Slowing Down - How to avoid burnout as you get more successful at life.
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise apps will feature AI agents by 2026 - “Enterprise applications are entering a new phase of automation, with Gartner forecasting that 40 percent of them will include task-specific AI agents by 2026 – up from less than 5 percent today.” And: “By 2035, the firm predicts, agentic AI will account for nearly $450 billion in enterprise software revenue, or 30 percent of the market.” // Some predictions about broad uses as well. The uses are mostly (all?) the idea of having an assistant in your tasks, yes, a “copilot."
Migas from another mother
I have been trying to figure out fatteh. Here are some recent attempts.
I still don’t know if I actually like this dish, but it is super fun to make. It’s sort of - and pardon any cultural offense here, I don’t even know what the aesthetic-mores of this food culture are - like Lebanese migas.
School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study - Update on the young people and those damn video games. // “There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day in their current form, and indicate that these policies require further development.” // See Tyler Cowen’s disclaimer. // I mean, it could be one of those “phones don’t ruin kids lives, kids using phones to ruin their lives ruins their lives” situations.
Funny Podcast Titles
We come up with some pretty fantastic titles for Software Defined Talk. And you should see the five to ten other possible ones we note down each episode.
One of the best ones is truncated in the screenshot: “You can’t spell Clippy without CLI.”
How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles
The new Use Model shortcut in Apple Shortcuts opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, I like to summarize a lot of pages. Sometimes, ChatGPT can’t get the text for those pages, or I don’t trust the text it retrieves. There’s a shortcut that will retrieve the cleaned up text of a page (as markdown). So, you can get that markdown, and with the new Use Model shortcut, you can summarize it and then send the markdown summary to Drafts.
All of the nerd content I've made this fiscal year, so far
A collection of work-related content produced between November 2024 and July 2025 pertains to technology discussions, particularly focusing on AI, platform engineering, and private cloud solutions.
Export markdown from Apple Notes, even in bulk...almost works.
In macOS Tahoe, you can finally export Apple Notes in markdown. This is great, and even exports images and handwriting from the Apple Pencil. You can also bulk export, which is great! Sadly, bulk exporting images and handwriting doesn’t work. It saves the images and handwriting in a file called Attachements, but then in the actual note markdown, all references to images are to a file called FallbackImage.png. Also, it exports an sqlite database.
How To Build Agentic AI That Ships - The New Stack - “Ninety-five percent of AI initiatives should be expected to fail as long as we ignore these pitfalls: Models are generic. Enterprises are unique. Ideal use cases aren’t flashy. Coordination across teams is hard.” // Lots of other good executive think too, especially being blind to how complex the overall system is w/r/t dependencies. // Also notable is that, technology aside, these are all the concerns of “digital transformation."
Anthropic lets Claude remember previous interactions to streamline work - Including, and using, past chats in your current chat. Always a great, helpful feature.