Priya Sharma

Shopify's meeting purge revealed something most teams already sense: the default isn't too many meetings. It's that meetings form without anyone deciding they should exist.

The 'magic words' model of prompting is wrong and it's making your results worse. Here's what's actually happening when you talk to an LLM.

A product team's stalled sprint reveals why most task lists are organized around capture, not execution. Here's what that costs you.

Code-generating AI is trained on text, not execution. Understanding that gap changes how you should use it.

Every app ships with notifications turned on by default. That's not a coincidence — it's a design choice that serves the app, not you.

You glanced at it, swiped it away, and kept working. But your brain didn't move on. Here's what actually happens after an interruption, and how to fix it.

Canceling a meeting isn't laziness. For most knowledge workers, it's one of the highest-leverage decisions you can make in a day.

The context window isn't just a text bucket. Understanding how models use that space changes how you work with them.

AI coding tools are genuinely useful. They're also structurally blind to whether the code they produce actually does what you need. Here's what that means for your workflow.

A look at how one product team discovered their task system was rewarding capture over completion, and what they changed to fix it.

The design of most task systems rewards adding work, not completing it. Here's why that happens and how to fix it.

AI models update without announcements, and your carefully tuned prompts may stop working the moment the model underneath them changes.

A design team's year-long experiment with every major productivity tool reveals what actually makes systems stick — and it's not the software.

Task lists capture what's already been defined. The work that actually moves things forward usually hasn't been named yet.

Note-taking systems have become the productivity world's favorite hobby. The problem is that collecting ideas isn't the same as using them.

If canceling a meeting feels impossible, that's a signal worth examining. The most entrenched meetings are often the least necessary ones.

Calendars full of meetings feel productive. They aren't. The work that actually moves things forward happens in the gaps — and most people are slowly eliminating those gaps.

Most people schedule their hardest thinking work during their worst cognitive hours. Here's how to stop doing that.