Category: Links of Interest
Paper doesn’t just have to be words
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Jamie Todd Rubin on Journals: One thing I love about these journals is that they are multimedia. Read the post about the British diarist made me realize that what I put into the journal doesn’t have to be exclusively writing. So there are many pages with photos I’ve taken, pasted in. I realized this week…
The “never work a day in your life” dream
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From John Westenberg: Why wouldn’t we want to have a life without work? A life without the pressure of getting shit done, a life where we don’t have liabilities and responsibilities that demand time and bandwidth and emotional and physical and intellectual labour? It sounds like a dream come true, but it really is only…
Our Chameleon Screens
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Steve Leveen on Well-Read Life: From what I’ve seen, our chameleon screens are distracting many of us much of the time. To actually get work done, some of us, including me, try to apply some discipline. We may try to check email only at certain times of day. We may intentionally go offline. We may…
Time Energy and Attention
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Great discussion from Asian Efficiency on time energy and attention. Like today, I had the time to do a bunch of stuff but no energy due to a late night and my attention was pulled all over since my wife was out on a course. You need to make sure you have all 3 sorted…
Find your productive hours
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The most useful method? The real “secret” to productivity? Its really quite simple…Learn when you are productive. From dadlife. I’ve never said it like that but I’ve gravitated to early mornings because those are my productive hours. After 3pm I hang out with kids and do house stuff. There isn’t much left in the tank…
Bear is now 2
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Bear is now two and I recently renewed my year of membership. Bear has come to be many things for me. I don’t use like I used to use Evernote but I do use it a bunch. If you watch my YouTube channel then I’ll talk about it in the future. For now I do…
A Freelance Interview with Gaya Kessler
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It can get lonely at times, but it helps to have a client who wants you to visit their office. In the beginning it has also quite stressful for me since I gave up the “financial security” I used to have. I put quotes around it because nobody really knows for sure if the job…
Keywords and your site
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I have a new post up for Godaddy on what keywords are and how to use them on your site. Many business owners are told that they need to use keywords on their websites to improve their organic search engine ranking. Unfortunately, some either don’t know why this is important or don’t know how to…
Individual action when the system doesn’t support it
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In Lowtech Magazine: But how effective is individual action when it is systemic social change that is needed? Individuals do make choices, but these are facilitated and constrained by the society in which they live. Therefore, it may be more useful to question the system that requires many of us to travel and consume energy…
On playing the long game
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From Farnam Street There is an old saying that I think of often, but I’m not sure where it comes from: If you do what everyone else is doing, you shouldn’t be surprised to get the same results everyone else is getting. This is part of the reason I write a bit every day. What…