Month: August 2020
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
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A well-designed life is a life that is generative — it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always the possibility of surprise.1 We all want a life that fulfills us. One that we wake up and greet with joy. One that challenges us and allows us to use our talents to their…
Find Glyphs on macOS with Glyphfinder
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One of the things I have to do regularly as I write is find the proper glyph for ⌥ or ⌃ or ⎋, which is actually fairly time consuming. Today I’m going to show off an application that helps you find glyphs faster on your Mac called Glyphfinder. ## Links – [Setapp](https://go.setapp.com/invite/curtis3) – [Glyphfinder](https://www.glyphfinder.com )…
TickTick Quick Add Syntax
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When you’ve got stuff to do it’s important that you can get tasks into your task manager quickly. In today’s video we’re going to look at the Quick Add Syntax that is available in TickTick. By learning the quick add syntax you can speed up writing your tasks down so you can get back to…
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Starting late in 2019 I realized that I had read little by people of colour and didn’t understand racism at all. I didn’t understand how First Nations in Canada had been treated. I didn’t know much about slavery, or how many paragons of white history were pretty terrible people. I’ve done some reading to expand…
Your Habit Should Be to Work – Friday Notes 112
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> …when your habit is to work steadily, a day when you fall behind isn’t fatal – [Rest](https://amzn.to/2DBJqUO) I get told all the time that people have no idea how I write for a bunch of other sites and then publish books and coach and do client development work. There is no secret. I get…
Atomic Tasks Help You Get More Done
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One big issue that most people have with their tasks lists is that many of the items are not actionable on the list. If you have to return something to Amazon you write down “Return covers to Amazon”, which is a project not a task. That single thing you wrote down has 9 things to…
Build A Content Calendar with TickTick
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A while ago I showed off my [content calendar in Notion](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/04/20/build-a-content-calendar-in-notion). Even in that video you could see some of the cracks showing in what I was getting out of Notion. The iPad application doesn’t support a trackpad properly, and it’s slow…oh so slow. Today I’m going to show you my replacement content calendar built…
The Dent: Why Not Just Get a Mac
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From [The Dent](https://andynicolaides.micro.blog/2019/06/15/063700.html): > What a lot of non-iPad users seem to not understand / appreciate is that those hoops they think we jump through to shoehorn an iPad into our workflow are not hoops at all. Just as switching from DOS to a GUI interface back in the day would have required you to…
