Personal operating system
Joe Manning
Building weird useful things.
Account manager, music maker, AI/tool builder, and project hoarder in recovery. This is the bench where the finished things, the useful drafts, and the odd parts in labeled jars all point back to one place.
Projects
Useful machines, prototypes, and parked sparks
A compact map of the things in motion. Each card can point to a live thing, a workbench note, or stay parked until there is something worth opening.
Sodanote
AI-forward music workspace for shaping songs, notes, references, and half-formed sparks.
Task Up Next
A task and calendar reshuffling assistant for days that refuse to follow the original plan.
Vibe Kit
Naming, positioning, and domain ideation for people with too many possible project names.
Writing
The blog remains its own little machine
Longer notes live on Substack at blog.joemanning.com. The cards here are shaped for a future RSS pull, without pretending v1 needs a CMS.
Music
Sodathief and the sound drawer
Beats, drafts, released things, unreleased things, and future embedded players. The page leaves room for the music to become more than a row of outbound links.
Sodathief
Music, sound, and not-quite-finished electricity.
About
Builder energy, with receipts
Less personal brand, more control room.
Joe Manning works around real estate ad tech and marketing systems, makes music, builds AI tools, and keeps a suspiciously active backlog of creative systems.
The through-line is practical invention: campaign ideas that need to ship, tools that reduce friction, songs that find their shape after midnight, and dad/coach energy applied to calendars, teams, and whatever needs organizing next.