DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links 21
A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
Edition 198 of my newsletter, discussing Knowledge Work, AI, Knowledge Management, Management, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and more!
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Time for a new Midweek Links edition!
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Recent Notes I've Written
➤ Context engineering - The art of designing AI contexts
➤ 42 Life Lessons At 42 - Personal reflections on four decades of living
➤ Receptionist AI Design Pattern - A useful Architectural pattern for AI systems
➤ Prompt Lazy Loading AI Design Pattern (PLL) - A valuable Context engineering approach
➤ Desktop Extensions for MCP - Making Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers easier to install
➤ Harper - Great replacement for Grammarly
➤ Business AI Master Prompt Questions of Tiago Forte
Knowledge Management
➤ I deleted my second brain - Thought-provoking take on Knowledge Management systems
➤ Obsidian Bases new superpower - Obsidian Bases are HUGE
➤ Knowledge management June 2025 - Insights about Obsidian
➤ How to use Obsidian effectively - Community wisdom on how to best use Obsidian
➤ Be a curator, not just a consumer - The value of deliberate information curation
Personal Development, Thinking and Learning
➤ How to make yourself into a learning machine - Systematic approach to continuous learning
➤ Tiago Forte's approach to learn anything new: https://fortelabs.com/blog/my-4-stage-system-for-learning-anything-new
➤ Always go to the funeral - Timeless wisdom
➤ 101 additional advices - Kevin Kelly's practical life wisdom
➤ You are an absolute moron for believing in the hype of AI agents - Contrarian perspective on AI trends
AI
➤ ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more - ChatGPT continues evolving into a comprehensive productivity platform, similarly to other major AIs
➤ ChatGPT versions overview by Andrej Karpathy - Great visual overview of how ChatGPT models have evolved
➤ Browser Use - AI agent for browser automation - Fascinating approach to web automation
➤ Lovable.dev - AI-powered app development platform
➤ Eliza OS - Open-source conversational AI framework
➤ AnythingLLM - Full-stack application for running LLMs locally
➤ Gamma App - AI-powered presentation creation
➤ Curated AI/ML resources - Comprehensive collection for AI practitioners
➤ Data Engineering handbook - Complete guide to data engineering practices
➤ Bash SDK for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Making MCP development more accessible
About Sébastien
I'm Sébastien Dubois, and I'm on a mission to help knowledge workers escape information overload. After 20+ years in IT and seeing too many brilliant minds drowning in digital chaos, I've decided to help people build systems that actually work. Through the Knowii Community, my courses, products & services and my Website, I share practical and battle-tested systems. You can follow me on X 🐦 and on BlueSky 🦋.
I am an author, founder, and coach. I write books and articles about Knowledge Work, Personal Knowledge Management, Note-taking, Lifelong Learning, Personal Organization, and Zen Productivity. I also craft lovely digital products.
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