Three documented ways to keep AI out of your evenings
Hiroshi Nakamura · Aug 28, 2026Named studies back a short list of boundary practices — notification windows, after-hours expectations, and where the phone sleeps.
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Is ChatGPT's free plan enough for your actual workday?
Marta Kowalczyk · Aug 26, 2026Per OpenAI's own pricing page, the free tier covers casual daily use — the $20 Plus plan earns its keep only if you hit usage limits weekly.
GPT-5 shipped — what actually changes at your desk
Brandi Reed · Aug 24, 2026OpenAI's August 2025 launch replaced model-picking with automatic routing and rationed its deepest reasoning; here's the overlooked part.
What ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini actually remember about you, per their own documentation
Rekha Patel · Aug 21, 2026Each vendor now ships a memory feature that carries context between chats. Here's what each one stores, what it doesn't, and how to turn it off, according to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's help pages as of August 2026.
What one interruption really costs, now that your AI tools ping you too
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Running local models with Ollama: what your laptop can honestly handle
Marta Kowalczyk · Jul 22, 2026Ollama made local AI a one-line install — the honest guide is about hardware tiers, model sizes, and which everyday tasks a laptop-class model does well, and which still need the cloud.
Zapier vs Make for AI automations: the documented trade-offs
Marta Kowalczyk · Jun 29, 2026Both platforms wire AI steps into no-code automations — Zapier wins on connector breadth and simplicity, Make on visual complexity and pricing at volume, per their own documentation, and the real risks are shared.
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Voice dictation as a serious input: a workflow, not a party trick
Rekha Patel · Jul 3, 2026Speech recognition is now accurate enough to be your fastest way with long text — the professional version pairs it with an editing pass, a punctuation habit, and an honest map of where speech beats keys and loses.
Batch your drafting: one AI session instead of forty scattered interruptions
Rekha Patel · Jun 11, 2026Context switching is the tax; batching is the refund — collecting the week's writing tasks into one assistant session buys the focus research documents and costs you one checklist of inputs to prepare.
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Raycast as an AI launcher: the Mac power tool, documented
Brandi Reed · Jul 7, 2026A keyboard-first launcher with AI built in — chat, presets, and commands a hotkey away — Raycast's documented appeal is speed and extensibility, and its fine print is about what a launcher with AI can see.
Copilot in Word and Excel: what Microsoft documents it does — and doesn't
Brandi Reed · Jun 14, 2026Drafting, rewriting, summarizing, and formula help inside the Office apps you already use — with commercial-terms privacy and a review obligation that the feature's convenience makes easy to forget.
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Training-data opt-outs: what vendors actually document you can control
Brandi Reed · Jul 15, 2026Chat settings that stop your conversations training models, creators' content controls, site owners' robot blocks — the documented opt-out landscape is three different tools at three different layers, none total.
Why AI models invent things: the mechanism, in plain terms
Brandi Reed · Jun 22, 2026Hallucination isn't a bug awaiting a patch — it's how next-word prediction behaves when knowledge runs out, and the documented mitigations reduce it without repealing it.
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Laptop security on the road: the airport-and-hotel threat model
Hiroshi Nakamura · Jul 18, 2026Travel device security is about physical proximity, unfamiliar networks, and border crossings — three threats home hygiene doesn't face, with documented countermeasures for each.
Cookies, pixels, and cross-site tracking: how the following actually works
Hiroshi Nakamura · Jun 26, 2026The banner you click through is the visible tip of an infrastructure that stitches your browsing into a profile — understanding its three documented layers tells you what consent screens do and don't control.
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What a context window is, and why long AI chats start losing the thread
Marta Kowalczyk · Aug 17, 2026
Is AI actually taking entry-level jobs? Here's what the data says
Hiroshi Nakamura · Aug 15, 2026
What Granola's meeting notes actually cost, and where your audio goes
Brandi Reed · Aug 12, 2026