Integral Review

Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.

#productivity

Reviewing OpenAI's Deep Research: A good starting point

February 04, 2025
Deep Research is an interesting first implementation that can provide highly engaging outputs. However, it's not yet anything near what an analyst would produce, especially due to the suboptimal research process.

OpenAI Operator review: Currently too limited but reasons to be hopeful

January 29, 2025
OpenAI's Operator is an interesting product/research preview. It has a lot of potential and it's only a matter of time before it provides significant value to its users. But for now, its reasoning and browser skills are too limited.

Enriching or modifying an Anki deck with LLMs

January 03, 2025
If you want to make large-scale changes to an Anki deck, OpenAI's GPT or Perplexity are great options. As there are no native integrations yet with those tools, I share a small script to get the same result.

Thresholds, not goals

December 28, 2024
Some thoughts on using daily thresholds instead of goals as a way of ensuring consistent progress while minimizing cognitive load.

Reflect Notes review (as my primary notes app)

June 19, 2024
Having made Reflect Notes my primary note-taking app, I thought I would share why I profoundly enjoy the application and how it might suit your needs.

Using Time Machine and Tailscale for remote backups

April 08, 2024
Time Machine and a NAS are great together but used not to work once you leave your network. Using Tailscale, you can now make Time Machine work from anywhere.

Getting more productive is the most human thing you can do

February 16, 2020
If you create an application that streamlines a regular hour-long operation in a two-minutes one, you might have a successful company on your hands. You’ve created value by saving time (and therefore money) to a business, and your client thanks you by giving you a share of the savings.

A system to be calm

December 29, 2019
Our default approach to productivity is to think of increasing our output. How can we avoid distractions? The afternoon slump? Need less sleep?

Tools distract us from building

May 22, 2017
When building a SAAS, every week comes with opportunities to use news tools. Maybe we need to add a new database or to track a new project. Those are almost never first-times. You most likely already have a database currently online.