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Expo 2025 Pavilions: An Index of Reviews

Browse an index of Expo 2025 Osaka pavilion reviews—with a simple evaluation framework and links to detailed write-ups like Spain.

Bastion Staff

04 May 2025 — 1 min read

How to Stop Wasting Hours on Slides: A Step-by-Step Guide to MARP

I spent three hours last Tuesday fighting with PowerPoint over text box alignment. Three hours. This is absurd, and we all know it. But most of the "AI solutions" aren't actually solving the problem. They're trying to help you think, communicate, and format all

From 48KB to 5KB: Rebuilding My AI Assistant's architecture to better manage context

Last weekend, I rebuilt my Claude PKM system. Not because it was broken—it was working perfectly fine. But "working" and "optimal" are two very different standards, especially when you're scaling AI collaboration across an organization. Over the past month, my Claude system had

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Building a PKM with Obsidian and Claude: A Practical Guide

What This Is: A real-world guide to building a personal knowledge management system that actually works with AI and turns Claude from a chatbot into a genuine thought partner. The Real Problem I'm constantly synthesizing research, connecting patterns across projects, and developing frameworks that integrate insights from multiple

BCL Bot v0.1: An AI Briefing Checklist Drafter

Briefing Checklists are a time-consume bane for many U.S. diplomatic staff. What if we could automate them? This has been the dream for many of us for a long time, but we've finally got the tools to do a first pass at a BCL very well. Over

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How to Stop Wasting Hours on Slides: A Step-by-Step Guide to MARP

From 48KB to 5KB: Rebuilding My AI Assistant's architecture to better manage context

Building a PKM with Obsidian and Claude: A Practical Guide

BCL Bot v0.1: An AI Briefing Checklist Drafter