Strata is a Minimal Native Outliner for MacOS
Strata is a new outliner app for MacOS that I’ve built. It’s completely native and only 2.5 MB. You can get it here. I wrote about outliners extensively in...
Five Finds: The Heart and the Languages
Writing this from sunny Barcelona after I ate an ungodly amount of food. Naturally, our first item today is a guide on how not to die from a heart disease....
The Age of the Polymath
I’ve tried working in so many areas. I used to code and wanted to become a developer. I did a bit of design. I love photography. I did venture investing. The...
Five Finds: Burned Fleet and Lightning
Good Monday, everyone! 500 Years Ago, China Destroyed Its World-Dominating Navy In the 1400s, China owned the greatest seagoing fleet in the world, up to...
Five Finds: Vintage AI and Evolution
Today, we have an LLM from the 1930s, crazy evolutionary details about the mantis shrimp, and the history of the openai.com domain, among other things....
Readr, Safari-like Reading Mode for Chrome
One thing that Safari does well is its Reading Mode. The people who built it are brilliant, and no other browser can truly match the beauty and seamlessness....
Five Finds: Rome's Industry and Horses
Why Rome Never Industrialized Rome lacked not machinery but the cultural and economic conditions that let ideas and engineering reinforce each other. I...
Five Finds: B-52 and Hail Mary's Science
B-52 celestial mechanical computer; Andy Weir comes up with a sci-fi story on the spot.
We Need a New Product Hunt
This is Product Hunt’s main page today. 4 out of 5 places are taken by extremely large companies that need little promotion: Anthropic, Google, Cloudflare...
Five Finds: Color TVs and Homemade Soda
NASA Image and Video Library If you need new wallpapers, NASA have great shots from the Artemis 2 mission. Eclipse photos, lunar imagery, mission footage,...
Why I've Built Syndicator
Over the last two months, I’ve done all my news reading through Syndicator. It’s an app I built, and I’m releasing it to the public now. Syndicator is a...
Five Finds: iPhones to the Moon
How iPhones Found Their Way to Space Artemis's expedition is the first time astronauts have access to recent iPhones they can use as their cameras. We will...
The State of Media 2026
In 2026, first-time founders don’t want to get on TechCrunch. They want TBPN. The Decline in Numbers News publications are down on traffic and laying off...
Shiori, A Novel Bookmarking App
Bookmarking apps are a cursed category. So many attempts, so many failures. Remember Pocket? Omnivore? All buried under the sands of indifference. And I can...
AI Won’t Kill SaaS But It Might Kill The Messy Middle
AI won’t kill the SaaS models. OpenAI itself famously runs on Slack and uses countless off-the-shelf tools. There’s simply no point in rebuilding key apps...
Five Finds: Fighting Dog Cancer with ChatGPT
Hope you had a great weekend everyone. And I'm sure you could have seen this dog story but I can't avoid sharing it regardless, it's too inspiring. Paul is...
Five Finds: Jony Ive's Ferrari
Hey team! Turns out writing a weekly email is hard. And I have a quality bar. Last week it didn't make it. I vow to never send you a boring email. Meaning...
Building Personal Software
My feeds are filled with posts praising Claude Code. People claim they feel bad if they don’t have an agent running 24/7. Developers are asking for ways to...
Five Finds: Telling Time
A bit of a shift from our regular schedule due to a sudden stomach bug (I feel better already). The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight...
Five Finds: Perfect Cola and Roman Silver
Hope your week has started great! Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year) If Coca-Cola patented its recipe, they'd have a monopoly on cola but...
