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: AI as a Teammate I was reminded this week about a couple of quotes from Ethan Mollick’s blog regarding …

: Finished reading: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

: Leadership North Stars I did an introspective exercise recently that I found insightful for understanding how my brain …

: Productivity Trap with Oliver Burkeman - Big Think youtu.be/-LMaT4rUd… ⁠Perfectionism for me has always been a kind of central part of what …

: A good piece by Taylor Lorenz on the responses to the healthcare CEO shooting. Link …

: A short pedantic explainer on why Sam Altman’s note-taking advice is trash. Perfect holiday week …

: You can now search the web in ChatGPT and it works pretty well on a first impression! Lots of legal …

: I came across this old article in HBR about leaders being good at strategy or execution. They state, …

: I just realized that my Reader app (by Readwise) can make quote images–cool! And I just found …

: Here is a great write up from Elena Rossini on her reasons for being wary of the big social media …

: A great video on Chicago’s plan to end homelessness by building more affordable housing funded …

: The Pudding tested Claude AI to see how well it could replace their work writing data-intensive …

: Instagram is going to automatically dub videos in reels into your language while “maintaining …

: Raycast is probably the second best reason to buy a Mac over Windows for general knowledge-work …

: Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this – a ritual, in a deep …

: Ethan Mollick on the new model, GPT-o1, that OpenAI released yesterday: Using GPT-o1 means …

: From Ken Saxon’s newsletter I forgot how challenging it can be to receive a big download of …

: Getting Podcast Transcripts

Why I want podcast transcriptions

I often find myself listening to podcasts about homelessness, …

: The best RSS and feed app, Reeder, just announced a new version! It seems like it’s an everything …

: AI apps and API

API is the way to go

I’ve moved from paying OpenAI for their ChatGPT app and using the free version …

: We need a story about when times were hard and showed no sense of ever getting easier, and the …

: Just testing using micro.publish with Obsidian.

: Leadership and letting people leave well Quote from Nilay Patel of The Verge Happy to share this video and tell y’all to subscribe to …

: Figuring out how to use micro.blog Things to Try out Cross-post to Mastodon Cross-post to Threads Follow Threads and Mastodon from …

: This marks the start of my journey trying out micro-blogging. Despite being very online over the …