Become more calm and conscious with Kai Koch, co-founder of Ahead
Ahead is like an emotional pocket coach. It features short lessons, a progress tracker, and a space for guided reflection.
Are you looking for tools to help you think better and work smarter? In our Tools for Thought series we interview founders on a mission to help us make the most of our mind. These in-depth conversations explore the product vision as well as the most interesting use cases.
Get featuredAhead is like an emotional pocket coach. It features short lessons, a progress tracker, and a space for guided reflection.
In this interview, we talked about the challenges of online reading, the power of curation, the little details that make the difference to create an enjoyable reading experience, how the recency bias hurts our information diet, why the team at Matter cares about interoperability, and much more.
Mailman is plugin that that allows you to decide when and what emails should land in your inbox. Learn how Mailman’s advanced features, like Delivery Slots and Do Not Disturb, can transform the way you manage email in this comprehensive interview with Mohit Mamoria.
In this interview, we talked about how to integrate writing and research and avoid context switching, how cryptocurrency can help build an attention market and surface the most relevant content, why we need to build a social knowledge base, the concept of “search gardening”, and much more.
Unpluq offers an efficient way to break bad habit loops, make more conscious choices when using your phone, and to block distractions by default.
Suman Kanuganti and his team have built a network of researchers, creatives, and thought leaders training their personal AIs on millions of their memories.
We talked about the power of spaced repetition, how to use anti-goals, how to select what to read, the tension between institutional and industrial research, and more.
We talked about the power of EEG; the science behind the Muse headband; how meditation can create a virtuous cycle of mental wellness, focus, and quality sleep, and much more.
In this interview, we talked about how our tools are the biggest bottleneck to our productivity and creativity; why remote teams require strong written communication; the power of storing, organizing, sharing, and resurfacing relevant notes; how Clarity managed to combine freeform documents, structured project management, and a knowledge graph; and much more.
In this interview, we talked about the science behind Endel, how we can take control back of our biological rhythms, how they are using sound masking to shield us from the distracting noises of city life, how sleep is essential to our productivity and well-being, the importance of creative collaboration, the legacy of Alan Watts, and much more.