As we all experiment with AI and how it can help, I went down a rabbit hole over the last month that I wanted to share. I called it “The Daybook”. It was an automated daily note. It ran every night, pulling in my…
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Daylite Is Getting a Local MCP Server
Daylite is wiring the app up to Claude through a local MCP server. Daylite has always been about connecting data and this feels like one more evolution for them. It’s currently a private preview but you can sign up at this link. I’m already…
Continue reading →Stop Optimizing, Start Choosing
Back when I was practicing law, I created an automation that used the terminal, AppleScript, and chewing gum to make a weekly status report for the staff. It was formatted beautifully. It went out like clockwork, and I spent too much time building it.…
Continue reading →Focused 261: Metrics of Success
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I take apart our complicated relationship with measurement. We start with Goodhart’s Law, the idea that a number stops measuring the thing you cared about the moment it becomes the target, and follow that through law school…
Listen & read notes →MacWhisper 14 Adds a New Editor View
Jordi Bruin’s MacWhisper shipped version 14, and it’s already up to 14.1. The big addition is a new Editor View. You can edit a transcript right in the main transcript screen now, add paragraphs more easily, reassign speakers faster, and favorite the parts you…
Continue reading →Intentional AI 5: Dragons in Execution
If you haven’t checked out my new AI podcast with Chris Bailey, you should. On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I map the dragons waiting at the edge of the AI map: false confidence, scope creep, becoming the donkey, and surrender. Chris…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 859: Tangential Gadgets
Lock your wallet for this one. Stephen and I spent the whole episode showing off the tangential gadgets we normally only mention in passing: bags, desk chargers, MagSafe batteries, travel routers, and enough Find My trackers to start our own shipping company. I walked…
Listen & read notes →Apple Should Just Do One Big Thing a Year
I’ve been running Apple’s beta software this year and I keep forgetting it’s there. And that got me thinking. This is the smoothest beta cycle in years. Apple shipped one genuinely big new thing, Siri AI, the one we’ve all been waiting on, and…
Continue reading →Claude Cowork Made My Quarterly Review Better
My friend Jim Eagar wrote up how he uses Claude Cowork for his quarterly review, and it’s a great read. Jim’s been doing serious work on the intersection of reviews and AI, and he’s making real progress. The part I want to underline is…
Continue reading →A New Home for the Field Guides
The MacSparky Field Guides have moved. They used to live on Teachable, and now they live inside the MacSparky community on Circle. First, why I did it. For years the Field Guides sat on Teachable, off on their own little island. They worked fine,…
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