How to end your workday: the Hemingway principle. How people are really using AI in 2026. The first principle.

One “must” for this week: How to End Your Workday: The Hemingway Principle

An effective self-regulation strategy to start your days: setting an intention and knowing specifically where you’ll start. To avoid the trap of scrolling through feeds, or “just checking email”, and the more specific, the better.

As Ernest Hemingway told the Paris Review in 1958:

“You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.”

Personal development

• How to end your workday: the Hemingway principle

• Emotional intelligence is a life skill

• How to design real connection without being awkward

• The 2 types of knowledge: real vs. surface

• The 4 types of professional time

• The alarm with no fire

• The helsinki bus station theory

• Why your brain loves games, and how to use that to your advantage

Innovation

• How people are really using AI in 2026

• Domain expertise has always been the real moat

• Father of the ipod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity

• Lost confidence

• Policy on the AI exponential

• The orchestration tax

• This week on moonshots: ray kurzweil

• When will AI be truly transformative?

Leadership and management

• The first principle

• Develop a personal early warning system

• Research: what interruptions reveal about company culture

• The coming organizational meltdown

• The difference between trust and psychological safety

• Two McKinsey partners on rewiring talent for the AI era

• What’s really behind the so-called “AI layoffs”?

• When your colleague keeps meddling in your work

One book

“Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” by Greg McKeown.