Category: Links of Interest

  • Quiet Working Morning

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    I’ve been streaming working quietly lately as it helps me stay focused and I’m told it helps others who struggle working from home to feel like they’re in an office when they can hear my keyboard sounds or the few times I talk. Play them back, or join me life most Mondays at 0615 Pacific.

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  • Forgetting Tasks is a Vote on Their Importance

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    I regularly see people using a notebook for tasks saying that they forget to do things, important things. I’d ask if the task was important though if you forgot to do it. One of the forcing functions of Bullet Journal, or any paper based system, is that when a task feels way to hard to…

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  • Apple VisionPro – My Final Straw in Tech Enthusiasm

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    Of course the Apple goggles are a preposterously priced novelty looking for a customer base to validate their existence. Rob Horning I’ve read a few people that are excited about the Apple VisionPro, but a very few because I simply don’t care about it at all. Even with effort I tried to find videos or…

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  • The Deflection of Real Harms in Favour of Future Fake Ones

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    The AI industry has proven itself incredibly adept at deflecting interest from real harms to hypothetical ones, like the “risk” that the spicy autocomplete will become conscious and take over the world in order to convert us all to paperclips – Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs real AI harms In Number Go Up ,…

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  • Automattic WordPress.com and AI

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    I first saw the news from 404media that Automattic was going to start selling user content to AI companies looking for data. As with most media companies, 404 failed to make the distinction between Automattic/WordPress.com and WordPress.org the open source software. Then I read this post about protecting user choice from Automattic which is big…

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  • Wisecrack on Productivity

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    Excellent video summarizing Puritan Work Ethic and the economic system that pushes us to always optimize our lives and feel bad if we don’t. Also see Manufacturing Happy Citizens for more on these ideas.

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  • One Big Text File Sure Sounds like OrgMode

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    Reading through Ellane’s look at One Big Text File it seems to me that most of her issues could be solved with OrgMode. You can resurface notes on a set schedule with the Agenda feature. Events are simply headings with dates, and tasks get TODO added to the front of a heading. OrgMode is easy…

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  • macOS and 27″ 4k Screens

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    Matt’s quick tangent on 4k screens is right up my alley. Rewind a few years to when the Studio Display released and there was a very frustrating conversation at the time about what “real Mac users” demand from a display. There were countless podcasts and blog posts about how a 4K 27″ monitor may be…

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  • Apple is Speed Running Turning into a Trash Company

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    I’m sure someone reading this is going to say Apple has been trash for a while. I get it, you don’t like Apple, but I did up until last year. Today I read that Apple is putting another nail in their own coffin as they handicap progressive web apps (PWA) in the EU. The more…

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  • I Want to Talk About Things I Like

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    From Matt: I think one of the unexpected downsides of social media over the past couple decades is how much they have become dunk machines. Yeah, positive stuff can get some traction as well, but if you want to really get people buzzing and boost those engagement numbers, you’re way better off dunking like crazy…

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