Adam ZuckermanThings I've Made
I have a hard time leaving a good idea as a slide.
Sometimes the answer to a problem is software. Sometimes it’s a book. Sometimes it’s a stack of question cards. Sometimes it’s several pounds of paper in a fire-resistant case.
These look like unrelated products. They are all doing the same thing: take something complicated, uncomfortable, scattered or easy to put off, and make it possible for an ordinary person to actually do something about it.
That may be the cleanest description of what I like building.
The things
- Book
- No Loose EndsEverything that has to happen when someone dies, and everything you can do in advance to make it survivable. Wiley, 2026. Two awards.
- Binder
- The CLEAR KitA physical estate organization system. Forty-seven sections that put the documents, accounts, contacts and wishes your family will need in one findable place.
- Card game
- One More Story126 cards that get people telling the stories you did not know you wanted to hear until it was too late to ask.
- Card game
- Nothing Left UnsaidThe harder companion. A structured way into the estate and end-of-life conversation, so you do not have to find the words yourself.
- Software
- Heirloom & TellA private platform for a parent's or grandparent's life story, told in writing, by voice or on video, before it turns into half-memories.
- Jan 2027
- The RetURN IDA permanent identifier for cremated remains, so what is in the container is still knowable long after everyone who knew has gone.