The Passion Rhetoric is Harmful – Friday Notes 105
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I’m sure you’ve heard that if you can make your passion your work then you’ll never work a day in your life. I mean the sentiment is nice and all, but it’s a load of crap. No matter what you do there is going to be grunt work you don’t enjoy. You’ll have to make…
Getting Started with Networked Thought in Obsidian
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Today we’re going to do a walk through with [Obsidian.md](https://obsidian.md) for those of you that are getting started with networked thought in Obsidian. ## Links – [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) – [Obsidian Forums](https://forum.obsidian.md/) – [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) – [1Writer](http://1writerapp.com/) – The Second Mountain: [Independent Bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812993264?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993268/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – Stillness is the Key: [Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525538585?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525538585/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Reeder Review](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/05/11/reeder-4-ipados-review)…
Using Lire on iPadOS for RSS Feeds
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We’re almost done looking at RSS apps for use on your iPad so that we can make a final pick of the best RSS application for iPadOS. Today we’re going to look at [Lire](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/lire-full-text-rss/id550441545). To start, Lire has an understated pleasant 2-column design. Nothing flashy here, just easy reading and clean lines. …
The Business Challenges Of Tomorrow Are Here Today
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The future is an abstract concept. If you want to be irritating you can argue that we are both [always and never in the future](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/14/carlo-rovelli-exploding-commonsense-notions-order-of-time-interview) because the future can be tomorrow or even a second from right now. We can never catch up with tomorrow and that’s something that businesses need to learn. Ultimately, you…
The Inconvenient Indian
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The title of _The Inconvenient Indian_ by Thomas King speaks well of the views that North American’s have had, and continue to have about the First Nations that live next to us and with us. They’re inconvenient because they don’t conform to what colonial thought has brought us up to believe. King uses his unique…
Two Types of Readers – The Collector and The Connector Friday Notes 104
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Lately I’ve been digging into a new research management application called [Obsidian](https://obsidian). No I don’t plan on leaving DEVONthink, I’m just going to use one to store research and one to keep track of my thoughts on those research items. I’ve been thinking though, that there are two types of note takers. ### Type One:…
Batch Process Images With Shortcuts and Affinity Photo
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Shortcuts, Affinity Photo and Bulk Processing I work with a bunch of screenshots and photos for my reviews because in addition to doing a video to go with an application or piece of hardware I write a blog post to go with it. Today I’m going to show you how I batch process images with…
Fiery Feeds Review
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The other RSS clients I’ve looked at so far have followed a standard function. Add your feed service to them and then read your feeds. Here Fiery feeds breaks that mold by not only showing the articles from the feeds you subscribe to, but also showing things that those feeds may be linking it. Let’s…
Acknowledge Fault to Save Your Mistakes – Friday Notes 103
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> Acknowledgement of fault is powerful. It shows empathy, a willingness to own the problem, and a desire to then fix it. Company of One Page 119 ([Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781328972354?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/3cU6R8B)) If you’re going to run your own business, you’re going to make mistakes. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been running that business, you’re…
Stay at Home Book Haul
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a book haul, mainly because my local used bookstore was closed for a bit and I’ve stopped buying much from Amazon. Well The Bookman reopened recently and they got to my list of books and had a bunch in stock. Today is that list. – Stargirl: [Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440416777?aff=curtismchale)…
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