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Asana or Notion Depends on How Much System You Want
Asana gives teams a project machine that is ready to run. Notion hands them the parts, which is liberating until building the system becomes its own project.
Plaud NotePin S Wants Your Notebook's Job - and Your Subscription
For interviewers, clinicians, students, and meeting-heavy professionals, this tiny recorder can turn a day of talk into usable notes. The catch is deciding whether fewer scribbles are worth a $179 device and an eventual software bill.
Flow Club
Flow Club is a virtual coworking community that runs live, hosted focus sessions where people work side-by-side on video to get into flow and beat procrastination. Built around 'body doubling' - the idea that the quiet presence of others working keeps you on task - each 50-minute sprint opens with quick goal-setting, runs on focused silence with music, and closes with a recap. Founded in 2020 by Ricky Yean and David Tran, the Y Combinator (S21) startup has become a popular tool for remote, independent, and neurodivergent workers, often described by its founders as 'Peloton for coworking.'
JB Bakst
JB Bakst is the founder and CEO of Chief, an AI email agent he pitches as 'the first inbox with good judgment.' A Stanford computer science grad and Manhattan native now based in Los Angeles, he cut his teeth as an early engineer at Airtable - where he obsessed over fun, delightful productivity UX - after starting out building iOS and full-stack at the six-person video-messaging startup Chime. His thesis for Chief: your email is a 12-year record of how you actually make decisions, so software should play those decisions forward rather than dump everything in a feed.