Category: Links of Interest
Just a few of the screwed up things Facebook has done
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In Mother Jones, yup that’s an Apple News link sorry: ► Facebook’s security chief investigated, as early as the summer of 2016, how the platform was being manipulated by Putin’s minions. Yet as late as April 2017, Facebook still downplayed and scrubbed his analysis of what the Russians had done ► Likewise, Sri Lanka begged…
Diamond Mine or Coal Mine?
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This is a great video from Matt D’Avella as he interviews Greg McKeown about essentialism. My favourite part comes near the end as he talks about a coal mine vs a diamond mine and our need to recognize which one we live in.
Why Freelancer’s “help out” bad clients
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From Pre-suasion: Several decades worth of research shows that, in general, the more someone needs our help, the more obligated we feel to provide it, the more guilty we feel if we don’t provide it, and the more likely we are to provide it. The best way I’ve found to break this is to have…
140 Characters doesn’t leave much room for kindness
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From Ryan Holiday: As we’ve become more polarized and more algorithmically sorted, we care a lot less about the people who think differently than us and put little effort into persuading them. That’s because persuasion is no longer the goal—it’s signaling. And with signaling, it’s vehemence that matters, not quality. Holiday goes on to talk…
A Vim writing workflow
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Seems to be a day for writing workflows. Here is one based on Vim. The most interesting part is flashbake which takes his plain text work and checks it into a Git repository every 15 minutes. For everything there is to love about Ulysses, I do love Vim and I do like the idea of…
The iPad Blogging Workflow of Shawn Blanc
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You can read the whole thing here. The coolest thing I found is a “pro tip”… First, highlight the text you want to send into Ulysses, but don’t share from the little pop-up menu that appears after you highlight the text. Instead, go to the main Safari Share button and share the whole page URL.…
We find happiness in…
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What Technology Wants: We don’t find happiness in more gadgets and experiences. So do find happiness in having some control of our time and work, a chance for real leisure, in the escape from the uncertainties of war, poverty, and corruption, and a chance to pursue individual freedoms — all of which come with increased…
The Starving Luminary
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From Stand Out: Unfortunately, for many aspiring thought leaders seeking to make a living from their work, it would be easy to devote all their time to writing free online article, helping others termendously, and building a powerful reputation — all while starving. Yup, there have been times in the last 12 months where I’m…
Forget Business Cards, Go for Depth
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From Stand Out: Do you have enough people in your professional life who really know you? The bias in most discussions about networking is toward meeting more people, going to more cocktail parties, and trading more business cards. But sometimes depth can be as important, if not more so, than breadth. I hate networking. Those…
Critique is easy, creating is hard
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From Justin: Creating something, and releasing it to the public, is hard. Producing a quality product takes a long time. Plus, there are years of experience and practice that have to happen beforehand. Do you know what’s easy? Critique. Putting someone down. Tearing something apart. It only takes a few keystrokes to say “this sucks.”…