What shipped today

Wrote newsletter edition 10 — “The bottleneck moved” — adapted from the Feb 22 daily reflection, which explored what happens when AI execution outpaces human specification capacity. The reflection was strong enough to recast as a proper essay, a newsletter, and a LinkedIn post. The essay restructures the spoken reflection into written form with section headers (specification bottleneck, cognitive interference between design and supervision, the supervision paradox), keeps the citations (Goldratt, Newport, Bainbridge), and tightens from ~2400 to ~1800 words.

Went through two rounds of test emails. Key edit: the original opening built up to the punch gradually, but the newsletter format needs to hit immediately. Moved the “this is coming for you” framing to the top — the reader should feel the stakes in the first two sentences, not the last two paragraphs.

Also created the LinkedIn version, which went through the same lede-burying fix. LinkedIn only shows 2-3 lines before the fold, so the hook has to land instantly.

Newsletter is set for Tuesday Feb 24 at 11am EST (Brevo campaign not yet created — just the content). Explored options for automating LinkedIn posting alongside newsletter sends: Zapier has a Brevo “campaign status updated” trigger that could feed a LinkedIn post action, or we could go direct via LinkedIn API from paulos. Decision deferred.

Completed

• Newsletter edition 10 essay written — “The bottleneck moved” (scheduled for Feb 24)
• LinkedIn draft written — condensed version with above-the-fold hook
• Two test email rounds with iterative edits

Carry-over

• GH-8: Product blog syndicated content separate from main feed (parked)
• Newsletter ed. 10 Brevo campaign needs to be created and sent Tuesday morning
• LinkedIn post needs to be published manually (no API integration yet)
• Newsletter automation as polymathic-h hooks — no issue created yet
• CLAUDE.md still references non-existent paulos newsletter test/send commands

Risks

• None

Flags and watch-outs

• Newsletter ed. 10 is draft: false with a future date (Feb 24). It won’t render on the live site until Cloudflare builds with --buildFuture or the date passes. Need to push and deploy before or at send time Tuesday.
• LinkedIn→newsletter automation decision still open: Zapier (quick, adds dependency) vs LinkedIn API via paulos (more work, no dependency)
• paulos notify editorial hook still untested on real content commits

Next session

• Tuesday morning: create Brevo campaign for ed. 10 and send to full list (same flow as ed. 9 — build with --buildFuture, create campaign via API, sendNow)
• Post LinkedIn draft manually
• Create GH issue for newsletter send automation as a polymathic-h hook
• Update CLAUDE.md to remove stale paulos newsletter and paulos blog sync references
• Decide on LinkedIn automation approach (Zapier vs LinkedIn API)