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📍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
- 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 mental 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. - Two Ways that AI has Helped Me since January
Any task that is Repetitive, Data-heavy, and has Low variability is a prime candidate for AI-enabled automation. This post has two examples.
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↗️ 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 This experiment has been superseded by the Snippets Experiment.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.