On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I do the math on Apple’s new M6 Mac mini and M5 Mac Studio, revisit launchers, Tailscale, and a few of my analogue bits. We also share some the tech we’ve most recently been playing…
Listen & read notes →Posts Tagged → podcast
Intentional AI 7: We’re All Developers Now
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I talk about building your own iPhone app now that the robot writes the code. Chris built a productivity super app for himself and his assistant, starting with a feature list he wrote on paper. I…
Listen & read notes →Focused 263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I are joined by Cat Mulvihill to look at a frustrating productivity problem: having a good system and still not doing the work. Cat separates the reasons we get stuck into three categories, logical, biological, and psychological,…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek
This week on Mac Power Users, Werner Jainek, co-founder and CEO of Cultured Code, joins us to talk about nearly 20 years of Things. He gets into what Siri AI is and what it takes for a developer to implement. He also explains how…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 862: Alfred vs Spotlight vs Raycast
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I go deep on launchers: Alfred, Raycast, and Spotlight, and which one actually earns a spot on your keyboard shortcut. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for…
Listen & read notes →Intentional AI 6: Sparky’s Email Odyssey
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I get into my email odyssey, the months I spent trying to hand my email over to a robot. First came the Big Swing, where I would never open email again and the robot read everything…
Listen & read notes →Focused 262: The Strategic Deployment of Friction
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I try to build a personal philosophy for when AI writing help makes you sharper and when it just makes you soft. In Deep Focus, Mike walks through hiring his first full-time virtual assistant. Episode Links How…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 861: Stephen’s Kanban App
In this week’s episode of the Mac Power Users, Stephen and I share the state of our task manager software stacks. To take it further, Stephen built himself a Kanban app, Kan Do. He shares the story of how he built it and why…
Listen & read notes →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 →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 →