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Framer’s AI-assisted website generation

I came across the no-code website builder Framer because of its AI-assisted website generation feature: type in a prompt about a website you want and see Framer create it in front of your eyes. Here’s an example prompt I created: A landing page in dark colors for The Latticework,

The Capital Cycle by Commoncog

The 6-part series The Expertise of Capital in Business from Cedric Chin at Commoncog is being completed with an article on Building a Valuable Business? It's How You Spend It That Matters. It inspires me to see Cedric grinding through all parts of business expertise. He specifically picked up a

The Future Book

In this article from 2018 “walking Japan guy” Craig Mod shares great thoughts on the digital book experience and also connect it to newsletters as a thing. I would argue, not much has changed since then. The article is still a good read for every Kindle owner and current or

Rope Flow

On my quest to eliminate infrequent lower back pain, I got recently hooked on a new form of exercise called Rope Flow. It is similar to jump roping, except you don’t jump the rope. Instead you swing the rope over and beside you in various different ways. Here’s

Is What I Want Now What I Want Later?

My friend Josh shared Deven Christopher's first Substack article with me, introducing Homeostatic Design. It's a novel framework for avoiding regrettable actions in moments of low willpower. For example eating that ice cream while on a diet. I struggled a bit to grasp the full concept but it strikes me

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