On this episode of Focused, Mike and I work through practical questions about capacity, chronotypes, delegation, accountability, and what to do when a careful plan collapses. We also talk about task overload and the difference between getting human help and handing work to a…
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Mac Power Users 865: Harvard Professor Teddy Svoronos on AI in the Classroom
Teddy Svoronos returns to the Mac Power Users. Teddy explains how he uses tech to teach at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the challenges of teaching in the age of A.I. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Ecamm: Powerful live…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 864: Marked Safe from Buying M5 Ultra
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 →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…
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