Hua.
Co-founder & CEO of Meadow. Fifteen years building software for an industry that had to invent itself in public.
Now building AI tools for operating — and writing about it. I want to hear from builders working on the same.
Now
Updated July 2026
Building a personal AI brain that reads my notes and writes its own wiki. Running my company and calendar through a Chief-of-Staff system. Sketching shade structures for the playa. Chasing flavors, always.
Selected work
Lessons, not logos.
- 01
Meadow
Longevity in a chaotic industry is a product decision. Eleven-plus years of point-of-sale and operations software for California cannabis retail.
2014 — now
- 02
Reboot
Community is infrastructure. A retreat where operators put down their phones and remember why they started.
annual
- 03
Desert building
Logistics is love. Ten years running a Burning Man camp; shade structures that survive seventy-mile-an-hour playa winds.
2015 — now
- 04
Flavor chasing
Curiosity compounds. A slow project of eating across cultures and writing it down.
a lifetime
Writing
My own essays and notes — slower and more deliberate.
June 2026
Software is a garden, not a skyscraper
Fifteen years of building for an industry that had to invent itself in public.
April 2026
The Chief of Staff as an LLM prompt
Notes from a year of running most of my calendar, correspondence, and thinking through agents.
February 2026
Desert logistics
What ten years of building shade in the playa taught me about devops.
From the brain
My AI researches things worth understanding and publishes designed briefs. The living version lives at ai.davidhua.com.
Featured report
How I Built a Personal AI Brain
A field report on wiring notes, agents, and a public wiki into a system that thinks in the background.
Read at ai.davidhua.com →