“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is fu...

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci (probably didn’t mean git worktrees, but still) When Brady Gaster created Squad, he built it around a principle I really like...

“Agents can’t look at a screen. They need programmatic access to system state. Aspire MCP gives them exactly that.” — me, after watching five agents simultaneously query different aspects of t...

The Story I’ve been running Squad — a multi-agent AI framework — for a couple of weeks now. It orchestrates a team of AI agents that handle code review, architecture decisions, infrastructure, do...

“Irrelevant. I am a drone. Drones do not have feelings.” “Then how do you know you’re not curious?” — Data and Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager (fan fiction, but you get the idea) Knowledge...

“We have engaged the Borg.” — Captain Picard, Star Trek: First Contact In Part 3, I showed you how Squad became a distributed system — multiple machines, git-based task queues, heartbeat-dri...

“Unimatrix Zero: where individual drones regain their identity within the collective.” — Star Trek: Voyager In Part 2, the Collective gave us upstream inheritance — one team’s knowledge flowin...

“We are the Borg. We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own.” — The Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation In Part 1, I set up my first Squad on an internal project called the pr...

By now you know the story. In Part 0, I told you how Squad became the first productivity system I didn’t abandon after three days. Now I’ll show you how Ralph and my Star Trek crew assimilated my b...

I’m Not an Organized Person Let me start with a confession: I’m not an organized guy. Never have been. I’ve tried everything. Notion with its beautifully nested pages and databases. Microsoft Pla...