I’m not a writer. I’m not a developer. I’m someone who gets bothered by questions and can’t quite leave them alone. I’m a thinker turned do-er. Because ideas are fascinating, but seeing them come to life in the real world — that’s a thing of unsurpassed beauty.
MarginNotes started as a place to think out loud — about strategy, about building things, about the gap between how decisions are supposed to get made and how they actually do. It’s grown into something I didn’t plan: a public record of ideas in progress, including the ones that aren’t working yet.
The margin is where the real thinking happens — where you scribble the thing that bothers you, the assumption that doesn’t hold, the question nobody wanted to slow down for.
Right now I’m one hour a week into building a private AI tax assistant on a refurbished MacBook — no cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving my machine. Some weeks it works. Some weeks I discover that a fix I thought I’d made three sessions ago was never actually written. I write about both.
That’s the spirit here. Vision without the pretense that execution is tidy. Hustle without the highlight reel.
If you’re someone who thinks seriously about building things and making decisions — and you’re okay with the occasional detour — you’ll feel at home.
Strategy · Innovation · Philosophy
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