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calnewport.com

Mentioned in 15 issues, from June 23, 2018 to September 27, 2025.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 328 / Agents, Pulse, Vision

    MCP in Practice, Locally AI, Cloudflare Founders Letter, WiFi and students, AWS S3 one petabyte per second, Claude Code, ChatGPT Pulse.

    13 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  2. Weekly Thing 320 / Octopus, Agentic, Voyager

    OpenMemory MCP, Stack Overflow almost dead, AI-generated law, agentic web, weight-loss wonder drugs, AI energy footprint, self-hosting moment.

    35 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat →

  3. Weekly Thing 266 / Obsessed, DiceRight, Omnivore

    GitHub Engineering communication, fixing the internet, NPR left Twitter, cryptography intuition, social internet is dead, FreeTube private YouTube.

    19 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat →

  4. Weekly Thing #243 / Montaigne, Ordinals, Salsa + Ukraine Fundraiser!

    Social media teen girls, LED lights killing you, cargo cult Agile, Apple glucose testing, cloud exit savings, ChatGPT explained.

    25 links 4.2k words 💬 Chat →

  5. Weekly Thing #237 / Ethereum, Zelensky, Fadell + Erratic Narratives

    Ethereum ecosystem, Zelensky Person of Year, Black Start power grid, Apple security features, Tony Fadell crypto, FTX collapse.

    21 links 5.2k words 💬 Chat →

  6. Weekly Thing #144 / Contact Tracing, Stockdale Paradox, John Prine, Goat 2 Meeting

    COVID-19 tracing tool, Zoom brand, John Conway dies, iPhone SE, NextDNS, Stockdale Paradox, cold-brew coffee chemistry, COBOL training.

    31 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat →

  7. Weekly Thing #140 / Conversations, Leadership, Remote, iPad

    iPad Pro trackpad, new keyboard cover, flatten the curve, pandemic history, managing remotely, skill stacking, virus startup strategy.

    27 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat →

  8. Weekly Thing #139 / Control, Energy

    Brave Browser, Facebook's negative impact, Things Apple Watch app, history of the URL, low carb diet brain effects, brain's nightly rinse cycle.

    11 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing #138 / Covid-19, Credibility, Clearview AI, Hair Freezing

    Clearview AI facial recognition, stopping Facebook, First Amendment social media, OmniFocus floating time zones, Ulysses writing assistant.

    19 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat →

  10. Weekly Thing #125 / Nov 9, 2019

    Sleep cleans brain toxins, Ceph file systems, functional programming, digital minimalism, blockchain limits, America's food supply chain.

    13 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat →

  11. Weekly Thing #123 / Oct 26, 2019

    Quantum supremacy, superconducting processor, architectural decision records, quitting analytics, James Clear, GitLab political chat.

    14 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat →

  12. Weekly Thing #107 / May 25, 2019

    Tesla strategy, data moats, owning your blog, Playdate handheld gaming, human antivenom, Gmail purchase history, quitting Twitter, indie social media.

    9 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat →

  13. Weekly Thing #87 / Jan 5, 2019

    Analog social media, depression language, Microsoft Developer Division interviews, iPad Pro, serverless bills, Obama's favorite books, Facebook Clear History.

    11 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

  14. Weekly Thing #84 / Dec 15, 2018

    AlphaZero chess and Go, Netflix GraphQL, apps tracking location, Minneapolis zoning, Verizon AOL-Yahoo writedown, Microsoft Edge open source.

    15 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat →

  15. Weekly Thing #59 / Jun 23, 2018

    Silicon Valley moral cesspool, Innovation Stack, YNAB API, personal data requests, Through-Wall Pose Estimation, Survivorship Bias.

    16 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat →