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Tame your inbox with these five AI hacks
Greetings Reader My inbox is my productivity Achilles heel. The amount of incoming messages I receive and my ability to respond (as well as do my actual job, which is not being a professional email responder) often feels like I'm playing a game of whack-a-mole. And sadly, I am never the winner. But I have good news: AI can help. If you prompt it well, it will turn chaos into clarity. Here are five AI hacks to tame your inbox, plus the exact prompts for you to try. 1. Triage 200 emails in...
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24/02/26

Stop using AI as a shortcut (and do this instead).
Greetings Reader Many times over the summer holidays, I threw burritos at my daughter and husband. Not real ones, obviously. That would be gross. I threw the foam ones from Throw Throw Burrito . This masterpiece of a game comes via the Exploding Kittens empire. You might have heard of Exploding Kittens. It started as a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign by game designer Elan Lee and The Oatmeal cartoonist Matthew Inman. It went on to raise nearly $9 million in 30 days and has now...
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17/02/26

Why you're still bad at buying things (and how to fix it)
You've got 47 tabs open comparing noise-cancelling headphones. You've read 12 Reddit threads. You're now comparing decibel ratings like you're training to be an audiophile. You still don't know which one to buy. Most of us approach product research like we're writing a dissertation (except the dissertation is on washing machines. Fun!). We compare spec sheets for features we don't understand. We build mental matrices. We read reviews that contradict each other. We learn that every brand has a...
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10/02/26
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