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How to turn YouTube into a tool (instead of a giant time sink)
Don’t passively consume—take control over what you see.
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Lately I’ve been drifting in the morning instead of finding joy in my writing. What helps you find yourself at the beginning of the day?
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I’m never dragging an icon to /Applications again. Ever.
Someone Finally Fixed Installing Apps on a Mac
The installation utility EasyDMG makes it so you never drag and drop an icon again.
wired.com
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Transcription, the best tool the AI age has brought us, doesn’t need to cost anything.
Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.
wired.com
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Google doesn’t make it easy to ditch Gemini in Googel Docs, but you can do it. I outlined how for WIRED:
How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails,…
wired.com
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Why I left Mastodon
It’s technically not click bait (but it’s kind of clickbait).
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It turns out sirens have a pretty interesting history, as I wrote for PopSci:
Police sirens started with a 19th century French scientist
The type of siren you hear depends on where you live.
popsci.com
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How to get the old Google back
You don’t have to put up with this.
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LinkedIn adding a “This seems like AI slop” button is so funny. If anything LinkedIn needs a “huh this seems to be written by a human” button.
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Tech is better when it kinda sucks
On the joy of tinkering and figuring things out.
