Category: Links of Interest
What Steve did when he felt overwhelmed
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I’m feeling the same way and while I didn’t do a Trello board, I did add a bunch of stuff to Things. You’ll see exactly what I’m doing on Wednesday if you follow me on YouTube.
Shawn Blanc and Do Not Disturb
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Shawn after talking about family dinner and interruptions: That’s why, for the month of February (at least) during the evening hours between 5:00 until 7:30 pm, both my wife and I are putting our phones in Do Not Disturb and leaving them in another room. I have DND on all the time except for my
Jeff on Burnout and Stress
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Jeff writing on his site Rocket Panda: My generation has been told time and time again to go to college, do what makes you happy, and to follow your dreams. That is precisely what I did and I am working in the field I went to school for and I love my job. Yet, I
Apple actually puts some pain to Facebook
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Nick at Pixel Envy after reading this article. This is almost a better response than if Apple pulled Facebook’s apps from the App Store. It doesn’t impact typical users at all, but it sounds like it’s causing chaos within the company. And Facebook got themselves into this mess because their internal apps use the same
I’ve already killed my Facebook account but…
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This news makes me extra sceptical about Instagram which I do enjoy. If they do unify any of the apps I’m out.
Justin is reading The Wheel of Time
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Justin started to dig into The Wheel of Time. I’ve read it twice so if there is one piece of advice it’s that book 4 or 5 feels very repetitive. Stick with it and the rest of the set pays off in so many ways.
Tim Ferriss and Greg McKeown talk Essentialism
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Listen to the whole episode here. First off, I read the book and thought it was terrible so I almost skipped this podcast episode. I’m so glad I was running and it was just a bit difficult to reach into my bag to grab my phone and turn it off because this was a great
Is it harder to do web stuff now?
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DHH writes: But as The Great Divide points out, regression is lurking, because the industry is making it too hard to work directly with the web. The towering demands inherent in certain ways of working with JavaScript are rightfully scaring some designers off from implementing their ideas at all. That’s a travesty. I know as
Dan Moren’s writing income
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Dan: Yep, that’s my income breakdown from 2018. I’m not going to break out dollar figures here, as that’s just something I’m not comfortable with right now, but to put this overall chart in context, my gross income does not reach six figures. In part this gives me hope for my writing because I’m really
Is a Book Summary Really Reading?
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From Jamie: I’ve been thinking about abridgments lately because of an ad that keeps popping up on Facebook. It’s for a service called Blinkist. The service claims it allows you to “fit reading into your life.” It does this by providing short (15 minute or so) key takeaways of popular nonfiction books. I took a