Dawson Schrader

Dawson's Vault

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Welcome to My Blog

Updated 11/6/2025
Notes

Welcome to My Blog

This will be a place where I can share a bit about what I am learning and working on in Finance, AI, App Development, Consulting, and on my journey to reading 100 books about business leadership and finance.

What You Can Expect

  • Entrepreneurship journey - Lessons learned from building products and businesses
  • Personal insights - Thoughts on productivity, learning, and growth
  • Tech Findings - How I am using tech to either optimize my work or just as a learning tool.
  • Other Learnings - I love to learn, often very random stuff. I may document some of that here.

How I built this blog - if that interests you.

This blog is powered by:

  • Next.js 15 with App Router
    • This is what the website is built with.
  • MDX for rich content with React components
    • This is creating the Blog page and is allowing me to make edits to my notes in Obsidian - a markdown note taking app that I have been using for the past year and a half.
  • Tailwind CSS
  • TypeScript
  • ShadCN for UI Elements
  • Framer.Motion for the animation that happens when you hover over my name.

The whole website including the blog was built with Claude Code in VS Code. I am also self hosting the site on a Digital Ocean droplet which is also managed by Claude. Nothing sensitive is posted to this droplet which gives me confidence in using Claude to manage it.

Thanks for reading!