Category: Links of Interest
Mark Manson on Changing Yourself with Willpower
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Mark Manson: Chances are, at some point in your life, you’ve tried to change your behavior through sheer willpower. And chances are, you also failed miserably. Don’t feel bad! This is what happens most of the time. Made me think of Atomic Habits and designing our environment for success. If you eat sweets all the
I keep grabbing my phone
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Kevin Rose for The New York Times: For the rest of the week, I became acutely aware of the bizarre phone habits I’d developed. I noticed that I reach for my phone every time I brush my teeth or step outside the front door of my apartment building, and that, for some pathological reason, I
What man needs to know when 28 days have passed?
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Caroline Criado Perez: Going back to the theatre of Man the Hunter, the lives of men have been taken to represent those of humans overall. When it comes to the other half of humanity, there is often nothing but silence. And these silences are everywhere. I feel like I’m more attuned to this with 3
On Mental Toughness
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James Clear: Research is starting to reveal that your mental toughness — or “grit” as they call it — plays a more important role than anything else for achieving your goals in health, business, and life. That’s good news because you can’t do much about the genes you were born with, but you can do
Do we need Chrome?
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Read Leiden writes: The dominance of Chrome has a major detrimental effect on the Web as an open platform: developers are increasingly shunning other browsers in their testing and bug-fixing routines. I’m not so sure about this, though I do think that we need browser diversity. I wonder what it would take to have the
Third Party Apple Repair Shops
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This article got me reflecting on my Apple repair blessings over Christmas. I had two iPhones that qualified under the Apple battery replacement program and instead of needing to drive an hour towards Vancouver my local London Drugs is an authorized repair facility. I was very surprised to find this local store could repair my
I’m a productivity Champ?
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Over at Asian Efficiency there is a short profile on me if you’re interested in reading a bit about my journey to productivity.
Yes I’d get a job
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This is a great post from Steve Campbell following his journey from leaving his corporate job to starting something on his own. To pivoting, to running out of money and time to make it work. Now to polishing his resume. I’ve always said that I’ll work any job that I don’t find morally objectionable to keep
Revamping my research workflow…maybe with DEVONThink?
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Yup, the resources on my site aren’t working like I had hoped. Mainly because the WordPress admin is a dog and I can’t kill 5 minutes to enter a single quote. One of the apps I’m looking at is DEVONThink for iOS and MacStories has a great piece on automation for DEVONThink. Stay tuned for
Shane Parrish on how to read
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Over at GQ, Shane Parrish tells us about his reading and note taking routine. It’s not the system I use, but I admit that I’ve fallen off the wagon a bit as I feel so busy. My system involved writing a review of the books I had read and connecting them with the other books