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Month: November 2019
Notifications Slice Into the Family Cocoon
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Although the barrier between work and the-rest-of-life has been eroding steadily, it’s taken the smartphone to shatter it altogether. Her incessant buzzing — Check me! Check me! It just might be important! — slices into our family cocoon. – For Better or for Work I’m starting to do research into a new book project and…
Friday Notes 081 – November 29 2019
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This week started off awesome, then I was down on the couch sick all Tuesday. No video was recorded. I wrote for about 50 minutes and spent 20 minutes deploying a client site, then laced on the couch and tried to sleep. Luckily I was only tired on Wednesday not sick, so back to a…
Every Time I Open WordPress I Feel a Bit More Dead Inside
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If you have any Yoast product and signed into the WordPress admin in the last few days I’m sure you know that they were having a Black Friday sale. How do you know this…because they added a stupid huge banner to your site that told you on every page. Are you kidding me @yoast? An…
Performance Reviews Kill Culture
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From Farnam Street on performance reviews killing culture. The problem is that ranking someone against their peers is not the ranking that matters and is counterproductive in terms of building an exceptional corporate culture. Makes me think of what I read this morning in Leaders Eat Last about it not being the people that are…
Automation Isn’t Good or Bad
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CJ Chilvers on automation. Automations aren’t good or bad. They’re a powerful tool that can make your life more livable, or take the life out of life. I’ve automated parts of my Friday newsletter like collecting all the links I post in the week and putting them in the newsletter. I haven’t automated commenting about…
It’s Not the People That Are the Problem It’s the Environment
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What too many leaders of organizations fail to appreciate is that it’s not the people that are the problem. The people are fine. Rather, it’s the environment in which the people operate that is the problem. Got that right and things just go – Leaders Eat Last Page 97 I think that the biggest problem…
Achieving Stillness in the Turmoil of Life With Ryan Holiday
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To be steady while the world spins around you. To act without frenzy. To hear only what needs to be heard. To posses quietude — interior and exterior — on command. 1 Early in Stillness is the Key Holiday introduces us to his end goal of the book in the quote above. He wants to…
Notebook Reading Chart
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Nice reading chart from Jamie Todd Rubin. Tempted to build one into my notebooks somehow, I do go through two notebooks a year with my reading notes so I’d have a transfer it all the time.
Staycation Means Errands
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CJ Chilvers says go camping. It’s totally OK to do nothing. Your life could use a pause button. But even on vacation, we feel the need to run errand after errand to keep family and/or friends happy. That’s not needed with camping. You’re expected to hang out on a hammock for a few hours, getting…
Automating Tasks and Projects in Things iPadOS
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In early 2018 Cultured Code added excellent URL Scheme support to Things 3 and while we have new functionality in Shortcuts that may make URL Schemes obsolete, that’s not the case currently if you want to automatically build projects in Things. Today I’m going to walk you through a bunch of the automations I have…
