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In Pursuit of the Dream

More than a decade ago, Paul Graham, the guy behind the startup accelerator Y Combinator, wrote an article about frighteningly ambitious startup ideas. One of those ideas was replacing email. …

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Building a Demo

I try to post something every couple of months, but 2024 has been more than a little challenging in that regard. About a month ago I bought and moved into …

Five Years Down: The State of Mensago

Friday, April 19 2024 marks five years of searching, thinking, designing, struggling, and coding to make the Internet a safer place. Mensago is no longer crazy ambitious–it’s just ambitious and …

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Why Mensago

Almost four and a half years ago, I embarked on a quest which began with a single, short, dangerous question: “What would it take to fix e-mail?” It was a …