Upload boring document/ URL to Google notebook LM and choose the explainer video option?

It’s not necessarily about you. People subscribe in the moment but periodically spring clean. By changing platform, you’re now back on their radar and have given them a prompt to unsubscribe. Just like if the gym changed your direct debit, you might think that you never go there.

I think you have given us a masterclass in disagreeing agreeably 👏

Haven’t there already been loads of experiments on this: LLM to write code/ a macro, which is then deployed in Excel? What’s the secret sauce that I’ve missed?

An operational policy to stop pursuing trivial infractions could be implemented rapidly. Write off the “backlog” and divert resources into making a better design of system going forward. And maybe write some principles to guide decision making.

Read an actual book

Have a digital detox

For a bit of civil engineering try Autoshenanigans Secrets of the motorway on YouTube

Look at “Tell Us Once” - the service for telling all gov departments that someone has died in one go. It’s really good.

I put segments of chocolate orange in mine on high days and holidays and the occasional rainy day.

Such a good point. It reminds me of that trope about women not applying for jobs if they don’t meet the criteria, while men do. What if it’s not a lack of confidence but brutal realism about not wasting their energy….