#1 : Island by Aldous Huxley
#2 : Doing Music and Nothing Else by Peter Knickles
#3 : Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina
#4 : How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

1. Clarity is job #1
2. Interfaces exist to enable interaction
3. Conserve attention at all costs
4. Keep users in control
5. Direct manipulation is best
6. One primary action per screen
7. Keep secondary actions secondary
8. Provide a natural next step
9. Appearance follows behavior
10. Consistency matters
11. Strong visual hierarchies work best
12. Smart organization reduces cognitive load
13. Highlight, don't determine, with color
14. Progressive disclosure
15. Help people inline
16. A crucial moment: the zero state
17. Great design is invisible
18. Build on other design disciplines
19. Interfaces exist to be used

the many ways AI is making humans less productive #1:

• I have to prove I am human when visiting website
• websites are generally slower because they need to check if my browser is an AI bot
• I spent time every week now, restarting services affected by AI scraping bots

And I am not even using AI