Pair Hard Work With Corrective Action to Win
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Chase Parnell reminds us to pair effort with analysis of how things could be done better next time. Now sure, working hard is admirable, but there are a lot of people out there that work their ass off but never progress to the next level because they don’t take that critical next step of pairing…
Does Your Work Show Your Values?
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From Derek Sivers: Once you realize that one value is more important to you than another, you have to ask yourself if you’re living accordingly A great question I’ve been asking myself lately. Is the work I’m pushing forward on conforming to the values I have? Does it allow me the time I want to…
One Action Shortcuts
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One action shortcuts from Rosemary Orchard. I can’t tell you how much Shortcuts has automated in my work…actually I can. Every time I am on macOS and don’t have Shortcuts I feel handicapped. There are a very few things that macOS is better for. Browsing CSS selectors in web developer tools being one of them.…
Friday Notes 076 – October 25 2019
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This week we saw crazy rain followed by very sunny warm days that were beautiful. The kids got some new playground equipment at school, and I’m writing this a day early because it’s a 1/2 day of school and Friday off for the kids. Actually they don’t have a full week of school in October…
Passion Doesn’t Have to Be Part of the Work Equation
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From Paul Jarvis: Passion or love doesn’t have to be part of the work/job equation. The value of work is that you get paid to do it, not that you’d do it even if you didn’t get paid. It even bothers a lot of other writers that my main reason for being a writer is…
Lock-in Has Made Us Complacent in Our Purchases
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From Chris Wiegman as he talks about leaving “big tech” ecosystems. My last personal Mac was a 2016 15″ MBP with touchbar and all the other bells and whistles and it was a piece of junk for the bargain price of around $3,000. Lock-in, in my opinion, has made us complacent where we will still…
What is a Company of One?
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One of the relentless pursuits of so many businesses is growth. The freelancer wants to have a small agency. The agency wants to be big enough to get huge clients. The huge agency looks toward government contracts and multiple locations in the “vibrant” cities. What many of these businesses fail to realize is that growth…
Porcelain Dolls on the Sidewalk Crying
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From You Are Awesome, which I finished this morning. Not many of us have been through famines or wars or, lets be honest, any form of true scarcity. We have it all. And the side effect is that we no longer have the tools to handle failure or even perceived failure. These days when we…
Best Handbrake Settings
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I’ve been working on setting up a Plex server, and of course wondered about the best way to encode my videos for said Plex. Clearly smallest file size possible with highest visual quality. I’ve tested about 10 settings and these directions are giving me the best results
Abandon Your Email Address
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Love this idea of abandoning your old email, but I do wonder how practical it is for business people? Sure if you don’t need money, then ignore everything that comes in. Then never give this new private email to anyone except dear friends and family. Let your old Gmail collect the junk. The people you…
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