On dropping
the ball.
Most productivity writing is about systems. This is about the thing systems do not fix: what happens after you have written it down and still do not do it.
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Guide
How to chase someone without making it awkward
The report you were promised is a week late and you still have not asked for it. Why chasing feels expensive, when it stops being unreasonable, and the four sentences that get it done without spending anything.
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Decisions
We read your email and keep almost none of it
An assistant that finds your commitments has to read your mail. It does not have to store it. Here is exactly what happens to a message, what survives, and why the difference is architectural rather than a promise.
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Essay
Accountability partners: what actually works, and why most of them quietly stop
Being answerable to someone is the most reliable behavior change mechanism there is. It is also the one most likely to fade within a month. The reasons it fades are structural, and they are worth understanding before you set another one up.
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Decisions
Why Wasp doesn't send emails on its own
We built an assistant that can write the chasing email in your voice and put it in the right thread. Then we made sure the decision to send stays with you. Here is the reasoning, and the line we drew.
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Comparison
What a virtual executive assistant costs, and what it cannot do for you
An honest breakdown of the options, from an offshore VA to a full time EA, what each is genuinely good at, and the one part of the job you should not hire a person for at all.
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Guide
How to write the email you have been avoiding
The one that got harder to send every day it stayed unsent. Why lateness compounds into silence, and the four sentences that end it.
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Category
What an AI chief of staff actually does, and what it cannot
The phrase is being attached to everything from note takers to inbox filters. Here is what the human role really involves, which parts software can genuinely take, and which parts it should stop claiming.
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Essay
The real reason you drop things is not that you forgot
You wrote it down. You saw it again. You still did not do it. That gap is where commitments actually die, and better capture does nothing to close it.