
The Real Reason Salesforce Bought Informatica
This is more than corporate consolidation—it signals the enterprise AI market's evolution toward integrated, business-ready platforms
Essays
The people writing the invisible rules for how billions of humans learn to think are the same people who thought "move fast and break things" was a business philosophy rather than a cautionary tale from Greek mythology about hubris and inevitable comeuppance.
Podcast
The app store is dead. Long live the agent marketplace.
Agents
You are just minutes away from having an AI agent that will do research and maintain a wiki of notes on your desktop. Stop what you're doing—take a few minutes to follow this guide and you'll save at least an hour before the day is over.
The people writing the invisible rules for how billions of humans learn to think are the same people who thought "move fast and break things" was a business philosophy rather than a cautionary tale from Greek mythology about hubris and inevitable comeuppance.
You're not being replaced—you're being upgraded. What's happening with AI isn't an extinction event for knowledge work. It's an evolutionary pressure, pushing human contribution up the value chain while machines handle increasingly sophisticated routine tasks.
Forget app fatigue—the future isn't more tools, but a single conversation. Here's how Model Context Protocol eliminated my browser tab nightmare and built a digital workspace I can actually trust.
Every generation gets its Gutenberg moment. Ours just talks back. If the printing press gave us literacy and the internet gave us access, the age of useful machines is giving us something stranger: systems that respond.
When machines take the tasks, humans must own the meaning.
Thoughts, stories and ideas from the desk of Darin Cassler
Forget front-end, back-end, and cloud. Think brains, hands, and memory.
Your workflow of tabs and toggle-switches is about to go the way of the fax machine. Why the way we “use” software today—jumping between dashboards, spreadsheets, docs, and to-do lists—is quietly becoming obsolete.
You're not being replaced—you're being upgraded. What's happening with AI isn't an extinction event for knowledge work. It's an evolutionary pressure, pushing human contribution up the value chain while machines handle increasingly sophisticated routine tasks.
How I stopped worrying and built a system I could trust
COMING SOON - First we read from screens. Now the screens are reading us. Think of today’s AI not as a single genius, but as a savvy operator who knows when to call in experts. What looks like magic is actually coordination.
Forget app fatigue—the future isn't more tools, but a single conversation. Here's how Model Context Protocol eliminated my browser tab nightmare and built a digital workspace I can actually trust.
Your Next App is a Skill0:00/904.4800226757371× The Lightning-Rod Protocol No trumpet fanfare announced its arrival; the Model Context Protocol—MCP to friends and future historians—slipped onto GitHub last November like a stray comet, all JSON and good intentions. Within weeks it began to glow in unexpected
Every generation gets its Gutenberg moment. Ours just talks back. If the printing press gave us literacy and the internet gave us access, the age of useful machines is giving us something stranger: systems that respond.
When machines take the tasks, humans must own the meaning.
There has been increasing buzz recently around 'headless' or 'decoupled' content management systems. In short, remove the presentational aspects of your content management system in favor of robust API support