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Tech & AI

Token Counts Are the New Lines of Code

Disney had one employee invoke Claude 460,000 times in 9 days. Meta handed out "Token Legend" titles before shutting its leaderboard down. These numbers feel like proof of something. They aren't, at least not on their own.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Stop Asking Which Note App Is Better and Answer This First

Notion has 100 million users and just locked its AI behind a $15/user/month paywall. Obsidian stores your notes in plain markdown that will open in any editor decades from now. The real question is not which one is better. It is who you want holding your thinking.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Presence Is Not a Productivity Metric

Jamie Dimon reaffirmed his full-office mandate on April 1, 2026, the same week data confirmed remote workers outproduce office workers by 29 minutes a day. The productivity argument for five-day RTO has collapsed. What's left is something else entirely.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read

Culture

Digital Minimalism Actually Works, But Not the Way Instagram Sells It

Digital minimalism has real science behind it: randomized controlled trials show measurable drops in depression, stress, and sleep disruption within three weeks of cutting screen time. But the aesthetic version being sold online, the courses, the apps, the linen-toned lifestyle content, is a different product entirely. One costs nothing and requires discipline. The other costs money and requires very little.

By Zara Mitchell · 4 min read