• Achieving Stillness in the Turmoil of Life With Ryan Holiday

    Achieving Stillness in the Turmoil of Life With Ryan Holiday

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    To be steady while the world spins around you. To act without frenzy. To hear only what needs to be heard. To posses quietude — interior and exterior — on command. 1 Early in Stillness is the Key Holiday introduces us to his end goal of the book in the quote above. He wants to…

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  • Notebook Reading Chart

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    Nice reading chart from Jamie Todd Rubin. Tempted to build one into my notebooks somehow, I do go through two notebooks a year with my reading notes so I’d have a transfer it all the time.

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  • Staycation Means Errands

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    CJ Chilvers says go camping. It’s totally OK to do nothing. Your life could use a pause button. But even on vacation, we feel the need to run errand after errand to keep family and/or friends happy. That’s not needed with camping. You’re expected to hang out on a hammock for a few hours, getting…

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  • Automating Tasks and Projects in Things iPadOS

    Automating Tasks and Projects in Things iPadOS

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    In early 2018 Cultured Code added excellent URL Scheme support to Things 3 and while we have new functionality in Shortcuts that may make URL Schemes obsolete, that’s not the case currently if you want to automatically build projects in Things. Today I’m going to walk you through a bunch of the automations I have…

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  • Friday Notes 080 – November 22 2019

    Friday Notes 080 – November 22 2019

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    One of the things I always wonder about is what parents who work out of the house do when their kid suddenly gets sick and they have to deal with it. Today (Thursday) my 9-year-old is upstairs not feeling well in the bathroom, but that doesn’t mean I have to take time off work. My…

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  • When do Women Peak in Sport?

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    My wife and I have been wondering a bunch lately about how women peak in sport. At what age to they peak? How does biology affect their output? Sadly, as we learned in Invisible Women, there really isn’t much out there for research no women in sport. This video from Mary Cain, highlights sports systems…

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  • Be Fast So the Cost of Production Is Small

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    James Somers on working quickly. The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more. He also posits that it’s…

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  • Joe Released Working With OmniFocus

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    My friend Joe has released his updated working with OmniFocus course. While I don’t use OmniFocus I’ll be going through it because there are always methods that you can use in your system, be it digital or analogue. A small tweak that improves the effectiveness of the work you get done can yield huge returns.

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  • 10 Cool Tips for Using Your Ipad More Bettah

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    I don’t share many of the YouTube videos I watch, and I don’t even use the default Apple Mail on iOS but that cool tip is what got me to share this video from Chris Lawley. Short video and if you’re on iPad I bet you’ll find at least one you didn’t know about and…

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  • Three Types of iPad Pro EDC

    Three Types of iPad Pro EDC

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    My last video was all about my clean ergonomic iPad centric desk setup. Today we’re going to talk about what I take with me when I head out of the house with my iPad Pro for the day. I’ll mostly leave my bag out of it for now because it’s in flux, and depending on…

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