Category: Links of Interest

  • The false impression you’re saying more than you are

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    From Paul Graham in 2015: If you want people to read and understand what you write, yes. Written language is more complex, which makes it more work to read. It’s also more formal and distant, which gives the reader’s attention permission to drift. But perhaps worst of all, the complex sentences and fancy words give…

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  • Don’t Learn for Learnings’s Sake

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    From Talking to Humans: Your goal is not to learn for learnings sake. Your goal is to make better decisions and increase the odds of success. This is talking about talking with your customers as market research, but the same goes for reading or any learning. What are you going to do with the stuff…

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  • GaryVee the Minimalist?

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    Great video by Matt D’Avella…oh and profanity warning. Dave Ramsey has been saying this same thing for years. You buy stuff you don’t care about with money you don’t have to impress people you don’t like. We did Dave’s Total Money Makeover years ago and got out of all debt. It is the single thing…

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  • Matt Ragland – taking steps to be free of social media

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    Matt says: Many of you know I took February off from social media. A little over a week through March and I’ve given very little of my time back to it. Here are a few tactics I’ve used to limit the temptation. Removed Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, Gmail, Chrome, Slack, and Amazon from my phone. Basically…

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  • Shawn Blanc’s iPad Writing Setup

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    Yup Shawn uses an iPad most of the time too. Over the past two years, my usage between Mac and iPad has basically flip-flopped. In early 2017, I bought a 9.7-inch iPad Pro, which I promptly upgraded as soon as the 10.5-inch came out. And last fall, when the new 12.9- and 11-inch iPads Pro…

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  • Let the weak ties go

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    From Digital Minimalism: The idea that it’s valuable to maintain vast numbers of weak-tie social connections is largely an invention of the past decade or so — the detritus of over exuberant network scientists spilling inappropriately into the social sphere. Those 50 people you short of knew in high school, but never really talked to…

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  • Systems in Contrast to Goals

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    From Irresistible: Systems stand in stark contrast to goals like “attract one thousands Instagram followers,” which serve only as signposts of failure. When you do reach your goal, a new one materializes in it’s place — now two thousand Instagram followers seems like an appropriate target. Reading that this morning it’s making me think of…

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  • I need to get back to book reviews

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    Thomas Oppong: Learning comes down to two things: repetition, and connecting new information to existing knowledge. And Learn for 50% of the time and explain what you learn for 50% of the time. You’ll notice a lack of book reviews. I haven’t stopped reading but with attempting to see what’s up with YouTube I haven’t…

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  • You Focus on what you don’t have

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    Oliver Burkeman for The Guardian: When you don’t have enough of something, you fixate on it, so it occupies much more mental bandwidth. If you’re not sure you’ll have enough money to feed your family all this month, you have an obvious problem, but also a non-obvious one: the toll on your mental resources, research…

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  • On Hybrid Digital and Analog Task Management

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    If you’re looking for a solution for this, check out this thread in The Productivity Guild. I do a hybrid system, which I wrote about in Analogue Productivity, and showed off in my March planning video.

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