Hey there! This time, I dived into a mix of fascinating topics. We explore how working from home is boosting productivity and how AI is shaping the product world. There’s insider info on career moves in big tech and keeping your digital life organized with the PARA method. Plus, I’m sharing about new travel norms and insights on energy management for those looking to optimize their productivity.

• Working From Home Is Powering Productivity: A fivefold increase in remote work since the pandemic could boost economic growth and bring wider benefits
• Deep: What new AI features are product teams building?: In depth analysis of the latest AI features from top tier tech companies like DuoLingo, Figma, Airtable, Amazon and more
• Why techies leave Big Tech: A job in Big Tech is a career goal for many software engineers and engineering managers. So what leads people to quit, after working so hard to land these roles?
• What Is a Common Mark Certificate, and Should I Set It Up for My Newsletter? What You Need to Know: The Common Mark Certificate can help you get your logo into both Gmail and Yahoo. Here’s what you need to know.
• Home: The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor
• The “PARA method” says we can organize our digital lives into 4 simple categories: How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
• Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO: RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.
• Six Dumb Misconceptions About The Economy (that the Politicians Want You To Believe): – Well, it looks like we’re here in another US election year already. As Advanced Mustachians, we already know that the ongoing battle of Harris vs. Trump should not be consuming much of our time. Sure, we do our research and cast our votes but after that we move right on to focus on other
• A Homebrew Gas Chromatograph That Won’t Bust Your Budget: Chances are good that most of us will go through life without ever having to perform gas chromatography, and if we do have the occasion to do so, it’ll likely be on a professional basis using…
• 3 Career Principles that got me to Director at Google: What helped me get 5 promotions in 10 years at Google
• The Static Site Paradox: Loris Cro’s Blog
• The Disappearance of an Internet Domain: How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
• Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: by Rena Tom Getting ready to defy the laws of physics in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) A long time ago, Roald Dahl and Gene Wilder introduced me to the magic of objects. Toward the end of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 film adaptation…
• The Secret to Good Airport Design: Aesthetic vs Efficiency | Architectural Digest: Michael Wyetzner of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects returns to AD to break down the secret to good airport design. Most people don’t want to spend more time …
• Artificial Intelligence in the Printing Industry: The Journey Begins: In this recent study by NAPCO Research, commercial printers share how AI is transforming their productivity and profitability. Download the full report here.
• How to use generative AI in copywriting for an A/B testing program: Get on board with generative AI to create effective A/B test variants for email campaigns. And meet Chad.
• Keep Strategy Simple: Few companies have a clear idea of where strategy making ends and execution begins. As a result they develop strategic plans where they’re not required and fail to develop strategic plans where they are. To help prevent this happening to you Graham Kenny offers a few dos and don’ts: (1) Don’t develop strategic plans for functions; (2) Confine “strategy” to the business level; (3) Keep strategy and action separate; and (4) Be careful how you use the terms “strategy” and “strategic.”
• Founder Mode, done right | Shreyas Doshi (ex-Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo): In this episode, I’m joined by product and leadership expert Shreyas Doshi to dissect Founder Mode, why it’s appealing, and how to activate it. We dive deep …
• Why managers have more bad days: And what can you do about it
• Fantasy Football Projections and Uncertainty: In our previous article, we explored how value over replacement (VOR) and drop off can guide your draft decisions by assessing player value relative to replacements and identifying significant drop[…]
• Martin Fowler Reflects on Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code: In this special episode of Book Overflow, Martin Fowler joins Carter and Nathan to discuss his book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Join …
• iPhone 16 Pro or Pro Max?: I got an iPhone 16 Pro twelve days ago. I have two more days to swap it for an iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will cost me $100 above the mint I already paid for the Pro with 1 TB of storage. Why so much…
• Webcam randomly pausing in OBS, Discord, and websites – LSVCam and TikTok Studio: I use my webcam constantly for streaming and I’m pretty familiar with all the …
• Apple Passwords’ Generated Strong Password Format:
• Building A Sound Camera For Under $400: [Benn Jordan] had an idea. He’d heard of motion amplification technology, where cameras are used to capture tiny vibrations in machinery and then visually amplify it for engineering analysis.…
• You cannot be serious? Wimbledon abolishes line judges after 147 years: Wimbledon will dispense with line judges next year in favour of live electronic line calling
• Implementing Data Literacy, Part 2: Explore data literacy for small businesses, industry-specific needs, ethical challenges, and success stories in AI and data-driven decision making.
• Welcome to Bunch: Your new favorite way to automate macOS. Bunch uses plain text files to launch applications, perform system tasks, run scripts, and automate everything.
• Ten Strong Suggestions for Surviving the Age of Misinformation: My original title for this post was….
• Athletic, Barron’s hold secret for success as subscriptions have peaked for some digital news: The media companies with the most effective paywall models have had paywalls in place for a longer time, specialise in premium content, and know their audiences very well.
• 7 lessons from a year of paywalled podcasts at The Economist: One year ago, The Economist took a leap of faith and moved all their podcasts (bar one) behind a paywall. It’s paid off, with the publisher saying they have retained 80% of listeners.
• Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer: Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.
• The Problem With Building Good Habits: Today I consider the habit-building lifestyle a nightmare. It’s not that habit-building has ruined my life, but it has done me more harm than good.
• The Real Reason Why You May Get Overwhelmed: The phenomenon is known as the Zeigarnik Effect.
• The ABCs Of Energy Management: 26 Ways to Fix Energy Leaks And Better Capitalize On Your Inner Life Force