Apr 25, 2023
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Data comes in, gets cleaned up, and becomes actionable.
May 15, 2023
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So you made it into the Beta! What’s Aboard all about?
Jun 13, 2023
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One cat can have 50 tags: Whiskers, Friendly, Good With Kids, Perfect Angel, etc.
Jun 20, 2023
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You can now add images and PDFs to cards.
Jun 27, 2023
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We’re doing a ton of work to take things away and simplify the product.
Jul 4, 2023
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“This is different than what they said they were going to launch a year ago.”
Jul 11, 2023
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The Aboard extension, Kanban view, zoom in and out on card size, and more.
Jul 18, 2023
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How long does it take for someone to find utility with our software?
Aug 29, 2023
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Off we go, to help as many people as we can.
Sep 5, 2023
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Over the weekend the number of Aboard users crossed the threshold from hundreds into thousands.
Sep 12, 2023
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In a good analytics meeting, there can be absolutely no good news.
Sep 19, 2023
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An end run around cut-and-paste to make things go faster for you—and lets us make better-looking cards.
Sep 26, 2023
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This week we rolled out…places! Starting with Lodging (hotels).
Oct 3, 2023
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Let’s be honest about software in 2023: Coupons.
Oct 10, 2023
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Launching our YouTube channel with a snazzy intro video.
Oct 12, 2023
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Once it’s installed, it works just like you’d expect: Click, and links turn into cards.
Oct 24, 2023
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Please add it to the other 10,000 podcasts you keep meaning to listen to.
Oct 31, 2023
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Showing off our key features in a brisk seven minutes.
Nov 7, 2023
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How to use Kanban view, and other data-visualizing methods.
Nov 14, 2023
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Introducing Tab Sweep, a ridiculously easy way to manage your tabs.
Dec 5, 2023
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Everyone tries to get authentic too fast. Can’t we build the relationship first?
Dec 12, 2023
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Will AI replace us? The human connection is still in the work itself.
Dec 19, 2023
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On learning to help users be whatever they want—and get out of the way.
Jan 2, 2024
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My goal is simply to understand what the hell is happening with these nerds.
Jan 9, 2024
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There’s always another alligator pit.
Jan 23, 2024
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A rundown of resilience indicators, from trustworthiness to scale.
Feb 6, 2024
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You just have to acknowledge that the intern is extremely high.
Feb 13, 2024
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You can’t tell people what to want. They will tell you what they want.
Feb 20, 2024
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It may be a huge messy database, but it’s our huge messy database.
Feb 27, 2024
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Why does it always end up so complicated?
Mar 5, 2024
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Learning from messy tech pasts via the history of the synthesizer industry.
Mar 19, 2024
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Things that are fast to build tend to be disposable—it’s the complex stuff that has the most impact.
Mar 26, 2024
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You are probably not a hugely powerful and dominant silverback technology gorilla.
Apr 2, 2024
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On the liminal space between current and new versions.
Apr 9, 2024
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Almost everyone needs to manage data, but few people want to define how data should work.
Apr 16, 2024
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Thinking about Aboard’s AI capabilities like a scientific middle-schooler, by balancing knowledge and practice.
Apr 23, 2024
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The superpower of programming is hacking crap together really fast to see what breaks.
May 14, 2024
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Keep the most important bits of data on top.
May 21, 2024
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Helping small groups of people communicate more effectively—and take action more decisively.
May 28, 2024
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Introducing…drum roll…export-to-CSV!
Jun 4, 2024
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Four new field types will give your cards ridiculous levels of pure raw card power.
Jun 11, 2024
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Apple’s AI moves resurface a surprisingly old debate.
Jun 25, 2024
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Perusing the academic repository Arxiv.org to look for the future of AI.
Jul 9, 2024
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It’s just really nice to talk about something besides politics for a couple hours.
Jul 16, 2024
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We keep coming back to one big question: What does AI mean for the software industry? Our new podcast tries to answer it.
Jul 30, 2024
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AI marketing should show enhancement, not replacement.
Aug 6, 2024
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In tech downturns, there’s a thrill in seeing what people build with less.
Aug 13, 2024
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What would the world look like if there were dozens of AI-ish things happening at once?
Aug 20, 2024
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The function of AI is not simply to generate stuff, but to make things more fun—and more useful.
Aug 27, 2024
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Our future is going to involve spiky, unpredictable changes that could cut us off from our software.
Sep 3, 2024
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Finishing your weird little projects with AI programming tools.
Sep 17, 2024
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How much change will AI bring to the software industry? We see a wide range of outcomes.
Oct 1, 2024
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A new climate-change integration—plus other exciting updates about where we’re headed in the coming months.
Oct 8, 2024
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New technologies are hard for humans to grasp in the best of times, and the tail of 2024 is not the best of times.
Oct 15, 2024
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GenAI works best when you can combine its outputs with problem-solving code.
Oct 22, 2024
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An AI tutorial from Ethan Mollick, a helpful tool from Google, and more.
Oct 29, 2024
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Claude’s new “computer use” feature is reassuringly janky—you can see all the pieces clanking noisily along.
Nov 12, 2024
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The computer gives us information we can process and use—and then we decide what gets written down.
Nov 19, 2024
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AI and the career ladder, big tech’s training data struggles, and more.
Nov 26, 2024
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Teaching robots, brutalist architecture, saving squirrels, and more.
Dec 3, 2024
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Some thoughts on AI at the end of 2024—and one great link about the beauty of non-AI tech.
Dec 17, 2024
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Like thrift stores, the new AI systems are chaotic, weird—and ultimately human.
Jan 7, 2025
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The secret, as always, is rehearsal.
Jan 14, 2025
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I bet you think you know what the dragon is, but you’ll be surprised.
Jan 21, 2025
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I can’t really understand LLMs unless I keep taking steps backwards.
Jan 28, 2025
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There goes the economy! Whoops it’s back!
Feb 4, 2025
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AI keeps getting weirder, plus some great bonus links.
Feb 11, 2025
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Notes on the Catholic response to AI.
Feb 18, 2025
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I don’t know what the “AI center” looks like, but I hope we eventually can find it.
Mar 4, 2025
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The huge challenge in talking about AI that no one is talking about.
Mar 11, 2025
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No matter where people are on the spectrum of beliefs, most of them seem to agree: This matters.
Mar 18, 2025
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These good ideas will seem trivial to accomplish using AI—and then you’ll be living through the back half of Goodfellas.
Mar 25, 2025
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You have to choose which steps to skip, and when to slow down.
Apr 1, 2025
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In tech, the money is in innovation, but the careers are in predictability.
Apr 8, 2025
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AI’s relationship to the web is complicated—but I’m placing a bet on who will win.
Apr 15, 2025
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Reading between the lines of the AI industry in 2025.
Apr 22, 2025
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Better behavior, on demand.
May 6, 2025
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Let’s stop trying to make computers human and get back to making them awesome.
May 13, 2025
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With AI, the SaaS funnel can start with custom product delivery—and then you sell the relationship.
May 20, 2025
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Is AI replacing programmers or not? Should coders learn to write poems? What’s really going on?
May 27, 2025
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“Model Context Protocol” brokers peace between old tech and new. It’s a good thing the AI giants are embracing it.
Jun 3, 2025
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Is AI a big scam, or will our jobs be on the chopping block by 2026?
Jun 10, 2025
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They’ve been taking their time with AI, but at WWDC this week, Apple laid out their vision of the future.
Jun 24, 2025
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A simple step-by-step breakdown of how we build software—first in minutes, then in weeks.
Jul 8, 2025
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Success may come when the bot is prompting the human, not the other way around.
Jul 15, 2025
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The key thing missing from most AI conversations is a hyper-specific focus on what these tools do well.
Jul 29, 2025
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Using AI to code is like looking into a mirror-world: The LLM generates meaninglessness that you turn into something useful.
Aug 5, 2025
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Karen Hao’s Empire of AI is less about computers becoming human—and more about humans being very human.
Aug 12, 2025
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A review of OpenAI’s latest big release, ChatGPT 5.
Aug 19, 2025
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“Lumbering, unsexy, but essential.” There’s no higher praise.
Aug 26, 2025
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When it comes to the vast behemoths of business and government, this technology is a grease for the world’s biggest gears.
Sep 2, 2025
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Solving all of your LLM problems with just nine words.
Sep 16, 2025
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Plus: A breakdown of AI-related things tech giants are currently building.
Sep 23, 2025
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On Cloudflare’s very surprising ideas about AI and the future of web publishing—and what we should do instead.
Sep 30, 2025
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When it comes to AI-powered shopping, dialogue only gets in the way.
Oct 7, 2025
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Last year, Eric Schmidt made some dramatic claims about what AI could build. Have his predictions come true?
Oct 14, 2025
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With AI, a rule of thumb is emerging: More to less? Then you’re blessed. Less to more? Shut the door.
Oct 21, 2025
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OpenAI and Anthropic are broadening their offerings—and coming for the companies building on top of their APIs.
Nov 4, 2025
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AI can be transformative, but you’ve got to put the work in.
Nov 11, 2025
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I built five projects in a weekend…but at what cost? ($150)
Nov 18, 2025
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How the power of my pure nerdery vanquished the mighty AI.
Dec 9, 2025
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Getting determined about AI and determinism.
Dec 16, 2025
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Stories that caught our eye at the end of the year.
Jan 6, 2026
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AI is your general contractor, and you are the architect.
Jan 13, 2026
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What are the risks when everyone can produce code?
Jan 21, 2026
Maybe software can help with the suck, even if it sucks to further institutionalize the suck with swarms of suck agents doing suck work.
Feb 4, 2026
And do we need to care about them?
Feb 11, 2026
Assessing the ways product management is changing in the AI era
Feb 18, 2026
Newsletterist published in local paper.
Feb 25, 2026
Did someone actually do something cool with AI?
Mar 11, 2026
What is Aboard today? Call it a praygency—product plus agency, powered by AI.
Mar 18, 2026
You can predict how someone will feel about AI based on how much of their life is spent inside of a bureaucracy.
Mar 25, 2026
The majority of AI projects fail because we’re using these tools the wrong way.
Apr 1, 2026
Hope you like security warnings!
Apr 8, 2026
Businesses thrive on things like network effect and efficient scale. How are the AI companies stacking up?
Apr 22, 2026
Are you ready for Zoho-ification?
Apr 29, 2026
Riffing on my recent New York Times Opinion piece
May 6, 2026
Why the future of software is “good loops”
May 13, 2026
All Polly asks for is a monthly quota of crackers (the $200 pro max plan).
May 27, 2026
After the bubble pops, it will be like Times Square on January 1st.
Jun 3, 2026
It’s easier to build software than ever before—but what are you supposed to do with the things that are left over?
Jun 10, 2026
You don’t always want AI. Here’s why.
Jun 17, 2026
My favorite remains “agentrification.”
Jul 8, 2026
Muskism breaks down Musk’s world via his actions—but doesn’t illuminate why some still seem to love him.
Jul 15, 2026
The clash between Bun, Zig, and Anthropic is about more than online drama.
Jul 22, 2026
What if you cold-emailed things people actually might want?
Jul 29, 2026
Building the vaporwave screensaver of my dreams.
Aug 5, 2026
Has the new AI made the old AI relevant again?
Aug 12, 2026
Thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—or rather, nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.
Aug 26, 2026
A tour through AI software’s past from the Internet Archive’s Jason Scott.
Sep 2, 2026
Thoughts on Anthropic’s eye-watering market prediction—and how AI companies are like jam bands.
Sep 9, 2026
How we got the full back catalog of Lapham’s Quarterly online.
Sep 23, 2026
Ironically, the AI-ification of everything makes this possible—and necessary.
Sep 30, 2026
Observations from recent meetups on Jev and AI’s role in investigative journalism.
Oct 14, 2026
The link is the document!
Oct 21, 2026
Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.