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How to Run Multiple Projects With AI Agents Without Burnout
One person, many projects, a few AI agents. A calm way to decide what to hand over, how to check the work, and when to stop looking.
7 min read · from The Unbothered Machine
AI Agents in Production: What Changes After the Demo
What changes when an AI agent leaves the demo and meets real users: quiet failures, limits, guardrails in code, tracing, evaluation and careful rollout.
7 min read · from Agents in Production
A Beginner's Map of the Night Sky: What You Are Actually Looking At
A plain guide to the night sky for beginners: why it turns, what the Moon is doing, how bright and how far the stars are, and what the Milky Way really is.
7 min read · from Astronomy
How to Get Started With Claude Code in 2026
A practical first week with Claude Code: the loop it runs, how to brief it, how much to let it do, and how to check that the work is finished.
7 min read · from Claude Code: The Ultimate Guide 2026
What Rolling Out Claude Across a Company Actually Involves
The real work of a Claude Enterprise rollout: deciding what you want, identity and access, data and connectors, usage spend, training people, and measuring value honestly.
7 min read · from Claude Enterprise
What Were Dinosaurs Really Like? The Newer Science
Feathers, colours, fast growth and nesting parents: what the newer evidence says dinosaurs were like, and what is still argued over.
7 min read · from Dinosaurs
How to Tell If Your AI Feature Actually Works
A working demo is not evidence. A plain guide to evals for builders: a small dataset, simple graders, honest scores and the habits that keep them useful.
7 min read · from Evals in a Nutshell
A Calm Way to Deal With an Overflowing To-Do List
What to do when the to-do list runs to two pages: turn outcomes into steps, write everything down, sort what is actually yours, and start with one small, dull action.
7 min read · from Noted. Next.
AI and Human History: The Latest Step in a Very Long Story
AI did not arrive from nowhere. From stone flakes to clay tablets to steam, humans have always moved abilities outside the body. Here is the pattern.
7 min read · from Sapiens Plus Plus
Five Scientific Ideas That Explain Most of Everyday Life
Atoms and bonds, conserved energy, entropy, electromagnetism and inheritance: five scientific ideas that account for most of an ordinary day, and how each was found.
7 min read · from Science
What Is an Agentic Native Organisation? A Monday Morning View
What an agentic native organisation changes in practice: fewer queues, named agents, written trails, and three tiers of trust you can start on Monday.
7 min read · from The Agentic Native Organisation
How to Become the Trusted Name in Your Niche by Publishing What You Know
Why buyers decide before the first call, why good expertise stays invisible, and a plain method for turning what you already know into something a stranger can read and check.
7 min read · from The Authority Book
Surprising Facts About How Your Brain Works
Your brain runs on about 20 watts, cannot feel pain, guesses what you see and rewrites your memories. A calm tour of how it works and how we know.
7 min read · from The Brain
What Is a Context Window? Why It Decides How Well AI Works for You
What a context window is, why long chats go off, why a bigger window does not fix it, and a few plain habits that get better answers from an AI assistant.
7 min read · from The Context Window
Things Your Body Does Every Day Without You Noticing
Your heart starts itself, your vessels leak on purpose and your kidneys filter 180 litres a day. A calm tour of the work your body does unasked.
7 min read · from The Human Body
From Small Bands to Cities: How Humans Settled Down
How people went from small wandering bands to farms, villages and the first cities, told plainly: culture, crops, surplus, rivers, writing and law.
7 min read · from The Human Story
How to Organise Your Notes So You Can Find Them Again
A plain method for organising notes and files around the moment you need them: better names, shallow folders, one inbox, sharper searching and a weekly review.
7 min read · from The Librarian
What Is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? A Plain Guide
What MCP is, how hosts, clients and servers fit together, when it is worth using and what it will not do for you. Plain words, no diagrams needed.
7 min read · from The MCP Field Guide
How to Sell Small, Fixed-Scope Consulting Offers
Why small, fixed-scope consulting offers get a yes when big proposals stall, and how to shape, name, deliver and price one. Written for AI consultants.
7 min read · from The Micro-Consulting Playbook
What We Still Do Not Know About the Deep Ocean
Half the planet's surface is abyssal plain and almost none of it has been seen. What the deep ocean has shown us so far, and what is still open.
7 min read · from The Oceans
How to Run AI Agents Day to Day: An Operator's Routine
Once your AI agents are live, the work is operations: a daily rhythm, briefs you can check, review based on evidence, small releases and a way to undo them.
7 min read · from The Operator’s Handbook
How to Run a One-Person Agency Without Hiring
How a solo agency works when AI agents do the production: what to sell, how to keep clients calm, how to check the work, and how to stay solvent and small.
7 min read · from The Solo Agency
Simple Habits for Thinking Clearly Under Pressure
Plain habits for thinking clearly under pressure: separate fact from story, pause before replying, sort decisions by how reversible they are, and write things down.
7 min read · from Thinking Clearly
Practical Decision Models for Everyday Choices at Work
A short working set of decision models for ordinary work choices: what to do first, whether it can be undone, how to compare options and which traps to avoid.
7 min read · from Top 100 Decision Models for Strategic Thinking
The Big Turning Points of World History, in One Sitting
World history in date order, from the walk out of Africa to the age of AI: the handful of turning points that changed what came after, and what the rest of the world was doing at the time.
7 min read · from World History