Category: Links of Interest
Make Everyone Happy
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Social media makes it easy to be both dissatisfied and to have a mission at the same time: Make everyone happy. – Never smooth enough — a modern addiction Timely as I’ve been doing a bit of this lately. Trying to make people that don’t matter happy. Going to stop.
Are You Interested In Documenting
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Another good one today on Medium, this time about documenting the struggles we have on the way to success. Do you read more people that talk about the struggles or show off success all the time? One is a highlight reel you can’t ever compare your real life to. The other is someone on the…
Creating Running and Writing
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Ryan Holiday has a nice post on writing and running. I write and I run. I code and I run. Sometimes I run then code and run again. There is just something about being out there under your own power with a pair of shoes and some water that frees the mind for me. What do…
Minimalist Bullet Journal
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I love my Bullet Journal and I’ll be writing about it a bunch in February. I’ll be covering my whole personal productivity and task management workflow in fact. Anyway, this is a great video looking at a fairly minimal Bullet Journal. One without a whole bunch of art all over that I’ll never come close…
Fighter Pilots, Decision Making and The OODA Loop
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I’m going to harp on the only skill that a freelancer needs that will stay useful is good decision making. To that end, you need to go read this excellence article on the OODA loop at Farnam Street. I need to write about this at length to make sure that I’ve solidified my learning on…
How I Use NO To Win More Work
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In late 2017 I spoke at the WooCommerce Developers Conference and now I’ve written a blog post for them on the same ideas. It even includes a video of the talk, which I haven’t watched again because it always feels painful to watch myself talk.
Overwork is NOT A Badge of Pride
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Overwork has become the norm in many companies – something expected and even admired. Everything we do outside the office – no matter how rewarding – is quietly denigrated. Relaxation, hobbies, raising children or reading a book are dismissed as laziness. That’s how powerful the mythology of work is. – Do you work more than…
GTD Primer from Evernote
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I don’t quite do Getting Things Done, but it’s close. The biggest thing I take exception with is writing down all the crap in your head. So much of it doesn’t matter and then you end up carting it around. This is how many people git to 55 projects with 4000 tasks that they never…
You Do You, I’ll Do Me
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When you see to improve yourself as a leader by following the popular approach of trying to adopt certain personality traits or even mimic leadership styles of successful leaders, you’re heading out on a divergent path away from the outcome you’re actually seeking. That’s because transferring an attribute like “charisma” from one person to yourself…
Better Defaults with @chrisbowler
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As they say regarding productivity, create better defaults. Add friction to distracting activities. Make it easy to start the tasks that matter. Soon, habits will form. – Better Defaults Regarding email first thing, I took it off my phone so I can’t check it. I also don’t check email until after I’ve done my big…
