I coach creative founders. Prev co-founded @carbonmade

Austin
Joined August 2008
New categories of software in an AI world: Selfware and Sceneware
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i knocked out a little tool to manage the choreography for a cohort i'm co-hosting and got sucked into a whimsy cascade here's a launch video (nonsense begins around 30secs)
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you can goof around with it here: stagehands.pages.dev/
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this is part cautionary tale about letting creative impulses pull the work at hand into fantasy cul-de-sacs and part encouragement to get more weirder with it!
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i've been posting instagram videos for a week and after getting over the paralyzing terror it's becoming fun. before i started, i had this feeling that i had to make sense to share anything. now, i'm seeing that the act of sharing is where the sense comes from.
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Dude, I’m not sure what to call the work I’m doing nowadays. It’s a mix of coaching and creative direction. Mostly with stubbornly unique founder types. Please advise.
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this is lovely
i think we have a responsibility to make nourishing digital space in the same way we make public parks, lively streets, etc. for our physical space
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hey, are you in Austin?
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made a physical flyer and had it plastered all over austin and it's one of the best creative rushes i've felt in years
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Up late playin with the new Reality Maker
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the two modes: 1. just me, a sacred connection to the imagination, a pen and my journal 2. a fully automated gundam harness commanding a legion of agents boiling a portion of the ocean to rebuild my personal site
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the desire that makes a quality soul.md is a design discipline
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my claw has learned to make stupid jokes. maximal ROI achieved
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training an agent is one of the best places i've found to play with emergent design. a sandbox with tight feedback loops plus an intelligence which riffs with my curiosity creates surprising and weird patterns
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We’re running a 6 week incubator for folks in early projects. If you’re wanting a super talented and supportive crew to work alongside, we got you. DM if you have questions
For creative people who follow me who are trying to crack a project you've been working on or looking for some inspiration: Try this out, @davegorum & Kristen will help you figure it out. playintobeing.com/residency
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This is my daily driver for dictation. @cj_pais made a banger
If you're paying for dictation software... why? handy.computer is free, includes excellent open source models, runs LOCALLY, works exactly the same as those apps charging a subscription and sending everything you say to the cloud.
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to my unborn son, in 2026 I spent a lot of my time gathering piles of text and images and then talking to the piles all day.
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