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I Used to Think Alone. Now I Think in Meetings.
Five hundred meetings into the year, I hit a wall one Friday afternoon. What got me unstuck revealed something new about how my brain works.
Productivity
AI
OpenAI's Codex Moves to Your Desktop
On April 16, OpenAI shipped a Codex update that lets the agent see your Mac screen, move a cursor, and type across any app. This is the answer to Claude Cowork — and it reshapes the desktop-agent race.
AI
Claude Code Is a Lot More Than a Chatbot
Most people still picture a browser and a chat window when they hear 'I used Claude.' That mental model is three years out of date.
AI
Tokenmaxxing Is Burn Rate Theater
Measuring engineers by how many AI tokens they burn is the lines-of-code metric wearing new clothes — and with compute now a genuinely constrained resource, the waste isn't free.
AI
The AI Skills Gap Is Already Here
Anthropic's latest Economic Index report finds that experienced AI users are pulling away from newcomers — with higher success rates, more sophisticated use patterns, and a widening advantage that shows no sign of closing.
AI
AI Brain Fry Is Real. Now There's Data to Prove It.
New research from BCG and UC Riverside puts a name and numbers on what heavy AI users already know: the exhaustion isn't burnout. It's something else.
AI
Roll Your Own AI Note-Taker
A colleague mentioned he built his own digital transcriptionist in minutes. I followed suit — and now I have better meeting notes than ever.
AI
This Is Your Brain on AI
AI is making us more productive than ever — and more drained than ever. The research is starting to explain why.
Technology
Yellow Highlighter Doesn't Work Anymore
The age-old practice of highlighting text in yellow assumes you know what color the text will be. You don't.
AI
Two Videos on AI Urgency
The Axios CEO wrote a letter to his family pleading with them to engage with AI. A tech analyst built an 11-tab financial model in 10 minutes. Both videos landed the same point.