Category: Links of Interest
Adults Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
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Remembering the crazy predictions about a Rage Against the Machine concert, the author comes to a realization. It was the first time in my life I realized adults don’t know what they’re talking about. It was an important night. This is similar to a question I ask myself often, what do I believe now that…
What Does Time Well Spent Mean to You?
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From Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Define what “time well spent” means to you: sit down, and think about what really makes you happy and gets you in the flow, without overthinking about how feasible the final outcome would be. Just think of your output and how it makes you feel to work on producing it. Maybe…
Metaphorically Feeling Punched
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From Justin Jackson: I’m fortunate that I had people in my life who noticed I was in a negative tailspin and gently nudged me to take action. I’ve been wondering what’s up with myself lately (more on that in a future article). With that sentence above…I wonder if I have the answer. Am I harbouring…
We Might Actually Desire Slowness
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From Rainesford Stauffer in NY Times: The idea that young people like me are always on the go, always in transition and always on masks that we might actually desire slowness, want to relish an experience, or enjoy taking a moment to feel comfortable and human instead of curated and optimized. I read this article…
Running and Mental Health
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Powerful video with three women talking about how running has helped them with mental health. They’re going to talk about childhood trauma, body image issues and eating disorders. If that’s going to bother you, maybe don’t watch. I particularly enjoyed the idea of substituting your bad addicitions for something good. That’s what James Clear talked…
Personality Traits Are More Complex in Complex Societies
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So the short version of this is that the “big 5” personality traits aren’t as universal as we thought. It’s also good to remember this as we look at the importance of context in behaviour and grit. In Range we learned that you may be very gritty, in things you care about and not gritty…
An Apple Watch Argument I Could Go For
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Frank on not running with an Apple Watch. Buying things is more fun than running, which is why I convinced myself that an Apple Watch was the perfect inspiration to get back into my trainers. It is now a few months on–I’m still not running regularly, but the watch provided a different and unexpected benefit.…
If WordPress.org Died?
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Tammy brings up a great question regarding wordpress.org and Automattic killing it. Yes, they can’t really kill the GPL CMS, but what if. Me, I’d go with Statamic. Funny that’s what runs the site already. I picked a paid commercial, not open source CMS because I enjoyed Jack’s personality. I ended up finding WP people…
If You Had Nothing to Hide, Why Is Everyone Trying to Get Your Data?
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From Carissa Véliz on Aeon: You might think your privacy is safe because you are a nobody – nothing special, interesting or important to see here. Don’t shortchange yourself. If you weren’t that important, businesses and governments wouldn’t be going to so much trouble to spy on you. This one in particular gets me as…
Priorities in Life Are Like an EQ
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This was a great video from Chris Baca about leaning into the pain. His analogy of an EQ for the different aspects of your life made me think about where my EQ is right now. Currently it would be heavily weighted towards being a dad because that’s how life goes. That means I need to…