Category: Links of Interest
I Live on the “Soft” End of Town
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I like that I can answer yes to [every single one of these questions](https://www.fastcompany.com/90394171/do-you-live-in-a-soft-city-heres-why-you-probably-want-to): > Imagine yourself sitting in your home. What’s right outside your front door, and what’s within a 10-minute walk of it? Can you make it to a grocery store or a café on foot, or do you have to drive? Is
Like a Fat Man Loosening His Belt to Prevent Obesity
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[I enjoyed the whole article on parking and housing but this line made me laugh out loud](https://noparkinghere.com/). > Lewis Mumford famously said “Building more roads to prevent congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity.” I did want a house with a yard, but the more I live close to downtown
Joe Buhlig Has Me Tempted to Look at OmniFocus Again
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Okay so [Joe has me tempted to look at OmniFocus](https://joebuhlig.com/inspiration-for-a-new-omnifocus-setup-and-workflow/) again, [despite](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/12/03/why-i-use-a-bullet-journal-instead-of-productivity-software/) my [love](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/05/21/how-i-modified-the-bullet-journal-system-to-run-my-online-business/) of notebooks and a modified [Bullet Journal](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/05/07/getting-started-with-bullet-journalling-for-web-developers/) system. Here’s the thing though, my system works for what my life is now so I’m not going to change it. That said, if I was to take a job somewhere or have some
Women Don’t Feel They Deserve Long Stretches of Alone Time Like Men Do
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[From Brigid Schulte in The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/21/woman-greatest-enemy-lack-of-time-themselves): > it’s not that women haven’t had the talent to make their mark in the world of ideas and art. They’ve never had the time. And > Feminist researchers have also found that many women don’t feel that they _deserve_ long stretches of time to themselves, the way men
An Hour of Free Play Is Like a Drop of Water in the Desert
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[An hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/childhood-suicide-depression-anxiety.html). > According to the psychologist Peter Gray, children today are more depressed than they were during the Great Depression and more anxious than they were at the height of the Cold War. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Abnormal
Medicine Is Family Friendly if You’re in the Right Field
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[So medicine is sort of family friendly, at least if you’re in the right field](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/upshot/medicine-family-friendly-profession-women.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share). > Medicine has become something of a stealth family-friendly profession, at a time when other professions are growing more greedy about employees’ time. Jobs increasingly require long, inflexible hours, and pay disproportionately more to people who work them. But if
I Promise I Don’t Check Social Media That Much
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[Mike Schmitz over at The Sweet Setup about a distraction free phone](https://thesweetsetup.com/the-distraction-free-phone/). > Looking back, it’s safe to say no one really knew what that “internet communications device” piece would morph into. At the time, there were no third-party apps and the App Store wouldn’t appear for another year after the original iPhone was released.
Matt Howie’s Tips for Working From Home
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I’ve worked remote or from home since 2009 which puts me at 10 years working from home. Most of that time my office was a shared space with my bedroom. For 2 years I rented an office in town that was just mine and for the last 10 months I’ve had a mostly dedicated[^1] room
Ryan Says: This Is My Working Sandbox of Thought and Personal Development
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[Ryan wrote about Automattic’s purchase of Tumblr](https://ryandsullivan.com/automattic-bought-tumblr-and-thats-a-good-thing/). Here is the main point that stuck out to me. > GeoCities is always a running joke around the internet, but I’d love to see us return to a place where “this is my working sandbox of thought and personal development” is more widely accepted. This is what
Chris on His Move Away From WordPress to Hugo
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[My friend Chris talked about his move off of WordPress after 10 years](https://chriswiegman.com/2019/08/its-time-for-a-new-site/). > Simple fact is, I still love WordPress and make my living with it but it simply isn’t the best tool for every job. Since the release of WordPress 5.0 I’ve found actually writing content in WordPress to be a tedious and