Anyone I know use www.are.na/about? Just learned about it today and don't totally get what it is... But super cool how clear and transparent they are re: info on company and business model.

This iced flat white from Costa in Istanbul airport costs €8.5 What?! This is criminal...

Don’t decide something is “not you” until you’ve done enough reps that you no longer suck at it.

Today I discovered @anildash.com via @werd.io Starting with this one anildash.com/2019/07/23/2... I looove personal blogs that have been going on for multiple years, in Anil's case since 1999 🤯

It’s ~25% into my day (about 4 hours into a 16-hour day), and I’ve already matched my entire average daily screen time. The only difference today: My phone isn’t on Do Not Disturb because of a family emergency. I need to get notifications in real time.

I can't stop telling everyone I know about @asmartbear.com 's blog This time this one longform.asmartbear.com/predict-the-... How is he so good, how??

First run with the YakTrax. It's the perfect solution for running on snow and ice without having to buy trail shoes, €20 only!

*bitterly* cold weather app is quite dramatic 😂

The main value of “backlog systems” (idea lists, to-do lists, read-later lists...) is less about making sure you don’t lose ideas... And more about helping you stay focused.

Wow thank you @levelupjo.bsky.social 😍 Loved reading this. I will reply! We're permitted to take some time with these public letters right? 😂

Wow I didn't know Amazon has a "Send to Kindle" service! www.amazon.com/sendtokindle

I read @asmartbear.com 's “Sacrifice your health for your startup” and couldn’t get it out of my head. I explored the forces that make work consume founders so reliably — and whether it’s actually inevitable. www.chiaracokieng.com/is-building-... Would be curious what you think!

Wrote my first weekly update www.chiaracokieng.com/update-for-t... Inspired by @mtlynch.io !

Making my way through @asmartbear.com 's archives... www.chiaracokieng.com/on-love-as-a...

When information was scarce, it was power. Then information became cheap, and execution became power. Now information is infinite, and finding what’s true is power again.

Been following James Hawkins's (PostHog co-founder) funny shit posts on LinkedIn since forever. But first time to go to PostHog's website. holy shit what is this website hahaha posthog.com/community/pr...

Do these websites know content is displaying on only 1/3 of the screen and the rest is ads? How is this acceptable hahaha

I'm writing an essay that's hugely important to me, that nobody seems to talk about. Title: I’m Afraid I’ll Build a Business That Makes Money But I’m Not Proud Of

This is the best framework on product metrics I've ever seen: longform.asmartbear.com/product-metr... Wish I read it when I was working as a PM. Will be applying it to my business. Thanks @asmartbear.com !

Started compiling 'Chiara's Almanack' - aphorisms that I find myself repeating over and over Here's what I have so far: 1. Everyone makes mistakes. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. (Totally True Love; Norwegian film) 2. Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. (poem by Edgar A. Guest)

I've become interested in books of aphorisms. - Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living - Naval Ravikant: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (curated by Eric Jorgenson) - Balaji S: The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future (curated by Eric Jorgenson) What else?

My favorite page on personal websites is the Archive page with *all* the post titles in reverse chronological order. Like this:

Going down @mtlynch.io 's rabbit hole... Michael's Weekly Updates is so cool: weeks.mtlynch.io I think I'll start doing it too.

Stumbled upon @mtlynch.io 's lovely blog today. This made me LOL: "Despite the fact that it’s a core part of their job, most wedding vendors don’t seem to understand how to send emails to two people at once." mtlynch.io/couples-emai...

Finally created an Archive page with all my posts ever (223 posts, since 2013!), without having to upgrade from my Ghost starter plan. Exported the content in json format, then asked ChatGPT to create a markdown file with all the post titles and links, then boom! www.chiaracokieng.com/archive/

2026-01-01 - Letter to Oli: On How I Consume Podcasts and Take Notes (Zettelkasten) www.chiaracokieng.com/2026-01-01-l...

2026-01-01 - Letter to Sopha: On Job Searching, Not Feeling Enough, and Self 1 & Self 2 www.chiaracokieng.com/2026-01-01-l...

2025-12-31 - Letter to Oli - Re: Craft, Quality, Founders Podcast www.chiaracokieng.com/2025-12-31-l...

How I Chose My 2025/2026 Annual Review Format: The Criteria I Use www.chiaracokieng.com/annual/

The castle is still a bunch of rocks.

Bi-directional linking between TickTick and Google Calendar + split screen view in TickTick is a game changer. I can finally time block without: • having tasks duplicate across task manager and google calendar • marking myself as busy in google calendar because of time blocks

I love this much more nuanced approach to focus vs experimentation

How do people play games on iPhone? You're forced to watch a 30-60s ad every 3mins or something. I pay to make them go away but it's not always possible.

I'm not often on YouTube. Is everything 'Give me X minutes, and..." these days? - Give me 7 minutes and I'll eliminate your self-doubt forever - Give me 12 minutes, you'll get ahead of 97% of people - Give me 9min, and I'll improve your storytelling skills by 176%

Eagerly waiting for my 90cmx60cm whiteboard, which I bought to do a Personal Kanban. I thought it "didn't work" for me because I tried it many times via Trello. But I think doing it IRL is a game changer. Prototype this week:

Do people really type em dashes in real life? I do two dashes like this -- but didn't know how to type out an em dash until I asked perplexity how to just now

So... I just published my first post on Substack. I miss the Blogger/LiveJournal days open.substack.com/pub/chiaraco...

I also miss Google Reader RSS man I think I am just getting old

I miss the days bingeing on the blogs of Chris Guillebeau, Sebastian Marshall, Steve Kamb...

I'm now getting a physical vomit reaction to ChatGPT-sounding posts.

Sooo goodreads changed their logo

3 things I am LOVING these days: 1. UpNote - notes app 2. Rosebud - AI journal app 3. The Science of Stuck - book; particularly the chapter on procrastination being a (small-t) trauma response, discovering somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory...

I'm looking for something but I don't know what

Permission to be messy, discipline to build on the mess