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Jan 25Liked by Welf von Hören

Congrats on being back with Potential, and thanks for writing this candid overview! That surely was an eventful 18 months.

> I set up my Potential again, and with every completed intention I found both relief, and appreciation: We had made something that was helping me in meaningful ways.

This is great, and inspiring. I get a similar realization every now and then with readup.org. I dropped Potential a while ago, but with changing environments and big life events, I've been adapting to life on a rather mindless autopilot mode. I do feel again like more intentionality, accountability and structure (on habits) would help.

Last time I got the renewal reminder I just didn't want to invest in a seemingly sinking ship. It seems that concern was partly justified. Happy to hear about your renewed commitment; I will reconsider!

Regarding the future & ideas: I've found LLMs (well, free ChatGPT 3.5) both wildly impressive and annoyingly misleading, depending on the use case. I'm sceptical but curious to see if they can be consistently valuable in helping with intentionality.

Apple also increased its pull on me with an Apple Watch. I've been pondering a few times on how it could have helped to manage the core of Potential without touching a phone.

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