If you’re a Relay Member, I recorded a bonus episode you might enjoy. It’s called “Intentional MPU, with Focus: A Productivity Tool Draft,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. The hosts from Mac Power Users, Focused, and Intentional AI got in a room…
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Mac Power Users 857: Sparmerica
Stephen showed up wearing Meta glasses this week, and before he said a word I wanted to know if I was being indexed somewhere. That’s roughly the energy of this whole feedback episode. We work through iOS 27 beta 3’s Siri indexing (every device…
Listen & read notes →Intentional AI 3: Context is King
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris Bailey and I dig into the idea that sits under everything else: context is king. The model you pick matters less than the raw material you feed it, so we get practical about what context actually is,…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 855: Shortcuts with Viticci
I just spent an hour and a half talking Shortcuts with Federico Viticci, which means I walked away with about six new projects and zero free time. Federico runs MacStories and knows more about Shortcuts than just about anyone, so he was the person…
Listen & read notes →Intentional AI 2: The Useful Architecture
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris Bailey and I get into the part most people skip. Everybody knows you can chat with AI. Far fewer people know how to turn that chat into a system that actually does the work. So we lay…
Listen & read notes →Focused 258: Defaults
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I dig into defaults, chronotype, and capacity. Three things that quietly shape how you work whether you pay attention to them or not. I talk about my practice of writing down my own belief systems, and what…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 853: WWDC Reactions
Stephen Robles spent the week of WWDC 2026 at Apple Park, and I spent it running betas on a slightly scratched iPhone Air I grabbed off eBay. He sat two rows behind Tim Cook during Craig Federighi’s post-keynote tech talk. I sat at my…
Listen & read notes →My New Podcast: Intentional AI with Chris Bailey
I’m proud to announce I just released a new podcast, and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it for months. It’s called Intentional AI, and it’s a show about using AI to actually get your work done. Not the doom. Not the hype. The…
Listen & read notes →Focused 257: Stephen Robles
On this episode of Focused, I’m joined by Mike and our guest Stephen Robles, the new co-host of Mac Power Users who went fully independent last October. Stephen makes the case for the generalist, the person who’s good at a lot of things instead…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 851: Feedback
It’s a feedback episode, which means Stephen and I finally crack open the mailbag that’s been piling up. I went hard at Apple Home since we last talked. I nuked my twelve-year-old setup, ran Ethernet cable around the house for Aqara cameras, and put…
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