From Ryan Holiday: As we’ve become more polarized and more algorithmically sorted, we care a lot less about the people who think differently than us and put little effort into persuading them. That’s because persuasion is no longer the goal—it’s signaling. And with signaling, it’s vehemence that matters, not quality. Holiday goes on to talk […]

Seems to be a day for writing workflows. Here is one based on Vim. The most interesting part is flashbake which takes his plain text work and checks it into a Git repository every 15 minutes. For everything there is to love about Ulysses, I do love Vim and I do like the idea of […]

You can read the whole thing here. The coolest thing I found is a “pro tip”… First, highlight the text you want to send into Ulysses, but don’t share from the little pop-up menu that appears after you highlight the text. Instead, go to the main Safari Share button and share the whole page URL. […]

What Technology Wants: We don’t find happiness in more gadgets and experiences. So do find happiness in having some control of our time and work, a chance for real leisure, in the escape from the uncertainties of war, poverty, and corruption, and a chance to pursue individual freedoms — all of which come with increased […]

From Stand Out: Unfortunately, for many aspiring thought leaders seeking to make a living from their work, it would be easy to devote all their time to writing free online article, helping others termendously, and building a powerful reputation — all while starving. Yup, there have been times in the last 12 months where I’m […]

From Stand Out: Do you have enough people in your professional life who really know you? The bias in most discussions about networking is toward meeting more people, going to more cocktail parties, and trading more business cards. But sometimes depth can be as important, if not more so, than breadth. I hate networking. Those […]

From Justin: Creating something, and releasing it to the public, is hard. Producing a quality product takes a long time. Plus, there are years of experience and practice that have to happen beforehand. Do you know what’s easy? Critique. Putting someone down. Tearing something apart. It only takes a few keystrokes to say “this sucks.” […]

From Farnam Street: The hard truth is that most things in your life – good and bad – are your fault. The sooner you realize that, the better things will be. How many people never want to hear that. They want to find some other person, company, thing…to blame so that they remain faultless. If […]

Zaria Gorvett for the BBC makes the point first that reading helps you build empathy by citing some studies done on the subject. Then to get more reading in: So now that you’re convinced of the benefits of reading, consider this: according to a 2017 survey of 1,875 people by the UK media regulator Ofcom, […]