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Tracking Your Sleep Could Backfire If You Have Insomnia. Here's Why

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While many people may find sleep apps useful, a recent study found that sleep tracking can be stress-inducing for people with insomnia. April 22, 2026 ...

#555: AI and Critical Thinking

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Designing for trust, AI interaction, context engineering, designing for human oversight. Issue #555 • Apr 21, 2026 • View in the browser Hola Smashing Friends, In times when we can build anything with AI, we need to clearly understand what we actually want to build. It’s not the idea, but rather the context around it — from problems to solve and features to design, all the way to how we build confidence and trust . AI can’t resolve years of accumulated debt in code, design or content. If anything, it only surfaces underlying inconsistencies and amplifies them in its responses. To prevent it from happening, we need to apply a healthy dose of critical thinking . And that’s what this n...