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Power Up Claude AI (1/3): Apple Shortcuts (opens the original)
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TL;DRWho it’s for: Mac users who already use Claude.Part 1 of 3. This article covers what workflow automation is, the three words that unlock Apple Shortcuts (Shortcut, Action, Trigger), and a prompt that turns Claude into your tutor to build your first automation: a text message whenever a file on your Mac changes. No code, no cost.The whole series: you’ll learn one way to integrate Claude and Shortcuts, and then how to connect a web service like Bluesky to Claude, using its API and a cu
I built an AI-assisted Knowledge Management system for you (opens the original)
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TL;DRI built my own AI-assisted knowledge management system — I call it AKM — using Obsidian, Claude, and a custom 3x3 grid. It’s not a Second Brain; I’m still doing the thinking.This article walks through why I built it, how it’s structured, what Claude actually does versus what I do myself, and what’s still missing from it. You can build it yourself using this guide.Premium members get the full system: four copy-paste Claude prompts that build your own 3x3 grid, your own starting themes, your
Can AI enshittify your business? (opens the original)
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Yesterday I met Zorica, a friend I hadn’t seen for almost a year.We talked about everything: her job, mine, and of course, we ended up talking about what we see AI is changing in the world.She told me a story that means a lot. She participated in a conference where experienced business owners talked about best practices and AI. Here it goes…Subscribe nowI think my friend caught the parti
Fake Musk, an Austrian Chicken, and What Comes After Salaries (opens the original)
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A friend shared a quote in her Substack Chat attributed to an Elon Musk interview:“At most, there are 3 years left in which you can still make money selling your work. After that, AI will automate most tasks, and paying a person for their time will no longer make sense. The model of the last 200 years—’I give you your salary in exchange for your time’—is coming to an end. This will trigger the greatest transfer of wealth in modern history...”I couldn’t find the source of that quote, so I have no
AI, LLMs, Open Source and Digital Sovereignty (opens the original)
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TL;DR: Jenny Ouyang mapped what "open source" actually means in AI right now: most of it is open-weight, not open source, and the license is what can quietly bite you later. I add a layer: even the compliant models are sovereign to different degrees. I run today's open models through four questions: can you see the training data, run it without permission, keep that permission, and survive the vendor disappearing?Automato: Smarter Work in the Age of AI is a reader-suppor
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