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Mac Power Users 864: Marked Safe from Buying M5 Ultra

posted in mac power users, podcast on August 30, 2026

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…

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Intentional AI 7: We’re All Developers Now

posted in intentional ai, podcast on August 26, 2026

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…

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Focused 263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill

posted in focused, podcast on August 26, 2026

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,…

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Mac Power Users 863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek

posted in mac power users, podcast on August 23, 2026

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…

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Mac Power Users 862: Alfred vs Spotlight vs Raycast

posted in mac power users, podcast on August 16, 2026

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…

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Intentional AI 6: Sparky’s Email Odyssey

posted in intentional ai, podcast on August 12, 2026

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…

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Focused 262: The Strategic Deployment of Friction

posted in focused, podcast on August 11, 2026

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…

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Mac Power Users 861: Stephen’s Kanban App

posted in mac power users, podcast on August 9, 2026

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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Focused 261: Metrics of Success

posted in focused, podcast on July 30, 2026

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…

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Intentional AI 5: Dragons in Execution

posted in intentional ai, podcast on July 29, 2026

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…

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