Some iPad Pro Game Recommendations from Byte Review
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I’ve been gaming more on my iPad and thus on the look out for interesting games. I think that Pascal’s Wager (the last one in the video) looks like something I’d be interested in.
SetApp Applications I Love
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If you’re not familiar with SetApp, then it’s time to get familiar with it. For one low monthly fee SetApp gives you access to so many Mac apps that there is going to be something around for everyone. There is enough here that when I have any task I think macOS may do well, the…
Man’s Search for Meaning
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Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, is a classic book that shows up on many lists of books that one must read in their life. There is good reason in this. The first section of the book is all about Frankl’s experience in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and it’s truly horrific. If…
More Rules for the Lazy – Friday Notes 118
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Last week I talked about some of my new rules so that I didn’t fall into it inferior good activities regularly, well I’ve got a few other rules that I operate by as well that help keep my life calmer than most. ## Email Rules One of the terrible ideas that we easily fall into…
iPad Widget Mock-up from Matt Birchler
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One of the biggest issues I have with iPadOS 14 is the lack of widgets on the homescreen like iOS has. Matt Birchler has an excellent video on how they could work if Apples adds them.
Carl Pullein on Drafts
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I’ve been back on a Drafts kick lately. I’ll get to a video talking about what has changed that make Drafts “work” for me, but today is not that day. I started looking at Carl’s Drafts stuff today. You can get the whole series [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCMUCE_lTvaMHuco_Oh3-69LkCA&feature=share&playnext=1). I don’t use Drafts as capture tool for everything like…
The Task Managers I Recommend
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While I’ve centralized my work on a single task manager, that doesn’t mean that I recommend my choice for everyone. In fact, I tell my wife **not** to use the task manager I use daily. It’s simply too much for her to manage. Let’s take a look at the task systems I recommend and dive…
The Inferior Good of Entertainment – Friday Notes 117
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In The War on Normal People I came across an interesting idea called inferior good. Evidently it’s an economic term for “good” things where demand decreases as you earn more. So the less you earn the more you invest in terms of time/money in this thing. This is often video games, TV watching, YouTube…People with…
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
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After reading The Case Against Education I saw another intriguing title from Bryan Caplan about having more kids for selfish reasons. Today we’ll look at that book, called Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The purpose is directly in the title for the curious. Caplan is going to argue that if you wanted no kids,…
Chris Lawley on the 8th Gen iPad
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All the devices my kids use are iPad Mini 3’s which are showing their age. This is yet another vote towards getting at least one iPad 8th Gen that my oldest can use for school work. That would at least split out the purchase of other devices for a while instead of everything being broke…