Good evening friends. This is probably as ill-prepared as I’ve ever been for a Sunday Edition. Like every year, the ambition to write slows at this time of year. It does not appear 2026 will be any different.
I began The Almanack of Naval Ravikant this week. I’ve never read a book so slowly — it feels like every line could be highlighted. Here are a few highlights I’ve had from the book so far:
If you get into a relative mindset, you’re always going to hate people who do better than you, you’re always going to be jealous or envious of them. They’ll sense those feelings when you try and do business with them.
And:
Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned. When I talk about specific knowledge, I mean figure out what you were doing as a kid or teenager almost effortlessly. Something you didn’t even consider a skill, but people around you noticed.
And:
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
I could go on. So far, this book is an absolute goldmine.
I’m reading this book on the reMarkable Paper Pro Move once again. After discovering snap highlights and notes weren’t actually annotations in an ePub or a PDF but rather just coloured-ink, I put the reMarkable away for reading — I want to send these highlights to Readwise for later, and Readwise requires actual annotations to save highlights. But this week, I discovered reMarkable Web, which appears to be able to extract snap highlights from your ePubs and PDFs and enables you to send these items to Readwise or other apps. The reMarkable is such a wonderful size for reading on the couch in the evening, so I’m ecstatic to have a potential option for extracting actual annotations from ePubs and PDFs on the device. I’ll report back on the experience when I finish the first book.
Three Weeks with Akiflow
I began writing a segment for this Sunday Edition about Akiflow, but it became a bit long. I’ve thrown it up on the blog as its own post as a result. If you want to get my initial thoughts on Akiflow, go check out the link here.
In short:
- I love the design.
- I adore time slots.
- I continually run into integration issues.
- I am surprised the iPad app exists. It’s terrible.
Akiflow is an interesting app for time blockers and I highly recommend you check it out.
Notion 3.2 Brings AI to Mobile
It’s pretty rare when I include strictly news in this section. For that, apologize. This one feels like a big deal though, at least for me.
I record a ton of meetings each day. Notion AI Meeting Notes is some of my most-used software right now. With the big iPhone 17 Pro Max battery, it’s super easy to simply place the iPhone on a coaster in front of me in a meeting and have it record the meeting. That gigantic battery can record meetings all day before needing a charge. Before the client can walk out the front door, I can send meeting minutes and action items out the door with them and have everything logged for the actual work to be done.
But this all has to be done with some planning — as of right now, you can’t add an AI Meeting Notes block to a page right on your iPhone. I thought I was crazy the first time I ran into the limitation.
Notion 3.2 brings AI Meeting Notes to the iPhone, ensuring you can record meetings in a moment’s notice. I’m going to be genuinely grateful to not have to set up the AI block on my Mac only to hit the record button on the iPhone.
As of right now, the last major feature I’m looking for is the ability to record a phone call directly into Notion. Perhaps Notion 3.2 is the key to this. My sense would be, though, that “call” likely means a Zoom/Teams/Meet call and not a phone call itself. I suppose we’ll see.
The Second Cup
Clawdbot
I’d be crazy not to include this as a major link in the Sunday Edition. Clawdbot looks like one of those “3 steps forward moments”, where suddenly you get the “Aha!” after watching the bot work through an Excel sheet instantly. I’m very excited to see where this goes. (If I could figure out how to install it on my computer? I am not good at this stuff admittedly, but if I can’t do it, plenty of people won’t be able to do it.)
The Top 5 Hotels in 2025
As voted by The World’s 50 Best Hotels.
I never really got onboard the Airbnb train like others. I tried it once and we were notified that we shouldn’t admit that we were Airbnbers, as the building had banned Airbnb a year before. I hated the feeling of being an intruder in the building.
Hotels are the way. Perhaps not these hotels. But one can dream.
Iris.Fun
Interesting things are going on here. It looks like the first major app they’ve added to the platform is a calendar app. One to keep an eye on, perhaps.
Quote of the Week
Since I didn’t publish a Fresh Link this week, here’s one of my favourite quotes from the week:
“When you sprint, you sprint hard. When you rest, you rest hard. The most successful people apply this same approach to life. They aren't grazing for hours. They sprint, then rest.”
— Sahil Bloom
Happy Sunday. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead.
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