I sometimes joke that every time I open Workday I’m reminded that we live in a simulation. Because getting to a $50bn+ valuation with a product as horrible as Workday’s is the best example we have of a glitch in the matrix.

Your pockets also have limited real estate.

Tasks are emails I receive from others or emails I send to myself

Notes are just emails to your future self. Emails are just tasks. And tasks are just calendar events.

Calendars, on the other hand, cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.

Instead of drafting a first version with pen and paper (my preferred writing tools), I spent an entire hour walking outside, talking to ChatGPT in Advanced Voice Mode. We went through all the fuzzy ideas in my head, clarified and organized them, explored some additional talking points, and eventually pulled everything together into a first outline.