Category: Links of Interest
Male Flight impacting post high school enrolment numbers
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From Celeste on the dropping enrolment of men in college: Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued. Dang, the mental gymnastics shown by the men to say anything but they’re simply misogynistic and don’t want to compete
Blog Questions 2024
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Jumping on Kev and Manuel, here are my answers. Why did you start blogging in the first place The oldest post here comes from 2008 when I thought I was a decent designer and made some Photoshop brushes. I had blogged a bit before that on WordPress.com, but those posts are gone. I started blogging
Tracy on wanting more
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Good post from Tracy on the culture of more. I own about 500 physical books personally, and I’d guess if we include the kids books we have over 1000 books in the house. We love books and if a kid expresses interest in a book I almost always buy it for them. I didn’t say
I HATE magic login links
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Yes I hate them, so much that every time I realize a site uses one I stop and spend some time wondering if I really need to use that site. But 404 media has a compelling case for not wanting usernames/passwords which makes the magic link not a terrible idea for many. I know that
2025 – Looking Forward
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Extending my 2024 stats here are some thoughts on 2025. Content I did a decent job writing in 2024, but my video production dropped off. For 2025 I’d like to be intentional again about getting videos out on YouTube. While I’ll still cover some software stuff on Obsidian or Calibre I’m going to focus more
2024 Stats
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My Site I had 120k views on my site with the most popular post being a look at Scott Scheper’s Antinet Zettelkasten book, which I don’t think is worth your time. My second most popular post was How to Handle PDFs natively in Obsidian. Both of those posts were from 2023 and when I look
Are headphones bad for your hearing?
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No as long as you keep the volume low enough and in fact noise cancelling headphones can help preserve hearing in some cases, but they’re not hearing protection. If you’re doing construction wear hearing protection and properly guard your hearing.
Just Try and then Try Again
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This was an excellent podcast with David Roche and the thing that stuck out to me was David saying that you just need to keep shooting your shot and good things can happen. If you don’t take a chance then nothing will happen because no effort was put out. Good reminder for me this year.
The Power of Linked Writing
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In this very short piece Kotte shows the power of linked writing online. As he says, it’s 110 words on how unfit Trump is to run a country but leads to hours of reading about the in depth bad stuff he’s done. Your own site can do this. It takes a while to get started
Still looking for a reading chair
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His top recommendation looks nice, I wish I could find a place to test it out that’s not an entire day of driving away. Do you have a favourite chair? What is it?