Category: Links of Interest
From a 55 Book Lifetime to a 1000 Book Lifetime
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Over breakfast this morning I finally watched this video that’s been in my YouTube queue for at least months. [It’s all about bookstores and what it takes to move from a 55/book lifetime to a 1000/book lifetime](https://youtu.be/lIW5jBrrsS0). Really to go from 55 to 1000 all you have to do is put aside 30 minutes a…
My Weekend Isn’t as Free as I Thought It Was
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[Katrina Onstad writing for The Guardian talking about how weekends are not a thing anymore](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/06/who-killed-the-weekend). In her mind part of it is the patchwork of jobs that is the gig economy and part is your device as you read this, or her article. > The other culprit is the thing in your hand that you…
Using Your Phone Means You’re Not Taking a Break
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[Interesting story about how using your phone during a break means you’re not taking a break](https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2019/08/your-brain-doesnt-recharge-if-you-use-your-phone-break/159330/). > The participants who took phone breaks experienced the highest levels of mental depletion and were among the least capable of solving the puzzles afterwards. Their post-break efficiency and quickness was comparable to those with no break. Their number…
Don’t Just Focus on Profit Margin
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[Justin Jackson wrote a good post centreing around profit margin](https://justinjackson.ca/margin) but I think he missed, or only barely grazed another type of margin that is key to having a good business. Plan old margin with your time. Yes some of the time space/margin/slack comes because you have a profitable business with good margin. That means…
Ryan Holiday on Reading Hard Books
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I’m adjusting a bit of how I read this year. More biographies in the midst of my non-fiction. I’m hoping to start reading “above my level” so that I have to work at things to understand them. [Lucky for me Ryan Holiday just published a good guide on how to do just that](https://ryanholiday.net/read-to-lead/).
Female Bullet Journal Data Nerd
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[For the Bullet Journal Data Nerds this was a great video](https://youtu.be/XAw1jAk8ofA), specifically for the ladies as she talks about how she tracks her cycle and hormones in her Bullet Journal.
Is Wifi Harming Our Children?
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I write this today because of a conversation last night I had with a very fervent parent claiming that Wifi was bad for children’s organs. Her main point was that some schools in [Europe banned Wifi because of the possible adverse health effects on children](https://www.wirelesseducation.org/1073-2/). So of course I went and found the research they…
Joe on How He Keeps Up With His Writing Goal
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[Joe has a good post on how he keeps writing](https://joebuhlig.com/the-tricks-i-use-to-develop-a-writing-habit/), and the struggles he had in it. For him a piece of software, Ulysses, worked to help him track stats and keep on his goal of writing. I schedule time for “production” daily after I read for an hour I have an hour to produce…
Fairly Minimal Bullet Journal Setup
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[Nice fairly minimal Bullet Journal setup](https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZK5VUuxGYr0). I’ve been using a Bullet Journal setup for about 3 years, though I do use Things 3 a bit as well. I’ll be trying out dropping Things from my system and going only with the notebook. My biggest hurdle with that has always been “template” projects like uploading a…
How Joe Is Changing His Podcast For 2020
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Enjoyed this video from Joe on what he’s going to be doing this year. I like how he looked at the popular episodes and tweaked what he’s doing based on that information. Cynthia and I have talked a bunch about how to evaluate what I’m doing as “side” projects so that they have a higher…