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Month: June 2019
Freelance Friday 060 – June 28
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So I’ll be on vacation Monday and you won’t see anything from me except Monday’s post which is already good to go. In fact, you probably won’t see anything the week after either because I usually do it the week before. No, I’m not going to rush through things, I’m just going to take a…
Long-Form Content Only?
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From Mark Manson: Long form content should be your bread and butter for news content and the majority of your entertainment content. Long-form content means any medium—Books, Podcasts, long-form articles, documentaries—the key is that shit takes a long time. I’ve been thinking more about this lately. Make my main consumption books and the papers, web…
Effort Is Not Accomplishment
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Out of this excellent post on hard work by DHH this was my favourite quote. Effort is not accomplishment. If you repeat the same lesson a hundred times over, you’ll be left behind on the path to insight by the person who advances through a hundred different lessons.
How Introverts Live With the Extrovert Ideal
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There is a difference between being introverted and being shy according to Susan Cain, author of Quiet. Shy people are afraid of speaking up and introverts feel overstimulated and need downtime[^Page 13]. There’s an even bigger distinction between extroverts and introverts and it’s not just how they prefer to spend their time. The big difference…
Capturing Content in DEVONthink to Go
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Today we’re starting a bit of a series on DEVONthink 3 and DEVONthink To Go. These are the macOS and iOS/iPadOS versions of the research software from DEVONtechnologies and they’re my research storage app of choice. Today we’ll tackle all the ways to get content in to DEVONthink To Go, in a future post we’ll…
The Secret Formula to Getting More Done in Less Time
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If you work for yourself either as a sole trader or running a small business, you might regularly find that your to-do list is several pages long. You might also find that throughout your days as you cross a job off the list, three more are added as other jobs crop up, emails and calls…
Freelance Friday 059 – June 21
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Okay, I totally missed last week and I knew it and thought about rushing out the post/email and opted out of it. So your inboxes got a week long break. Since then I’ve had some biggish changes around here. I’ve got a Statamic site up and running as a demo because I’m super tired of…
They’re Just Ecouraging – They Don’t Care About Your Idea
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From Scott in regards to your friends saying good things about your products: The problem is that your friends are lying to you. They don’t actually care about your idea, they are just trying to be encouraging. While this type of feedback is well intentioned, it tells you nothing about whether there is actually a…
The Busy Humblebrag
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As always James Shelly writes well, this time about being busy. Few excerpts, and yes I grabbed copies of most of the papers cited. Thorstein Veblen proposed in 1899 that wealthy elites flaunt their leisure time as a class and status symbol. Leisure, he summarised, was less about relaxing and more about demonstrating the ability…
Why Do We Assume It Has to Be Crazy at Work?
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The title of this post is the central question that Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson are trying to answer in their book It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work. Here is the two primary reasons they think that work has gotten so crazy. There are two primary reasons: (1) The workday is being…
