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I left my airpods in the office, and now I must workout at the gym like this is the 19th century
Turns out I was wrong in my assumptions about the water impact of AI usage.
Still, there are significant environmental considerations, but I’d rather operate on accurate data than viral statistics shared through word-of-mouth.
A reminder o…
I've spent weeks writing about recovery systems. Then I got the flu and couldn't work for two days.
I learned the difference between active recovery (great at it) and passive recovery (struggle).
New newsletter: what happens when you can't…
Just because you'd exhausted your current knowledge doesn't mean you'd exhausted all possibilities.
The bug you couldn't fix at 6pm that solved in 10 minutes the next morning. The problem that seemed impossible until someone with fresh eye…
Think about the last time you gave up on something.
You probably tried everything you could think of. Different approaches, tools, timing. Nothing worked.
So you concluded it was impossible.
But here's the thing: you were confusing your hi…
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Me preparing to respond to "any updates?" in Slack:
→ Claude Code tab 1: Analyzing thread context and tone
→ Claude Code tab 2: Drafting 7 variations of "no updates"
→ Claude Code tab 3: Optimizing exclamation mark placement
→ Claude Code …
Teams measure sprints and story points, but there's a whole category of work that never gets tracked.
The constant small interruptions. The context switching. The mental overhead of keeping track of random loose ends.
By Friday, you've los…
Next time you hit a wall, try asking: "What would someone else try?" instead of "Why is this impossible?"
Different question, different possibilities.
Spoiler alert: the thing you gave up on probably wasn't actually impossible.
You just ran out of things to try within your current knowledge.
But here's what our brains do: they take "I can't solve this" and quietly transform it into "This…
When thinking about strategy, some people think: "what can I build with these resources?".
Instead, they should be thinking: "What would this look like if it were perfect?".
If you do the first it's not that you lack ambition, is that the …
So many leaders are using AI wrong. They ask it to write emails and generate reports.
AI's superpower for leaders is not creation, it's consumption. After connecting my thousands of notes, book highlights, and outputs to AI, it can read ye…
"It's just 5 minutes" is the most expensive phrase in your workday.
Here's the real math:
→ 5 minutes to understand context
→ 5 minutes to do the thing
→ 5 minutes to communicate back
→ 15 minutes to regain focus
That "5-minute" task just …
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