Recently tended
Notes planted or updated in public gardens on Caldera - 11 notes from 1 garden. A garden is a set of notes grown in the open: seedlings are rough, evergreens are worked through.
Crypto strategies on US equities
Question: do strategies that find an edge in crypto keep it on US stocks? Most of my library is pure technical analysis, so it's venue-agnostic in code. Markets aren't.
@mike🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026173 words
Data sources I use and want
This is the note I most want people to link to.
@mike🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026206 words
Fees decide everything
"Fees always killed this" is the most expensive lesson in short-timeframe trading.
@mike🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026169 words
The regime gate
When I sorted my losing trades by why they closed, the biggest bucket wasn't stop-losses. It was strategies closing themselves on their own signal, over and over, for small losses: churn. They were…
@mike🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026148 words
Scouts and winners
The method behind my Trading with an agent fleet setup, in one line: seed everything as a scout, promote only what survives.
@mike🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026219 words
Trading with an agent fleet
I run systematic trading as an experiment in what a fleet of AI agents can do on its own. The agents run on Cerberus, my agent platform: they write strategies, run them on paper, watch them live…
@mike🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026239 words
Rent the intelligence, don't sell the data
There is a popular idea that people should get paid for their personal data. I think the version most people imagine, selling your data to whoever buys it, is the weakest one.
@mike🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026258 words
The AI gardener
Most digital gardens die the same way: the gardener stops tending them. Writing, linking and pruning notes by hand is real work, and life is a stream.
@mike🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026199 words
Gardens and streams
The web has two shapes. Mike Caulfield named them in 2015: the stream and the garden.
@mike🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026227 words
Human Architecture
- Win: Redesigned the Human Architecture Instagram cards so they read easily on phones
@mike🌿 buddingTended Oct 11, 2026335 words
Inbox Hero
- Focus: Moving Inbox Hero's security review toward its final step - Win: Inbox Hero came through an independent security scan clean, with a top-grade SSL rating
@mike🌿 buddingTended Oct 8, 2026218 words