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June 30, 2026 · 4 min read
How I built Recowork, my own Claude Desktop clone, with Tauri, GLM-5.2, the Claude Agent SDK, and sandboxed Apple containers — for about a dollar in tokens.
March 29, 2026 · 13 min read
AI genuinely sucks at making diagrams with Mermaid — here's why it fails and how I fixed it by building an AI-first diagramming tool.
February 14, 2025 · 4 min read
Verbatim quotes from Dean Williams' classic talk 'Trying Too Hard' on investing, expertise, and the trap of overcomplication.
November 15, 2024 · 2 min read
An analysis of Cursor's business model, pricing strategy, and product approach — and what the AI code editor gets right that others don't.
June 18, 2022 · 5 min read
Notes from Keith Johnstone's 'Impro' on how status dynamics govern human interactions — and why every conversation is a status game.
June 5, 2022 · 2 min read
Five major lessons from Alex Zhu, the Musical.ly cofounder, on building social products — notes from his interview with Josh Elman.
May 19, 2022 · 3 min read
A living collection of product thinking frameworks, mental models, and half-formed product ideas I keep coming back to.