Productivity
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My No-BS Building Process
indie dev notes from building outside the VC fantasy Read more
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Reader Mode, RSS, and the Business of Interrupting You
I used to be an RSS user, and I loved it. Most mornings started the same way, ginseng tea on the desk, laptop already warm, and Google Reader open before anything else so I could check what was new. I could easily read blogs written by friends (people I actually wanted to hear from, not… Read more
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Smart Devices, Smart Tools, Me Smart?
If my phone’s supposed to be so smart, why do I feel dumb and empty when I’m holding it? Especially in public. I guess it all started with the miracle BlackBerry promised me back in the day… That was the big trick pitch: a corporate fantasy carved into a tiny plastic keyboard. Productivity in my… Read more
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The Vibe Life: Building Smart Keys for Mac
I didn’t realize I was about to enter the “vibe” industry when I started building Smart Keys. All I really wanted was a way to sound fluent in languages without doing the hard work. Let’s be real: learning languages is tough. So, I built an app that lets me fake my english fluency until I… Read more
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When ginseng tea isn’t enough, figuring out my bandwidth.
Bandwidth sounds like a technical term, something to measure internet speed, but lately I’ve been using it to talk about my mental space. Not long ago, I started feeling this low, nagging anxiety, a weird distress that just wouldn’t quit. I blamed it on a temporary mood and went for a run to clear my… Read more
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Why I’m airing my dirty laundry goals in public
I used to think goals were private, write them down, forget about them, repeat. Turns out, saying them out loud can flip everything upside down, sometimes painfully, but mostly for the better. But I realized that when I shared my goals publicly, something happened… 1. The Kombi Adventure A few years ago, I told a… Read more
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I just wanted to stop sounding awkward in English, then...
I started Smart Keys for a pretty selfish reason. English is my second language, and I just wanted to stop sounding awkward in it. Then it turned out a lot of people have the same problem, and not only with English. Some barriers are invisible, a cultural gap or the wrong word at the wrong… Read more
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Have you asked your team how they really feel about Mondays?
Maybe not with those words, but ask them which days of the week they feel most productive. For me it was never Monday. The Sunday night dread would start creeping in, because I already knew what was coming, back to back meetings and that drained feeling by the end of the day. And guess what,… Read more
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Experiments by Linus Lee
I’ve just found one more amazing AI experiment created by Linus Lee. Costructure is a pair of interface experiments that explore ways to enable nonlinear reading, where we read a document by first scanning for key ideas, then dive deeper on the more interesting sections. Read more
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Gut Feeling Prioritization
I’ve always found myself at a crossroads when it comes to roadmap prioritization. The constant struggle between waiting for conclusive results from A/B tests to set clear priorities, managing the flood of customer feedback, and the need to move forward with strategic planning has been a significant challenge for me. I recently rewatched one of… Read more