Category: Links of Interest
Build Your Saas on Budgeting
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Build Your Saas on budgeting. This was a great talk on budgeting and how you think about your expenses. One of the keys is not to get stuck in a mindset either way. Just spending small amounts adds up and never spending can cost you with the time you put in.
Subscriptions can kill your budget
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Here is a great illustrated guide to checking your Apple subscriptions from iOS. I didn’t have any I didn’t expect but I know my friend Jason recently did an audit of his recurring expenses and saved himself hundreds of dollars for the year. In my upcoming book The Freelancer’s Guide to Getting Started I have
My iOS video workflow on The Sweet Setup
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You know I’m iOS first because I’ve said it a few times. Many of you have asked how I do it so I’ve been writing about it. Today you can read about how I shoot and edit videos with LumaFusion on my iPad Pro over on The Sweet Setup.
On Sketchnotes from Alpha Efficiency
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So about Sketchnoting: I like to call sketchnotes notes plus because they’re just like the notes you take now, with drawings, icons, and lettering added for emphasis. The addition of visual elements help you remember ideas more clearly and make note-taking more fun. Sketchnoting is all about being in the moment and relying on your
Getting your business to stand out
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Jeff Brown has a great podcast on standing out. I use one of these strategies to serve his book group well by participating extensively in it. I’ve even produced audio reviews for member only. What are you doing to stand out?
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