Inputs
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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Short essays on why you think the way you do. Good for a commute, and easier to dip into than a big self-help book.
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Awareness — Anthony de Mello
A book recommended by Tim Ferriss, in which a Jesuit priest spends the whole thing yelling at you to wake up. Not a comfortable read, which is presumably the point.
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Brain.fm
Music made for focus rather than for enjoyment. Two hours of real flow gets more done than eight hours of stopping and starting.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Long, patient, and entirely uninterested in being efficient. A useful antidote to a year spent making things faster.
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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
The News Quiz, mostly. Four people being quick about the week — a reminder that the format matters less than the timing.
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Monologue
Talk, and it types. Most of what ends up written down here starts as a voice note on a walk.
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On Being
Krista Tippett asks a question and then lets the silence do some of the work. Worth studying if you’re about to start a podcast.
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Opal
Blocks the apps I’d otherwise open without deciding to. Five hundred days in, and I still don’t trust myself without it.
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Plaud
Card-thin, lives on the back of my phone, and transcribes the room while I forget to take notes. Transcripts are the best context you can hand an AI, and I’d rather not be without them.
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Oregano oil
Not a tool, not a subscription. Winter came and the work didn’t stop.
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Unseen Unknown
Jasmine Bina on the cultural currents underneath brand strategy — why people are moving somewhere before they can say why.
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Every — "AI could do anything, until it met PowerPoint"
The piece that kicked off the no-more-PowerPoint experiment. If the deck is the bottleneck, change the format, not the AI.
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Claude Code
Where most of Liminal actually gets built — the website you’re reading included.
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No Such Thing as a Fish
Four researchers, one fact each, zero rehearsal. A format we keep coming back to while shaping our own.
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Proof
Collaborative docs where humans and AI agents comment side by side. Every one of our meetings ends up in one.