May 2026 Links List

Below I present links to things that have caught my attention over the last month or so, across a whole range of subjects.

Photography

Dave Herring

• Sold it all for a Leica M11M (YouTube)

Deep Work / Focus / Attention

Zack Rowlands

• Journaling: a means to an end, or is it more? (newsletter)
• The Analog trend I’m not excited about
• Newsletter signup
• YouTube Channel

Laura Vanderkam

• Get the confetti out of your schedule (Substack)

David Epstein

• How To Improve Your Information Diet (Substack)

Cal Newport

• How to Build Discipline in a Distracted World (podcast)

Eleanor Konik

• The Konik Method for Making Analog Notes (Substack)

Laura J Martin

• Limiting not just screen time, but screen space (Noema Magazine)

Lilla Björn

• How I got my attention span back (YouTube)

Sam William

• 17 things you can do to escape a dopamine hole (Substack)

Casey Neistat

• Never Ever Surf in New York City’s East River (YouTube)

Artificial Intelligence

Claude 101

• A collection of free guides to master Claude (website)

Raspberry Pi Foundation

• {AI is not neutral: What recent research says about bias, identity, and power](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ai-is-not-neutral-what-recent-research-says-about-bias-identity-and-power/)

Bruce Schneier

• How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? (The Guardian)

Jim Prosser

• AI, “Humanity”, and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome (Substack)

Hannah Fry

• Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built (YouTube)

Shawn Smucker

• Please Use AI (Substack)

Miscellaneous

Nikita Prokopov

• It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons (blog)

Terry Godier

• Sourcefeed: pop-up rss (service)
• The Boring Internet (essay)

Max Obermeier

• Owning Technology (blog)

John Gruber

• Software as the product of Obsession times Voice

Ness Labs

• Ness Letters: The Hobby-Hustle Trap