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Month: May 2020
Books I’m Not Finishing In 2020
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Yes I read a bunch, but I don’t finish every book I read. In fact this year I’ve decided to put down books faster instead of muscling through them because there will some grain in them that makes the whole endeavour worthwhile. Today I’m going to talk about the books I decided not to finish…
Setting the Context for Productivity
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Like many people now, I work at home but unlike the vast amount of workers that made this change in the last few months I’ve been doing it for 10 years. As I’ve read many of the articles about tips for working from home they all seem idealized to the point of non-viability. Yes it’s…
The Full-Stack Freelancer Can Deep Work
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In Tiago Forte’s article, [The Rise of the Full-Stack Freelancer](https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-rise-of-the-full-stack-freelancer/), I think he makes an error when it comes to deep work. > It’s trendy now to proclaim the universal superiority of “deep work.” We’re advised to lock out all distractions and interruptions, fixate completely on one project at a time, and optimize for long,…
Is Reeder 4 the Best iPadOS RSS Client?
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Today my journey to look at RSS clients means we’re stopping with Reeder, which was my go to RSS client for a while back in Reeder 3 days[^1]. One of the biggest features that puts Reeder above other options is it’s integration with services not of the RSS variety. Specifically if you use Instapaper, Pocket,…
Two Starting Points for Fatherhood
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I just finished editing a piece on how despite knowing I wanted to be a father since my late teens, I didn’t fall in love with my children right away. I stood there holding my first kid and felt nothing outside of what I generally feel about babies. They’re cute and I like snuggling them.…
11 Or 12.9 iPad Pro?
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[Ryan Christoffel did an experiment using both the 11” and 12.9” iPad Pro to see which one was the “best” size](https://www.macstories.net/stories/my-11-inch-ipad-pro-experiment/). To me the split view experience sounds pretty much as good between both devices. He doesn’t like the lack of 3-column views in some apps on the 11” iPad Pro, but I rarely use…
Things Cal Newport Missed in So Good They Can’t Ignore You
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Back in 2017 I read So Good They Can’t Ignore you for the first time. Well 2019 and 2020 have been a season of purchasing some of my favourite digital books in physical form and then reading them again and today’s book is So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Instead of a review/summary of the…
Discussions Must Have the Same Foundation to be Fruitful – Friday Notes 101
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> When feelings mater more than rationality or facts education is a doomed enterprise. Emotion is an unassailable defence against expertise, a moat of anger and resentment in which reason and knowledge quickly drown.[^1]. Do you think that 5G cell towers are going to cause cancer and many other maladies? What about WIFI making your…
Inspecting Web Pages With iPadOS
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When I started making my iPad my main computer one big hurdle was inspecting the source code on web pages. Yes iCab had an option, but it was janky and barely worked. Then I looked at WebTools, which was leaps and bounds better but still wasn’t great. Today I’m going to talk a bit about…
NetNewsWire for iOS and macOS Review
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When I started with a Mac around 10 years ago one of the first things I needed to find was a good RSS client and the top one at the time was clearly [NetNewsWire](https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/). Over the years it changed hands, and didn’t get updates, and changed hands, and generally wasn’t a great option anymore. Fortunately…
