Category: Links of Interest
After “living the dream” why did Adam Warner get a job?
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I’ve known Adam around WordPress for a few years but when we met at WooConf, I was very intrigued with his story. He is a cofounder of FooPlugins and ran that as his only job for 4 years. Most people would say he was living the dream, but then he went out and took a…
What Are Your Hobbies?
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Today I’m going to keep going on the theme of being more “me” and tell you a bunch about the rest of the things I enjoy and do. The links to my other “places” online are below if you’re interested in following up with me in many places. I can see why you would be,…
Increasing Your Facebook Privacy: Putting lipstick on a pig
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While David says he was a curmudgeon I’m thinking of becoming one. I’ve done all the stuff David suggests and I still wonder if I’m causing people to waste time on Facebook. I know this post gets sent to Facebook which results in some vanishingly small amount of traffic. Even practicing slow social media doesn’t ring…
Missing a Friend
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Brett just wrote a post about grieving. We are still going through it after we lost Roxy a month back after 12 years with her. As he says, there is no timeline. You just slowly heal. Very slowly sometimes. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and things feel better most days.
Third Spaces and Creativity
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Austin Kleon in Community and creativity in mundane retail spaces Besides fast food restaurants, I collect other stories of creative people hanging out in mundane retail spaces For me it’s a local Starbucks. I got asked this week if I was a writer and then had a 30 minute conversation with a man named David…
Delete Facebook, Am I Contributing To You Staying?
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From Derek Sivers: Maybe the fact that I use it to share my blog posts is a tiny tiny reason why others are still using it I cited Cal Newport earlier today on deleting Facebook and doing social media slow so you might know already that I’m part of a single reading group that is…
Slow Social Media
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A more nuanced approach to evaluating social media from Cal Newport. Only use a given social media service if it provides valuable benefits that would be hard to replace. Use these services only for these purposes. Delete all social media apps from your phone. (Few serious uses for social media require that you can access…
You can’t teach hustle from @MaddyOsman
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Maddy Osman gets a bit ranty (and it’s well deserved) with this one calling out business coaches and online courses. Oh and I love the whole article. First with some great points like: Building a successful business takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears (more so the latter…
Blog to write, tweet to fight
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I met many people through Twitter who became and remain important collaborators and friends. But the salad days of “blog to reflect, tweet to connect” are gone. Long gone. Over the last year, especially, it has seemed much more like “blog to write, tweet to fight.” – Back to the Blog I never left and…
@MaddyOsman and the girl power desk
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Always fun to see how others work. I just couldn’t do a desk that is so narrow. Would drive me bonkers. I need that USB charging station in at least two spots in my house. Neither of them is my desk though since I rarely allow devices to reside at my desk during work. I…
