Essays
AI Does Not Replace Expertise. It Changes Where Expertise Matters.
The value of experience is moving upstream, from producing the first draft to judging it.
Works
Field Notes on Digital Work
Essays and observations on research, AI, publishing systems and independent professional practice.
Essays
The Cost of Switching Tools
Migration is never just moving files. It is rebuilding the habits that made the old tool work.
Essays
Knowledge Management Is Really a Publishing Problem
Notes do not become useful because they are stored. They become useful because something forces them out.
Works
Field Notes on Digital Work
Essays and observations on research, AI, publishing systems and independent professional practice.
Essays
The Cost of Switching Tools
Migration is never just moving files. It is rebuilding the habits that made the old tool work.
Essays
Knowledge Management Is Really a Publishing Problem
Notes do not become useful because they are stored. They become useful because something forces them out.
Systems
My Research-to-Article Workflow
How research becomes structured long-form content, from first reading to published article.
Essays
Why I Stopped Searching for the Perfect Productivity System
Every system I abandoned taught me the same lesson: the bottleneck was never the tool.
About XD Studio Lab
An independent publication about tools, systems and ideas for digital work, created and written by Xiaodong Wang.