Category: Links of Interest
Smartphones May Decrease Accessibility
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Getting back home to Spain required a Covid form with a QR code. The airline employee at the Newark check-in counter seemed baffled by my not having a smartphone and told me in a conclusive tone that the QR-coded form is required, despite my proof of vaccination. I started to panic and said, “So, everyone…
The Color of Law in Real Life – Housing Pricing Racism
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I recently talked about The Color of Law and today someone pointed out the real effects of racial discrimination in housing by sharing the video below in my Discord Channel. Can’t say I am surprised it happened. It shouldn’t be happening anywhere in the world, but I have no doubt it happens in Canada as…
Don’t Go Entirely Paperless
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Jamie talks about one of the issues with buying into any system, going overboard. When I was going paperless with Evernote, my experiment was to see if I could go completely paperless, so everything went into Evernote. But I found that 80% of the paper I scanned I never looked at again, even years later.…
Why Problems Are Easier to Solve at Night
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Jamie says problem solving seems easier at night and he’s right. In part this is because our default mode network gets to engage at night and it only engages when we are doing nothing in particular that requires focus. We’re so busy today that the only time we don’t have some podcast playing, or music,…
Not Excited about the iPad Anymore
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Matt has a good video questioning the excitement around the iPad now. I’ve moved to Final Cut Pro from LumaFusion recently so my iPad usage has dropped in the last 3 months. If Final Cut and all the assets were available on iPad then I’d be using my iPad still instead of macOS. I still…
Matt on The Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Social media especially convinces everyone that they are an expert in a subject immediately. It’s amazing how I follow the same people, but that group is an expert in the auto industry when there are Apple car rumors, epidemiologists when there’s a public health crisis, and a payments expert when there’s App Store rule news.…
Unpopular Economic Policy is Enforced with Violence
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I was recently reading The Shock Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and it said that when your economic policy is highly unpopular with the middle and lower income brackets of society the only enforcement you can do is via violence. Unlike the wealthy they only recourse they have is to strike and demonstrate…
You Must Read to Write
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I absolutely agree with Greg, to write and create you must read. One of the things I’ve “struggled” with this year is reading books. Well that’s not entirely true, I’ve struggled to read non-fiction books at my regular pace. In total this year I’ve read 63 books this year and 27 of them have been…
Barriers Clarify
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In the same way someone who wants to lose weight might hide the sweet treats, I am putting my weakness behind as much of a hurdle as I can. Greg Morris One of the reasons I love Analogue Productivity is that your notebook defaults to no. It’s not going to move tasks forward for you.…
Matt takes a long term look at the price of oil
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My point here is not to prove that inflation isn’t a thing or that I’m an expert on the oil markets, my point is simply to point out that we should all be careful with how we interpret the data put in front of us. Matt brings up a good point about how we look…