# nicholas (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nicholas. Page: Feed: --- ## [The meeting ends the moment you share your screen](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/10/the-meeting-ends-the-moment.html) _2026-08-10 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Something happens the moment someone shares their screen to walk through a presentation. Their face disappears. The other participants turn into an audience. The content plays out in a straight line instead of being worked through together. From that point on the meeting is over as a conversation. What is left is a recording with witnesses. Reading and interacting are two different activities, and… ## [After the Rain](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/after-the-rain) _2026-08-08 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ Poems by Two Girls of the 20th Century ## [Recognising information feels like knowing it, but it is a different cognitive operation from retrieving it](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/06/recognising-information-feels-like-knowing.html) _2026-08-06 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ When you see a text a second or third time you recognise it, and that feeling of recognition is easily mistaken for actual understanding. This is the fluency illusion : the ease of processing something gets read as a measure of how well you know it. Rereading and highlighting raise how easy something feels right now ( retrieval strength ), but they barely build the deeper storage that remains once… ## [Praise for rescuing keeps the dependency alive](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/05/praise-for-rescuing-keeps-the.html) _2026-08-05 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ You’re on holiday and something breaks at work. You drive back, you fix it, everyone applauds. And you feel it too: you were needed, and it worked. That applause is where it goes wrong. Praise is a signal: it tells the whole organisation what actually gets rewarded. You learn that you’re the one who always shows up. Your team learns that the call is yours, not theirs. Your own boss… ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/04/does-your-ai-work-for.html) _2026-08-04 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Does your AI work for you or is it the other way around? Whenever you’re pasting the output the AI gives you into another application, you’re just acting as a meat proxy (the next Times Word of the Year?). By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior… ## [Train when your chronotype peaks, but never let the perfect hour stop you from training](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/04/train-when-your-chronotype-peaks.html) _2026-08-04 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Your body has a natural chronotype: a morning type, an evening type, or something in between, driven by the circadian rhythms of cortisol and testosterone. It determines when in the day you perform best, physically and mentally, and the gap between a clear morning type and a clear evening type runs up to eight hours. Evening types reach their aerobic peak around 20:00, roughly eleven hours after… ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/03/ai-is-a-swiss-army.html) _2026-08-03 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ AI is a Swiss Army knife. It does everything and excels at nothing. That’s exactly why it wins. The best tool is not the sharpest one, it’s the one already in your pocket. ## [A Little Journey in Switzerland](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/a-little-journey-in-switzerland) _2026-08-01 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ An Article ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/07/20/finished-reading-offerdjuret-by-henrik.html) _2026-07-20 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Finished reading: Offerdjuret by Henrik Fexeus 📚 First non-fiction book in a long time. I enjoyed the experience, even though the book is medium level. ## [New-Comers](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/new-comers) _2026-07-17 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ A Poem ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZamGdAGf0JgF) _2026-07-17 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [A July Jingle](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/a-july-jingle) _2026-07-11 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ For Very Little Folk ## [Vote for Fall 2026 Assignments](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/vote-for-fall-2026-assignments) _2026-07-06 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ This paid subscriber perk is open for everybody this time only! ## [Patriotic Poems](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/patriotic-poems) _2026-07-04 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ For the 4th of July ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/07/01/the-everthoughtful-hgc-gives-us.html) _2026-07-01 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ The ever-thoughtful @HG21C gives us the dictionary: Beware the words and phrases that try to disguise the non-effectiveness of an individual or team. For example, they use ‘urgent’ but you know ‘they forgot to anticipate this’ Nicholas Bate https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/07/01/the-weasel-words-of-modern.html ## [Two Letters](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/two-letters) _2026-06-20 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ Letters Written by Children a Hundred Years Ago ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/06/17/sometimes-i-wonder-how-i.html) _2026-06-17 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Sometimes I wonder how I got things done before AI… ## [A Wonderful Day](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/a-wonderful-day) _2026-06-12 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ Stories Written by Children of a Hundred Years Ago ## [Songs of Cheer](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/songs-of-cheer) _2026-06-05 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ Poems by Edith D Osborne ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/06/01/finished-reading-the-gifts-of.html) _2026-06-01 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Finished reading: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown 📚 ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/06/01/cala-santes-creus-the-perfect.html) _2026-06-01 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ 📸 Cala Santes Creus The perfect spot to disconnect… ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MVMpHbtFnpWW) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [The Mulberry Tree](https://stnicholasmagazine.substack.com/p/the-mulberry-tree) _2026-05-30 · Fiona Altschuler · St Nicholas League_ A Poem ## [You never learned to delegate. AI just made it obvious.](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/05/18/you-never-learned-to-delegate.html) _2026-05-18 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ You finish the day with thirty things still on your list. You ask your AI assistant to prepare a summary of the week’s meetings to send to the team. You give it five minutes, trust the output, and hit send. The next day, three replies. None positive. What went wrong? Not the AI. The AI did exactly what you asked. The problem is what you asked, how you asked it, and what you expected without… ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/29/miss-the-days-when-we.html) _2026-04-29 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Miss the days when we all watched the same episode and talked about it the next day. Now everyone’s at a different point in the season. That shared TV excitement is getting harder to find. ## [The day Siri stopped arguing about language](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/28/the-day-siri-stopped-arguing.html) _2026-04-28 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Living in Catalonia as a Dutchman means I navigate four languages daily: Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, and English. When it comes to my devices, though, I have a clear preference: Dutch. That’s the language in which I think most deeply, and I want my interface in my native tongue. That preference ran into a wall when we installed a HomePod. Since Siri doesn’t support Catalan, my wife and I… ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/10/currently-reading-ive-got-time.html) _2026-04-10 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Currently reading: I’ve Got Time by Paul Loomans 📚 ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/09/currently-reading-the-gifts-of.html) _2026-04-09 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Currently reading: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown 📚 ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/09/finished-reading-el-infinito-en.html) _2026-04-09 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Finished reading: El infinito en un junco by Irene Vallejo 📚 A fascinating trip through the history of books. ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/09/nicholas-explains-the-master-list.html) _2026-04-09 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Nicholas explains the master list: How do you use it? Capture everything on it at any time, day or night. Work or play. For that reason, I prefer a paper notebook. It can be on my desk, in a vacation roller bag in a gym back-pack. It does not need electricity; it does not need wi-fi; it can’t ‘go down’. Towards the end of the day, scan it and break down sizeable items into smaller ones so that… ## [Can you have a real conversation with your notes?](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/03/30/can-you-have-a-real.html) _2026-03-30 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Niklas Luhmann, the prolific sociologist behind the Zettelkasten method, often described his note-taking practice as having a conversation with his system. He would write a note, and the system would “respond” by surfacing related ideas, unexpected connections, unexpected tensions. It was a metaphor. A beautiful one, but still a metaphor. But what if it didn’t have to be? At the… ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/03/24/nicholas-bate-hgc-on-eufriction.html) _2026-03-24 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Nicholas Bate (@HG21C) on Eufriction: Don’t aim to remove all friction from your day. Remove unhelpful friction such as bureaucracy, ineffective tools, and unclear messages. Keep the friction that brings value such as pausing before you send or the effort that leads to quality and better thinking. Nicholas Bate https://huntergatherer21c.com/ Working slower promotes deeper thinking processes and… ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YMYecJX5bXxc) _2026-03-24 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/03/22/ein-bcn-ive-had-a.html) _2026-03-22 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ 🛫EIN – BCN 🛬 I’ve had a blast at the PKM Summit ! Still wrapping my head around everything I saw and heard. ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/03/19/bcn-ams-ready-for-the.html) _2026-03-19 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ 🛫BCN – AMS 🛬 Ready for the PKM Summit ! ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/03/18/two-of-my-productivity-tips.html) _2026-03-18 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Two of my productivity tips made it into the March issue of Forbes España: on beating procrastination and taming your inbox. ## [(untitled)](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/03/11/so-true-if-you-need.html) _2026-03-11 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ So true: if you need an alarm to wake up, you are sleep deprived. Nicholas Bate https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/03/11/sleep-what-is-the-cheapest.html (This is a note to myself) ## [Multitasking leads to an overestimation of your own ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously](https://jeroensangers.com/2026/02/25/multitasking-leads-to-an-overestimation.html) _2026-02-25 · Jeroen Sangers ◦ brain tags_ Multitasking is a common phenomenon in our modern society, but research shows that we are much worse at it than we think. The problem lies not only in the fact that we struggle to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, but especially in our inaccurate assessment of our own capabilities. Studies show that people who frequently multitask wrongly believe they are doing so effectively. They… ## [Who or what is the Holy Spirit?](https://www.katenicholas.co.uk/who-or-what-is-the-holy-spirit) _2025-06-08 · simonknicholas@gmail.com (Kate Nicholas) · Faith, Life and Cancer_ Who or what exactly is the Holy Spirit? Pentecost reflections from awrard-winning author Kate Nicholas