A personal newsletter by Merlin Mann, creator of Inbox Zero, mixing reflections on productivity and attention with humorous tangents and essays on using LLMs. Readers get an idiosyncratic, voice-driven look at how he thinks about work, technology and everyday curiosity.
Website: https://merlin.ghost.io/
Each issue explains one behavioral science finding, such as attention residue or the illusion of transparency, with the original studies cited. It ends with a small, concrete action HR leaders and managers can try at work.
A fortnightly letter of personal essays on attention, creative persistence and the habits behind making things, drawing on the author's own records and on research. Readers get reflective, candid writing about reading, routines and sustaining long projects.
Sébastien Dubois shares release notes for his Obsidian plugins, original models for personal knowledge management, and commentary on tools affecting Markdown-based note-taking. Readers get practical details on features, workflows and the reasoning behind them.
A practitioner's first-person account of building and running AI agents, covering workflow fatigue, hands-on model comparisons, and side projects like public data websites. Readers get candid, practical impressions of agentic work from someone shipping real projects.
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