This week on the blog, I’m diving into a treasure trove of insights, from spring cleaning your projects with April planning tips to exploring the competitive edge in the publishing world and the tech industry’s future. Discover the power of niches with Kritasha Gupta and what news publishers must do to avoid extinction. Plus, join me in geeking out over the latest tech gadgets like the Logitech MX Master 3S and the Keychron Q0 Plus. Don’t miss the compelling stories of a cybersecurity icon and practical advice for personal and professional growth. There’s something for everyone passionate about staying ahead in our fast-evolving world!

• April 2024 Planning Tips: Time for Spring Cleaning: What are some ways you might clear out the project clutter?
• Old-school: “What’s your competitive advantage as a publishing business? It’s not the ability to churn out more articles than anybody else,” says Ian Betteridge.
• The FT’s Kritasha Gupta: The power of niches, newsletters and audiences: The media face so many challenges that it is hard to focus on just one problem, Kritasha Gupta, head of business development at the Financial Times, tells
• What news publishers should do now to avoid extinction in 2025: Matthew Scott Goldstein’s follow-up to the piece that inspired a New Yorker article.
• Building an email to calendar LLM: Talk is cheap, show me the code Introduction A common problem my friends and I have is receiving actionable emails whose priorities are medium level. They do require action of some sort ($ \geq lowest\ priority$), but the action is due in the near future ($\leq highest\ priority$). I tend to skim over these emails, get a gist of what is required of me, mark them as unread and promise to get back to them later.
• Meet the Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to Hunt Hackers: Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo’s Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Today, the internet is a far darker place—and Stoll has become a cybersecurity icon.
• Logitech MX Master 3S: #promo Wireless Performance Mouse with Ultra-Fast Scrolling, Ergo, 8K DPI, Track on Glass, Quiet Clicks, USB-C, Bluetooth, Windows, Linux, Chrome (Black)
• Keychron Q0 Plus QMK Custom Number Pad: Keychron Q0 Plus is a custom number pad with a macro column and rotary encoder knob on the left, serving as a separate numeric keypad or a vast customizable array of keysets with QMK/VIA support. It’s added a new double-gasket design with an all-metal CNC machined body, screw-in stabs, hot-swappable function, etc.
• Setting Clearer Expectations: The Compass vs. Map Method: They may end up in Switzerland, Lichtenstein, or Austria. They might also keep travelling and end up in Germany, or somewhere in the Arctic Circle. The compass method is just a direction, without a lot of constraints.
• Advice That I Can’t Get Out of My Head: If you want to spend years in high growth environments, and reap the benefits that that growth entails, it’s essential to make sure that you are learning at least as quickly as your role is growing if you want to keep your job. You can get a coach, find mentors, take classes, read, listen to podcasts, or pursue any number of other different ways to learn – the right learning strategy is the one that you’ll actually follow through on. The path that I’ve invested in the most was reading, particularly reading as much as I could about business and scaling high growth tech companies.