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  • Hermes, Grok Bot, and Instinct know everything about me thanks to a portable memory I built

    2026-10-18

    I built a personal wiki outside any one AI agent, with Markdown, hybrid search, and MCP and REST access so my context can move with me.

    • 11 min read
  • Your Website Needs an Agent-First Surface

    2026-05-12

    Your website needs to help agents use your product, with useful Markdown, opinionated instructions, skills, and a CLI or MCP they can act on.

    • 9 min read
  • Stop Avoiding Conflict. Start Growing Through It.

    2025-10-22

    Most companies treat conflict between teams like a bug that needs fixing. They’re wrong.

    • 6 min read
  • How Clerk Partners with YouTube’s Dev Community

    2024-10-07

    A strategic playbook for engaging developers via authentic partnerships

    • 16 min read
  • Mastering Developer-Led Outbound

    2024-08-27

    Attributable Strategies to Connect with Developers and Grow Pipeline

    • 11 min read
  • DevTools Website Design Principles

    2024-07-17

    How to Design Your Homepage and Navigation to Maximize Conversions

    • 13 min read
  • Why Technical SDRs are the Future of DevTools

    2023-11-16

    You Need Product Advocates when Selling to Developers

    • 8 min read
  • The Developer Marketing Funnel

    2023-08-14

    How to optimize product and content marketing targeting developers

    • 13 min read
  • The Guardrails of Growth

    2023-07-12

    Maximize experiment velocity while minimizing internal pushbacks

    • 9 min read
  • Uncovering Anti-Retention Patterns

    2023-05-26

    A Guide to Identify Hidden Roadblocks to Retention and Build Stronger Habit-Forming Products

    • 14 min read

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