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Rest is the most underappreciated productivity tool
Science shows rest makes you more productive (but that’s not why you should rest).
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What’s your most unnecessarily elaborate tech workaround?
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Plex keeps getting worse but Jellyfin, the main open source alternative, has a few real downsides. I break things down for WIRED:
Plex Keeps Getting Worse. Is Jellyfin a Decent Replacement?
If you want to stream local media, this free and open source media server is just as good as Plex. But if you rely…
wired.com
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Cursive isn’t faster, and a few other handwriting myths I debunked over at PopSci:
3 myths about cursive handwriting
It's not faster, and it's not legally required for signatures.
popsci.com
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Google is strip mining the web. Publishers might leave.
USA Today may pull their articles from search results to avoid feeding the AI machine. Other publications could follow.
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What’s an under-appreciated productivity tool? Non-AI answers only.
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Multi-tasking isn’t real, and other productivity myths I wrote about for PopSci:
3 ways you're working wrong, according to scientists
Stop multitasking.
popsci.com
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Zork and the social impact of design choices
A bad game from 1993 taught me that humanity isn’t necessarily doomed.
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macOS 27 will make building Shortcuts a lot easier, but you don’t necessarily have to wait, as I outlined for WIRED:
Try One of macOS 27’s Best Features Right Now
Apple’s fall macOS release will let you build Shortcuts by typing what you want to happen. But Claude Code and Codex users don’t have…
wired.com
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I built a WisprFlow alternative in five minutes
I call it WisprFree and you can download it if you want (you shouldn’t)
