Essays, apps, and agents — because words are magic.
Writer. Builder. Chronic overthinker.
I obsess over AI and work at Every, make things like Tastemaker, and spend too much time teaching machines to sound like me. Mostly I'm trying to figure out how technology changes how work feels — by sharing how it's changing how it feels to me.
I write, test, and build at the edge of AI, then turn what I learn into agency readers can use.
My personal Substack. Longer, weirder, more confessional. The stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.
An AI writing tool that learns what good writing is to you, then teaches it back to you.
tastemaker.botA secular Bible study — reading scripture as literature, history, and weird ancient storytelling.
Explore the atlasCurrent fixations
A running list of the questions that keep leaking out of what I'm publishing, testing, and building.
I keep turning coding agents into writing rooms, research assistants, app builders, and knowledge-work operating systems. The live question is how much access makes them genuinely useful before the doors I opened need better locks.
Tastemaker began as a way to teach AI my preferences. The live wire is whether specifying my voice protects its weirdness or gives the machine better instructions for smoothing it out.
AI returned me to a kind of intellectual aliveness I thought I'd lost, then made it possible to neglect the sleep, meals, friendships, dog walks, and scripture that keep that aliveness attached to a human body.
“I made an app where there never was an app—but I left the app unfinished.”
“AI is our era's timid scribe.”
“I hadn't realized I was following this playbook until I saw it reflected back to me.”
“It's 6PM on a Friday night. Do you know where your childfree single thirtysomething is?”
“I used to be physically unable to open my email. Not in an 'ugh, I don't want to' way—in a 'my animal brain thinks there's a predator in there waiting to kill me' way.”
I gave AI agents a door into Tastemaker, then learned the door had more access than it should have. The connection is offline until its data-access design gets a thorough technical review. Turns out you check the locks before you invite the agent in.
Opus 4.8 is the most complete model Every has tested yet: a jump back to the top on senior-engineering and writing benchmarks, stronger for everyday knowledge work, and good enough to make Claude tempting again—even if the app still lags the model.
Read on Every →A power-user's guide to turning OpenAI's coding agent into an operating system for knowledge work, with setup, workflows, and a seven-day starter plan.
Read the guide →I build the kind of AI Pope Leo XIV is warning about. I also work for the man making the optimistic case. So I put AI versions of all three of us in conversation, grounded in Magnifica Humanitas, After Automation, and my Working Overtime essays.
Start the dialogue →Tastemaker turns the passages you collect into a style guide that names your taste. Now you can connect that taste profile straight to your agent — Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex — with one-click OAuth, so it pulls your style guide and clips and writes in your voice.
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