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A daily AI digest that runs on a pipeline instead of on me remembering to write it.

A macOS Mail window on a warm beige and grey desktop wallpaper showing one edition of the digest, with a takeaway card at the top, two news items, and two video items below

The problem

Staying current in AI is a second job. The useful signal is scattered across launch posts, practitioner videos, and forum threads, and most of it decays inside a day.

So people either skim nothing or lose an hour to it. Neither one scales to a team.

What I did

I built a pipeline that assembles a morning digest and sends it: what practitioners are shipping, plus the news worth five minutes.

Sources are read, checked against what already went out, and ranked before anything is written. Repeats are the fastest way to lose a daily reader.

A four stage flow reading left to right, sources then select then compose then deliver, with a memory card sitting below that feeds an arrow up into the select stage and receives a return line from deliver
The left-to-right path is the easy half; any newsletter has one. The loop is what makes it survivable: everything that ships is written back, so the no-repeat guarantee holds without anyone remembering what went out yesterday.

The format is fixed on purpose. Same sections, same order, every day, so reading it becomes a habit instead of a decision.

It runs on a schedule rather than on me finding a spare hour. That is the only reason a daily thing survives past week two.

In July I moved distribution onto an Apple Directory group, so people request access and get added without coming through me.

Outcome

42 editions in the seven weeks to 22 August 2026.

The group is the part I would point at. A useful thing that depends on me being the door stops being useful. This one no longer does.

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