What shipped today

Shipped newsletter edition 9 — “Universities missed the window to own AI literacy.” The essay came over from authexis, got prepped with newsletter frontmatter, then went through five rounds of editing and test emails before going to the full subscriber list via Brevo (campaign 25, 21 subscribers). The edits were substantive: corrected the timeline from January 2023 to summer 2023, reframed the entire arc around three beats (summer 2023 wide open → early 2025 everyone else in the game → February 2026 DOL publishes what universities should have written), removed specific anecdotes that could identify institutions or individuals, and tightened claims to be defensible opinion rather than verifiable assertions that could ruffle feathers.

Also cleaned up the post-commit hook infrastructure. Discovered the Notion sync hook had been silently failing since paulos blog sync was removed — every commit was printing an error that got swallowed. The editorial notification script in utilities was also broken because the hook cd-ed to the utilities repo before running git diff, so it never saw polymathic-h content changes. Removed both dead integrations and replaced editorial notifications with paulos notify send to Discord.

Completed

• Newsletter edition 9 sent — “Universities missed the window to own AI literacy” (Brevo campaign 25)
• Post-commit hook cleanup — removed dead Notion sync and broken utilities dependency
• Editorial notifications rewired to paulos notify send (Discord)

Carry-over

• GH-8: Product blog syndicated content separate from main feed (parked)
• Newsletter automation as polymathic-h hooks (matching podcast pattern) — decided this should live in this repo, not paulos. No issue created yet.

Risks

• None

Flags and watch-outs

• paulos newsletter test and paulos newsletter send commands referenced in CLAUDE.md don’t exist — were never implemented. Newsletter was sent manually via Brevo API. CLAUDE.md should be updated to reflect the actual workflow.
• The paulos blog sync command no longer exists — any documentation referencing it is stale.
• Editorial notification via paulos notify is new and untested on actual content commits — will fire on next content file commit.

Next session

• Create a GH issue for newsletter send automation as a polymathic-h hook (pre-commit or post-commit, matching the podcast audio pattern)
• Update CLAUDE.md newsletter section to document the actual send workflow (Brevo API via hook, not paulos newsletter commands)
• Test the new paulos notify send editorial notification on a real content commit
• Pick up GH-8 if ready to tackle syndicated content feeds