Why I Cancelled Tidal: The 9,999 Track Limit
What happens when you discover a streaming service has a hidden limit on how many tracks you can save? For me, it ended my Tidal subscription.
What Happened When Claude Analysed My Obsidian Vault for the first time
Claude Code spent 30 minutes exploring my Obsidian vault and produced a six-section report on knowledge gaps, note connections, and content opportunities. Here’s a walk-through of the full output.
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My AI Quarterly Review: Q1 2026 Honest Assessment
Accountability time – I promised a quarterly review of my AI use. Here’s what Q1 2026 taught me about reliance, cognitive risk, and using AI as a starting point rather than an endpoint.
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How I use Claude with Obsidian: My PKM Workflow (Pt2)
Since December I’ve been exploring three versions of Claude alongside my Obsidian vault. Here’s what I’ve learned about fitting AI into a PKM workflow without losing your own voice.
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Obsidian Review 2026: Is It Still the Best PKM App?
I last reviewed Obsidian a while back — so much has changed since then, from Bases to the web clipper. Here’s where things stand in 2026.
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Can Your PKM Protect Your Cognitive Abilities from AI?
Five years of Zettelkasten has convinced me that a PKM system can do more than store knowledge. It actively protects your ability to think independently in an AI-saturated world.
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Thriving Alongside AI: Strategies for Protecting Your Mind
The first three posts on AI and cognition explored the risks. This one is different — it’s about how to protect and even grow your mind while making full use of AI.
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Knowledge Collapse: The Hidden Risk to Society
If AI keeps generating content from AI content, could we lose the specialist knowledge that makes human expertise valuable? That’s knowledge collapse — and it matters.
We’ve Been Here Before – A History of Cognitive Concern
Since the invention of writing, technology has sparked cognitive concern. This post traces that history and asks what generative AI might mean for our minds.
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The AI Cognitive Ability Paradox
To make the best use of AI, we need strong cognitive abilities — the very abilities AI can undermine. This is the central tension of the AI age.