The IKEA effect: why effort still counts. The shape of things to come. Before you delegate, ask yourself these 6 questions.

One “must” for this week: The IKEA effect: why effort still counts

The Ikea Effect, or how we value much more what we built ourselves.

I've found it is also true for code, as I value definitely more all the little apps that I vibe-coded for my personal use with Claude Code, even with all their little bugs and stuff that I maintain every week.

Personal development

• The IKEA effect: why effort still counts

• Give me 16 minutes and i’ll teach you how to read like a PRO

• Grip strength

• I think i’m having a reverse midlife crisis

• Improve your speaking

• LLMs reward expertise

• Relentless forward progress

• The truth about people pleasing

Innovation

• The shape of things to come

• 8 predictions for the era of continual learning

• Agentic code quality

• Design AI systems that actually strengthen human reasoning

• Tech executives’ story about AI is not an inevitability

• The subtraction instinct

• What happens once AI can automate AI research?

• Why work doesn’t happen at work

Leadership and management

• Before you delegate, ask yourself these 6 questions

• 5 ways to wield influence when you lack authority

• Perfection is a disease

• Something happened last week

• The invisible work draining your best employees

• The key to success is an error-management culture

• Why some junior employees work well with AI-and others don’t

• Zugunruhe

One book

“How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” by Adele Faber.