{"id":1250,"date":"2025-01-27T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zmh.org\/?page_id=1250"},"modified":"2025-01-27T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:47:46","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zmh.org\/now\/","title":{"rendered":"Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-14cf5ab5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:72%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>What I&#8217;m working on now, inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/sive.rs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sive.rs\/\">Derek Sivers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nownownow.com\/about\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nownownow.com\/about\">nownownow<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Work:<\/strong> I&#8217;m the co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/clay.earth\">Clay<\/a>, which I describe as either a personal CRM, smart address book, <a href=\"https:\/\/sive.rs\/dbt\">contacts database<\/a>, LinkedIn competitor, or team rolodex (depending on who you are). We <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClayHQ\/status\/1871299586507391411\">shipped<\/a> lots of big updates last year, and we have tons planned for this quarter. You can see nice things our customers have said <a href=\"http:\/\/love.clay.earth\">here<\/a>, and read more about our origin story <a href=\"http:\/\/clay.earth\/story\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Side projects<\/strong>: My main time has been spent revamping my homepage and moving my blog over to my main domain. Still a work in progress, but much easier to post and update now! 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