Jeroen Sangers
An AI can maintain your knowledge system if you give it a map of the system instead of rules
A team's engagement comes from its direct manager, not from the company
In the long run, the teams that learn fastest win, not the ones with the most talent or the best plan
Learning runs through acquiring, retaining and retrieving, and each stage fails on its own
Working out loud is making your work observable while you do it and narrating it as you go
A daily review with AI makes visible the patterns a single day hides
AI also answers, without saying so, that there is no need to check it, and that “no” is “cognitive surrender”
See AI as a tool and you delegate tasks; see it as a colleague and you delegate processes
Organising your notes is thinking: hand it to AI and you lose the thinking
In AI, general methods that scale with computation end up beating systems built on human knowledge
Choosing what you attend to is choosing your life
A vividly imagined future lets you feel whether you actually want it
Content is an asset with a lifespan: fleeting content wins an audience, lasting content builds the business
How visible you are says nothing about how fulfilled your life is
Removing your own ability to give in makes you stronger in a negotiation
Delegating a task without the why delegates the action, not the judgment
A goal only counts as a goal when you can force the outcome yourself, otherwise it is a dream
The real win in delegating is letting go completely, and that takes competence
Shared rituals give a team meaning, and they work best when the team invents them
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