invisible to AI, and how I fixed mine — SEO & Growth, 2026-08-10
  Turns out ChatGPT can't see most modern, JavaScript-built websites properly. Here's what I actually shipped to fix mine, checklist included.
• Rory, this way — Personal, 2026-07-30
  A walk with the dog, a thread I keep losing, and the honest reason I don't ship enough.
• How I Run a Team of Twenty (Who Are All Robots) — AI & Agents, 2026-07-28
  A look inside running 20+ AI agents from a one-person London studio, the actual failures, and why it turns out to be management, not magic.
• Building my own Jarvis — Product, 2026-05-21
  A personal assistant, with an army of bots
• The 26 — Personal, 2026-04-15
  Day 2
• First rambling in a while — Personal, 2026-04-14
  Thoughts from a bus