Hi Friend, I've been thinking a lot lately about teaching. I've taught the Productivity Field Guide workshop three times now. Each year it gets better. Not because I'm a better teacher, though hopefully I am. The workshop gets better because my students make it better. The act of teaching it live sparks magic. Participants ask questions I didn't anticipate. People get stuck on concepts I thought were obvious. They have breakthroughs on exercises I almost cut from the program. Every single one...

Hi Friend, I've been buying Macs forever. For most of that time, the conventional wisdom was simple: Get as much memory as you can afford. Back then, everyone was doing video editing or photo work. Memory was expensive. So you bought as much as your budget allowed. More memory always made your Mac snappier. Then the world changed. Solid state storage got cheap. Cloud services got fast. Most people stopped doing local heavy lifting. They stored their photos in iCloud. They edited video in the...

Hi Friend, I’ve been using the term “donkey work” a lot lately, and some of you have been asking what I mean by it. Fair enough. Let me explain. When I started paying attention to AI, I realized pretty quickly that I didn’t want it writing for me. I didn’t want it making my videos or drafting my newsletters. That’s the work I love. That’s the stuff I wake up wanting to do. If I hand that off to a machine, what’s left? But I also realized I spend hours every day on stuff that has nothing to do...