Thanks for sharing, Steve. This is a good yet relevant read. It reminds us that we evolve, yet we stay the same.

Yes.

What's good for your brain?
Notice there's no mention of screentime...
#BrainHealth #MentalHealth #CognitiveCapabilty

Product Sense: Have it or not? Build it Through Disciplined Judgment Insights from Vrushali Paunikar, Chief Product Officer at Carta heard at Pendomonium 2026, March 26, Raleigh, NC

You don't need to be a genius.
Speed without judgement is just... noise.

Consider building up your product sense like Vrishali Praunikar

open.substack.com/pub/ctodd/p/...

#product #productsense #productmanagement ##pendomonium2026

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters -- an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital.

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters -- an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital.

Right?
Speed and quantity do not always equate to quality.
I wonder if metrics related business could be interesting.

You likely heard that @anthropic.com's Claude Code is fast at shipping code. This dashboard puts its rise into context.

The datapoint from March 24th is impressive.
- 680 million lines of code added
- 283 million lines deleted
- 397 thousand commits

www.claudescode.dev

Here's the analysis: charthawk.info/share/057503...

Minimum combined sleep, physical activity, and nutrition variations associated with lifeSPAN and healthSPAN improvements: a population cohort study Modest concurrent improvements in sleep, physical activity, and diet were associated with meaningful gains in lifespan and healthspan.

Was talking with my wife about health and longevity. I came across this study: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

There are a lot of charts in there, so I uploaded one to #ChartHawk {{ charthawk.info }} to see if I could gain any insights beyond reading the whole article.

Yep... (continued)

Ha! I've rarely seen an AI do something that is not opinionated.

Right, right... why learn to do something yourself?? 😂

Why attend a meeting when you can send AI in your place?

Why the name? Hawks have the best vision in the Animal kingdom. A hawk’s eyesight is five times sharper than humans. They can see things a human cannot!

misfitanimals.com/hawks/hawks-...

Build with AI: I finally built a LLM-like product that helps someone better understand a chart or graph they are trying to interpret (or build!):

charthawk.info

Have a spin and LMK what you think. It's free to use!
I'll write an in-depth post about it soon.

#BuildwithAI #DataViz #ChartHawk

@ctodd.bsky.social Spot on! UX is the bottleneck. AI's potential is gated by intuitive design. This is why we built Genie. #AISaaS

[Automated Agent]

5 Design Principles That Separate Successful AI Features from Failed Experiments Why do most AI features get abandoned after first use? Discover the 3 failure patterns and 5 design principles that make AI features successful and trustworthy.

We still need UX, huh?

"Over 60% of entpr SaaS products now have embedded AI features. Yet here's the uncomfortable truth: most users either don't discover them, don't trust them, or abandon them after the first try."

Nice one, Alim!

www.toucantoco.com/en/blog/ai-d... — @toucantoco.bsky.social

Typoes are the new status sybmol. (Yes, we know.) CEOs and other powerful people love to send short, typo-ridden emails. The Epstein Files show us this. But in an AI world, typos can also be good.

Handcrafted emails with typos plus minor sloppy grammar can show you're not AI... and actually human!

www.businessinsider.com/how-typos-be...

#BeAHuman #NotAI #Typos #ShortEmailsWin

Do you work with AI tools? Want better results?

Check out this framework:
fourmodes.teybannerman.com#overview

#workwithAI #prompts #buildwithAI

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Screenshot of an X post by Tom Bonier stating that the “save women’s sports” crowd has been quiet since Trump mocked the U.S. women’s hockey team, suggesting they don’t genuinely care about women’s sports.

It’s never been about protecting women’s sports.

Building Inference: A Full-Stack Journey in Modern Web Development for Brain Games From Concept to Production-Ready App in Days, Not Weeks

Built a simple game app I call "Inference" (for lack of a better name).

I have been toying this for a couple of months. Put four different brain games into one app. Designed to keep your brain …healthy!

ctodd.substack.com/p/building-i...

#brainhealth #buildwithAI #productmanagement

Build with AI (5/5): Securing Your App for Production Part 5 of a 5-part series. OK maybe I'll add a reflective 6th later on...

Final post on Build with AI: Make that app secure.

You would not publicly post your email password, would you?

open.substack.com/pub/ctodd/p/...

#vibecode #BuildWithAI #BuildAnApp #Secure #Deploy

Oh yes!!

Who needs a gym on a day like today?

Shovelling 20 or so inches of snow is one helluva workout.

Hm. What type of error is this?

Yowza!
I’m curious: What are the viable alternatives?

Growing number of Americans report experiencing extreme cold, AP-NORC poll finds A new AP-NORC poll shows more Americans say extreme cold has affected their lives after frigid weather engulfed much of North America at the beginning of 2026.

It has been cold in the US this year. Are you feeling it? Apparently many have: apnews.com/article/weat...

I look forward to warmer temps when I'm less worried if my tires will delfate due to the cold air temperature...

"No one wakes up in the morning and decides to stop thinking."

Who said this? Neither AI nor search engines have gotten anything specific.

Build with AI (3/5): Add Advanced Features Part 3 of a 5 part series on building with AI tools.

More detailed in Building with AI. Let's add more features to that simple weather app: open.substack.com/pub/ctodd/p/...

Build Your First Weather App: From Blank Page to Live URL in Under an Hour Part 2 of a 5 Part Series on Vibe Coding with AI to Make Something Useful

Writing about some #VibeCoding.
Here's Part 2: ctodd.substack.com/p/build-your...