Category: Links of Interest
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
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.