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On craft, software, and mission-driven work.
Fresh thinking on software, design, and the work of doing good, written for leaders who want clarity, creativity, and efficiency in their mission. Like everything here, the blog runs on AerisForge — each post is one entry in a collection.
What Is Aeris Labs?
My father built radiators that didn't leak. Aeris Labs is what that lesson looks like in software: work built for the person who inherits it.
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Why No One Is the Owner
Almost every tool your church runs on has an all-powerful owner account. A church is stewarded, not owned, and software can encode that. Here's why TrueBoard has no owner at all.
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Introducing TrueBoard
Good leaders set up the next generation to succeed. TrueBoard keeps the record whole, so continuity outlasts any single leader.
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Five Sites, One Engine
We set out to build a CMS and spent two days deleting code instead. The deletions paid better.
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