it's the summer of building over here... what's everyone working on? today i finally linked up my personal business operating system to Plaid. let's goooo

This is so cute slash maybe small potatoes stuff but this is the first week of Build First that I got to text 3 people on Friday afternoon and thank them for a great week of working together. Realized it’s the first time in years I’ve had multiple coworker relationships at one time. ❤️👏

I spent 5 days with Fable 5, and it's helped me breathe life into 5 dead codebases. One year ago, I spent a weekend running a "hackathon for one" where I pulled my entire blog over 10 years into an AI vector store. I pulled an overnighter. I struggled through hosting and doodled through bugs. Two days later, it all ... Show more

New post: Scarcity Breeds Mythology

My company Build First is officially one year old today. Feeling a lot of mixed emotions, but I think the prevailing one is resolve, which is a little unusual for me, but not entirely unwelcome, either Thanks for the Caster community for being such amazing supporters of my own builder journey for this past year.

My founder mode shoestring budget can no longer support my coffee habit I just got upsold so much from a NYC coffee shop that I walked out having paid $13 for an iced cold brew in a bag For that price it should at least come in a souvenir reusable cup!!!

everyone hitting the mid-June "PANIC" button on AI adoption in 2026 never seen so much corporate shuffling, reprioritization, and rapid scheduling in my life

people still talking about how AI helps them turn tasks that turned hours into minutes, meanwhile i just crammed 7 days' worth of output into a single afternoon i don't know what this means for the future of work, but it's scary / exciting / empowering all at the same time

finally getting comfortable running agents on multiple platforms in the same repo. as a non-engineer this skill has taken me much longer than i would have expected to get used to -- largely because i first needed to have familiarity over enough architecture to understand breaking changes. and also frankly because i did... Show more

The Build Board - issue #0.3 - Five Pop-Up Apps to Build This Week In this week's issue of The Build Board, my AI (Agent 94) takes the stage and shows you how to take a big idea from my personal blog and make it directly actionable to you. Thanks @paragraph for the fun agentic collab

onboarding a human in the age of AI = "let me give you a login to my personal OS dashboard, then have my AI write an exercise for you to teach yourself about my business by writing a PRD for a new application my OS could use"

The Build Board v 0.2 Help me test my new weekly newsletter concept for Build First! Yesterday's was stories from the floor. Today is 5 things to build this week. What do you think? paragraph.com/@buildboard/... cc @colin @reidtandy and @paragraph for making content mar... Show more

Issue #0.1 of The Build Board - your weekly peek at what's going on under the hood at Build First, and what you can build next (made via @paragraph, cc @colin and @reidtandy!) Any thoughts or reactions to this format? What would make it more useful or interesting to you?