# lifestyle / design (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lifestyle / design. Page: Feed: --- ## [Lifestyle Design in the Age of AI](https://troyyohn.com/lifestyle-design-in-the-age-of-ai/) _2025-08-28 · Troy · Troy Yohn_ When The 4-Hour Work Week hit the world, it cracked open the idea that we could design our lives instead of just living someone else’s script. Outsourcing, remote work, passive income — these were the early tools of freedom. But 2025 is different. The tools have evolved. AI is not just a tool – it’s… ## [Beyond Prompt Engineering: Context is the New Code](https://troyyohn.com/beyond-prompt-engineering-context-is-the-new-code/) _2025-08-08 · Troy · Troy Yohn_ If the last decade of AI was about scaling models, the next will be about sculpting context. Large language models (LLMs) have dazzled us with their ability to reason, write, translate, and even code. But behind the curtain, much of their success comes not just from their architecture but from how we feed them context.… ## [Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) in Oaxaca](https://troyyohn.com/day-of-the-dead-dia-de-muertos-in-oaxaca/) _2025-07-31 · Troy · Troy Yohn_ Celebrating Life Through Death, One Candle at a Time Each year in late October, I return to Oaxaca not just as a traveler, but as a witness to something ancient, sacred, and profoundly alive. The streets fill with color and smoke. Music echoes through candlelit cemeteries. And everywhere from quiet altars in family homes to… ## [Teaching AI to Query – Part 2: From Knowledge Graph to Dynamic SQL with Claude, Neo4j, and a Dash of Prompt Engineering](https://troyyohn.com/teaching-ai-to-query-part-2-from-knowledge-graph-to-dynamic-sql-with-claude-neo4j-and-a-dash-of-prompt-engineering/) _2025-07-11 · Troy · Troy Yohn_ Once the idea was clear use a knowledge graph to teach an LLM about your schema the next step was execution. So let’s get technical. Making the LLM Endpoint a Variable Instead of hardcoding my LLM choice, I made the endpoint dynamic. Why? Because experimentation is inevitable — and when you’re iterating across Claude, GPT-4,… ## [Why I’m Writing: Write Your Legend](https://troyyohn.com/why-im-writing-write-your-legend/) _2025-07-11 · Troy · Troy Yohn_ The Myth You Were Meant to Turn Into Reality There are moments when life feels like it’s pressing in tightening around your chest with every compromise, every checkbox, every safe decision dressed up as “maturity.”And then there are moments rare, electric when something cracks open, and a voice you forgot you had whispers: “This isn’t… ## [Teaching AI to Query: Building a Smarter Analyst with Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, and SQL](https://troyyohn.com/teaching-ai-to-query-building-a-smarter-analyst-with-knowledge-graphs-llms-and-sql/) _2025-07-11 · Troy · Troy Yohn_ There’s a moment if you’ve ever asked a language model to write SQL when you realize it doesn’t actually “know” your data. It can guess. It can hallucinate. But it doesn’t understand the tables, relationships, or field names that make up the living structure of your business. That’s the missing link. And that’s where the…