Category: Links of Interest
No More Hacker News?
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Most site owners are happy to get any type of traffic. I remember having long arguments about why a client shouldn’t care about Stumbleupon traffic because all it did was increase their server load and never brought people that wanted to interact with your site long term. Well how about we take it a step
My Favourite Review of the M2 Air
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Unsurprisingly my favourite review of this new computer was written over at Daring Fireball. The M2 Air is not designed for rendering huge amounts of video. It’s not designed for those that have huge 3D modeling needs. It’s designed for my wife who does email, and occasionally needs to edit audio with minimal tracks under
How I Keep Creating
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My friend Chris asked how you keep writing. I don’t find this question hard. How do you keep doing anything you find valuable, you schedule time to do it. I keep writing by scheduling time to write almost every day of the week. There is no secret. Inspiration isn’t the key. Sit down and write
We Should Have Salary Transparency
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I think that salary transparency is important and the only reason companies could really want to hide it is to keep employees from knowing they get paid less. Especially women.
4 Tips to Plan Your Online Course
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One of the best things I did for my business in the last few years was to produce online courses. These few online courses increased my revenue by 4x over just going with basic AdSense on Youtube. In today’s video I’m going to talk about the first step in getting your online course off the
Stopping Selective Memory – You’re Not A Hero
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In The Shock Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein points out that Jeffery Sachs has a selective memory about his role in Russia’s economic meltdown and corruption after the collapse of the Soviet Union1. He remembers his contributions as all good, and he was stymied by the IMF and other organizations in
What about Lefties Lenovo?
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Okay this laptop does look neat and I love to see innovation but what about left handed people? It’s setup so you can use the stylus on the right side, but that doesn’t work for me and for many others. I don’t see the option listed, but I hope you can order it with the
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.
