There’s too much information to manage and too many tasks to juggle to keep up without good tools. AI just extends the range of what a person can take on.

I might try this as a filler remover for the novels I find drag on and on.

2. I use dictation more than pen and paper these days. I have a shortcut set up on my phones action button that pastes the transcript from my dictation into my daily note. I’ll likely move to a weekly note instead shortly.

3. I wrote about this on my website recently: https://www.jonathon.site/productivity

4. Task breakdowns limit my procrastination. I’m thinking of creating a Claude project that can take items on my to do list and break them into bite-sized subtasks.

5. Using Obsidian’s Web Clipper, Readwise Reader, MyMind and Twitter bookmarks helps me archive ideas to reflect on later. I’d say the majority of the new ideas I come across are from the web. I’m still working on the best way to keep it all organized.

I was flabbergasted.

I think the Audio Technica ATH-M50x and ATR-2100 should be a a solid start and fit within your budget. I used to own both and have upgraded a few times since.

I only have them in one room, so I can’t comment on multi-room audio.

Which, in retrospect wasn’t much per hour, but was a sufficient motivator to do well in the classes I didn’t care for.

When my grades started to matter for university admissions, they doubled the rate per A in grade 10 and tripled it in grades 11 and 12.

They made me save half and allowed me to spend half, which was a good lesson as it helped me pay cover a few unexpected expenses during undergrad.

I’m still grappling with what this means now that LLMs have large enough context windows to ingest books.

The sheer volume of evaluations is what makes us choose methods that help us scale our marking efforts, but I’m curious to see how this changes.