Hi 👋🏼
Thanks for visiting.
📍What’s here?
There are two main blocks of content on this site:
- the Blog, where I write about various topics.
- the Resources page, where you’ll find:
- my experimental chat bots designed for managers; and
- links to foundational references that I have revisited frequently over the years. You’ll find them useful if you’re a Strategy & Operations Lead, a Chief of Staff, or interested in management as a discipline.
Latest Posts
- Making My Own Sync Tool for the XTEiNK X3 eReader
How I used Claude Code to build a safer Finder-folder Sync tool for the XTEiNK X3 eReader. Includes a reference doc of the X3’s HTTP requests for anyone who wants to build their own. - A Dashboard, a Cheat Sheet, a Maturity Model, and More: My AI Month
Some quality-of-life improvements this month, all courtesy of AI: one dashboard for all my automations, a newsletter backlog paced out one issue a day, a 3-hour course boiled down to a cheat sheet, tidier commit messages, and a 116-page report distilled into a maturity model. - How I’m helping non-technical friends get started with Claude Code
Non-technical macOS users can get in on the fun with Claude Code, even if they’re using Terminal for the first time. This post shows you how.
Get new posts via email.
Sign up to get a weekly digest when new posts are published or subscribe via RSS.
↗️ What’s new elsewhere?
Things I’ve worked on that are not on this site.
Latest snippets I’ve found interesting.
Find more at mdysnippets.com
January 2026.
- mdySnippets. An experiment for highlighting interesting segments of long-form content.
October 2025.
- Quick start guide for Claude Skills. Create your first Claude skill with these step by step instructions.
December 2024.
- Causify It. A Custom GPT that reviews incident reports and recommends improvements. See a sample chat.
- Using Claude to “Enhance the RSS Block in WordPress via a plugin (on Medium)
November 2024.
- Privacy Settings I use for AI-Enabled Services (Google Doc)
- A step-by-step guide for deploying a simple web app using Google Apps Script with coding help from Claude (on Medium)
October 2024 to August 2025.
- [Retired] AI-generated summaries of interesting reads — a supplemental site with short summaries for busy minds. This experiment has been superseded by the Snippets Experiment.
🖋️ Editing and Contribution Work
Recent work that I am allowed to publicly disclose.
- December 2024. Edited 7 Rules of Causation for Trust & Safety Incidents.
- November 2024. Edited A Lightweight Template for Root Cause Analysis for the Trust & Safety Toolkit.
- August 2024. Edited Trust & Safety as Preventative Healthcare.
- June 2024. Contributed to the TSPA’s Safety by Design curriculum chapter.
📫 Where else to find me
I’m reachable via email at mdy[at]mdynotes.com. You can also find me on BlueSky or Mastodon. Editor friends can reach me via the AI for Editors and Editors Tea Club Slack teams.