Via ChatGPT, a graphic illustrating the sleuth-like intestigations that resulted in Chris Bailey's new book, Intentional: How to Finish What You Start

LINKS

Intentional: How to Finish What You Start by Chris Bailey

"There are just 12 basic values" by Chris Bailey - September 4, 2025

Core Values Test: If you click on this link you will be able to take the test, which takes about 12 minutes, for $25--a 50% discount. Thank you, Chris!

Chris's three previous books: The Productivity Project (2016), Hyperfocus (2018), and How to Calm Your Mind (2022)

My previous Kindle Chronicles interviews with Chris in 2021 and 2023

Time & Attention, Chris's podcast co-hosted with his wife, Ardyn Nordstrom

"The Book I've Been Waiting to Write for 15 Years" by Tiago Forte - November 11, 2025

Getting Things Done by David Allen

The New Colorsoft, with Sophie and Darlene's sister Gail

Links

Click here for today's release of three new Kindle Scribe tablets, including the amazing Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which Darlene's sister Gail talked about with me for today's episode.

Click here for the 15-minute video I uploaded to YouTube about the Scribe Colorsoft. I focused on what it will mean for my decades-long journaling practice.

Panos Panay, SVP Devices & Services at Amazon

Links

Coverage of today's media event in NYC:

About Amazon

"Amazon Finally Did the Damn Hardware Right" by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge

"The 5 Hottest AI Features from Amazon's September Hardware Reveal" by Eric Hal Schwartz at Techradar

"Everything Amazon Announced Today at Its Fall Hardware Event" by Julian Chokkattu at Wired

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Etiquette for Lovers and Killers

Photo © Chris Doody

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Anna Fitzgerald Healy's website

The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: 50th Anniversary Edition

"The Vampire Facial" by Anna Fitzgerald Healy, reprinted in Dark Matter Magazine

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Audiobook preview for Etiquette for Lovers and Killers (YouTube)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Wood Island Lighthouse

Amazon page for Alexa+

"More Than a Million People Now Have Alexa Plus" by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge - June 10, 2025

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, flash." I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Day Makes the Year

Links

The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life): Transform Your Work and Life with One-Day Success by Doug Fleener

Doug's web site

See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition by Zig Ziglar

The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, flash." I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Kindle Chronicles staff at Alexa+ Event in NYC

Links

Alexa+

The Outsiders

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

Meet the New Alexa

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, flash." I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of A Devil Went Down to Georgia

Photo by Matt H. King

Links

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau

Deb Miller Landau's web site

Simon & Schuster page

"29 Best True Crime Books That'll Make You Want to Sleep with the Lights on" (Oprah Daily) - August 28, 2024

YouTube Interviews with Deb Miller Landau: KATU Lifestyle, Georgia Center for the Book, Once Upon a Crime Podcast

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, flash." I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Links

James McQuivey's Forrester Research page

ChatGPT

How to create custom GPT's (YouTube)

Delphi AI Clone

Grok by xAI

NotebookLM

Humane AI Pin

Rabbit R1

Claude by Anthropic

Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro on eBay

Meta Quest 3 headset

Palm Pilot (Wikipedia)

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, flash." I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.