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
Reading between the lines (a co-writing post)
The tool could read the posting. It couldn't read the room the posting came from. That part was mine. That was the first time I understood something I now treat as a rule: a tool can be technically right and still miss the actual ask entirely. Not because it's careless, but because it's reading what's on the page, and the real problem is usually sitting just underneath it.
AI
Why I reach for Antigravity (Cursor series Part 2)
Part 2 of a series. Cursor is still my studio control surface. Antigravity is what I open when I want parallel agents on a coding job without turning that job into my whole life-admin bench.