Chris Bailey

Takeaway: Cognitive offloading, where you hand a mental task to your external environment, is something you do all day—from tying a rubber band to your wrist to using a calendar app.

I’m so excited to share a link to my new TEDx talk, which explores the fascinating science of what we value.

Look, everyone!

Less than two months from today, my wife and I will welcome our first kid into the world (+).

Back when I was in university, there were always a few fellow students who did a dumb thing: They would work like crazy to get out of having to do work.

This post is for my fellow nerds, in case any of you want to make a pretty smart home dashboard like mine above!

I’ve been feeling like experimenting lately.

Takeaway: Automations aren’t permanent—they’re systems that work until they break, which eventually they all do.

One of the most useful things to understand about AI is that most of its use cases are an “optimization equation.”

There’s a right way and a wrong way to use AI.