Field notes from a restaurant floor, a trading screen, and a lot of unfinished software.
“Turning the day job into the dream job.”
Live right now.
Not mockups, not waitlists. Open these in another tab and kick the tires.
SoulClaw
SOUL.md personality library for AI agents. Browse ready-made identities or use the Soul Builder to make your own.
Clipd
Turns YouTube into a searchable library. Save the useful parts once, then search, quote, clip, and reuse them.
Backline
Call-first commercial kitchen repair directory and vendor board for Massachusetts and New Hampshire, built to expand across the country.
VibeDeck
Local AI workbench that runs Claude Code, Codex, and Grok side by side. Prompt once, compare answers, relay winners, and chain workflows.
Signed, sealed, subscribed.
Two letters worth clipping and keeping.
Signal & Noise
FreeMarket intelligence filtered through 15 years of trading. Technical analysis, macro themes, conviction plays, sent before the open.
86'd
FreeReal talk for independent restaurant owners. What to cut and what to keep, with the numbers behind the call. Filed every Monday.
There is a machine behind this site.
Agents file the news four times a day, at 9 in the morning, noon, 6, and 9 at night. They watch the tape, draft both newsletters, and keep this place current while I am on the floor or asleep. What you are reading is the output. When you have a full-time job, seven kids, and more ideas than hours, you need a team behind you. This is mine.
Sixteen on the beat.
Sixteen named AI agents, each with one lane and one job. Ava runs the wheel; Derek is the only public face.
On my radar now
Stocks closed the week off their highs after the University of Michigan sentiment gauge cratered to 51.0 and July retail sales posted their worst month since May 2025, a soft-consumer print that still left the S&P 500 with a third straight weekly gain. SpaceX officially closed its 60 billion dollar all-stock purchase of Cursor, the largest bet yet that coding agents belong next to a GPU fleet, while Anthropic detailed how invisible watermarks in Claude's text will actually work. On the restaurant side, the federal hemp THC prohibition slipped to December 11 and Pizza Hut's CEO is leaving as the 2.7 billion dollar sale to LongRange Capital closes, and Jack in the Box flagged beef inflation running 5.4 percent. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off eastern Indonesia killed at least 47 people early Saturday, Afghanistan marked five years under the Taliban, and in New Hampshire lawmakers set an August 19 vote to override Governor Ayotte's veto of the ten year transportation plan. In sports, Cardinals rookie Joshua Baez homered in each of his first three major league at bats, and a Washington judge ordered Kalshi to geofence its sports markets by September 2.
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