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Month: October 2019
Porcelain Dolls on the Sidewalk Crying
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From You Are Awesome, which I finished this morning. Not many of us have been through famines or wars or, lets be honest, any form of true scarcity. We have it all. And the side effect is that we no longer have the tools to handle failure or even perceived failure. These days when we…
Best Handbrake Settings
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I’ve been working on setting up a Plex server, and of course wondered about the best way to encode my videos for said Plex. Clearly smallest file size possible with highest visual quality. I’ve tested about 10 settings and these directions are giving me the best results
Abandon Your Email Address
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Love this idea of abandoning your old email, but I do wonder how practical it is for business people? Sure if you don’t need money, then ignore everything that comes in. Then never give this new private email to anyone except dear friends and family. Let your old Gmail collect the junk. The people you…
It’s a Good Thing That Everything Isn’t Easy
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From the upcoming book by Neil Pasricha called You Are Awesome. …the thing so often missing from the conversation around ambitions exceeding abilities is the fact that it’s a good thing. That’s what you want! Can you imagine if everything you did was easy? Page 136 Sure it may sound good on the surface to…
TouchType Pro iPad Pro Case Review
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Today we’re going to look at 2 things, that are kind of together because one requires the other. The first thing we’re going to review is the TouchType Pro iPad Pro case for my 12.9″ iPad Pro. The second thing we’re going to look at is the Apple Magic Keyboard as an iPad keyboard, mainly…
Friday Notes 075 – October 18 2019
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Canada finished celebrating Turkey Day last weekend, and we threw a family birthday for a new 9-year-old in the house. Brunch was had and we were eating cake around lunch time. That means it’s been a busy, but great week around the McHale house. To continue my email list only content let’s talk about being…
Playing Hooky From Commitments for Productivity
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This piece from Derek Sivers goes well with the one I just published from Justin Jackson, but back to Sivers: Some of my best, most productive, and enjoyable days have been while playing hooky. Not only is it okay to book “out of office” days to get work done like Jackson says, it’s totally fine…
Revealing Your Failures Helps Others
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From a study titled Mitigating Malicious Envy: People are reticent to reveal their failures–both as they are happening and after they have occurred. However, in two experiments, we find that revealing successes and the failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. What that means is, when…
Out of Office Because I’m Working
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Justin Jackson asks why we don’t say we’re out of office when we have a big project to work on. What would happen if you took time away from your daily grind and focused on your personal project? I did this one year while writing a book. I took every Monday and figured I wasn’t…
It’s Exhausting Thankless Work
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I would like to produce more educational resources for #consultants, #freelancers, and #agencyfounders, but my previous experience in that world makes me hesitant. It’s exhausting, thankless work & left me doubting I have anything to offer. Am I the only one? – @chris_hawk The question above is one I’ve heard before and let slide by,…
