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What Are We Losing With AI? Once it's well integrated into our lives, any new technology can be seen as an exchange. We lose something and get something else in return. We lose something and get something else in return. In the…

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MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

"One thing is clear: if you currently use AI, take regular breaks—and give your own mind the chance to do the work. Otherwise, you may face severe cognitive harm and dependence."

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Side Projects and AI Some years ago, building a side project meant finding time wherever you could. Late nights, weekends, or early mornings to squeeze some work in before your real job starts.

"Coding was never the real barrier to building a successful side business.

The real challenge was—and still is—everything else required to get paying customers: sales calls, cold emails, blog posts echoing in the void, facing rejection..."

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Trips Are an Opportunity Now that summer is in full swing in many parts of the world, I thought it would be a good time to write about something I’ve felt for years whenever I go away for a few days. Trips might be the only c...

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Remember: We can plan for the future, but we can only act in the present.
Each choice today either moves you toward your goals or away from them.

What's one micro-habit you could adjust this week?

Your action plan:

1. Pick ONE habit working against your goals
2. Fix it (aim ridiculously small)
3, Once it's automatic, find the next one
4. Repeat

The path is infinite. So is your potential for improvement. ♾️

🌳 Think of habits like tree roots.

Everyone admires the beautiful leaves and strong trunk, but it's those hidden roots that sustain everything above ground.

Small habits = hidden roots 😉

Real example: I started going to bed 30 minutes earlier.

Result? I could wake up before my kids, hit the gym, and start each day with clarity and energy.

One tiny change. Massive ripple effects. 🌊

🔄 Here's the secret: Everything is interconnected.

Better sleep → more energy for gym → improved mood → better relationships → increased focus → better sleep

It's a positive feedback loop. But the reverse is also true - bad habits compound too.

The areas that actually matter:

💤 Sleep (7-9 hours, cool room)
🎯 Eliminate distractions (less scrolling)
🥗 Intentional nutrition
💪 Regular strength training
🧠 Know your cognitive biases
🤝 Positive relationships

Better question: What am I doing RIGHT NOW that moves me toward (or away from) my goals?

And each morning, the game restarts. 🌅

We love to dream big:
- "I want to make more money"
- "I'll learn a new language"
- "I need more energy"

But these grand plans lack the daily micro-steps that actually get us there.
The problem? We're blind to our own patterns.

"We take care of the schedule, and the schedule takes care of us."

This one sentence completely changed how I think about achieving goals. Here's why: 👇

What Are We Losing With AI? Once it’s well integrated into our lives, any new technology can be seen as an exchange. We lose something and get something else in return. When we started using our calculator app, we lost the…

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Starting with to-dos, I've been a huge fan of Things for Mac. In particular, I've been using Areas and Projects to organize my day to day tasks. You can learn more here: culturedcode.com/things/suppo...

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I've been meaning to create a /uses page at josem.co, but I'd love to start small and start sharing some apps or hardware I use in case it can help someone out there.

But the list is infinite, and it's true that these are small improvements, but they compound over the days, weeks and months if you keep working on them.

- Improving my email filters for work, so I spend less time in my inbox.

- Investing in tools that helps me reduce my workload (creating PRs automatically with Cursor, for example).

- Creating aliases for very common terminal commands.

For a few months, I've been experimenting with automatizing something new each week. It's a small improvement of efficiency, but also a feeling that I'm "sharpening" my saw, and that the next week I'm a bit more ready for what comes. Some things I've been doing:

The Rebellious Act of Slowing Down We’ve all been living under the promise that things will get faster, and oh boy, that promise has certainly been fulfilled. We now have faster transportation, fast food, two-hour delivery shopping,…

"What if, after so many breakthroughs, we’re left with less patience, fewer personal connections, less appreciation for what we have, and more craving for what we don’t?"

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Simple to Ornate and Back Again Art History shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. It’s almost an endless cycle repeated over and over. This cycle happens in…

"Art History shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. This cycle happens in the different arts and other fields where design is involved, like software"

Technology with a single-purpose picture shows different devices that only have one purpose, like a calculator, a camera, or a Kindle.

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The domino effect of good habits Opening your eyes, you glance at the clock on the night table—time to get up. The house is completely silent as you make your way to the kitchen. Each sound feels amplified at this early time in …

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