Synesis
Email that lives on your machine first. Windows and Android, SQLite on device, sync in the background via Microsoft Graph or plain IMAP. Your mail, your copy — no mystery cloud required to read your inbox.
About SynesisLiveBytes is where the work lives.
Leading and making were never opposites — a studio for local-first software, practical tools, and notes from building them.
Organon
Aristotle's organon was the toolkit for clear thinking — logic, categories, the works. Organon here is the same idea, applied a little loosely: instruments for a full life and real craft. Instruments, not vibes.
Phronesis
A personal organizer for a complicated day — calm capture, plan today, focus, offline on your device. Not a team workspace. Real software in progress; honest about that upfront.
About PhronesisTech leadership was never the opposite of making things.
Built by Trish Putnam · software, music, theater, and a few other threads on the side.
Notes from the studio
AI
Operating agentically: an operating model (solo studio edition)
Named agents, written handoffs, real gates, and me on the dangerous verbs - that is the operating model, not a roster sticker. This Note is the solo-studio field manual: how the pieces fit (including the job-search ledger that keeps me honest), how I smoke-test when a prompt or model change might quietly rot the work, and what I refuse to claim. Steal the pattern; don’t inflate the headcount.
engineering
Offline on a ferry
Sometimes my commute road is water. When the signal dies mid-crossing, I find out which apps were instruments and which ones were landlords with a spinning circle.