Month: July 2019

  • The Revenge of Analog a Book Review

    The Revenge of Analog a Book Review

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    While my job is heavily involved in computers and technology, I love analogue things. I’ve even written a book about my own analogue productivity methods because I think they bring a more thoughtful approach to work than digital tools. To say I was interested in The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, was an understatement.…

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  • Elk, Thurston and Mercer

    Elk, Thurston and Mercer

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    In my continued quest to complete the Quest for 10 from Mt Waddington’s I tackled another route today. This is one I’ve done a few times, but it’s always been delightful. While you can head to Mercer from one of the 4WD roads and get within a few kilometres, I much prefer to head up…

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  • More Stuff is Being Produced so FOMO

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    From Doug Belshaw: Here’s an obvious point: there’s more people online now than there were ten years ago. As a result, there’s more stuff being produced and shared and, because of that, there’s more to miss out on. This is known as the Fear Of Missing Out (or FOMO). He lists a number of great…

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  • Fixing some things on my Statamic Site

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    While this wasn’t “live” here is a video of me working through some issues with my Statamic site so that I can get it read to launch and be my new main site.

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  • Freelance Friday 063 – July 26

    Freelance Friday 063 – July 26

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    We’re having one of our best weather weeks in a while here in Chilliwack. I got out on a nice run on Monday which took me all the way to the US border, where I met some friendly Americans. Then back up a mountain and to the car. If you’ve found my content helpful then…

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  • Reasons to Purchase Physical Books

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    I don’t love every item on this list, but overall I do read more physical books than Kindle books now. This wasn’t always the case, about 8 years ago I took almost every physical book I owned down to the local used bookstore and turned them in for credit. $400 in credit to be precise.…

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  • How Hard Is It to Be a Millenial?

    How Hard Is It to Be a Millenial?

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    It’s an oft-quoted trope to say that Millenials are lazy and they want everything even when they’re just starting out and have built no real experience behind their work. Tristan Harris is here to show the lie in much of that statement with his book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials.…

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  • The Obsession With Early Success

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    Your life and career were supposed to have a steady linear timeline. Finish high school, go to college, get your degree, land your first real job, get married, work hard, get noticed, move up steadily, buy a home, start a family, get promoted into management, make more money, and so on until you eventually retired…

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  • Monument 78 and Windy Joe

    Monument 78 and Windy Joe

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    Around this time of year for the last number of years our local outdoor shop, Mt Waddington’s runs a contest called the Quest for 10. Well, it’s sort of a contest. Mostly it’s a list of 10 hikes in the area that aren’t the main ones and you do them to get a chance to…

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  • Installing WordPress Plugins From the Command Line

    Installing WordPress Plugins From the Command Line

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    As I’ve been doing more and more with the command line being iPad first, I’ve needed to adapt some of my workflows. Previously if I needed a new WordPress plugin but wasn’t able to find it easily in the WordPress admin interface I’d head over to the WordPress.org Plugin repository to download it, then use…

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