Operating a Public Notebook Series #7: How I Decide What Is Worth Writing

A publishing system creates a new problem: too many possible things to write. Once the intake works, ideas arrive from everywhere. Readwise highlights...

Operating a Public Notebook Series #6: How I Use Agents as Editors, Not Just Writers

The least interesting use of agents is asking them to write the final thing. They can do it. Sometimes they can do it well enough. But if the workflow...

Operating a Public Notebook Series #5: How I Turn Research Into Operator Essays

A lot of research content dies in translation. The original paper, report, or essay might be rigorous, strange, useful, or provocative. The summary that...

Operating a Public Notebook Series #4: How I Turn People Into Pattern Libraries

The profile workflow started from a simple belief: people are more useful as pattern libraries than as biographies. A biography asks what happened. A...

Operating a Public Notebook Series #3: How I Turn Reading Into Published Notes

Most reading systems are designed around saving. Mine is increasingly designed around reuse. Saving is easy. I can mark a paragraph, clip an article...

Operating a Public Notebook Series #2: My Obsidian-to-Ghost Publishing System

The system is simple in concept: Obsidian is where the work gathers, agents help turn raw material into usable drafts, and Ghost is where selected pieces...

Operating a Public Notebook Series #1: Why I Built a Public Notebook

I did not set out to build a media property. I started with a simpler itch: I wanted a better way to keep learning from the things I was already reading...

Lessons from Addy Osmani

Lessons from Addy Osmani Addy Osmani is an engineering leader at Google who worked on Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, and Core Web Vitals. He is known for...

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