Stories
Notes from the workshop floor.
Markdown Eats the Office
Microsoft shipped a markdown adapter for Word and MarkItDown crossed 91,000 GitHub stars. Markdown is no longer a developer niche — it's the lingua franca between humans, AI, and every document on your disk. Gloss is built for that world: read, edit, and search your markdown as a living knowledgebase.
The Shape-Shifter Economy
AI doesn't end the day job — health insurance makes sure of that. But it does quietly reshape it. The next decade belongs to individuals and tiny teams who shape, review, and accept work by day and run their own AI-built product on the side. The tooling I'm building is for them.
Your Project Manager Can't Keep Up
We spent forty years teaching humans to feed project management tools. The next tools will feed themselves. The bet behind Merrily and Syncopate is that AI-native tooling — designed for machine interoperability, not human data entry — eliminates the 60% overhead tax and frees builders to just build.
GEO Is Already Wrong
Generative Engine Optimization is making the same mistake SEO made — gaming the retrieval layer instead of earning the citation. What actually gets AI to mention your tool is simpler and harder.
The Dark Tetrad
Why everyday sadism joined narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
First-Party Data Is the Only Data Left
Third-party cookies are dead. Multi-touch attribution has collapsed. The brands winning in 2026 own their audience relationships directly. MCG's privacy-first architecture was accidentally prescient.
SEO Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It.
Google rankings used to matter. Now AI answers the question directly. The game has changed from optimizing for algorithms to being the brand AI cites. Here's what that means for how we build.
Eat Your Own Cooking
Why dogfooding our own products isn't optional — it's the foundation of credible software.
Why I Build This Way
An introduction to the philosophy behind these tools — why privacy isn't a feature, it's the foundation.