Newsletter : Issue #62
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday! Welcome to the 62th edition of my weekly newsletter. Here are some of the articles and resources that caught my attention this week.
Reading
Housel also makes the point that progress doesn’t eliminate worry — it just upgrades it. Each generation solves one category of suffering (food, disease, security) only for the next to move on to higher-order concerns like work-life balance or education. Nobody gets an objectively easy life; they just fight different battles.
In this short but sharp post, Seth Godin draws a contrast between two responses to the pressures of modern work: reaching for excuses, or choosing courage. He notes that AI has become the newest all-purpose excuse — for layoffs, for mediocrity, for taking easier and quicker paths. Courage, by contrast, means committing to make something better than the minimum required.
Watching
Tools
marp.app Write your presentation as plain text, export as HTML, PDF, or PPTX. No drag-and-drop, no design fuss — just focus on content.
continue.dev Integrates with VS Code and JetBrains. Bring your own model (local or cloud), get inline completions, chat with your codebase, and run AI-powered PR reviews.
Obsidian Vault LLM Assistant An Obsidian plugin that lets you query your vault or generate new notes using OpenAI or Gemini — with source citations so you know exactly where answers came from.
"Boredom is a filter. Common ideas come before it. Uncommon ideas come after it. Sit with a project long enough to get bored with it, then sit a little more. The most useful insights bubble up after you get bored.”
- James Clear