Think Machine
Turns notes and research into a 3D map of ideas you can explore and talk to.
Products
Apps and sites I've created. Check out my open source libraries.
Focus
A Mac app for deep work: it clears away distractions so you can get into flow and stay there.
Infinity Arcade
Play any game you can think of as a text adventure, with a language model as the game engine.
News Score
An AI news wire that scores the news, rewrites the headlines and removes the clickbait.
AI Image Explorer
An image search engine that generates its results: search an idea, click the images you like, and it narrows toward a style.
Thinkable Type
A JavaScript knowledge-graph library: connected ideas stored as plain CSV, with AI-generated connections. Used in Think Machine.
Remote Habits
Interviews with remote workers about their routines, plus tools, remote jobs and deals.
Past projects
Earlier products and sites, back to 2004. I no longer work on any of them.
PoW.Market
A market for proof of work: people posted puzzles on content, and miners raced to solve them, turning a Bitcoin hash into a signal of where attention should go.
Neural FM
A hackathon project that let you control your own information timeline by training neural-network classifiers on social media posts and news stories.
Bit.sv
A creator platform on Bitcoin: a feed of high-quality posts that readers unlocked with a tap, sending a microtransaction straight to the creator.
Immortal
A simple app for saving web pages to Bitcoin, the content or its hash, as a tamper-proof record.
Open Directory
Reddit on Bitcoin: upvotes were microtransactions paid to the person who submitted the link.
Catch
A quick-capture app for deep work: type a thought, send it to Basecamp, Trello or your notes app, and get back to what you were doing.
Domain Groovy
A small resource of good domain names that I built up over time while hunting names for my own projects.
Perfect Pitch Piano
An iOS ear-training app disguised as a game, for learning to play piano by ear.
Mac Tips
A site for Apple and Mac news, plus tips for developers and power users.
BlogCatalog
One of the biggest blog directories in the world, back when blogs were taking off.
