Category: Links of Interest
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
The bare minimum for listening…
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Is to have learned something from someone else. listen to the rest of this for more awesome discussion on good conversation.
If you carry your phone at all times…your kids will notice
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Cal Newport: This latter point is one that we parents sometimes don’t want to hear, but it keeps coming up in my conversations: if you carry your phone with you at all times, checking it constantly, it’s difficult to convince your kids not to do the same, no matter how many rules you set or