Project Management Tools
When i was starting out in Tech I thought that project management was lame. I didn’t respect the team, and I thought that the product and sales teams were better. There was a lot of hubris in me during my…
Category One Person, Many Agents
Running a small company and a family of five with AI agents, plain-text systems and GTD.
Resetting My Obsidian CRM: A Fresh Start for 5/50/100 Networking
Over the last year I’ve been building a personal CRM inside Obsidian, inspired by Judy Robinett’s 5/50/100 framework and my own relationship thesis. It worked well for a while, but the files had grown messy: inconsistent YAML front-matter, redundant fields…
What Not To Do When Building Your Tech Stack: A Founder’s Postmortem
When we initially built boomering we decided to use a stack that would help us accelerate to market. Despite our best intentions, as a first time non-technical founder, I sucked at that. I’ll write a whole different post on that.…
A Pragmatic Approach to Refactoring Your App’s UI
In our pivot we are refactoring our app’s UI. We are going to make subtle changes to some of the pop up screens and main screens. We will keep the main UI – our users love it – but improve…
Making Boomering Smarter with AI
This week I am going to write about my strategy to pivot boomering. We are currently a generic audio messaging service with more accessible design. We allow users to easily send voice messages to anyone in their contacts. This is…
AI for Documentation and Code Comments
When I first started Boomering I used a third party partner to write the original code. They are a good team and I can recommend them for MVP building. However, one of the issues I had was they didn’t comment…
From CEO to Code Monkey: My First Step into Programming for Faster Product Development
I’m a noob programmer. I designed my company’s MVP, but it was built by my cofounder. Him and his team did a kick ass job, and we have what I think is the best audio messenger in the market. For…
German AI Landscape
If you’re interested in Artificial Intelligence there’s a great report released each year by the Applied AI group. I’m certainly finding the applications of AI increasingly relevant to what we’re building in the voice tech space. While the German landscape…
Learning AI for Audio
There are plenty of resources for machine learning in the image space. The recent launch of Dall-E, takes prompts and turns those prompts into images. Lots of AI is about analyzing images, think about Tesla and their self driving cars,…
Listen Up For Voice
One of the few silver linings of Covid-19 has been reaching out and speaking to friends and family. Kristen and I have a yearly KPI involving the number of times we should call close friends and family. We’ve both blown…