Month: May 2020

  • The Business Challenges Of Tomorrow Are Here Today

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    The future is an abstract concept. If you want to be irritating you can argue that we are both [always and never in the future](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/14/carlo-rovelli-exploding-commonsense-notions-order-of-time-interview) because the future can be tomorrow or even a second from right now. We can never catch up with tomorrow and that’s something that businesses need to learn. Ultimately, you…

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    The Inconvenient Indian

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    The title of _The Inconvenient Indian_ by Thomas King speaks well of the views that North American’s have had, and continue to have about the First Nations that live next to us and with us. They’re inconvenient because they don’t conform to what colonial thought has brought us up to believe. King uses his unique…

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  • Two Types of Readers – The Collector and The Connector Friday Notes 104

    Two Types of Readers – The Collector and The Connector Friday Notes 104

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    Lately I’ve been digging into a new research management application called [Obsidian](https://obsidian). No I don’t plan on leaving DEVONthink, I’m just going to use one to store research and one to keep track of my thoughts on those research items. I’ve been thinking though, that there are two types of note takers. ### Type One:…

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  • Batch Process Images With Shortcuts and Affinity Photo

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    Shortcuts, Affinity Photo and Bulk Processing I work with a bunch of screenshots and photos for my reviews because in addition to doing a video to go with an application or piece of hardware I write a blog post to go with it. Today I’m going to show you how I batch process images with…

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  • Fiery Feeds Review

    Fiery Feeds Review

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    The other RSS clients I’ve looked at so far have followed a standard function. Add your feed service to them and then read your feeds. Here Fiery feeds breaks that mold by not only showing the articles from the feeds you subscribe to, but also showing things that those feeds may be linking it. Let’s…

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  • Acknowledge Fault to Save Your Mistakes – Friday Notes 103

    Acknowledge Fault to Save Your Mistakes – Friday Notes 103

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    > Acknowledgement of fault is powerful. It shows empathy, a willingness to own the problem, and a desire to then fix it. Company of One Page 119 ([Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781328972354?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/3cU6R8B)) If you’re going to run your own business, you’re going to make mistakes. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been running that business, you’re…

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  • Stay at Home Book Haul

    Stay at Home Book Haul

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    It’s been a while since I’ve done a book haul, mainly because my local used bookstore was closed for a bit and I’ve stopped buying much from Amazon. Well The Bookman reopened recently and they got to my list of books and had a bunch in stock. Today is that list. – Stargirl: [Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440416777?aff=curtismchale)…

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  • Trackpad or Mouse for Your iPad

    Trackpad or Mouse for Your iPad

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    With iPadOS 13.4 out for a while we’ve had enough experience using the newly enabled trackpad to have a preference between a mouse or a trackpad for iPadOS. Both devices will get the new magnetic cursor found in the operating system as long as the application you’re in supports it. If the application was built…

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  • DEVONthink as a Read It Later Service

    DEVONthink as a Read It Later Service

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    While there aren’t as many options as in a service to save full text for reading later as there are in RSS sync services, you’ve still got a few. For those of us on the Apple platform you can use their built in Read It Later system which syncs between your devices. For multi-platform/os options…

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  • What’s New in Obsidian 0.5.2

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    Quick tour of the new features in Obsidian 0.5.2

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