01
Hardware
- Laptop
- MacBook Pro 16, M3 Max, 64GB
- Monitor
- Studio Display, 27"
- Keyboard
- Keychron Q1 Pro, brown switches
- Headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM5 for travel · AirPods Pro for everything else
- Mic
- Shure MV7+ Plugs straight into USB. No interface, no excuses.
- Camera
- Logitech Brio. Boring, fine.
- Phone
- iPhone 15 Pro
02
Daily drivers
- Editor
- Cursor + Zed (split duties)
- Terminal
- Ghostty
- Browser
- Arc for work · Safari for reading
- Password manager
- 1Password
- Notes
- Obsidian, with a vault that's mostly drafts
- Calendar
- Cron
- Mail
- Superhuman
03
AI tools
- Models
- Claude for writing and code · GPT for tool use · local Llama for noisy stuff
- Agents
- A small set of internal ones. Inbox triage, calendar prep, meeting notes.
- Gave up on
- General-purpose chat assistants for work. They lose the thread. Specialized agents over a generalist UI, every time.
04
Building & shipping
- Repos
- GitHub
- Deploy
- Vercel for fronts · Fly for services
- Infra
- Postgres + Redis + a queue. Boringly.
- Monitoring
- Sentry + a homegrown trace viewer for agents
- CI
- GitHub Actions
05
Sales & marketing stack
- Outbound
- OsmoSync (eating our own)
- CRM
- Attio
- Newsletter
- Beehiiv
- Community
- Skool
- Site
- Hand-rolled. This site.
06
Health & focus
- Sleep
- Hard 10:30pm cutoff. Eight Sleep mattress.
- Training
- Lifting four days a week. Walks daily.
- Food
- Mostly cooked at home. I track protein, not calories.
07
Stopped using
- Slack DMs for work
- Moved to async docs. DMs scaled badly. Docs scale fine.
- Linear
- Replaced with a thinner internal tool. Wanted the queue closer to the runtime.
- Twitter for news
- Replaced with RSS. Lower variance. Higher signal.
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