A snapshot of what's on my desk and on my mind. This page is short on purpose. The date below comes from the last content commit, not a promise of live updates.
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Building
— on my desk
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Applause.team
Technology and engineering at Applause.team, with an AI-first product direction.
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Jarvis
A private assistant for knowledge, tasks, and project coordination through MCP. Offline for site visitors.
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MokLabs Venture Studio
Co-founding a studio that ships ambitious products with careful engineering.
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Lugui.ai
AI infrastructure for real-estate agencies, delivered inside WhatsApp — conversational agents + RAG. Building the frontend, the agent stack, and the DX that keeps a small team fast.
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CEIA
Applied AI research at CEIA (UFG) — frontier LLM work bridging academic rigor and shipped products.
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Synk
A real code editor for the iPad with on-device AI — native SwiftUI, cloud and local models.
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Argus
Privacy-first AI vision for any ONVIF/RTSP camera — open-source, low-cost, no rip-and-replace.
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Kindraw
A warm, playful workspace on top of Excalidraw — boards, docs, and real-time collaboration.
/ 02
Learning
— slow & deliberate
LangGraph
Orchestrating multi-agent workflows with real state machines, not vibes.
Rust fundamentals
Slow & steady; reading the book and building small CLIs on the side.
Venture operations
How small studios stay focused across multiple products without losing their soul.
/ 03
Reading
— on the nightstand
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz. Re-read for the 3rd time — it gets sharper every pass.
High Output Management
Andy Grove. Classic, still sharp, still the operating manual.
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar. Amazon's operating system — how PR/FAQ actually works in practice.
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick. Short, brutal, essential when you're talking to early users.
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Thinking about
— unresolved
›How small teams ship with disproportionate impact.
›Where AI genuinely removes toil vs. where it just performs productivity.
›The difference between craftsmanship and craftsmanship-theater.
›Why most “platforms” are just products that refuse to admit it.