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- Newsletter SoN 2.28: "That's good, how can we make it better?"
- Field Note Field Note: Digging into Banco Santander's AI Tooling
- Newsletter SoN 2.24: AI hasn't made me faster
- Field Note Field Note: What I Automate with AI
- Field Note Field Note: Fable: here in an instant, then gone
- Newsletter SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
- Field Note Field Note: The most powerful Claude yet — and the part you can't have
- Field Note Field Note: WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
- Newsletter SoN 2.22: How do you choose "the best" AI tool?
- Field Note Measure twice, cut once — with two AIs
- Newsletter SoN 2.21: AI doesn't know when to stop. You have to.
- Newsletter SoN 2.20: Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.19: It's 10pm. Do you know what your agents are doing? (Free)
- Newsletter SoN 2.18: Where can I skill up on AI? (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.17: You Can't Cost-Reduce Yourself to Greatness (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.16: Ask your AI what it can already do (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.15: Ask your AI to Ask You Questions (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 14: What about everything we learned? (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 12: The Yes Machine (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 11: The Helpers (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 10: Same Prompt, Different Model, Worse Results (Free)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 9: The Mirror and the Telescope (Free)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 6: The Talking Wrench
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 5: My AI Declined to Join Moltbook. Here's Why.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 4: The Orchestration Loop
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 3: The Metric Mandate
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 2: The Art of Breaking Things Down
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 1: Stop Prompting Better. Start Programming Your Gaps.
- Newsletter SoN 34: What Will You Vibe Code Next Year?
- Newsletter SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year
- Newsletter SoN 32: When They Take Over Your Email
- Newsletter SoN 31: The AI Productivity Treadmill
- Newsletter SoN 30: Four Questions That Fix Your Prompts
- Newsletter SoN 29: The Godfather of AI’s Warning Isn't What You Think It Is
- Newsletter SoN 28: How (and Why) to Build A Voice Agent
- Newsletter SoN 27: Your AI Voice Is a Security Vulnerability
- Newsletter SoN 26: The System of Building Your AI Style Guide
- Newsletter SoN 25: Writing With AI Isn't Cheating — It's an Accessibility Tool
- Newsletter SoN 24: The AI Stack Audit
- Newsletter SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI
- Newsletter SoN 22: How to Write AI Instructions That Actually Work
- Newsletter SoN 21: The AI Capability Trap
- Essay The 95% AI Failure Rate Nobody's Talking About (And What to Do About It)
- Essay How AI Changed My Build vs. Buy Process
- Essay Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
- Essay GPT-5 Reality Check: Why Your Framework Matters More Than the Latest Model
- Essay From "Pick One AI" to "Pick Three" - What Changed My Mind
- Essay Your AI Assistant Is a Yes-Man (And Why That's Dangerous)
- Essay How to Spot AI Generated Text
- Essay AI Browsers: When Your Browser Becomes Your Assistant
- Essay Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)
- Essay You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI
- Essay “Zero Effort” AI is a Myth, and It’s Holding Us Back
- Essay Stop Writing Prompts, Start Building AI Assistants
- Essay How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want)
- Essay Real Stories: AI Success in Content Management
- Essay AI That Actually Works Together
- Essay Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
- Essay Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
- Essay Why Claude Is My New Digital Co-Pilot
- Essay One Shortcut Is Worth More Than Ten Assistants
- Essay Could a 4-Day Work Week Be Your Future?
- Essay The Landscape of Available AI Tools
- Essay Boost Your Creative Writing with Local AI Models
- Essay Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
- Essay From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
- Essay Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
- Essay How to Get the Best Out of ChatGPT: The Art of Effective Prompting
- Essay AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
- Essay Why Local AI Models Deserve a Closer Look
- The Download 💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #011: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #008: Blogging in 2025, the homogenisation of online content and testing out a cool new AI app for iPad.
- The Download 💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #006: Content ownership, BlueSky, critical thinking, voice cloning and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #005: Perplexity tips, BYO Buffer and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #002: Automating content creation and sharing, rethinking search and more.
- The Download 💾 The Download #001: New product launch, retooling the tech stack and more.