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karlkoch.me

On teaching AI how you work

Personal skills turn years of writing into loadable judgement you can install instead of re-explaining, and one command that runs all of it.

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory for your AI Agents. Without a meeting bot. Try it in your next meeting.

bit.ly

Take your meeting context to new placesSponsored

Granola's new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connects your meeting notes to your AI app of choice.

bjorg.bjornroche.com

The AI productivity gap

Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.

go.granola.ai

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try on your next meeting.

terriblesoftware.org

You got faster. Your company didn’t.

AI made you faster. But you’re not more productive; you’re outsourcing the slow part to everyone else.

magnus919.com

The architecture of focus

Most companies default to a schedule designed for managers that systematically destroys the cognitive capacity for the work they actually need.

oreilly.com

The organization is the bottleneck

Everyone is adopting AI coding tools. Engineers are writing code faster than ever. But are organizations actually delivering value faster?

nooneshappy.com

Appearing productive in the workplace

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

crixu.blog

AI reads my meetings. I take more notes than ever.

Discover why combining AI meeting tools with handwritten notes enhances your insights.

maxvanijsselmuiden.nl

Productive procrastination

Understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.

timharford.com

What if AI just makes us work harder?

More multitasking. AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once.

tomtunguz.com

The done list

How the disappearing middle of work changes everything about planning & productivity.

bit.ly

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justoffbyone.com

The math of why you can’t focus at work

Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you’ll get real work done.

slack.design

Design ops at Slack

How to make a big impact with a small team.

nngroup.com

Designing for serial task switching

A natural user behavior that lowers productivity and increases stress and the chance of errors.

seangoedecke.com

Getting things “done” in large tech companies

How can you finish things in a world where you can keep improving systems indefinitely?

framer.com

Framer CM-2

A compact keyboard built to speed up your creative workflow.

uxdesign.cc

How I review design work

Good design can be tricky. What’s obvious to one person might not make sense to someone else.