• Add WHY to Your Bullet Journal Tasks

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    I like the why question in this Bullet Journal video. Do you ever ask yourself why you’re doing the things you do in the day?

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  • Ryder Carroll on Adding Journaling to Your Bullet Journal

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    I use a Bullet Journal and include long form journaling right inline with my tasks for the day. In fact, it’s mostly a log of what I’ve done that day and how I felt about it. If you’re interested in doing some journaling in your notebook here is a good video one way to do…

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  • On Getting Kids Out Playing

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    Lena Aburdene Derhally writing for Washington Post Because we have become such a work- and results-driven society, free, unscheduled play for children has taken a back seat. In fact, since 1955, free play has been declining. She goes on to talk about some good tips for getting your kids outside. One thing I think she…

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  • Keychron K2 Review With iPadOS

    Keychron K2 Review With iPadOS

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    In my quest for a new keyboard the Keychron K2 is my second stop, with the Akko 3068 being the first attempt at finding a nice mechanical keyboard. After making a mistake about operating system support in the Akko purchase, I wanted to be sure that whatever my second purchase was, I knew without a…

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  • Notifications Slice Into the Family Cocoon

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    Although the barrier between work and the-rest-of-life has been eroding steadily, it’s taken the smartphone to shatter it altogether. Her incessant buzzing — Check me! Check me! It just might be important! — slices into our family cocoon. – For Better or for Work I’m starting to do research into a new book project and…

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  • Friday Notes 081 – November 29 2019

    Friday Notes 081 – November 29 2019

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    This week started off awesome, then I was down on the couch sick all Tuesday. No video was recorded. I wrote for about 50 minutes and spent 20 minutes deploying a client site, then laced on the couch and tried to sleep. Luckily I was only tired on Wednesday not sick, so back to a…

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  • Every Time I Open WordPress I Feel a Bit More Dead Inside

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    If you have any Yoast product and signed into the WordPress admin in the last few days I’m sure you know that they were having a Black Friday sale. How do you know this…because they added a stupid huge banner to your site that told you on every page. Are you kidding me @yoast? An…

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  • Performance Reviews Kill Culture

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    From Farnam Street on performance reviews killing culture. The problem is that ranking someone against their peers is not the ranking that matters and is counterproductive in terms of building an exceptional corporate culture. Makes me think of what I read this morning in Leaders Eat Last about it not being the people that are…

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  • Automation Isn’t Good or Bad

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    CJ Chilvers on automation. Automations aren’t good or bad. They’re a powerful tool that can make your life more livable, or take the life out of life. I’ve automated parts of my Friday newsletter like collecting all the links I post in the week and putting them in the newsletter. I haven’t automated commenting about…

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  • It’s Not the People That Are the Problem It’s the Environment

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    What too many leaders of organizations fail to appreciate is that it’s not the people that are the problem. The people are fine. Rather, it’s the environment in which the people operate that is the problem. Got that right and things just go – Leaders Eat Last Page 97 I think that the biggest problem…

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