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Jeroen Sangers

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Behaviour follows its consequences: what gets rewarded grows, what gets punished fades, and what gets rewarded irregularly sticks best

Motivation grows with the perceived distance to the goal, not the real one

An indexed PKM of sources and personal syntheses makes a truly personal AI possible

AI lowers the threshold for building tools, but that is not where business transformation stalls

Productivity doesn't come from working longer, but from letting your brain reset

Three fixes, one worked, and I don’t know which

The Instagram algorithm tests new content on people who don't follow you yet

You optimise a system by looking at the whole flow, not by making the fastest part faster

Self-control is a learnable skill, not an innate trait

Structure is cheaper than intelligence

Time management training leaves volition alone

Implementation intentions correct the planning fallacy

Unplanned tasks get finished more often than planned ones

Blind spots need someone else's eyes

Urgency, not importance, decides what gets done

The cheapest acquisition channel is the one you should start with

The glass is already broken, and that is why I enjoy it

The meeting ends the moment you share your screen

Recognising information feels like knowing it, but it is a different cognitive operation from retrieving it

Praise for rescuing keeps the dependency alive

Train when your chronotype peaks, but never let the perfect hour stop you from training

You never learned to delegate. AI just made it obvious.

The day Siri stopped arguing about language

Can you have a real conversation with your notes?

Multitasking leads to an overestimation of your own ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously

The artisan and the tinkerer

Audio conversations promote a more equal distribution of speaking time and alignment of speaking patterns, which leads to better group performance than video meetings, despite the absence of visual cues

Por qué hemos tardado dos años en volver a hablar de inteligencia artificial

How Tana's voice chat changed the way I work through ideas

Mobile notifications cause significant distraction and performance reduction due to prolonged mind-wandering

When ordinary travel plans collide with extraordinary cosmic events

Should you move your work to AI or bring AI to your work?

Why I unsubscribe from every brand that sends Black Friday emails

How does your mind process thoughts before they become words?

A Inipi ritual is a spiritual cleansing ceremony focused on connection and healing

Work-related interruptions help you stay more engaged during your workday

Bonus podcast episodes use the number of the main episode

Is your AI integration slowing you down? There's a better way

"Revenge bedtime procrastination" is the deliberate delay of bedtime to regain control

Use AI to reduce unnecessary difficulties, not to avoid essential effort