Category: Links of Interest
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…
The Customer Doesn’t Care About Your Costs
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If you’ve been wondering about selling yourself on value, here is a great video from Jonathan Stark. Just like Jonathan, I don’t think that saying you live in a high cost of living area is part of the conversation. In fact, the customer doesn’t care at all about your costs, the only thing they care…
You Can’t Control Passion
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Two good quotes out of my reading today as I worked through Company of One by Paul Jarvis: Passion and courage are almost impossible to control and can easily leave you feeling bad about yourself. It’s far easier to simply work at getting really good at something in demand, discovering how these skills can be…
hPDA and My Field Notes
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Joe Buhlig has a short post about the awesome uses for his Hipster PDA. I still carry around my Field Notes book, though I don’t use it as much as I once did. I’m more likely to put my bag down and pull out my Bullet Journal.
Eating Meat Versus Environmental Impact and Nutrients in Our Bodies
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A little while ago I shared an article on The Impact of Eating on Our Planet. It basically said that meat is not great for the environment because it takes lots of land to produce, but going vegetarian is not quite the answer either because clearing land for farming removes forest and peatland that sequester…
Experienced Developers Just Google Better
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Love this post from Sophie. In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience I’ve long maintained that after 10-years coding I…
Justin Jackson Doesn’t Have the Time or Money to Change Behaviour
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From Justin: The goal of bootstrapping is not to change the way people behave. I liked this article on some of the motivation differences between bootstrapping and VC funding. I’d wager that there are more people that end up successful out of bootstrapping. No not in the make a billion dollars and start a space…