• Rubik’s Cube My Best Productivity Tool

    Rubik’s Cube My Best Productivity Tool

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    At some point, with any computer or device you’re going to have to wait for it to perform some task. In the past I’d often reach for my phone and end up wasting a bunch of time down some rabbit hole (often Instagram for me). I’d look up 15 minutes later with nothing done and

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  • Interrupted Double Haul

    Interrupted Double Haul

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    Join me today for a haul video, that gets interrupted by 2 kids that tell you their favourite books currently. – [Wool](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1476735115/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) and [Dust](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYNGPTG/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Always Looking Up](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYNGPTG/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [How Pleasure Works](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYNGPTG/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Superhuman](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501168711/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Farsighted](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501168711/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Loonshots](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1250185963/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Grit](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1250185963/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [A Brief History of Misogyny ](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1250185963/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Scratch](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501134574/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Careless People](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501134574/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Dirt: The

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  • Paperlike V2 Review

    Paperlike V2 Review

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    This is my 3rd Paperlike screen cover. I had 2 copies of the Paperlike 1, one on my 9.7″ iPad Pro and one on my 12.9″ iPad Pro. It was one of the first purchases I made with both devices and when I heard that they were coming out with a new version that should

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  • Can Malcolm Gladwell Teach Us How to Talk to Strangers?

    Can Malcolm Gladwell Teach Us How to Talk to Strangers?

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    Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent entry into the writing world revolves around how we understand strangers. To get to the end quickly, we’re really bad at it. Gladwell starts off the book with the Sandra Bland case. If you’re not familiar with this case, it started as a fairly basic traffic stop where an warning was

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  • Friday Notes 091 – February 21 2020

    Friday Notes 091 – February 21 2020

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    Ultimately, you’re luck you got an email last week because I did it early. After I had the email prepped I buckled in for a regular night of handling kids, and then one of them got sick enough that I spent until 2am in the hospital. She’s fine, but that was a long 20 hour

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  • Deleting Local and Remote Git Branches

    Deleting Local and Remote Git Branches

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    In today’s video I’m going to show you how to delete local and remote git branches. “` git branch -d $branchname git push $remotename –delete $branchname “`

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  • Mid February Book Haul

    Mid February Book Haul

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    The pile of books to be filed for the month got out of hand so here is a mid month update on the books that have come into the house. ## Books – [The Girls with No Names](https://amzn.to/325aQdP) – [Expanse Book Set](https://amzn.to/2HCRjYS), [Book 4](https://amzn.to/2HCiy5y), [Book 7](https://amzn.to/325ETC5) – [48 Laws of Power](https://amzn.to/2SWbupJ) – [1000 Books to

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  • Peak Everyday Pack – Retiring the Peak Everyday Messenger

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    Recently Peak announced the release of version 2 of both the packs I will be reviewing today. The messenger was purchased when a friend was done reviewing it and wanted to sell it, a few months before the announcement of V2 bags. I purchased the Everyday Backpack a few days after the announcement of the

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  • How Scarcity Affects Our Lives – Book Review

    How Scarcity Affects Our Lives – Book Review

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    Have you ever felt like you had less than you needed? Well that’s the definition of scarcity1 and what Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir is all about. Throughout the book the authors will look at what causes scarcity and how it captures you in it’s clutches sometimes causing a spiral into more and

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  • Friday Notes 090 – February 14 2020

    Friday Notes 090 – February 14 2020

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    Tough week at work for my wife, so tough night for me when she came home. Add to that sick kids, and a night up with one of them and it’s been a long week. I even missed skiing this weekend with a sick kid, though my wife took the other two kids along with

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