Category: Links of Interest
The Busy Humblebrag
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As always James Shelly writes well, this time about being busy. Few excerpts, and yes I grabbed copies of most of the papers cited. Thorstein Veblen proposed in 1899 that wealthy elites flaunt their leisure time as a class and status symbol. Leisure, he summarised, was less about relaxing and more about demonstrating the ability…
Scott on Why Products Fail
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Great post from Scott on his new product blog. I particularly liked these parts. We only hear about the successes, and the founders make up some narrative about why they made it that is full of survivorship bias. Reading about why Facebook succeeded is not that helpful to someone starting out today. Almost all of…
Best Long Term Research App
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If you’ve been wondering I spent like 30 hours digging through apps and deciding which one was the best and under what situations it was the best. Well you can read all about the best Evernote replacement on The Sweet Setup.
Most of My Notebooks
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Jamie shared a photo of his notebooks so here are the two images of mine that make up the backlog of older notebooks. One day I’m looking forward to the stacks that Austin Kleon has. You may wonder why. A few months back Jason and I were talking about notebooks and he was fascinated by…
Extra Complexity Everywhere
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I’m very much looking forward to the rest of what Jamie will write about…writing. Today’s start is a good rumination on writing getting so much more complex. I’m going through some issues around this right now as well as I try to get out of software lock-in so that I can have as open a…
School Start Times Say We Don’t Care about Kid’s Education
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I heard this first in When, but here is another article talking about how we have early start school times and they’re not the best for kid’s learning. American teenagers are chronically sleep-deprived. As children enter puberty, physiological changes delay the onset of sleep and make it more difficult to wake up early in the…
I Only Work Part-Time
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Like the author, I really only work part-time though I’ve managed to figure out how to earn a full-time income on maybe more than 30 hours a week. The reason a lot of people work full-time – though they’d rather not – is obvious: part-time jobs as they exist today are often pretty crappy, low-paid,…
On the Lie of Adtech
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Adtech Sucks: Bunch of great quotes here on Adtech and the push to inflate your resume with “budgets” instead of the cost of conversions. I think a key motivation for many workers is their resume. Nowhere is this truer than in marketing. So ask yourself, what campaigns look good on a front-line campaign manager’s resume?…
Your iPhone May Not Be as Private as You Think
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From Fast Company, who says that there are a bunch of apps that are regularly phoning home because the free or $.99 you paid for them wouldn’t support their development unless they sell your information anyway. This is why I don’t question the prices I pay for my software even on iOS. I want he…
A Few iPadOS Articles
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I look in my feed reader and there are a few articles worth taking a look at for those of us that are iPad first. MacStories: Hands-On with iPadOS and iOS 13 MacStories: Safari on iPadOS is Living Up to the Hype Rocket Panda: Why iOS 13 Made the iPad Home Screen Fun Again The…