Hit a cool new milestone: our first customer found us through ChatGPT!
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Currently reading: Effortless by Greg McKeown 📚
I had the privilege of speaking with Nir Eyal, author of the bestseller “Indistractable”, whose Spanish translation has just been published. What began as an interview became a deep exploration of the nature of our distractions and the path toward a more intentional life.
In a month you’ll be able to listen to the conversation on the KENSO Effectiveness podcast.
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Currently reading: Indistractable by Nir Eyal 📚
Work-related interruptions help you stay more engaged during your workday
Research shows that not all interruptions during your work have the same effect. There is an important difference between work-related and non-work-related interruptions.
Work-related interruptions (such as your manager stopping by to ask about a task, or a colleague messaging you about a project you’re working on together) actually have a positive effect on how engaged you feel during your workday. This goes against the common belief that all interruptions are bad for your productivity. Work-related interruptions don’t break your concentration; instead, they help you stay more connected to your work and colleagues.
Non-work-related interruptions (just chatting about the weather, sports, or what you’re going to eat tonight) do have the negative effect you might expect: they make you less engaged and disrupt your work rhythm so much that it really gets in the way of your work.
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Bonus podcast episodes use the number of the main episode
When you create a podcast and want to publish extra content related to a specific episode, this bonus content receives the same episode number as the original episode. This means that both episodes, the main episode and the bonus episode, are published under the same number in your podcast feed.
Is your AI integration slowing you down? There's a better way
Picture this: you’re drafting an important email and want to make sure your tone is just right. Today, that means copying your draft, opening ChatGPT in a new tab, pasting the text, waiting for suggestions, then copying those back to your email and fixing the formatting of the text. All that tab-switching and copying/pasting just to get some quick feedback. It’s clunky, and it breaks your flow.
The future of AI isn’t about jumping between chatbots and specialized tools, it’s about having AI seamlessly woven into the fabric of our existing workflows. Think about how we use spell checkers today: they’re just there, quietly helping us write better without any fuss.
The Current Reality
I’ve experienced this seamless integration firsthand through my note-taking app, Tana. Instead of copying text to ChatGPT and back, I can just ask questions and get help right where I’m working. Whether I’m journaling or crafting an email, AI assistance is right there at my fingertips.
Microsoft is moving in this direction too with Copilot, embedding AI directly into their Office suite. This isn’t just convenient, it’s transformative for how we work.
The real magic happens when AI becomes invisible, operating in the background like spell check does for non-native languages. No more context switching, no more lost trains of thought. Just fluid, uninterrupted work with AI enhancement when you need it.
Looking Forward
Today’s standalone AI tools are just the beginning, stepping stones to something much more powerful. The real revolution will come when AI is so deeply integrated into our daily tools that we barely notice it’s there.
What excites me most is how this shift will boost our productivity. Not through flashy new apps, but through subtle, contextual assistance that enhances our existing workflows without disrupting them.
This is my vision for AI’s future: not as a separate destination we visit for help, but as an invisible assistant embedded in every tool we use, making us more capable without getting in the way.
PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt. A quote would spark an insight, I’d clip it, tag it, link it - and move on. But the insight was never lived. It was stored. Like food vacuum-sealed and never eaten, while any nutritional value slips away.
This hits close to home. I also went through that phase of hoarding information ‘just in case I might need it someday.’ The digital equivalent of keeping every receipt in a shoebox.
Now I’ve learned to be much more intentional about what I capture. I ask myself: ‘Will this genuinely help me make a decision or take action?’ If the answer isn’t a clear yes, I let it go. Only the real gems make it into my system—the insights that actually move the needle.