Ryan McDonald.
I'm a 2x dad, indie developer, and operator who has started, bought, sold, closed, and run more businesses than I can keep track of. I build things and write about what I learn. I'm always working on something.
Projects
Contributions
Anthropic Starbucks Stripe Cummins HubSpot Webflow Sonos Blast Fantastical
in Huntington Beach, CA
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Bookshelf
Shoe Dog Extreme Ownership Thinking in Bets Project Hail Mary Malcolm Gladwell Books
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Mar 2026 openClaude: How to Build a Personal AI Assistant With Just a Mac
Mar 2026 AI Broke the Planning Fallacy
Mar 2026 MCP Is Already Not Enough
Mar 2026