Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio
Caleb Porzio
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Work thoughts before they harden.
The gist
Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio follows a speaker thinking aloud through the frictions of making things. AI, Flux components, CSS details, gear bags, Black Friday emails, and attic heat all become material for practical self-scrutiny.
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About Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio
Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio sounds like a notebook left running while work is still warm. It is a rapid-fire stream of practical thought, usually circling some immediate pressure: a component that needs shipping, a workflow that should be better, a sale email that feels strange, or a piece of gear that promised a new self. The show is strongest when a tiny detail becomes the whole problem. A color picker leads to Claude, Codex, design taste, tests, VoiceOver, and the pain of verifying code that came from somewhere else. A camera and a set of golf clubs lead to the realization that gear matters most before the real work begins. A Black Friday email becomes a way to talk about selling without feeling false. Even an attic, a wool sweater, and a suspicious heater smell can become part of the same inquiry into comfort, cost, and attention. The texture is deliberately unvarnished. Sentences restart. The point moves, disappears, and comes back sharper. There are jokes, half-apologies, family sounds at the edge of the recording, and moments where the speaker seems to be delaying the work by describing the exact shape of the delay. That looseness gives the show its particular value. It does not reduce work to systems, hacks, or crisp lessons. It catches the fog before a decision, then keeps talking until a usable distinction appears. Recurring concerns include AI-assisted programming, trust, UI craft, shipping pressure, developer tools, product direction, expenses, revenue, cleaning, and the emotional charge of objects. The tone stays casual and warm, even when the subject is frustration. Similar shows often package productivity as certainty. This one is more interested in the uneasy middle, where taste, doubt, and momentum are still arguing with each other.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes maker diaries, software craft, and candid thinking about how work actually gets done. Best for someone comfortable with digressions that earn their keep slowly.
What sets it apart: The show turns ordinary work friction into live reasoning instead of polished advice. Its edge is the specificity: CSS spacing, AI trust, Flux components, gear desire, sales discomfort, and attic details all stay concrete.
In their own words
Brief thoughts and insights from Caleb. Mostly on work. Mostly while drinking tea.
Why you'd press play
A stuck date picker becomes your excuse to question every green test.
Press play if you want
- to hear Caleb Porzio work out why passing tests still might not make AI-written code feel safe
- to follow a real-estate spreadsheet with someone who is still deciding what to do with the numbers
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Episodes
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Gear becomes invisible
Hidden gemCaleb Porzio starts with James Popsis’s video “This Camera Should Cost More” and his own Fuji X100 VI, Peak Design bags, and photography purchases.
Apr 17, 2026·22m·1 clip - 2
What will take for me to trust these agents
Hidden gemWhat would make AI feel trustworthy?
Apr 16, 2026·26m·1 clip - 3
Claude vs. Codex: An experiment
The host describes an experiment using AI to build a Flux color picker component, sharing the resulting workflow and frustrations.
Apr 14, 2026·16m - 4
I just want to hug all of them
Hidden gemCaleb Porzio covers two main threads in this episode of Notes On Work: a meditation on 'clean as you go' as a life and code philosophy inherited from his father Alan, a restaurant and catering operator, and an observation about the gap between viral AI-tips content getting thousands of likes and the foundational knowledge anyone gets from reading the Claude documentation in an hour.
Apr 6, 2026·28m·1 clip - 5
Do work that forces other work
The host discusses the challenge of choosing the next big project for his companies, considering AI directions, product updates, and revenue optimization, and shares a decision-making insight.
Apr 2, 2026·20m·1 clip - 6
Change your life
Mar 30, 2026·33m - 7
How did I end up here?
Mar 17, 2026·29m - 8
You watching the Oscars on Sunday?
Mar 13, 2026·21m - 9
Junk food
Mar 4, 2026·9m - 10
They don' listen!
Feb 27, 2026·14m - 11
AI workflow tool brainstorm session
Feb 27, 2026·33m - 12
They don't listen
Feb 26, 2026·5m - 13
You must go
Feb 9, 2026·14m - 14
Apple watches are stupid
Feb 9, 2026·9m - 15
Everything I feel about AI right now
Feb 3, 2026·30m - 16
The code has to go through your brain and out your fingertips
Jan 19, 2026·15m - 17
Were you prepared to be God?
Jan 17, 2026·18m - 18
Three AI doodads I'm pumped about this week
Jan 17, 2026·12m - 19
The man that new how to live and the death of the Toyota Corolla
Jan 15, 2026·18m - 20
Copy the right person
Jan 14, 2026·18m - 21
Launch day (Livewire 4)
Jan 14, 2026·23m - 22
Claude is the new maintainer of Livewire
Jan 12, 2026·17m - 23
Start your day with the work you're avoiding most
Jan 11, 2026·13m - 24
How ViewTransitions work
Jan 9, 2026·26m - 25
Youtube is so nice
Jan 8, 2026·14m - 26
What if my stuff is perfect for AI
Jan 8, 2026·16m - 27
Self fulfilling prophecies
Jan 6, 2026·21m - 28
Horror story: Claude Code running rm -rf
Jan 5, 2026·12m - 29
Caleb's music of 2025
Jan 5, 2026·41m - 30
AI mount doom
Dec 31, 2025·35m - 31
Bravery and competence and the Home Depot
Dec 30, 2025·22m - 32
Most developers aren't online
Dec 30, 2025·12m - 33
LEGOs
Dec 30, 2025·15m - 34
The Porzio family Christmas
Dec 30, 2025·19m - 35
Do what you say you're going to do
Dec 21, 2025·12m - 36
Your judgements are your prison
Dec 21, 2025·20m - 37
The things you are bad at, you will always be bad at
Dec 21, 2025·11m - 38
Screencasting is so good for you
Dec 21, 2025·15m - 39
Is launching dead?
Dec 11, 2025·19m - 40
The creatorpreneur roadmap
Dec 5, 2025·35m - 41
Carrying the weight of context
Nov 30, 2025·19m - 42
The edge of Tailwind
Nov 30, 2025·15m - 43
Wool, cotton, and wood
The host discusses his love for wool sweaters while explaining the insulation choices and heating challenges in his attic office.
Nov 28, 2025·22m - 44
When CSS gets really hard
The host discusses the challenges of building CSS components, specifically a stepper component for multi-step forms, during a week of launching new Flux components.
Nov 26, 2025·23m - 45
Black Friday thoughts
The speaker reflects on their changing feelings about Black Friday marketing, noting that this year they feel less slimy and are focusing on a single product sale.
Nov 25, 2025·34m - 46
Get rich with real-estate?
Hidden gemCaleb Porzio works through his evolving thinking on real estate investment in this solo episode of Notes On Work, opening with the FIRE movement formula — 25 times annual spending as a retirement target, withdrawing at the 4% rule — and explaining why he previously dismissed real estate as too much work for too little return.
Nov 21, 2025·42m·2 clips - 47
I don't want to work in a studio
Nov 18, 2025·17m - 48
Adventures
The speaker discusses reading The Hobbit after being inspired by Robert Plant's interview about Tolkien's influence on Led Zeppelin's lyrics.
Nov 14, 2025·38m - 49
Writing docs in the age of AI
Nov 9, 2025·18m - 50
The holy data- attribute
Nov 8, 2025·15m