Getting the most out of your Second Brain.
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Getting the most out of your Second Brain.

Your Second Brain can be incredibly powerful, with the right optimizations and safeguards in place. Some learnings from the past few months of building and evolving my second brain at work.

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On AI, Search and Google
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On AI, Search and Google

It is time to admit that i was wrong on AI and its impact on Search. Before you jump to conclusions, I still think Google Search is and will continue to be a behemoth for years to come. But Google is changing and Search is powering that shift.

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Version One is just the start.
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Version One is just the start.

I've spent years thinking about how products evolve and what separates the ones that last from the ones that fade. The pattern I keep coming back to: the best products don't launch complete. They launch with a sharp insight and earn the right to grow. Weirdly, this post sat in my drafts for a long time and while I was listening to the “The Infinity Machine” by Sebastian Mallaby these past few days, I realized the time had come to publish. I wrote about the iPhone, Kindle, Echo, Netflix and the one incomplete idea we're all living inside right now.

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Apple’s Distribution Moat: Why a So-So AI Strategy Doesn’t Sink Them (Yet)
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Apple’s Distribution Moat: Why a So-So AI Strategy Doesn’t Sink Them (Yet)

This week, Apple will hold annual iPhone event and unveil its next generation of iPhones along with a bunch of other hardware including watches, AirPods and more. But the conversation for much of last year has been around Apple’s AI misfires. While I think Apple’s AI strategy has been a miss thus far, I also believe they are remarkably insulated due to their incredible distribution moat. Some thoughts.

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