Jack Cheng

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I have been working on Obsidian Reader for a over a year. I didn't want to share it until I felt it was good enough. It's finally there. Consistent formatting for any article. Outline, syntax highlighting, nice footnotes, adjustable typography. Runs locally. Just rules, no AI.

Writing is changing. And there's no going back to how things were. Watch @Every's editor in chief @katelaurielee and @danshipper break down how editorial teams use AI to enforce standards and train taste, and why copyediting is still the hardest thing to automate youtube.com/watch?v=Uif_qA…

@every also feat. Cobol, @CivillaDetroit, and @stewartbrand’s new book

Here’s my latest for @every, on OpenClaw, maintenance, and Wall-E every.to/p/i-hired-an-a…

Run, don't walk, to read @jackcheng's latest on maintenance and AI for @every This piece has everything - Stewart Brand, Wall-E, and just a dash of class consciousness 🤌

BREAKING: Proof—a new product from @every It’s a live collaborative document editor where humans and AI agents work together in the same doc. It's fast, free, and open source—available now at proofeditor.ai. It’s built from the ground up for the kinds of documents agents are increasingly writing: bug reports, PRDs, implementation plans, research briefs, copy audits, strategy docs, memos, and proposals. Why Proof? When everyone on your team is working with agents, there's suddenly a ton of AI-generated text flying around—planning docs, strategy memos, session recaps. But the current process for collaborating and iterating on agent-generated writing is…weirdly primitive. It mostly takes place in Markdown files on your laptop, which makes it reminiscent of document editing in 1999. Proof lets you leave .md files behind. What makes Proof different? - Proof is agent-native: Anything you can do in Proof, your agent can do just as easily. - Proof tracks provenance: A colored rail on the left side of every document tracks who wrote what. Green means human, Purple means AI. - Proof is login-free and open source: This is because we want Proof to be your agent's favorite document editor. Check it out now, for free—no login required: proofeditor.ai

A game I play sometimes is tracing names back to their origins, then tracing the etymologies of *those* names, and so on. Almost always ends up describing some aspect of the physical body/world. In this case, Robin → Robert → “Bright”, totally appropriate for that red breast

@lynneatyoumind Very true, Lynne. Naïveté is a gift!

Love @jackcheng 's idea about taste. Taste is built by making But it makes me realize another cruel part: having good taste is your inner critic matures way faster than your skills. I've seen so many smart friends quit creating early, they just couldn't stand making "bad" stuff. Meanwhile 6-year-olds draw with zero shame, maybe ignorance really is a gift.

@ryan_vanderbilt Haha thanks Ryan!

Love your take on this topic @jackcheng Fun reliving some of those agency days through your words! For what it’s worth, I think you had good taste when you arrived 😀

"Taste is the moat" might be the vaguest advice in AI right now. There are two kinds of taste—personal preference and cultural tastefulness—and they work very differently. @JackCheng pulls them apart: every.to/p/what-is-tast…

@Ryan_liberricky Can you give me an example?

@every @kplikethebird @jackcheng Curious how the visual mapper handles non-linear thoughts

What happens when you give builders a week to just build? @kplikethebird shipped Tastemaker—an AI that breaks down any writer's style. @jackcheng shipped a research assistant that turns thinking into visual maps. Watch our Think Week Demo Day recap 👇

When AI can mimic any surface style, what becomes the competitive edge? @jackcheng spent 17 years in advertising, product design, writing fiction, architecture, and iOS development. Here's what he learned about durable creative value 🧵 x.every.to/4rWsz2D

@kenna Thank you!

Nice work @jackcheng on Bebop apps.apple.com/us/app/bebop-q…

A word I always have to type three or four times to spell right is rythmn. I mean rhytmn. Or ryhthm. Rhythm? It's rhythm.

What a fun night we had selling books at the @aadl last night! AADL presented a workshop with @jackcheng, author of The Many Masks of Andy Zhou. Want ✒️ SIGNED COPIES ✒️ of The Many Masks of Andy Zhou? We have six! booksweetlink.com/manymasks #AnnArbor #FamilyOwned #Bookstore

Awarded author @jackcheng visits AADL TONIGHT to celebrate the recent release of his novel, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou. Jack will sign copies & lead a creative writing exercise relating to the themes of the book. 6:30 pm at the Downtown Library. Details:aadl.org/node/614237

I had a lovely time speaking with @aprilbaer on Michigan Radio’s Stateside program. The segment was just posted to their podcast. Listen below! cc: @penguinkids michiganradio.org/podcast/states…

Next Sunday!