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Sapere Aude![3] “Have courage to useyour own understanding!”--that is the motto of enlightenment.

I need not think, if only I can pay

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Th

Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne)Many people think productivity is about getting work done. But it’s not. Instead, it’s about making intentional progres

This mirrors a deeper psychological error. The belief that by naming a goal, you are closer to achieving it. That by storing a thought, you have under

A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles: 1. Do fewer things

The point of a good task mangement system is to have tasks appear whenever you need them

The audience you are building on other platforms is never truly yours.

Remember that knowledge is a process, not a possession.

I see the question all the time: What’s the best note-taking app? And the answer is always the same: The one you’ll actually use.

One of the biggest problems I have with productivity applications and features is that there are often like the idea of a feature. Backlinking is a g

The best guarantee when building an audience is using tools you can control, and building a brand/product people love – one they won't forget if it su

Once you start gathering data about what’s working and what isn’t, you now have a decision to make.

If it can’t be measured, it gets cut. If it can be measured, it gets over-optimized to death because experimentation is verboten. The result? Marketi

Apps age. Trends change. New tech changes the game. How do you stay consistent without going stale? It takes more than a good idea and skills. It take

AI technology is going to change all our underlying systems. Even existing things such as auto-correct, search indexes or other automation tools will

Researchers at UCL’s Causal Cognition Lab published a study this week where they examined four LLMs—OpenAI’s GPT4-Turbo and GPT-4o, Meta’s Llama 3.1,

Good complexity creates new possibilities. Poor complexity creates unnecessary obstacles.

"More features mean more value" we say to ourselves, like addicts justifying another hit.

Does this new feature serve our core purpose?