My Productivity System for 2026 is Boring on Purpose
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With my Obsidian and desk tour for 2026 done it’s time to turn attention to my productivity system. Today we’ll walk through how I keep track of tasks and all the other tools that help keep me productive. Emacs Doom Emacs, and orgmode specifically has been my task management system for most of 2025. It
My Kids Wanted to Recommend Books
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2026 Desk Tour
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It’s been a while since I’ve dug into my hardware setup. Judging from the outdated state of my gear page, it’s been at least 5 years since I’ve made an update. The biggest change since my last update is that I don’t daily drive macOS anymore, and rarely use my iPad for anything but Zwift
My 2026 Obsidian Setup
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As we head into 2026 here is a full look at my Obsidian setup. From folders to a few special notes and all the plugins I use, we’ll cover it all. Folder Setup When I looked at my folders preparing for this I had accumulated a bunch of clutter. I had residual folders and files
The Best Local Music Players for Linux
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I’ve got a large music library of FLAC and some mp3’s that I own. Yes I listen almost exclusively to music I own because being intentional about an activity makes it more meaningful. When I was an Apple guy I just used the built in Music App (formely iTunes) because I was mostly streaming and
3 Focus Rules I’m Taking Into 2026
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I don’t want to be productive for productivity sake. It’s not about cranking more widgets. I search for productivity because I have better days when I get to focus on hard tasks. The result of focus is that I end up getting more done. So here are 3 changes I made recently to help me
Streaming Killed My Love of Music — This Fixed It
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Just like many people in my generation, my life was all about music in the 90s. Sitting down with friends and listening to the new Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, or Tragically Hip album was an event. Sometimes an event that was returned to a number of times over a few weeks because music meant so
Read Later is Garbage
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Celebrate Mind Changing
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From Greg Changing your mind gets framed as weakness or flip-flopping when it should be celebrated as learning. Admitting you were wrong becomes this huge thing instead of just being part of the process of understanding the world better. But being wrong is information – it tells you something about reality you didn’t know before,
Setting Up org-pomodoro in Doom Emacs (Hyprland + Fedora)
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I’ve been suffering from distraction lately, so in addition to editing my /etc/hosts file so that I can’t visit my distraction sites of preference, I’ve gone back to using a Pomodoro timer via org-pomodoro. Let’s look at how I set this up. Note: I use Hyprland and Fedora. There may be some nuance when it
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