Most social networks are the equivalent of opening the door to your home and shouting at your neighbors. Private note-taking and single-player productivity tools are the equivalent of shutting your door. We need a way of sharing that isn’t all-or-nothing. A way to share that isn’t broadcasting.

What if the process of taking notes is the point?

A slower approach is not only an economic necessity in order to create work that stands out, it’s about reclaiming our humanity. The goal can’t be making more stuff, it has to be making something wonderful.

Make something wonderful > make something fast

• AI will make content a commodity. It can vomit up endless amounts of text and images. Quantity is its game. Quality, intention, choice, vision – that has to be yours.

Intention > Attention

• The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.


• You don’t need to go live in a cabin or swear off Netflix. You just have to live more deliberately.


• We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no longer information. It’s intention, self-regulation, and

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In the future, the process of creation will matter more than the result. The value will be in the artifacts showing human effort - inspiration, messy thinking, pain.

AI will make content a commodity. It can vomit up endless amounts of text and images. Quantity is its game. Quality, intention, choice, vision – that has to be yours.

We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no longer information. It’s intention, self-regulation, and courage.