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I am Paolo Belcastro, I have been working in tech for 30 years, building software and leading distributed teams for the past 25. I send a free newsletter about personal productivity, leadership, distributed work, and the tech that enables them.
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A senior manager AI toolkit Your digital team is ready when you are
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Which Claude should you use? Mini-guide to chose the right tool for the right job
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Claude Code for non-devs, part 2 — The Jam Session The Jam Session
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Claude Code for non-devs, part 1 Moving from tools to principles
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Intentionality through scarcity The power of saying no
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The trap of local optimization Are you climbing the wrong hill?
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Happiness rotation In our clients’ shoes
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January resolutions Breaking my own rules
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A universe of dots How to restore meaning in domain names
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On jet lag and how to adapt to it What I’ve learned about business traveling
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Value bubbles vs. value engines Choose infrastructure over speculation
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How I really write Is ghostwriting… ethical?
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The one thing that changed how I work Coached over the last 10 years
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NOT a self-made man What they don’t tell you about getting help
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Trust is the backbone Use public transport to understand why
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Designing for the worst So the best takes care of itself
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Using chaos to communicate order How we communicate at Automattic
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Liquid Glass, half-full or half-empty? Apple’s latest design masks a deeper shift
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Profits and responsibility The web isn’t free to run
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Not about free beer Freedom on the web isn’t free stuff
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Is the internet going to shit? How links die and how LLMs narrate the web
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The illusion of understanding each other Repeat after me: repeat after me
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Inside the Domain Name System Not bad for a bunch of dots
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A billion-dollar market, stuck What domains could become
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Only 3% of the Internet has a name The unknown advantage of owning a domain
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Lost in translation, daily About time travel and other traps
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Don’t build perfect, build human Why your homepage shouldn’t be about you.
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People don’t keep secrets Incentives do.
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Let’s predict the future Enter one of many plausible futures.
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AI & T-shaped individuals From T-Shaped to Square-Shaped
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Pride & Laziness Social media is the bridge, not the destination.
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Artistic Direction Taste is the last moat.
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From the Toolbox Tiny Apps Fill Small Gaps.
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To a year of promise and possibility May it bring you closer to your dreams.
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こだわり — Kodawari Relentless attention to details
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Simplifying complexity Chaos is layered, not random.
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Speed beats perfection Think longer-term, work in shorter cycles.
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Against New Year’s Resolutions If it’s worth doing, it’s worth starting now.
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No instructions needed If you need to teach it, it’s failed already.
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Crafting opinions Strong opinions need strong foundations.
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How we think Knowing our thinking style matters.
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Global tech, local laws The widening gap between tech & regulation.
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AI vs. Humans When computers can use computers
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Product Leadership is… Expanding the ground for your products.
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Home Office Etiquette Making online collaboration easier.
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From Braille to Global Teams Distributed work, a family tradition since 1982.
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Leading is doing what’s hard Stand for your principles, even when it’s not comfortable.
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Adaptability and Flexibility The process is a tool, not the goal.
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Content Collection and Curation Your Second Brain is only as good as the content you put in.
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Streamlining Creativity Accelerate your workflow and embrace diversity.
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Asymmetrical Bets “Small bets” are not enough to build large-scale software
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The Big Multitasking Lie I can confidently declare that multitasking doesn’t exist.
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The Manager Instructions Manual How to write a handbook to help your team work with you.
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