Month: October 2018
The survey says – we check email too much
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Adobe did a survey and in total we check email 5.6 hours a day. Holy crap this is crazy. I just checked Screen Time on my phone and my 7 day total is 5 minutes. Now my phone is not my main computing device. Checking in with my iPad I have a total of 3…
On tracking sleep
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Someone got obsessed with tracking sleep and this is generally a good thing. I have a Fitbit Flex 2 which does sleep tracking and most of the time it’s pretty great. Occasionally it’s obviously wrong but overall it lets me know when I’m not getting enough sleep. Sleep is so important to being awesome and…
Another possible reason to move away from Apple
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I heard about this from Doug. Evidently Apple has a software kill switch that’s currently off built into their machines. So it could go like this, you upgrade your RAM but since you don’t have the Apple software configuration thing, your machine doesn’t work anymore. So System76 anyone? It’s certainly what I’m leaning towards for…
Experts are willing to say “I don’t know”
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I was listening to The Tim Ferriss Show on my morning run and the interview with Howard Marks continually made me think of how often we get over confident when we talk to clients. We do this because we want to win the work, but are we doing them a disservice? What should we be…
Unread the RSS client for iOS has things to love and still things that are missing for power users
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Quite a while ago I found Unread, based on the recommendation of The Sweet Setup. It quickly became the reading experience by which I judged all other reading experiences. Where Instapaper and Pocket had once looked beautiful, they now feel like they lack in their typography and design. Unread is not all daisies and roses…
Paul Jarvis on Being “known”
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I feel some of this as I write across multiple topics. I’ve been told many times that I need to stick to a tighter lane of content, but I’m interested in so many things and they all come together to make the business/freelance content be what it is for you readers that come for it.…
iOS and Citations
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While I love being iOS first, there are often some silly workarounds still. I’ve got one for my YouTube workflow that you’ll see in a week or so. Here is a bit of a silly workaround if you’re trying to reference sources properly for academic writing. I say silly, because you have to do the…
So you’ve got “green dots” in Yoast
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My friend John takes a look at the real meaning of the green dots in Yoast SEO. It’s a good run down of what it means. SEO is a bit of a black art to me. John occasionally sends me an email to tell me what I should be doing better than I am, for…
Cory Miller on the Power of Smiles
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Cory says smiles are free and in his words: I could feel the warmth, the acceptance, the recognition back to me. Little pings from one human to another. And it felt … good. Really good. The light of others humans signaling to me and a resonating glow turned on inside of me. I try to…
Shawn Blanc on Overwhelm
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, then perhaps you feel as though you have been given too much. In fact, you’ve been given so much that you’re to the point of feeling buried and drown beneath a huge mass of stuff — from urgent issues, undone tasks, incoming requests of your time and energy, and more. And…
