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Google's $4.1 billion EU Android fine launches a debate over technology regulation, encryption backdoors, age verification, app-store mandates, and the political tension between the United States and Europe. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius also explore an unusual national time capsule, compares Evernote, Apple Notes, GoodNotes, Notion, and Notability, discusses vibe coding, and considers JustWatch as TV Time shuts down.  MacVoices is supported by the new MacVoices Merch Store, featuring Comfort Colors t-shirts and sweatshirts, caps, mugs, stickers, and even more items coming. Check it out at store.macvoices.com. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Google, Apple, and the growing U.S.–EU technology divide 00:20 Google loses its final appeal over the Android fine 01:18 Political tension between the United States and Europe 03:07 Encryption backdoors and app-store mandates 04:52 Apple's European feature delays and regulatory pushback 05:27 Age verification, online identity, and technology policy 06:49 The lasting effects of poorly designed regulation 08:06 Technology inside the America 250 time capsule 09:15 The mystery of Lincoln's 3D-rendered hand 12:10 Evernote pricing and note-taking alternatives 13:02 Apple Notes, Notion, GoodNotes, and Notability 15:47 GoodNotes pricing, synchronization, and AI options 17:19 Vibe coding and creating personal software with AI 18:17 Natural-language Shortcuts and Safari extensions 19:16 TV Time announces its shutdown 20:23 Why users should financially support valued software 21:00 JustWatch features, pricing, and streaming filters 23:02 JustWatch on Apple TV and direct streaming links 24:11 Panel updates, travel plans, and closing comments Links: Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine https://thenextweb.com/news/google-loses-final-appeal-over-record-e4-1-billion-eu-android-fine   My Software Engineer Friends Said: Stop Trying to Learn to Code. Do This Instead. - Asian Efficiency https://www.asianefficiency.com/technology/dont-learn-to-code/   Popular Show Tracking App TV Time Shutting Down on July 15 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/02/show-tracking-app-tv-time-shutting-down/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web:      http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Google's $4.1 billion EU Android fine launches a debate over technology regulation, encryption backdoors, age verification, app-store mandates, and the political tension between the United States and Europe. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius also explore an unusual national time capsule, compares Evernote, Apple Notes, GoodNotes, Notion, and Notability, discusses vibe coding, and considers JustWatch as TV Time shuts down.  MacVoices is supported by the new MacVoices Merch Store, featuring Comfort Colors t-shirts and sweatshirts, caps, mugs, stickers, and even more items coming. Check it out at store.macvoices.com. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Google, Apple, and the growing U.S.–EU technology divide 00:20 Google loses its final appeal over the Android fine 01:18 Political tension between the United States and Europe 03:07 Encryption backdoors and app-store mandates 04:52 Apple's European feature delays and regulatory pushback 05:27 Age verification, online identity, and technology policy 06:49 The lasting effects of poorly designed regulation 08:06 Technology inside the America 250 time capsule 09:15 The mystery of Lincoln's 3D-rendered hand 12:10 Evernote pricing and note-taking alternatives 13:02 Apple Notes, Notion, GoodNotes, and Notability 15:47 GoodNotes pricing, synchronization, and AI options 17:19 Vibe coding and creating personal software with AI 18:17 Natural-language Shortcuts and Safari extensions 19:16 TV Time announces its shutdown 20:23 Why users should financially support valued software 21:00 JustWatch features, pricing, and streaming filters 23:02 JustWatch on Apple TV and direct streaming links 24:11 Panel updates, travel plans, and closing comments Links: Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine https://thenextweb.com/news/google-loses-final-appeal-over-record-e4-1-billion-eu-android-fine   My Software Engineer Friends Said: Stop Trying to Learn to Code. Do This Instead. - Asian Efficiency https://www.asianefficiency.com/technology/dont-learn-to-code/   Popular Show Tracking App TV Time Shutting Down on July 15 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/02/show-tracking-app-tv-time-shutting-down/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Apple leaks and rumor-driven reporting take center stage as the panel examines how constant predictions have diminished the excitement of new iPhone releases. The discussion with Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius also covers premature Siri-versus-Gemini comparisons, Apple's legal battles with Epic Games and John Prosser, Bending Spoons' growing technology portfolio, prediction-market manipulation, Spotify streaming fraud, and musicians' dissatisfaction with the service. MacVoices is supported by CleanMyMac from MacPaw. Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use my code MACVOICES20 for 20% off at http://clnmy.com/MACVOICES Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 iPhone leaks, Siri comparisons, and questionable predictions00:32 How leaks have diminished iPhone season01:29 The rumor industry's endless predictions03:00 Apple rumors and prediction markets03:20 The long history of Apple leaks04:12 Supply-chain leaks and their consequences05:41 An iPhone enters America's 250th anniversary time capsule07:31 Lamborghini's interactive Vision Pro experience08:33 Comparing an unfinished Siri with Gemini12:38 Apple's latest development in the Epic Games case13:54 John Prosser responds to Apple's leak lawsuit15:29 Could Prosser become a witness for Apple?17:02 Bending Spoons and its expanding technology portfolio18:42 Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, and AOL21:22 Spotify streaming fraud and prediction markets22:24 How micro-betting could conceal manipulation24:26 Musicians express their frustration with Spotify Links: Apple leaks have sucked all the fun out of iPhone seasonhttps://www.macworld.com/article/3179652/apple-leaks-have-sucked-all-of-the-fun-out-of-of-iphone-season.html   iPhone 17 Pro Max buried in America's 250th anniversary time capsule: to be opened in 2276 - 9to5Machttps://9to5mac.com/2026/07/04/iphone-17-pro-max-included-in-america-250-time-capsule/   Lamborghini launches Apple Vision Pro app with interactive full-size carshttps://9to5mac.com/2026/07/07/lamborghini-launches-apple-vision-pro-app-with-interactive-full-size-cars/   I Compared Siri AI to Gemini on iPhone and There's a Clear Winnerhttps://lifehacker.com/tech/i-compared-siri-ai-to-gemini-on-iphone   Judge agrees to postpone deadlines as Apple seeks broader pause in Epic Games casehttps://9to5mac.com/2026/07/06/judge-agrees-to-postpone-deadlines-as-apple-seeks-broader-pause-in-epic-games-case/   YouTuber Jon Prosser Responds to Apple's Lawsuit Over iOS 26 Leaks https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/02/jon-prosser-responds-to-apple-leaks-lawsuit/   After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luckhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/after-18b-ipo-bending-spoons-founder-says-success-comes-from-minimizing-luck/   Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foulhttps://www.wired.com/story/spotify-streaming-manipulation-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site:https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Apple leaks and rumor-driven reporting take center stage as the panel examines how constant predictions have diminished the excitement of new iPhone releases. The discussion with Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius also covers premature Siri-versus-Gemini comparisons, Apple's legal battles with Epic Games and John Prosser, Bending Spoons' growing technology portfolio, prediction-market manipulation, Spotify streaming fraud, and musicians' dissatisfaction with the service. MacVoices is supported by CleanMyMac from MacPaw. Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use my code MACVOICES20 for 20% off at http://clnmy.com/MACVOICES Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 iPhone leaks, Siri comparisons, and questionable predictions 00:32 How leaks have diminished iPhone season 01:29 The rumor industry's endless predictions 03:00 Apple rumors and prediction markets 03:20 The long history of Apple leaks 04:12 Supply-chain leaks and their consequences 05:41 An iPhone enters America's 250th anniversary time capsule 07:31 Lamborghini's interactive Vision Pro experience 08:33 Comparing an unfinished Siri with Gemini 12:38 Apple's latest development in the Epic Games case 13:54 John Prosser responds to Apple's leak lawsuit 15:29 Could Prosser become a witness for Apple? 17:02 Bending Spoons and its expanding technology portfolio 18:42 Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, and AOL 21:22 Spotify streaming fraud and prediction markets 22:24 How micro-betting could conceal manipulation 24:26 Musicians express their frustration with Spotify Links: Apple leaks have sucked all the fun out of iPhone season https://www.macworld.com/article/3179652/apple-leaks-have-sucked-all-of-the-fun-out-of-of-iphone-season.html   iPhone 17 Pro Max buried in America's 250th anniversary time capsule: to be opened in 2276 - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/04/iphone-17-pro-max-included-in-america-250-time-capsule/   Lamborghini launches Apple Vision Pro app with interactive full-size cars https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/07/lamborghini-launches-apple-vision-pro-app-with-interactive-full-size-cars/   I Compared Siri AI to Gemini on iPhone and There's a Clear Winner https://lifehacker.com/tech/i-compared-siri-ai-to-gemini-on-iphone   Judge agrees to postpone deadlines as Apple seeks broader pause in Epic Games case https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/06/judge-agrees-to-postpone-deadlines-as-apple-seeks-broader-pause-in-epic-games-case/   YouTuber Jon Prosser Responds to Apple's Lawsuit Over iOS 26 Leaks https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/02/jon-prosser-responds-to-apple-leaks-lawsuit/   After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/after-18b-ipo-bending-spoons-founder-says-success-comes-from-minimizing-luck/   Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foul https://www.wired.com/story/spotify-streaming-manipulation-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

A IA nos estudos deu o que falar, e a IA no Evernote dividiu opiniões.

This week: The company buying up legacy brands like AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo had a huge IPO with shares immediately surging by 40%. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and guest host Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the Milan-based company's strategy and unexpected success. Then, the hosts look at how prediction markets are booming during the World Cup. And later: why Bitcoin's plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.In the Slate Plus episode: All Berries, All The Time Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week: The company buying up legacy brands like AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo had a huge IPO with shares immediately surging by 40%. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and guest host Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the Milan-based company's strategy and unexpected success. Then, the hosts look at how prediction markets are booming during the World Cup. And later: why Bitcoin's plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.In the Slate Plus episode: All Berries, All The Time Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week: The company buying up legacy brands like AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo had a huge IPO with shares immediately surging by 40%. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and guest host Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the Milan-based company's strategy and unexpected success. Then, the hosts look at how prediction markets are booming during the World Cup. And later: why Bitcoin's plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.In the Slate Plus episode: All Berries, All The Time Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's WorldWideMarkets is a tour of cheap stocks that each come with a question mark. Simon Brown looks at Microsoft, where a forward PE of around 20 against a mean of 33 makes it look inexpensive — except free cash flow has slipped back to 2021 levels as AI and data-centre capex ramps. He revisits Afrimat, a high-quality cyclical now trading near 10-year lows, and digs into Bending Spoons, the Italian roll-up of legacy tech brands like Evernote, WeTransfer and AOL heading to the NASDAQ under code BSP. He also covers Naspers' latest results, the discount embedded in the Naspers-Prosus-Tencent chain, and why petrol gets a sizeable cut as Brent drops into the low 70s. Topics: Microsoft, Afrimat, Brent oil, Bending Spoons IPO, Naspers, Prosus, Tencent, Takealot. WorldWideMarkets is part of JustOneLap.com.

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4060: Michael Mehlberg explores how adulthood often dulls our natural curiosity and sense of wonder, and suggests that reclaiming it starts with asking more questions. By keeping a discovery journal to capture and investigate those questions, listeners can cultivate continuous learning, deepen their understanding of the world, and enrich their daily experiences. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://michaelmehlberg.com/blog/2015/5/29/discovery-journal Quotes to ponder: "It's time to admit what we don't know." "Recognizing our inexperience lets us breath in a fresh perspective." "It is as important to seek answers as it is to find those questions that inspire us." Episode references: Evernote: https://evernote.com/ Bullet Journal: https://bulletjournal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4060: Michael Mehlberg explores how adulthood often dulls our natural curiosity and sense of wonder, and suggests that reclaiming it starts with asking more questions. By keeping a discovery journal to capture and investigate those questions, listeners can cultivate continuous learning, deepen their understanding of the world, and enrich their daily experiences. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://michaelmehlberg.com/blog/2015/5/29/discovery-journal Quotes to ponder: "It's time to admit what we don't know." "Recognizing our inexperience lets us breath in a fresh perspective." "It is as important to seek answers as it is to find those questions that inspire us." Episode references: Evernote: https://evernote.com/ Bullet Journal: https://bulletjournal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4060: Michael Mehlberg explores how adulthood often dulls our natural curiosity and sense of wonder, and suggests that reclaiming it starts with asking more questions. By keeping a discovery journal to capture and investigate those questions, listeners can cultivate continuous learning, deepen their understanding of the world, and enrich their daily experiences. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://michaelmehlberg.com/blog/2015/5/29/discovery-journal Quotes to ponder: "It's time to admit what we don't know." "Recognizing our inexperience lets us breath in a fresh perspective." "It is as important to seek answers as it is to find those questions that inspire us." Episode references: Evernote: https://evernote.com/ Bullet Journal: https://bulletjournal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

El episodio 119 llegó con historia, escándalo y datos que no te podés perder.Arrancamos con el hito más grande del momento: Elon Musk se convirtió en el primer trillonario de la historia. SpaceX salió pública a 2.3 trillones de dólares y lo puso en una categoría donde nadie más existe. Lucas lo dijo mejor que nadie: él está más cerca de Larry Page que Larry Page de Elon. Un número que no tiene sentido hasta que lo escuchás.Después hablamos de por qué SpaceX no es solo una empresa espacial. Es la única compañía verticalmente integrada de principio a fin para la era AI: tiene datos, centros de cómputo, energía solar, telecomunicaciones satelitales y exploración espacial bajo el mismo techo. El bull case es simple y brutal.Luego viene el escándalo de la semana. El fundador de Cloudflare contó públicamente que Vinod Khosla, uno de los VCs más respetados del mundo, intentó convencerlo de echar a sus co-founders a cambio de quedarse con todo el equity. Y cuando lo negó, publicó el term sheet como prueba. Una historia que debería leer todo founder antes de levantar su primera ronda.También hablamos de un caso cercano que sirve de advertencia real: un co-founder que quiso salirse de una startup que no funcionaba y recibió amenazas legales de sus socios y los VCs para que perdiera su vesting. La lección es clara — antes de arrancar una compañía, hay que tener las conversaciones incómodas.En el frente de IPOs, Anthropic y OpenAI hicieron sus filings privados casi al mismo tiempo y están obligando a los banqueros a elegir bando. Lucas se queda con Anthropic. Cristóbal también, aunque reconoce que la flexibilidad moral de Sam Altman en el mundo de Trump puede ser una ventaja.Después analizamos a Bending Spoons, los italianos que compraron Evernote, Vimeo y WeTransfer entre otros, y los están exprimiendo con AI desde Milano a una fracción del costo americano. Un modelo de negocio que muchos subestiman y que ya factura más de un billón de dólares al año.Cerramos con tres temas que tocan directamente la vida cotidiana. AI destruyó el modelo de las grandes consultoras — Accenture cayó 18% en un solo día y los puestos entry-level están desapareciendo, lo que pone en jaque el ROI del MBA. Los smartphones y la caída global de la natalidad tienen una correlación que empieza a asustarnos a todos. Y los propios CEOs de las redes sociales no le dan pantallas a sus hijos, que es la señal más honesta que existe sobre lo que realmente piensan de sus productos.

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move.

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move.

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move.

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move.

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move.

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move.

Are you still scrambling to take notes during meetings? There's a better way.Evernote has a built-in AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes every meeting for you. No extra app. No extra cost. It's already included in all Evernote plans.I walk through the whole setup in my latest video: how to link your note to your calendar, record the meeting, get a verbatim transcript, and use the Evernote AI Assistant to produce thekind of meeting notes you actually want. If you're tired of messy notes and missed details, this one's for you. Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments!For more, visit the blog post: https://frankbuck.org/evernote-meeting-notes/

We lead with the possible IPOs from OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX, and the much bigger question behind them: where is all that money supposed to come from? The capital markets seem to believe the answer is labor. If AI valuations are going to make any sense, then the bet is not simply that AI companies will sell more software. The bet is that AI will absorb, replace or reorganize a massive piece of the payroll line. Joe believes marketers need to prepare for a labor reckoning sooner rather than later. Robert is more skeptical. As usual, the truth may be somewhere in the middle. Then the boys break down Bending Spoons and its rollup of old internet and media brands, including AOL, Vimeo, Evernote and others. The lesson for marketers? Distressed media assets inside your industry may be one of the biggest opportunities nobody is talking about. In a world where building audience from scratch is harder than ever, the cheapest audience may be the one someone else forgot they owned. In Winners and Losers, Joe's winner is FIFA, which reminded every marketer that rented land is always rented land, even when your name is on the stadium. Robert's loser is Turner Classic Movies. In Rants and Raves, Joe raves about Pat McAfee's new media model and what happens when an expert builds the audience, owns the IP and lets big media rent access. Robert has commentary on MrBeast's claim that he could build a faceless YouTube channel to 20 million subscribers in six months, and what that says about formats, systems and the future of creator media. Subscribe and Follow: Follow Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose on LinkedIn for insights, hot takes, and weekly updates from the world of content and marketing.  ------- This week's sponsor: Did you know that most businesses only use 20% of their data? That's like reading a book with most of the pages torn out. Point is, you miss a lot. Unless you use HubSpot. Their customer platform gives you access to the data you need to grow your business. The insights trapped in emails, call logs, and transcripts.  All that unstructured data that makes all the difference. Because when you know more, you grow more. Visit https://www.hubspot.com/ to hear how HubSpot can help you grow better. ------- Get all the show notes: https://www.thisoldmarketing.com/ Get Joe's new book, Burn the Playbook, at http://www.joepulizzi.com/books/burn-the-playbook/ Subscribe to Joe's Newsletter at https://www.joepulizzi.com/signup/. Get Robert Rose's new book, Valuable Friction, at https://robertrose.net/valuable-friction/  Subscribe to Robert's Newsletter at https://seventhbearlens.substack.com/ ------- This Old Marketing is part of the HubSpot Podcast Network: https://www.hubspot.com/podcastnetwork

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, Charles Suggs and Emma Whamond are joined by Ellyse Cedeno, founder of Heuristic Salvo and a software engineer and product leader with more than 25 years of experience across early internet platforms, gaming, health tech, and distributed systems. Ellyse shares the winding path that took her from early search engines and Netscape to game development, medical research at Mount Sinai, and eventually to Elixir. Along the way, she talks about staying curious over a long technical career, rediscovering joy through side projects, and why being willing to feel like a beginner again can be one of the most useful skills a developer can build. The conversation explores what it means to grow as an engineer in a world where AI tooling is becoming part of the everyday workflow. Ellyse makes the case that technical skill still matters, but the human parts of software development (like judgment, curiosity, communication, trust, and influence) are becoming increasingly important. We also talk about soft influence and how developers can create change inside organizations without relying on hard authority. Key Topics Discussed in this Episode: Ellyse's career path through early internet platforms, gaming, health tech, and distributed systems Moving from Netscape and search engines to medical research and software consulting Discovering Elixir through an interest in concurrent and distributed systems Why beginner's mindset still matters after decades in tech How neurodivergence, curiosity, and deep focus shape Ellyse's approach to programming Rediscovering joy in programming through side projects and experimentation Building an MMORPG game server in Elixir Exploring hardware, Nerves, and live theremin demos The role of passion projects in professional growth Protecting time for learning in productivity-focused environments Work-life balance differences between the U.S. and Europe How AI tools are changing expectations for modern developers Why AI does not replace judgment, taste, or technical understanding Understanding business needs instead of only focusing on technical preferences Introducing Elixir into a TypeScript-heavy organization Using Elixir microservices to solve specific technical problems What “soft influence” looks like in engineering teams Building trust through one-on-one conversations Knowing when influence is working and when it is not Negotiating technical decisions without turning them into power struggles The relationship between technical competence and interpersonal skill Managing imposter syndrome during pair programming and collaborative work Documentation as a visibility and ownership tool Community involvement, conference speaking, and finding your people Staying curious without burning out Why the human side of software development still matters Links Mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai https://icahn.mssm.edu/ Evernote https://evernote.com/ Joplin https://joplinapp.org/ Book: Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-third-edition Book: The Little LISPer https://www.scribd.com/doc/263131641/The-Little-Lisper Ellyse's Goatmire Talk https://goatmire.com/speaker/ellyse-cedeno Nerves https://nerves-project.org/ xHain Hack & Makespace in Berlin https://x-hain.de/en/ https://cursor.com/ Haskell Programming Language https://www.haskell.org/ Java Programming Language https://www.java.com/en/ Clojure Programming Language https://clojure.org/ Scheme Programming Language https://www.scheme.org/ TypeScript Programming Language https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Nostrum Library https://hexdocs.pm/nostrum/intro.html Gleam Programming Language https://gleam.run/ Book: Getting Past No by William Ury https://www.williamury.com/getting-past-no/ “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo Ted Talk: Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY Ellyse's Codeberg https://codeberg.org/ellyxir Ellyse's Game Server Repo https://codeberg.org/ellyxir/gameserver Goatmire Elixir & NervesConf 2026 https://www.goatmire.com/

In this episode of Run the Numbers, CJ breaks down Bending Spoons' F-1 filing and the acquisition machine behind AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, and more. He unpacks the company's playbook: buy under-optimized digital businesses, transform operations, raise prices, reinvest earnings, and repeat — while asking the core question: how much was built, and how much was bought?—SPONSORS:RightRev is an automated revenue recognition platform that lets your product team ship new pricing without asking finance for permission, and your sales team close deals without creating downstream chaos. Check out their free tool at calculator.rightrev.com It scores your rev rec process, shows what's exposing you to risk, and tells you exactly where to focus before it bites you in the rear end. Check it out at https://calculator.rightrev.comRillet is an AI-native ERP built for modern finance teams that want to replace NetSuite and close faster. With revenue recognition, close management, multi-entity support, and native Stripe and Salesforce integrations, Rillet helps scaling companies run their finance stack in one place. Hundreds of teams, including Windsurf and Mercor, use Rillet to make the zero-day close real. Book a demo at https://www.rillet.com/cjEY has been part of Silicon Valley since it was just a valley, helping the most successful names in tech go from startup to exit to megacap. With teams across strategy, tax, audit, and transactions, EY helps you get your financials right early, long before your investors start asking for it. You build the next big thing, and EY will help you build it right. Learn more at https://www.ey.com/techstartupsSpendHound cuts your SaaS and AI spend by up to 30% using real pricing benchmarks across 10,000 vendors, so you always know what fair pricing looks like before your next renewal. Rated #1 on G2 in SaaS spend management, it's free forever for teams up to 1,000 employees. Sign up by June 12th and get $500 just for getting started. Go to https://www.spendhound.com/cjBrex is an intelligent finance platform with AI-powered agents that capture expenses automatically, enforce policy before the spend happens, and close your books in minutes instead of weeks. 35,000+ companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Anthropic, and DoorDash already run on Brex. It's time to get Brex AF. Learn more at https://www.brex.com/metricsAleph is a modern FP&A platform built for teams that want more than another planning tool. By connecting your ERP, CRM, and other systems into one trusted data layer with AI workflows, Aleph helps you move faster with real-time insights. Get a personalized demo at https://www.getaleph.com/run—LINKS: Mostly Talent: https://mostlymetrics.typeform.com/to/cLTxtAsNCJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cj-gustafson-13140948/Mostly metrics: https://www.mostlymetrics.com—TIMESTAMPS:0:00 What is Bending Spoons?1:03 The Internet's attic: the portfolio3:11 The metrics rundown5:44 Revenue: $1.3B, 95% growth6:04 82% of growth was bought, not built6:29 Gross margin: 66%6:50 Subscription mix and NRR7:33 Net income: basically zero8:00 Cash: $741M, debt: $4.4B8:35 Revenue per employee: $2.57M9:39 Sponsors — RightRev | Rillet | EY12:42 Organic growth is mostly price hikes13:50 A house of adjustments14:54 Add-backs bigger than the profit15:22 The reorganization line: cost of firing19:21 Sponsors — SpendHound | Brex | Aleph22:51 Does the playbook actually work?23:07 Evernote: the proof point23:45 Romini: the growth proof point24:10 AI in three directions at once25:45 The debt engine27:50 Red flag 1: material accounting weaknesses28:38 Red flag 2: pro forma numbers come with a confession29:00 Red flag 3: App Store dependency29:11 Red flag 4: no long-term contracts29:30 Red flag 5: foreign private issuer29:52 Red flag 6: they've never sold anything30:19 Cap table and board31:07 Valuation: 14–18x33:00 Bull vs. bear case33:55 Miscellaneous: the S1 is already stale35:25 Credits

Was zeigt Apple auf der WWDC über die Siri AI? OpenAI kündigt IPO-Filing an. Was Apples Restaurantrechnungs-Feature mit dem DMA zu tun hat und warum es in der EU nicht laufen wird. Im IPO-Corner stehen jetzt SpaceX, OpenAI und Anthropic gleichzeitig. SpaceX schließt zwei Milliarden-Cloud-Deals mit Anthropic und Google, ist beim Börsengang am Freitag aber nur doppelt überzeichnet. Goldman Sachs erwartet eine Verhundertfachung der KI-Sparte bis 2030. The Information enthüllt: xAI trainierte Grok monatelang auf Claude. Moonshot AI macht eine Achtfach-Runde. Meta zieht den Google-Move mit eigener Kapitalerhöhung. Bending Spoons (Komoot, AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer) plant einen Nasdaq-IPO. Meta bildet eigene Data-Center-Bauarbeiter aus. Chinas Exporte fallen. Landgericht Frankfurt verhängt Ordnungsgeld gegen Meta. Unterstütze unseren Podcast und entdecke die Angebote unserer Werbepartner auf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠doppelgaenger.io/werbung⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Vielen Dank!  Philipp Glöckler und Philipp Klöckner sprechen heute über: (00:00:00) WWDC: Apple-Refactoring & Siri AI (00:11:26) DMA-Stopp: Apple AI nicht für die EU (00:19:58) IPO-Corner: SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic (00:24:24) Anthropic + Google mieten Colossus (00:27:37) SpaceX Lock-up: Sale ab August (00:31:39) Goldman: SpaceX-AI 100x bis 2030 (00:36:33) SpaceX nur 2x überzeichnet (00:40:15) Retail-Offensive: Trade Republic, Revolut & Co. (00:55:44) SpaceX-Disclaimer & Kraken 5x Perp (00:59:21) XAI trainierte GROK auf Claude (01:02:39) Moonshot AI bei $30 Mrd. (01:04:51) Kalshi zahlt Influencer für Wahl-Narrative (01:07:12) Meta zieht den Google-Move (01:12:17) Bending Spoons plant Nasdaq-IPO (01:16:37) Meta Workforce Academy (01:18:22) Google AI Plus auf $4,99 (01:31:34) Pik-Temu: Chinas Exporte fallen (01:33:10) Landgericht Frankfurt straft Meta Shownotes Apple verschiebt Siri AI in der EU wegen DMA - apple.com OpenAI reicht IPO-Filing vertraulich ein - bloomberg.com SpaceX-IPO 2-fach überzeichnet, Orders schließen Mittwoch - bloomberg.com Google mietet SpaceX-Compute für $920 Mio. pro Monat - bloomberg.com SpaceX signs $30bn deal to lease computing capacity to Google - ft.com Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX's AI revenue to increase 100-fold by 2030 - ft.com Cursor erreicht $4 Mrd. annualisierten Umsatz - forbes.com SpaceX-IPO belebt europäisches Retail-Investing - reuters.com Kraken launcht SpaceX 5x Leverage Perp - blog.kraken.com XAI trainierte GROK monatelang auf Claude-Outputs - the-decoder.com Moonshot AI sucht $30 Mrd. Bewertung - bloomberg.com Kalshi: Bezahlte Influencer sollen LA-Wahl-Posts löschen - semafor.com Meta weighs big equity raising after blockbuster Google deal - ft.com Bending Spoons reicht US-IPO ein - reuters.com Meta launcht Workforce Academy für Data-Center-Bauer - wsj.com Google senkt AI-Plus-Preis auf $4,99 - 9to5google.com Chinas E-Commerce-Export stockt durch Iran-Krieg - reuters.com Landgericht Frankfurt: Ordnungsgeld gegen Meta - spiegel.de

Are you using Evernote the same way you were five years ago?Most of us settle into a routine with the tools we love and miss the updates that come along. But Evernote's note editor has some features worth knowing about, and a few of them are brand new.Here's a quick rundown:Collapsible headers let you fold sections of a long note so only the top-level headings are visible. This is great for long notes, and it's especially helpful when you're referencing notes from your phone.Every header has its own link. Copy it and paste it anywhere, including your task manager. One click takes you to that exact spot in your notes.The floating table of contents sits in the right-hand margin of your note. Mouse over the faint gray lines and a full table of contents appears. Click any entry to jump there instantly.Callouts are the newest addition. They're a visual element that adds emphasis to your notes and shows up in shared views too.If you're paying for Evernote, all of these features are already available to you. The question is whether you're using them.For more, visit the blog post: https://frankbuck.org/evernote-note-editor/

“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics, you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” That was Tom Seaver, an outstanding baseball player. And it points to an important factor in managing your time and being productive.  And it's a single word: Consistency.  Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin   The COD Productivity Method  Learn more about the Quiet Productivity Method here   Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 420 Hello, and welcome to episode 420 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.  There seems to be a consistency crisis. If you were to analyse anyone who has been successful at anything, you would find that, hidden behind that success, lies a high degree of consistency in following the basics.  Last week, I talked about your standards. Setting your standards and staying true to them. Well, a close relation to your standards is consistency.  Yet, consistency is hard. It's boring, and your brain is often your worst enemy. It tells you that you're tired; you can take a rest. Or you can skip today. You've been busy; it's okay.  But it's not okay. Not if you want to develop your consistency. So how can you stay consistent, even on your worst days? That's what we're looking at today.  So, to get us started, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question. This week's question comes from Stephan. Stephan asks, “Hi Carl, I've been following the COD system for almost a year now, and I know it works. Most days I do well. I collect, and I organise. But I am not consistent. What can I do to get consistent organising and planning my days? Hi Stephan, thank you for your question.  Now, before we begin, I am not going to advocate that you turn yourself into a non-communicative monk. There does need to be some flexibility. Yet to succeed at anything, you will find that, somewhere in the mix, something needs to be done consistently.  Something in the quote I began this podcast with from Tom Seaver jumped out at me. The line was: “If you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” I know from experience and from feedback from those who have taken my Email Mastery course that if you consistently spend 30 minutes or more on your actionable emails, your email will never get out of control.  The numbers take care of themselves.  This means when you plan your day, you ask yourself where you will find time for communications.  Managing your communications is not about the number of messages you get. We all get too many. There are messages that need answering, messages for information we should read, and a lot of messages we can ignore and delete.  But, when you begin the day, you have no idea how many you will get and of what type they will be. This means you cannot plan for the number or type of message that needs to be replied to. Numbers don't count. Yet, if you know each day that you will spend at least 30 minutes on them, it's unlikely you will ever have an out-of-control inbox.  Some days you will clear them; other days, you won't. But as long as you're consistent, the numbers will stay low.  Your consistency will take care of the numbers.  When it comes to COD, that's the collect, organise and do framework. The only area that needs deliberate consistency is the organising.  You see, once you have established your UCT (Universal Collection Tool), you will naturally collect everything that needs to be collected. And if you have that set up properly, what you collect will drop into your trusted inbox.  However, the key is organising what you collected and that involves asking three questions: What is it? A note, an appointment or a task What do I need to do with it? Move it to your calendar, add it to your notes or process the task so that you can ask… When will I do it? That would be either this week, next week, this month, next month or sometime in the long-term.  If you consistently do the organising step, you will become very fast at organising.  When I began following COD, I confess it would take me 20 to 30 minutes on some days. That was because I collected a lot, and asking and answering the three questions was slow.  But I stuck to it. I went through the exciting first stage, then the boring middle (where you ask yourself if it's worth it) and finally to the stage where it was automatic.  And the benefit was that, as I was pushing through the boring middle, my brain was establishing patterns that sped up the organising stage.  Now, I can clear an inbox of fifteen to twenty items in less than 5 minutes. Something that used to take at least 15 minutes.  But there are other factors here.  The biggest factor, aside from consistency, is that I don't change my tools. I've been using Todoist for 15 years, Evernote for 17 and Apple Calendar for 25. I know these tools inside out. I've set up keyboard shortcuts, and they are now part of my muscle memory.  When any of these tools update and add features, I will look at the new features and ask myself whether each will improve my workflow and make things faster. If not, I don't use the new feature.  Evernote, for example, has recently added an AI-enabled feature that automatically assigns a title to a note. Nice. But it takes me less than ten seconds to add a title, and I know from the mistakes I've made in the past that if I don't add a title that means something to me, I'll not be able to find the note as quickly as I would like in the future.  So, I don't use that feature.  So, how do you become more consistent? There are two things that will help.  The first is to start small.  Doing a huge overhaul of your system and adding multiple steps to keep it organised will ultimately fail. You're asking too much of yourself.  Instead, pick one area.  For example, when you've run COD for a while, you will realise that your notes rarely contain anything urgent. The urgent area will be what you throw into your task manager.  This means you can start by committing to yourself to always process your task manager's inbox at the end of your workday, and to leave your notes, perhaps organising and cleaning up, once a week.  When you make this commitment, don't just imagine you will be able to do this from your laptop while sitting at your desk. Consider how you will do it if all you have is your mobile phone.  While I like to do my organising on my laptop at my desk, there are days when I am travelling and cannot.  However, checking my task manager's inbox each day is a must, so I will do that on my phone.  I've done this from airport lounges, buses, my parents' living room and once from a motorway service station.  Another area where consistency is incredibly helpful is doing the daily planning.  Daily planning involves three steps.  The first is to check your calendar to see where your appointments are tomorrow and where you need to be in the morning. (20 seconds max?) The second is to curate your to-do list so that your tasks for tomorrow are realistic. (Around two to three minutes)  And finally, to decide what your two must-do tasks are for the day. (Another 2 to 3 minutes)  When you are consistent with this, it will take you no more than 5 minutes. And best of all, if you are pushed, you could do this from your mobile phone.  One of the benefits of consistency is that you no longer need to look at how much you have to do.  Because you are consistently planning, clearing your communications, and protecting time for your most important work, all you need to do is ensure you are prioritising the right things each day, and the number of things to do will take care of itself.  I recently saw a documentary on Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese football player (soccer player for my friends across the pond).  Ronaldo is 41 years old and is playing in a record sixth World Cup this summer.  How has he remained at the top of the sport for so long? Can you guess? Consistency.  Interviews with former teammates talk of a person who turns up for training an hour before anyone else. Who stays and practices his shooting long after his teammates have finished and a person who prioritises sleep and diet. Ronaldo was doing that long before other professional footballers were.  When asked about it, Ronaldo says he learnt early in his career that consistently paying attention to what matters was the key to getting to the top.  Being consistently on time for meetings, handing in work on time and doing what you say you will do when you say you will do it are just examples of good manners and professionalism. Not doing so damages your chances of promotion.  But I again go back to what I said earlier: don't try to change everything at once. Pick something you want to improve and start there.  It takes time and effort to build consistency. If you have to remind yourself to do something, you're not ready to move to the next one.  Doing my focused work in the morning and allowing 45 minutes each day for my communications didn't happen overnight. It was a stuttering start. Yet, eventually, it just happened. I no longer needed to think about it.  It's the same with doing my daily planning each evening. Today, I cannot imagine not going to bed without knowing where my appointments are tomorrow and what my must-do tasks are.  That's how you build consistency. One step at a time. Now you mentioned the COD system, Stephan, and on that subject I do have some news. I've just cleaned everything up and added a new quick start guide to the resources section.  If you're already enrolled, head over to the course on your dashboard, and you will see the guide at the bottom.  If you're not enrolled and want to learn more about COD, you can do so for free by taking the COD course. I will leave a link for it in the show notes for you.  Thank you, Stephan, for your question, and thank you to you, too, for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

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Is it possible to remain calm and focused when everything around us is getting faster, noisier and seemingly more demanding?  I think it is, and in this week's episode, I'll share some of my insights so you, too, can remain productive in a quiet, focused way.  Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin   Learn more about the Quiet Productivity Method here Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived   The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 418 Hello, and welcome to episode 418 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.  Recently, I had a call with one of my coaching clients who is completely on board with AI. He's gone down the usual rabbit hole of ChatGPT, then Claude, then back to ChatGPT, then to Google's Gemini and now he's obsessed with Claude again.  It reminded me of the late twenty-teens when everyone was switching between Evernote, Notion, Apple Notes, and then Roam Research. It was an amusing merry-go-round.  One of the ironic things about my client is that he'd had to wake up at 5:00 am to review the materials for a workshop he was delivering that day because he suddenly thought Claude might not have given the correct information, and he needed to check everything before 9:00 am.  I asked him how long he usually took to prepare for a workshop like this, and he replied that it normally took three or four hours. However, he said emphatically, with Claude's help, it's taking him around six to eight hours. I did point out the obvious. With AI's help, it's taking twice as long, but he dismissed that, saying AI was the future and that by doing it this way, he was learning and would eventually be faster.  Fair point.  But he did have to wake up two hours earlier than normal. Not something I would enjoy doing.  This reminded me that life, whether it's our personal or our professional lives, shouldn't be lived at speed. Life should be lived at our own pace.  Two YouTube videos I recently watched emphasised this. One was by Matt D' Avella, and the other was from Samurai Matcha.  In Matt's video, entitled I Tried to Optimise my Life. It made it Worse, Matt pointed out that trying to live a productive life left him feeling frustrated. All the curated lists and time blocks on his calendar just set him up for failure.  If he didn't clear his to-do list or he was unable to follow his time blocks, he'd end the day feeling that he'd failed. This left him feeling miserable all evening and wondering what was wrong with him. Then I watched Samurai Matcha's video entitled “10 Real Japanese Organisation Tricks”, in which he explained why his girlfriend's organisation philosophy was brilliant.  Her philosophy was that the goal of organising is to always know where everything is. This meant that things were stacked so you could see what was in a cupboard or refrigerator as soon as you opened the door. That clothes were arranged so that, just by looking in a wardrobe, you could instantly see what was in there.  It isn't about having everything look pretty and tidy, only to be unable to find what you are looking for. It's about knowing instantly where everything is.  So there you have one person trying to optimise everything and setting himself up for failure every day. And another who is essentially working by her own logic, making her life as simple and easy as possible.  You can guess who was the more relaxed, settled and happy with life.  And this is the point. Life's not about optimising everything. We're human beings, but we're trying to turn ourselves into machines that can be programmed to wake up at a particular time, jump into a bath of freezing water, do a two-hour morning exercise routine, spend an hour writing morning pages and then finish it all off with twenty minutes of meditation.  That's not what life is about at all.  One way to get started in creating a calmer, quieter way of living is to begin with your non-negotiables. What are the things you must do each day? There are the obvious ones, such as sleeping, brushing your teeth, washing and eating. Most of those our bodies have ways of ensuring we do them. We get sleepy, and we get hungry.  But what other things would be non-negotiable for you?  For me, taking Louis out for his walk, doing a little exercise and enjoying a cup of tea with my wife when she gets home from university are non-negotiable at a personal level.  At a professional level, my non-negotiable is spending 2 hours a day creating. That could be writing, recording or planning. It doesn't matter what I create; all that matters is that I create something.  And that's it. Together, that's around four to five hours a day.  Once you have established what your non-negotiables are, it becomes easy to say no to things that could interfere with them.  Another way to bring some calm and quiet back into your life is to focus on time not what you have to do.  Let me explain.  Most of what comes at us each day is not within our control. You do not know how many Slack or Teams messages you will get today. Neither do you know how many emails you will get nor what you will be asked to do.  What you do know is how much time you can dedicate to these inputs.  Over the years, I've learnt that if I allow 40 minutes or so each day to respond to my actionable messages and emails, I'll mostly stay on top of my communications. Sure, occasionally I am behind, but as I can see I am getting behind, I can allow a little extra time to catch up if necessary.  I also know that if I have two hours a day to create, I'll always hit my publication schedule.  If you work on projects, what would happen if you dedicated 2 hours a day to quiet, focused work on them? No distractions, no interruptions, just quiet, focused work. From the people I've worked with who have done this, they're amazed at just how much work they get done each week. And how deadlines no longer become stressful or missed.  Two hours may not seem much, but over a working week, that's ten uninterrupted hours. Ten hours you know you will not be interrupted by anyone.  The great thing about this approach is that you gain control over your time. And with a little consistency, you soon find yourself on top of your work.  You also learn where your limits are.  I know my brain gets tired around the 90-minute to 2-hour mark of focused work.  Sure, there are days I would love to spend three hours in focused work, but experience has taught me that the extra hour is a wasted hour. I make more mistakes; I start snatching a quick look at my messages and emails, looking for anything to distract me. That pile of washing suddenly needs to be put away, or those cups and dishes need washing and putting away.  Once you know your limits, you can work within them.  This approach is a more human way to go about your day. It's not optimised to create impossible days, leaving you feeling exhausted, unfulfilled and disappointed with yourself.  It's set up to work with your strengths and, more importantly, with your biorhythms. Your body's natural rhythms.  The advantage of this kinder, calmer way of going about your day is that you naturally slow down. You have the space to deal with the urgencies and the demands of your bosses, clients and colleagues. And that results in fewer mistakes, leaving you with less corrective work to do.  The problem with being human is that we are really quite fragile. My client, who woke up at 5:00 am to fix Claude's mistakes, will find the afternoon a dead zone. He'll be exhausted and trying to operate at 100% with less than five hours of sleep.  That lack of sleep will likely affect his food choices at lunchtime. He'll probably grab a quick sandwich or something else high in carbohydrates, which will spike his insulin levels, leaving him feeling drowsy afterwards.  And then we're also susceptible to all sorts of bugs and illnesses, which can have a debilitating effect on our energy levels.  Again, not within our control unless we seal ourselves off from the outside world. Not a great idea.  I can assure you that the best approach to managing time and improving your productivity is to be human about it. Work with you and your natural state, rather than trying to be like a machine.  Take care of your three foundations: get enough sleep, eat healthy and move frequently.  Then, have a plan for the day. Not a minute-by-minute plan, but one that takes care of your non-negotiables, allows for some focused work time and has enough flexibility to take care of unknowns that will inevitably pop up throughout the day.  Since the 1980s, technological advances have consistently promised us less work and more leisure time. And yet that's never materialised. Instead, the opposite happens.  Smartphones took business communications out of the office and made them omnipresent, leaving us with no place to hide. The desktop computer eliminated the typing pool and left managers and executives responsible for crafting their own letters and emails.  Cloud computing eliminated the filing cabinet and placed company documents within our reach 24/7, even when we were supposed to be on vacation.  What's more, all this technological advancement has sped everything up. And it's this speeding up that has left us with so much more to do. What used to take us three or four days to do is now expected to be done in an hour.  That's where the problem is.  Fortunately, there are ways to mitigate this: be human. Make your own decisions about what you work on and when. Wrestle back control of your calendar and protect time to do the things that matter.  These are simple steps, not easy to implement initially, but worth putting the effort into implementing them.  As Matt D'Avella has discovered, and Samurai Matcha's girlfriend already knew, keeping things human, simple and logical to yourself is the best way to live in a calm, quiet, focused way. Now, before I go, if what you've heard today in this podcast resonated with you and you want to learn more, my Quiet Productivity Method programme will do just that.  Recently updated to cover your non-negotiables, the superb daybook system and how to plan your days and weeks so you are living within your time means, this programme will teach you, step by step, how to create a system that works for you. How to find time for what you want, and much more. In addition, you will also become a part of the Quiet Productivity Method community, where you can share ideas, ask questions and join the monthly live sessions that will answer your questions and hold you accountable as you move away from the unsustainable task-based systems of old and towards a sustainable, humane, time-based system.  I do hope you can join me.  Thank you for listening, and it just remains for me now to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

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If your to-do list is 47 items long, your Slack won't shut up, and you ended the day thinking, "Cool… but what did I actually accomplish?"—welcome. You're among friends. In this episode, Kim and Kate take on the very real, very unsexy side of project management: figuring out how to manage your own work when everything (and everyone) is demanding your attention. This isn't about finding the perfect tool or building a prettier dashboard. It's about surviving—and actually functioning—in an interrupt-driven world where emails breed overnight, notifications multiply, and every task somehow feels urgent. They get into what actually works: setting a North Star for your week (yes, only a few priorities), getting tasks out of your brain before they haunt you at 10 PM, and why some tasks are secretly just traps that create even more work (looking at you, boomerang tasks). Also: a gentle reality check—you're not supposed to do everything. Grab a drink, ignore your inbox for a bit, and let's figure out how to organize the chaos without losing your mind.  

Robert Kowton left a decade at Coca-Cola, walked into freight brokering in 2008 with zero customers, and built a reputation around two things most brokers avoid: LTL and US-Canada cross-border freight. In this conversation, he breaks down exactly why those shipments trip people up and what it takes to get them right.In this episode, you'll learn:Why LTL freight pricing works like a la carte dining, where every carrier action from inside delivery to lift gates is a separate feeThe cross-border documentation mistakes that route your freight to a bonded warehouse in 2026How Robert's "quote to execute" method means he never quotes a load without a carrier plan already in placeWhy he went broad on commodities instead of niching down, and how that protected him through every market downturnThe cold calling approach that still works: research the commodity, trace the supply chain, follow up on the day you said you wouldReal advice for people thinking about becoming a freight agent with no experienceWatch this episode on YouTubeLinks and Resources:Robert Kowton on LinkedInCDN Freight Broker on YouTubeSPI Logistics Freight Agent Program: https://success.spi3pl.com/SPI Logistics Freight Agent Podcast Series: https://digitaldispatch.io/freight-agent-guide/Robert's fav business tools:Nozbe: https://nozbe.com/File Center: https://www.filecenter.com/Evernote: https://evernote.com/RingCentral: https://www.ringcentral.com/ -----------------------------------------THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!SPI Logistics has been a Day 1 supporter of this podcast which is why we're proud to promote them in every episode. During that time, we've gotten to know the team and their agents to confidently say they are the best home for freight agents in North America for 40 years and counting. Listen to past episodes to hear why.CargoRex is the search engine for the logistics industry—connecting LSPs with the right tools, services, events, and creators to explore, discover, and evolve.Digital Dispatch maximizes and manages your #1 sales tool with a website that establishes trust and builds rock-solid relationships with your leads and customers. 

Pilot Pete and Dave open Episode 1140 with a rapid-fire round of quick tips you’ll wish you’d known sooner: long-press the App Store icon to jump straight to Updates, long-press a folder to break down its notifications, push iOS updates to your iPhone through your Mac, and delete apps before they auto-update. You’ll also discover that iPad status bar elements respond to mouse clicks, that not every airline demands a passport scan for TSA Touchless, and where to grab a free customizable QR code generator. Then Javier drops by the Don’t Get Caught segment with a warning: run a beta macOS on your daily driver only with your eyes wide open to what could break. In the mailbag, you’ll troubleshoot a Notes folder that keeps un-deleting itself, get walked through iCloud Data Recovery, plan a Fastmail migration and a clean EarthLink exit, weigh OneNote and Apple Notes as Evernote alternatives, decode why your copyright date is stuck in the past, and figure out how much life remains in a 2019 MacBook Pro. Angel cues up the question everyone’s asking: what is an MCP server? And Cool Stuff Found delivers right on cue with the new Fastmail MCP Connector, a Keyword Navigation extension for Chromium browsers, and the I Love a Piano app that turns your iPhone into a pocket keyboard. 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1140 for Monday, May 4th, 2026 May 4th: Star Wars Day (and Dave Brubeck Day) MGG Monthly Giveaway – Enter to win a Function101 Apple TV Button Remote Congrats to March's SoundSource winners: Ian, Robert, and Jeff The MGG Merch Store is Live! Quick Tips 00:00:01 WillRun4Fun-QT-Long press on the App Store for Updates 00:03:27 Ventmore-Long press on a folder with multiple notifications to see a breakdown 00:07:33 Dan DCZDB-QT-Update your iPhone's iOS via your Mac iOS Version History iMazing 00:09:57 JanLandy-QT-Delete apps from your iPhone before they update 00:10:58 Ben-QT-You can mouse-click iPad status bar elements 00:11:59 Terry-1138-Not every airline requires your passport to be scanned for TSA Touchless 00:15:37 Nora-QT-Free Customizable QRCode Generator Don't Get Caught 00:18:04 Javier-DGC-Run a beta OS on your daily driver with your eyes open to the possibilities of problems Sponsors 00:26:36 SPONSOR: OneSkin. Born from over a decade of longevity research, OneSkin's OS-01 Peptide is proven to target the visible signs of aging, helping you unlock your healthiest skin now and as you age. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MGG at https://www.oneskin.co/MGG  #oneskinpod #ad Reviews 00:29:24 SleepyCBR-MGG Review-Best podcast Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared! 00:30:00 Wallace-Notes keeps un-deleting my folder! 00:35:45 iCloud Data Recovery 00:38:09 Steve-Fastmail Migration and EarthLink Exit Strategy 00:51:09 Judy-What non-Evernote options do I have? Microsoft OneNote Apple Notes 00:53:57 Todd-Why the Out of Date Copyright Date? 00:59:06 Marty-How much life does my 2019 MacBook Pro have left in it? 01:08:32 Angel-What is an MCP server/interface? Cool Stuff Found…and Made! 01:11:27 Stephen-CSF-Fastmail MCP Connector 01:14:53 Bram-CSM-Keyword Navigation for Chromium Browsers 01:18:32 Max-CSM-I Love a Piano iPhone piano 01:22:23 MGG 1140 Outtro MGG Monthly Giveaway Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly Pilot Pete's Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts) The Debut Film Podcast – Adam's new podcast! Dave's Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts MGG Merch is Available! Mac Geek Gab iOS app Mac Geek Gab YouTube Page Mac Geek Gab Live Calendar This Week's MGG Premium Contributors MGG Apple Podcasts Reviews feedback@macgeekgab.com 224-888-GEEK Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List BackBeat Media Podcast Network

ลองนึกภาพสตาร์ทอัพที่มีผู้ใช้งานกว่า 225 ล้านคนทั่วโลก มูลค่าบริษัททะยานทะลุ 1 พันล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ จนประธานเจ้าหน้าที่บริหารประกาศกร้าวว่า นี่คือบริษัทที่จะมีอายุยืนยาวไปอีก 100 ปี แต่ตัดภาพมาที่ปัจจุบัน แอปพลิเคชันที่เคยเป็นเหมือน “สมองสำรอง” ของคนทั้งโลก กลับแทบไม่มีใครเปิดใช้งาน หรือแม้แต่จำชื่อได้ด้วยซ้ำ เกิดอะไรขึ้นกับ Evernote ? จากดาวรุ่งที่ตั้งเป้าจะเปลี่ยนโลก กลับกลายเป็นบริษัทที่สูญเสียจุดยืนจนต้องถูกขายทิ้ง วันนี้เราจะมาถอดบทเรียนความล้มเหลวราคาแพง ที่เตือนใจคนทำธุรกิจทุกคนว่า ความสำเร็จที่ยิ่งใหญ่ อาจสลายไปได้ในพริบตาเพียงแค่คุณ “หลงลืมแก่นแท้” ของตัวเอง ไปหาคำตอบกันครับ เลือกฟังกันได้เลยนะครับ อย่าลืมกด Follow ติดตาม PodCast ช่อง Geek Forever's Podcast ของผมกันด้วยนะครับ #Evernote #ประวัติEvernote #บทเรียนธุรกิจ #กรณีศึกษา #ธุรกิจสตาร์ทอัพ #สรุปธุรกิจ #แอปจดโน้ต #เทคโนโลยี #แอปพลิเคชัน #ประวัติศาสตร์ไอที #TheRiseAndFall #geekstory #geekforeverpodcast

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2032: Carl Pullein reframes productivity by showing that meaningful work lives in your notes and creative tools, not your task manager. By limiting your to-do list to simple prompts and commitments, you free your mind to focus on execution while still staying organized. This approach creates a seamless system where clarity, focus, and follow-through naturally align. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.carlpullein.com/blog/how-your-productivity-system-should-be-working/25/10/2017 Quotes to ponder: "All Todoist does is tell me what needs working on." "The only way the book will ever get finished is if I write." "When you get that and your todo list manager and notes work together in harmony, the flow of your work becomes rhythmic and your system will work seamlessly." Episode references: Evernote: https://evernote.com Todoist: https://todoist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I share a practical and grounded introduction to the Second Brain concept, tailored specifically for accountants and bookkeepers. Originally delivered at the Sydney Accounting and Business Expo, this session explores how to better capture, organise and leverage the constant stream of information we face every day. If you are feeling overloaded, context switching constantly, or struggling to retrieve your best ideas when you need them, this conversation will resonate. The Second Brain concept popularised by Tiago Forte and why it matters for accounting professionals The CODE framework: Capture, Organise, Distil, Express Practical tools including Obsidian, Google Keep, Evernote and voice memos Using platforms like LinkedIn and newsletters as part of your knowledge system How a trusted external system reduces decision fatigue and creates space for strategy, creativity and better advisory A Second Brain is not about adding complexity. It is about creating a reliable system that supports your professional thinking. When you trust where your knowledge lives, you free up energy to serve clients, think strategically, and innovate with confidence. Book  Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte Apps & Tools Mentioned Obsidian – https://obsidian.md Google Keep – https://keep.google.com Evernote – https://evernote.com Otter.ai – https://otter.ai LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com ChatGPT – https://chat.openai.com Episode resources and links: Accounting & Business Expo : https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/accounting-business-expo/index.stm    If this episode helped you, the best way to support the show is to leave a review somewhere as it helps more people find us. And if you want to continue the conversation, come find me Heather Smith | Accountant and Storyteller on:   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/HeatherSmithAU/  Accounting Apps newsletter: http://accountingapps.io/  Accounting Apps Mastermind: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XeroMasterMind  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ANISEConsulting  X: https://twitter.com/HeatherSmithAU

In this episode, I'm joined by Joshua Zerkel – community strategist, former Evernote ambassador turned community leader, and author of The Community Code – for a conversation about what it really takes to build community that drives business outcomes. Joshua's path is anything but typical. He started as a power user and advocate, writing productivity books about Evernote before eventually joining the company and helping scale its community as it grew from 100M to 200M users. From there, he went on to build and lead community at Asana, turning it into a global program spanning forums, ambassadors, experts, and hundreds of events – all tied to real pipeline impact. His work centers on a simple but often misunderstood idea: community is just relationships at scale. We talk about why community is so often undervalued inside organizations, how to translate its impact to business leaders, and the constant tradeoffs between depth and reach. We dig into the messy realities of building community inside companies – from navigating trust during Evernote's privacy-policy crisis to responding to backlash and actually listening when your users push back. Joshua shares what breaks when companies stop listening, why "personas" often miss the point, and how to design community programs around real people instead. We also explore the role of events as a community engine – how to think about formats, why in-person still matters, and what separates meaningful engagement from surface-level activity. Along the way, we touch on the fine line between community and cult dynamics, and what companies like Peloton get right when it comes to creating real connection. If you're building community, trying to prove its value, or thinking about how relationships translate into growth, this conversation is for you.

In this episode of Out of the Clouds, host Anne Mühlethaler welcomes back Caitlin Krause for their second conversation. Caitlin is a globally recognised experience designer, educator, author and founder of MindWise, whose work spans digital wellbeing, immersive design, contemplative practice and creative expression. She holds an MFA in poetry, has taught internationally across Belgium and Switzerland, and built the digital wellbeing program about wellbeing and technology at Stanford University. She teaches at the University of Oregon. She advises organisations including TED, The U.S. Air Force, LinkedIn, Google, Meta, Oracle, Evernote, and the U.S. State Department. Caitlin creates human-centered experiences mediated by technology, fusing creativity, meditation, storytelling, collaboration, and emotional intelligence for full life thriving. She is the author of six books, including her most recent work on digital wellbeing and a forthcoming collection of poetry, Poems of Root and Light. Caitlin and Anne first met at TED 2023, whose theme that year was Possibilities — and the thread of possibility runs through their exchange.Anne and Caitlin discuss her newest book, Digital Wellbeing, A transformative guide to thriving in the digital age. The conversation explores the etymology of the word 'digital' itself — a thread Caitlin traces from the digits of the hand through Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth to the immersive computing she works with today. Caitlin speaks to her motivation behind the book: not to produce a manual of healthy habits, nor to surrender to the idea that the machines have already won, but to offer an entry point for people to approach digital technology with less fear and hopefully less overwhelm that so many leaders and teams experience.The book is designed around the conviction that your body is your testing ground, that you get to have your experience and own it, and that the question of technology is ultimately a question of being.Caitlin's framework for immersive design, seven themes she calls the seven Es, anchored in what she describes as wonder-rich spatial computing design, runs through the conversation as both a professional methodology and a personal philosophy. Anne and Caitlin also discuss Caitlin's Shadow Storytelling experience, in which she guided participants from a Zoom call into a shared metaverse landscape for a meditation and storytelling session built around Jungian themes, winter imagery and candlelit caves. Both women explore the question of technology as a dance partner rather than a destination, and what it means to be the embodied physical human deciding how and whether to layer with it.Caitlin also tells the story of how the spirit of play, cultivated through an itinerant childhood in a foreign service family, has directly informed her pedagogy and her approach to guiding people into transformative experiences through technology. The conversation closes with Caitlin reading two poems from her forthcoming collection — 'The Middle Path' and the title poem 'Root and Light' — bringing the episode to a still and luminous end.Connect with CaitlinCaitlin's website: caitlinkrause.comMindWise — Caitlin's consultancyPoems of Root and Light — forthcoming poetry collectionDigital Satori — Caitlin's 2023 poetry collectionCaitlin's upcoming course at Kripalu Centre ‘Awakening Awe': Referenced in the episode:John O'Donohue — Irish poet and philosopherMartha Graham — choreographer and dance pioneer, quoted in the episodeDavid Whyte — poet and author whose work Caitlin referencesJoy Harjo — poet, referenced by CaitlinUrsula K. Le Guin — writer, whose quote about 'there, there' Caitlin sharesEsther Perel — referenced for her TED moment about putting down our phonesWorld Economic Forum — referenced in the context of new wellbeing metricsThe Story of You — Anne's coaching methodologyVisit our website: https://outoftheclouds.com/Subscribe to Anne's newsletter The Mettā View: https://annevmuhlethaler.com/the-metta-viewFollow Anne on IG: https://www.instagram.com/annvi/BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/annvi.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-v-muhlethaler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on a Not Even Mad, Mike is joined by political writer John Ganz and Reason's Nick Gillespie to debate whether the ceasefire with Iran is a strategic victory for the regime or a result of Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric. The trio analyzes the New York Times reporting on JD Vance's backseat skepticism and Trump's habit of choosing airpower over long-term diplomacy. They also tackle the libertarian "we told you so" regarding centralized power and the operational failures of the DOGE efficiency program. Plus, Mike provides a reality check on the Strait of Hormuz, and the panel airs their "Goat Grinders" regarding tech friction, manosphere yakking, and the slow death of Evernote. Produced by Corey Wara Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/⁠ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media:⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠sales@amplitudemediapartners.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For more, visit the blog post: https://frankbuck.org/evernote-7-more/0:00 Intro1:09 Receipts2:03 Ordering information2:46 Writing a book3:10 Articles to read later3:25 Meeting notes4:15 Auto records5:14 Planning a project

What could you keep in Evernote? Here are 7 practical uses for Evernote. Pick one and get started. Add more one at a time. For more, visit the blog post: https://frankbuck.org/evernote-7-uses/0:00 Intro1:43 Recipes2:33 Random pieces of information3:12 Gift Ideas4:00 Medical information4:26 Pet information5:34 Trip Information5:58 Owner's manuals

Pendant longtemps, un 2e cerveau numérique servait surtout à capturer et organiser l'information. Aujourd'hui, avec l'intelligence artificielle… tout change! Ton 2e cerveau peut devenir une base de connaissances vivante, capable de t'aider à retrouver plus vite l'information, structurer tes idées, relancer tes projets et transformer tes notes en contenu concret.

There was a season in my business where I thought the answer was always more. More ideas. More content. More effort. But what I've learned after 20 years is sometimes the wealth you're looking for is already here. In this week's episode of Doing Business Like a Woman, I'm walking you through three practical tools that help me capture ideas, organize my thinking, and turn what I already know into offers, content, and income. I share: Why your best ideas don't always happen at your desk How to capture ideas before they disappear How to use tools to take inventory of your intellectual property Simple ways to repurpose and reuse your best ideas This is one of those episodes that can shift how you think about your business immediately. Because once you see what you already have, everything gets simpler. Tool #1 - Evernote: https://evernote.com/Tool #2 - Delphi.ai: https://www.delphi.ai/melissamarketingcoachTool #3 - Chat GPT: https://chatgpt.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 – Welcome + what “mining for wealth” really means01:00 – Expanding the definition of wealth beyond money02:00 – Are you building your dream or someone else's?03:00 – Turning intellectual and experiential wealth into income04:00 – Why your ideas are your greatest business asset05:00 – Tool #1: Capturing ideas in real time06:00 – Evernote & Notes app07:00 – Why my best ideas don't come at my desk09:00 – The cost of not capturing your ideas11:00 – Tool #2: Delphi.ai and your AI brain12:00 – Turning 20 years of content into a searchable asset14:00 – The future of thought leadership and scalability15:00 – Tool #3: Using AI to take inventory of your work16:00 – Prompting AI to uncover your hidden assets17:00 – Realizing how much you've already created18:00 – Repurposing content into offers, courses, and marketing20:00 – Why repetition actually works in teaching and marketing21:00 – Final challenge: mine your own wealth22:00 – Invitation to work together Stay Connected:

On Book Talk, Cara interviews author Heidi McCahan about her new inspirational romance, The Other Side of Goodbye, in the Welcome to Redemption Alaska series. McCahan, an Alaska native living in North Carolina and former certified athletic trainer, discusses writing five books in a year using full-draft dictation in Evernote, multiple self-edits, and working from an editor-approved synopsis. She explains how the series grew from a prior novella and was rapidly plotted with editor Susie, centering on two widowed single parents whose children clash as they navigate grief, faith, and the question of finding love again while honoring lost spouses. McCahan shares personal grief from her father's 2020 death, craft lessons from Sunrise Publishing, pie-driven banter, a natural-disaster subplot, and favorite lines, plus where to find her online, and that the book is available now on Kindle Unlimited.You can learn more about Heidi and her books at her website: https://heidimccahan.com/Want to watch this interview? You can see this episode as well as multiple others on YouTube! Enjoy!If you enjoyed this conversation, I would be thrilled if you left a rating and review on your favorite podcast app and leave me a note below letting me know who you would love to see on the show!

This week's Mailbag picks up where Pet Peeves left off—and then some. Listeners write in with their own linguistic grievances, from “10 straight unanswered points” to the curious inflation of words like “countless,” to the conversational reflex of “Right?” that may or may not actually validate anything. Along the way, we touch on Evernote in an AI world, foreign exchange risk from a Fool down under, and the eternal market phenomenon of buying the day before the drop. It's playful, pointed, and a reminder that words shape how we think… and how we invest. Sign up for The Motley Fool's Breakfast News here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.fool.com/breakfastnews⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order David's Rule Breaker Investing book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/⁠⁠ Host: David GardnerProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcast 405 "Pen and paper will solve almost anything. Or at least start the process." - Nicholas Bate This week, I have a special episode for you about what I have discovered over the last two years from bringing pens and paper back into my productivity system. It's certainly been an eye-opener for me.    Links: Email Me | Twitter | Fac ebook | Website | Linkedin   The Hybrid Productivity Course    Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 405 Hello, and welcome to episode 405 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.  A week ago, I launched a brand new course called the Hybrid Productivity Course. The purpose of this course was to help those who have found that a digital-only approach has led to a loss of focus on what's important and a sense of extreme overwhelm and distraction.  As in most areas of life, a one-size-fits-all methodology rarely works. All humans are unique. We think differently, have different life experiences, grow up differently and experience life through many different cultures.  It stands to reason that none of us will have exactly the same needs as everyone else.  We saw this during the pandemic. Around 50% of people loved working from home. They thrived and became much more productive. The other 50% struggled, found it hard to do their work, and lost their enthusiasm and energy for it.  This highlighted the difference between extroverts and introverts. Extroverts bounce off the energy of other people. They need the bustling office environment to operate. Take that away, and they slump.  Introverts, on the other hand, thrive in the opposite conditions. Quiet spaces and solo environments are where they thrive.  I always struggled in an office environment. I found it difficult to concentrate and focus. When I began working from home in 2015, my productivity went through the roof. I suddenly had the freedom to work when I liked, where I liked and in the quiet solitude of my front living room.  One advantage of an all-digital system is that you can easily add many features to your digital tools without much thought.  I noticed this while testing Todoist's new feature, Ramble. Ramble lets you have a conversation with Todoist, and it pulls out all the things you indicate need to be done. Sounds great in theory, until you test it out.  Just a two-minute “conversation” with Ramble led to 15 tasks!  When I went back into my inbox to sort them out, I realised that the majority of those tasks were low-value, would-be-nice-to-do tasks, but realistically, there was no way I would have the time to do them.  I edited down that list of 15 to 6 tasks.  The problem is that most people will not edit these lists. It's time-consuming, and you have to think it through. Two things that are out of fashion these days, it seems. This is where I found bringing a pen and notebook back into my system really helped. It forced me to edit down my list of tasks for the day. It also made me smarter when writing my lists.  If I had five people to call today, in the digital system, I would write out all five calls independently. It didn't take long, and most of those would already be in the digital system. All I had to do was add a date.  In a paper system, it would mean writing out all those calls individually. You soon find that rather than doing that, you would write “do my calls”. Writing those three words strangely reinforced the action. All you then needed to do was to ensure that any communication tasks were correctly labelled in your digital system.  This is where the seeds of a hybrid system began to take shape.  If it were easier to collect using digital tools, then why stop doing it that way? If you were more focused when writing out a daily to-do list than using a digital to-do list, why stop doing that?  My idea was to marry the two.  This led to the development of what I call my Day Book. However, before I got there, I went back to my roots and used the Franklin Planner for eighteen months.  The strength of the Franklin Planner is in the way the daily pages are laid out. You have your daily prioritised task list on the left, your calendar for the day next to it, and, on the right page, a place to keep notes and ideas.  This means that once you have written your appointments, you can see how much time you have available to do tasks. It forces you to be realistic.  If you had seven hours of meetings and began writing out a long list of tasks, you would instantly see that you were creating an impossible day.  If you were to consider meeting overruns, the “urgent” messages and “quick questions” that will inevitably come your way that day, it's likely you won't be doing any tasks.  Yet the digital system won't show you that. All it shows you are the tasks you have dated for today.  And let's be honest, most people are adding dates to tasks, not because they need to be done that day, but because they are afraid they will forget about them or they will get lost in the system.  That's not how a to-do list is meant to work. It's meant to give you a clear indication of what needs to be done. On a day-to-day basis, that means what needs to be done today.  The act of writing down on a piece of paper the tasks that need to be done today forces you to be realistic.  When it comes to storage, though, paper is not so great. It's here where digital tools shine. You can easily store files and documents. You can keep meeting notes together in one place and create a master project note for all your projects, so everything is kept together in one convenient place.  And of course, digital's piece de resistance, search.  If you were to keep all your notes in notebooks, you would soon have notebooks all over the place, and notes would be difficult to find unless you carefully indexed every notebook you used. Perhaps not the best use of your time.  Instead, you can keep all your notes in a notes app, and allow it to use keywords, date ranges or titles to find what you need when you need it.  However, I have discovered that paper is a great planning medium. This is where I always used to struggle.  When I first began teaching, there were no such things as Evernote or Apple Notes. They didn't come along until five years after I began teaching. I therefore used my old counsel notebooks. These were what would be described as foolscap in size, slightly taller than A4, and had a royal blue cover.  Given that throughout my school and university days, I would always plan out my essays on paper, it was perfectly natural for me to make notes on paper when planning my lessons. Then we had the digital explosion. Smartphones became a thing, followed shortly afterwards by apps. I began using Evernote in 2009, and I started planning digitally.  It was certainly convenient, but I did notice I rarely went into any depth. I tried using mind-mapping software, but it didn't help.  I thought there must be something wrong with me.  Then, a couple of years ago, I began seeing studies about how our brains work differently between digital and physical tools.  The most striking studies found that when you write on paper (or a whiteboard), you activate the same areas that artists activate when creating art. This is the creative centre of your brain.  When you tap on a keyboard, you don't. Tapping is formulaic and monotonous. If you think about this, it makes perfect sense. When you handwrite, you are forming shapes. Letters are shapes. When you write via keyboard, all you are doing is tapping. There's nothing artistic about that.  This was when the penny finally dropped for me. There was nothing wrong with me! It was science.  Now, I would never consider opening up my phone or laptop to sketch out an idea. I would open a notebook.  One of my favourite ways of doing this is to grab a notebook, a few pens and a pencil and head off to a local cafe for an hour or two. I can sit in a corner and brainstorm ideas for new courses, YouTube videos and blog posts.  Since I began doing this, my productivity has improved significantly. It helped because I have fewer re-edits to do. When I sit down at the computer to write, I now have a fully planned-out structure and well-thought-through points, and I am writing the first draft much faster. It seems that planning works best on paper, yet storage and output are best digital. Again, leading to the conclusion that there is a place for both digital and analogue tools in a solid productivity system.  I saw this all in action recently. I was watching a UK Supreme Court session, where a barrister (a lawyer who speaks before a judge, not someone who makes coffee) had an iPad in front of him containing all the case files and documents. Yet his speaking notes were on paper. As he made his arguments before the judge, he marked off the points with a pencil and added notes.  The opposing barrister was also using the same tools. Her case files were on an iPad, yet as she listened to her opposite number, she was taking notes in a notebook and appeared to be adding revisions to her own speaking notes.  What's more, if we're being honest, stationery is much more fun than digital tools. Digital fonts, screens and keyboards are not really all that exciting.  But the many different types of pens, pencils, notebooks, and pencil cases at all different price ranges give you the ultimate way to make your tools truly personal.  I'm sure you already know I love fountain pens. I've been writing with them since middle school and just love the way the nib feels on a quality sheet of paper.  I remember being excited when Apple brought out the Apple Pencil. When I got one, and tried it out I was horrified. It was the worst writing experience I'd ever had. I've tried Paperlike and tested a Remarkable. Yuk! None of them comes close to the experience you get from a real pen and paper.  And so, after two years of testing, playing and refining, I came up with what I would describe as the “perfect” system. A method that marries the power of digital with analogue tools.  Digital for storage and output, paper for planning and thinking.  It works. I tested it with some of my coaching clients, and even my wife has started using it for her university studies.  What's more, it works superbly with the Time Sector System. You keep all your tasks in your digital task manager, and only when you decide to do them, you put them on paper.  What you will discover immediately is that you are no longer staring at an almost infinite list of things you could do, and instead, you see a list of genuine tasks that need to be done today. No more overwhelm, just a focused list and a realistic day.  If you are interested in learning more about this course, I will put a link in the show notes. Currently, you can get the course with the early-bird discount for just $49.95.  But if you're not interested, try using a notebook for your planning and daily task list this week. Watch what happens to your productivity.  Thank you for listening, and it just remains for me to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

In this episode of the Grow A Small Business Podcast, host Troy Trewin interviews Sam Carpenter, founder and CEO of Centratel, shares how he built a $7M emergency call center business by focusing on systems instead of hustle. Sam opens up about working 80–100 hour weeks, hitting burnout, and the mindset shift that changed everything. He explains his "Work the System" philosophy and how documenting processes created freedom, profit, and scale. The conversation dives into pricing courage, delegation, and building a business that runs without you. A powerful lesson on achieving real success in business through clarity, structure, and smart leadership. Why would you wait any longer to start living the lifestyle you signed up for? Balance your health, wealth, relationships and business growth. And focus your time and energy and make the most of this year. Let's get into it by clicking here. Troy delves into our guest's startup journey, their perception of success, industry reconsideration, and the pivotal stress point during business expansion. They discuss the joys of small business growth, vital entrepreneurial habits, and strategies for team building, encompassing wins, blunders, and invaluable advice. And a snapshot of the final five Grow A Small Business Questions: What do you think is the hardest thing in growing a small business? According to Sam Carpenter, the hardest thing in growing a small business is enduring the long hours and mental pressure while trying to balance relationships and personal life. Early on, business consumes your mind 24/7, which can strain health, family, and focus. He explains that most owners feel overwhelmed because they see the business as chaos instead of separate systems. The real challenge is learning to step back, stop reacting emotionally, and work on the business mechanically. Once you shift that mindset, growth becomes manageable and sustainable. What's your favorite business book that has helped you the most? Sam Carpenter's favorite business book — the one he says helped him the most — is "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael E. Gerber. He often credits it with shifting his mindset from working in the business to working on the business by building systems. It deeply influenced his "Work the System" philosophy and helped him see how to structure processes so the business can run without burning out the founder. Are there any great podcasts or online learning resources you'd recommend to help grow a small business? According to Sam Carpenter, he doesn't really rely on podcasts or fancy online learning platforms for growing a small business; instead, he believes the most powerful resource is reading books deeply and consistently. He prefers learning through focused reading and real-world application rather than consuming endless content. Sam emphasizes using simple, reliable tools like email and basic software, avoiding distractions, and developing long attention spans through reading, clear thinking, and systems-based learning rather than chasing trends or tools. What tool or resource would you recommend to grow a small business? One tool Sam Carpenter would recommend for growing a small business is a process documentation system — it doesn't have to be fancy, just something that gets you thinking in systems rather than chaos. Many business owners use tools like Notion, Evernote, or Google Docs to write down and organize standard operating procedures, workflows, and checklists. Sam's whole philosophy is about capturing how your business actually works so you can improve it, delegate it, and scale it. The power isn't in the software itself — it's in consistently writing, refining, and using your documented processes to free up time and create predictable results. What advice would you give yourself on day one of starting out in business? Sam Carpenter says that if he could advise himself on day one, he'd say: stop running the business emotionally and start running it mechanically. Instead of seeing the business as chaos, he'd focus on breaking it into separate systems, fixing the biggest problem first, and documenting everything early. He believes years of stress could have been avoided by working on the business instead of being trapped in it. The core lesson: face reality, build systems, and don't try to be the hero. Book a 20-minute Growth Chat with Troy Trewin to see if you qualify for our upcoming course. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your small business to new heights! Enjoyed the podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes or your preferred platform. Your feedback helps more small business owners discover our podcast and embark on their business growth journey.   Quotable quotes from our special Grow A Small Business podcast guest: A business isn't chaos — it's a collection of systems, and the moment you see that, everything changes — Sam Carpenter Freedom in business comes from documentation, delegation, and discipline — Sam Carpenter Stop trying to be the hero and start building a machine that works — Sam Carpenter    

You've probably heard of something called AI. It seems everyone is talking about it. The question is: how will this affect our productivity, and what can we do to ensure we are ready for the likely changes this year?  That's what I'm answering this week.  Links: Email Me | Twitter | Fac ebook | Website | Linkedin   Take the Time Sector System Course  Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Script | 402 Hello, and welcome to episode 402 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.  Unless you've had the fortune to avoid seeing the news over the last few years, you may have come across something called AI. It seems to be everywhere today.  Just yesterday, I got a big update to Evernote, and it was all about AI. Todoist, my task manager of choice, is also on board with AI with their dictation tool called “Ramble”.  All great tools, all giving us the potential to collect and organise more.  I use AI a lot myself. It helps me brainstorm ideas, create subtitles for my YouTube videos, and write the video descriptions, which I hated doing myself.  And it is a phenomenal research tool. I can import my analytics from my blog, this podcast or my YouTube videos and ask it to tell me what is resonating with my community. Then that helps me to decide what the next best content will be.  Yet, with all this, there are some downsides. One of which is that I noticed last year that many of my coaching clients were seeing an increase in the number of tasks they had in their task managers.  It wasn't until recently that I realised where many of these tasks were coming from.  Many companies are rolling out AI-supported meeting summaries. AI is particularly good at this. It listens in to the meeting and, at the end, produces a summary of what was discussed and a list of action steps to be taken following the meeting. Some of the more sophisticated versions of this will break down by who is responsible for which task.  Superb! Or is it? What I've discovered is that AI is like that annoying new recruit who wants to impress by doing far more work than is necessary. It will turn a 10-bullet-pointed summary into a 20-page report, only for the recipient to return it to a bullet-pointed summary.  It reminds me of that wonderful quote from Winston Churchill: “This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.” Yet, from a productivity perspective, what AI is doing is creating a lot of tasks. So much so that it has now been given its own term: “AI-generated work bloat”, or a less friendly version: “AI-generated Work slop”. So, what can we do to “defend” ourselves from this AI-generated work bloat? Well, there are a few things we can do that will allow us to take advantage of AI's incredible abilities, yet still keep our workloads within limits without it slowly becoming overwhelmed with a lot of “work slop”. That nicely brings me on to this week's question, and that means it's time to hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question: This week's question comes from Robert. Robert asks, Hi Carl, I haven't heard you talk much about AI. Do you have any thoughts on how to get the most out of the new AI tools without them becoming overwhelming? Hi Robert, thank you for your question.  AI is certainly causing some issues in the time management and productivity space. Yet, it is also helping many people to get better organised.  It is like all new technology. There is an initial period in which we try everything to determine where the new technology can help us most. I remember when email became a thing. There was a lot of nervousness about it initially.  I was working in a law firm at the time, and the legal profession in the UK was reluctant to adopt email, even though its benefits over snail mail were obvious. There were fears over privacy and client confidentiality. Eventually, we adopted it, and when we did, it rapidly became an instant messaging portal. Clients who sent an email began expecting an instant reply and quickly called us if they did not receive one within a few minutes.  Fortunately, we had not at that stage entered the smartphone era and were able to explain to clients that when we were out of the office, we were unable to check our emails.  However, email became the new way of communicating, and it soon created a cascade of stuff for us to process and organise, eating up more valuable time—time we didn't have then, let alone today.  I see the same thing happening with AI today. We are trying to adopt AI in so many ways. Some will stick, others will fall by the wayside in time.  It doesn't mean we should reject these new ways immediately. We are in the experimentation stage. It's the fun stage. Testing new ideas, playing with tools and seeing what works for us and what doesn't.  However, some fundamentals remain in play.  The first, and the one that will never go away, is that we only have twenty-four hours a day. We are human. We need to sleep, eat and bathe. All of which takes time out of those 24 hours.  The second is that we can only focus on one thing at a time. We have the freedom to choose what we focus on, but we can only focus on one thing.  So the question is, what will you focus on and when?  We may not be able to stop all this AI-generated work, but we can choose when to work on it. This is where categorising your work helps you choose the right things to work on.  For example, pretty much all of us will have to deal with communications, and it's a great example.  What happens if you don't respond to your emails and messages for a day? Perhaps you're travelling, or are caught up in meetings. That's right, you create a backlog.  The problem with emails and messages is that they never stop coming in, and unless you have a process and time to deal with them, you will miss deadlines and opportunities, and probably upset a lot of people. There are consequences for ignoring your messages.  The solution is to set aside time each day to deal with them. How much time will depend on how much time you have and perhaps the volume of messages that require your attention.  If all you have is twenty minutes between some meetings, take it. You're not going to get much else done. So take advantage of those twenty minutes and clear some of those messages. You may not be able to clear them all, but one is always greater than zero.  If the AI tools you use include suggestions for responses, take advantage of them for the shorter replies.  But, be careful of the longer replies that require your knowledgeable input. AI can respond to some of these, but its responses often sound a little inhuman or, worse, give the wrong information.  Always check the AI-generated responses.  AI can also organise your calendar for you. Personally, I've not had much luck with this, as it doesn't have enough variable information about me to be accurate. What I find AI does is look at what I like to do at certain times of the day and suggests I do that every day, and then fills in everything else around that.  The last time I played with this AI, it recommended I get up at 6:00 am and do my workout. Pu ha ha! I am not going to get up at 6:00 to do any exercise. I hate exercising in the morning.  To get my AI calendar to be reasonably useful, I had to spend far too much time telling it what I wanted, and I realised in the end the fastest way was for me to do it manually.  Going back to the categorisation of your work, if you categorise it by the types of work you do, you can then match your calendar to your categories.  For instance, if you were a doctor, seeing patients would largely take up most of your workday. But you will also need time to complete your prescriptions, update patient notes, respond to messages, deal with any health insurance claims, and so on.  If you don't want to be working late into the night, you will need to be disciplined with your calendar and protect time for the admin and communication tasks.  If you find AI is recommending a lot of tasks for you, from, say, meeting summaries, I recommend you first audit the list, then allocate a category to the work suggested.  Why audit the list?  Well, as I mentioned, AI is like that new recruit trying impress the boss by suggesting more work than is necessary. It will create a lot of tasks.  Your experience will tell you that a lot of those tasks will not need to be done. It's these that need to be removed.  I recently did an experiment. I asked Google's Gemini to give me a list of tasks, spread over four weeks, to start a blog.  This prompt resulted in 29 tasks! And the task of actually writing a first draft was not suggested until the start of week four.  While many of the tasks listed, such as choosing a domain to host the blog and your niche, do need to be done, in the real world, most people who want to start a blog will already know this. It's part of the thought processes that lead to deciding to start a blog. When I audited the list, I reduced it from 29 tasks down to 12. I also found I needed to move some tasks around because they weren't in a logical sequence.  I'm sure over time, AI will get better at this, but always remember that your experience about doing your job will still be better at predicting what needs to be done than AI will.  If you're using the Time Sector System, you will find that your processing naturally fits with AI's method of breaking tasks down into when you “should” be doing them.  My blog experiment allowed me, once I'd audited the list, to quickly move the tasks into the correct sector. Tasks that should be done in the first week were moved to my This Week folder; those for the second week were moved to my Next Week folder; and everything else was moved to my This Month folder.  One of the benefits of using the Time Sector System with AI-generated tasks is that as you are simultaneously deciding when you will do the tasks. You retain the all-important human agency, deciding what is done and when.  But there's one more benefit of the Time Sector System that will help you. That is your weekly limit.  If you have taken the course, you may remember the lesson on capping your weekly tasks to your known limit.  This is where you find the maximum number of tasks you can realistically do in any one week. This number does not include your routines or other recurring low-value tasks. Just the important ones. But we all have a limit.  For me, that number is thirty. If my This Week folder is higher than 30 at the start of the week, I know I am going to struggle to complete my tasks that week. I either need to go back into my This Week folder and remove some of the less urgent tasks or cancel some of my meetings.  This teaches you the vital skills of auditing and prioritisation. Skills you will need in the AI world. It is what will separate us from the AI tools being used.  However, one good thing about AI-generated meeting summaries is that you have a record of the meeting that can be placed inside your meeting notes for projects and teams without any editing.  The workflow I use with these is to use Todoist's brilliant copy/paste feature. Here you can copy a list of tasks and paste them all into your inbox in a single click.  However, if there are a lot of them, I create a temporary project folder for them first, and then, before I move the tasks to their rightful place, I audit the list. Remove tasks that are not relevant, or that I don't need to do, and then move them to the right time sector.  If you don't use Todoist, you can do this with the original meeting summary. Audit, remove and then move the tasks you need to do into the correct time sector.  (A quick heads-up, I have a YouTube video coming out next week that demonstrates this.) So there you go, Robert. It's still early days, and we are very much in the experimentation period with AI. We're testing ways to see how it can help us with our work. This is consequently creating a lot of tasks.  As long as you are auditing these tasks, following the principles of COD, and using the Time Sector System to manage your work, you will be fine. Things will remain manageable and exciting at the same time.  We don't know what the future holds, but your experience and skills will see you through, I can promise you.  Thank you, Robert, for your question. And if you haven't taken the Time Sector System course yet, the all-new edition is now available and can be taken in less than two hours. Look at taking that course as your antidote to the AI-generated work bloat we are all beginning to experience.  Thank you for listening, and it just remains for me now to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

Sam Lessin is a partner at Slow Ventures, a former VP of Product at Facebook, and a two-time founder who's now teaching etiquette to Silicon Valley's founders. In this unconventional episode, Sam explains why proper etiquette has become a vital skill for founders in 2026—especially as technology becomes more central to society and trust becomes harder to build. His etiquette book and courses have become surprisingly popular, teaching founders how to “show up in a room with a low heart rate” and quickly build trust.We discuss:1. Why etiquette matters2. Sam's framework for showing up confidently, with a low heart rate, in any room3. How to navigate introductions, small talk, meetings, and meals like a pro4. Simple hacks for remembering names and handling awkward social situations5. 30+ specific etiquette tips—Brought to you by:10Web—Vibe-coding platform as an APIDX—The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchersWorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs—Episode transcript: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/silicon-valleys-missing-etiquette-playbook—Archive of all Lenny's Podcast transcripts:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxi4s2w998p1gvtpu4193/AMdNPR8AOw0lMklwtnC0TrQ?rlkey=j06x0nipoti519e0xgm23zsn9&st=ahz0fj11&dl=0—Where to find Sam Lessin:• X: https://x.com/lessin• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlessin• Website: https://www.wlessin.com• Podcast: https://moreorlesspod.com• Lettermeme: https://lettermeme.com/lessin—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Sam's background(04:18) The role of etiquette in business success(09:30) Introductions and entering a room(16:20) Engaging conversations and building relationships(23:55) Hygiene and dress code essentials(33:42) Dining etiquette(37:15) Tipping etiquette(41:36) The “B&D trick”(43:05) Humor in social settings(45:18) Self-deprecating humor(47:42) Winding down conversations(49:20) Scheduling etiquette(55:23) Communication and email etiquette(01:02:28) Meeting etiquette tips(01:04:03) Virtual meeting best practices(01:05:15) The importance of cleaning up after yourself(01:05:58) Exiting and follow-up etiquette(01:07:24) Final thoughts(01:09:20) AI corner(01:11:13) Contrarian corner(01:16:25) Lightning round—Referenced:• Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com• Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com• “Lose Yourself” by Eminem on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7MJQ9Nfxzh8LPZ9e9u68Fq• Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alison-gopnik• Garry Tan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrytan• Bain & Company: https://www.bain.com• Evernote: https://evernote.com• Calendly: https://calendly.com• Morning Brew: https://www.morningbrew.com• Cursor: https://cursor.com• The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can't stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-rise-of-cursor-michael-truell• DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com• Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com• SpaceX: https://www.spacex.com• Marc Andreessen on X: https://x.com/pmarca• Landman on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/Landman-Season-1/dp/B0D4D8RTMD• Dave Morin on X: https://x.com/davemorin—Recommended books:• Modern Etiquette in Technology, Finance, Society, and at Home: A Slow Ventures Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Etiquette-Technology-Finance-Society-ebook/dp/B0G4HSKSY5• Life, the Universe and Everything: https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Everything-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-ebook/dp/B001ODEQ7A• The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome: https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-City-Religion-Institutions-Greece/dp/0801823048• Man's Search for Meaning: https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl-ebook/dp/B009U9S6FI• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base: https://www.amazon.com/Area-51-Uncensored-Americas-Military-ebook/dp/B004THU68Q• The Lessons of History: https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-History-Will-Durant/dp/143914995X• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King: https://www.amazon.com/Fish-That-Ate-Whale-Americas/dp/1250033314• The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Kings-Shanghai-Jewish-Dynasties/dp/0735224439—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. To hear more, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3832: Marc Bilodeau emphasizes the power of building an "external brain" using tools like calendars, notepads, and email clients to free up mental bandwidth and reduce overwhelm. By offloading to-dos and appointments into reliable systems, you can think more clearly, manage life more effectively, and stay open to unexpected opportunities. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.marcbilodeau.com/brain/ Quotes to ponder: "Our memories aren't as good as we think. Therefore, an external brain becomes a critical everyday tool." "An unmanaged inbox is hard to navigate. It's cluttered and mentally overwhelming." "Action items should either be put on the calendar, in the notepad, or moved to a special folder to follow up at a later time." Episode references: Evernote: https://evernote.com Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is Luca Ferrari. Luca is the co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, which he describes as 25 percent private equity and 75 percent technology company. Founded in 2013, Bending Spoons fully acquires and operates digital companies like Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, and most recently AOL.  Our conversation explores the unique model behind Bending Spoons, and the culture required to scale it. Luca shares exactly how their acquisition playbook works – from identifying promising businesses to rebuilding every part of them across product, design, monetization, and marketing. We discuss their approach to financing long-term ownership through both debt and equity, Luca's obsession with finding and developing exceptional talent, and his decision to build the company in Europe.  I found Luca's description of himself as perennially unhappy to be the clearest window into how he builds. It's a mindset that fuels his pursuit of excellence and defines the culture at Bending Spoons. Please enjoy my conversation with Luca Ferrari. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ----- This episode is brought to you by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Ramp's mission is to help companies manage their spend in a way that reduces expenses and frees up time for teams to work on more valuable projects. Go to⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ramp.com/invest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for free and get a $250 welcome bonus. – This episode is brought to you by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ AlphaSense⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. AlphaSense has completely transformed the research process with cutting-edge AI technology and a vast collection of top-tier, reliable business content. Invest Like the Best listeners can get a free trial now at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Alpha-Sense.com/Invest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and experience firsthand how AlphaSense and Tegus help you make smarter decisions faster. –- This episode is brought to you by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ridgeline⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Ridgeline has built a complete, real-time, modern operating system for investment managers. It handles trading, portfolio management, compliance, customer reporting, and much more through an all-in-one real-time cloud platform. Head to⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ridgelineapps.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the platform. ----- Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thepodcastconsultant.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). Show Notes: (00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like the Best (00:03:12) The Vision and Ambition (00:07:56) Challenges and Early Days (00:11:01) The Turning Point: Evertale to Bending Spoons (00:13:12) Acquisition Strategy and Growth (00:24:22) Case Study: Evernote Acquisition (00:33:34) Pricing and Valuation Insights (00:40:02) Making Competitive Offers (00:40:37) Walkaway Rate and Offer Success (00:41:14) Financing the Business (00:43:21) Lessons from Acquisitions (00:46:32) The AOL Acquisition (00:48:21) Simplifying Business Operations (00:56:10) Incentives and Motivation (00:58:31) Balancing Discontent and Growth (01:03:21) Raising Debt Capital (01:06:37) Impact of AI on Business (01:11:00) Company Culture and Traditions (01:16:00) The Kindest Thing