Jim Christian
Integrator, writer, and builder in Valencia, Spain.
I'm an integrator. For 30+ years I've connected things other people keep separate — technology and education, security and business, the human and the machine. The thread has always been the same: take complex things and make them work together, for real people, in the real world.
What I care about now is helping people bring technology into their lives well — where it's genuinely needed, and where it can do the most good. Not tech for its own sake, not change to look modern. The right tool, in the right place, in service of how someone actually wants to live and work. Sometimes that means AI; just as often it means something far simpler.
I live in Valencia, Spain, with my family. Have a look around, or start here.
What I publish
- Signal Over Noise Practical AI for people doing real business work.
- Second Brain Chronicles The build log of Cerebro: Claude, MCP servers, Obsidian — and what breaks along the way.
- The blog Field notes, experiments, essays, and life in Valencia.
- The reading list Books and ideas that shape how I build, think, and work.
Selected
- project Cerebro
The co-operating system I work inside every day — AI agents, MCP servers, and a knowledge base wired into one working whole.
- project Spain AI Kit (external link)
MCP servers connecting AI assistants to Spanish open data — legislation, statistics, land registry, weather. MIT-licensed.
- essay How I got my AI to do jobs from a text on my phone
Sending Claude real work from a message thread — and what it took to make that safe and useful.
- essay The table at La Harinera
An evening behind a table at the Nomad Entrepreneur Fair — a different conversation than the one I packed for.