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…
It’s a Good Thing That Everything Isn’t Easy
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From the upcoming book by Neil Pasricha called You Are Awesome. …the thing so often missing from the conversation around ambitions exceeding abilities is the fact that it’s a good thing. That’s what you want! Can you imagine if everything you did was easy? Page 136 Sure it may sound good on the surface to…
TouchType Pro iPad Pro Case Review
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Today we’re going to look at 2 things, that are kind of together because one requires the other. The first thing we’re going to review is the TouchType Pro iPad Pro case for my 12.9″ iPad Pro. The second thing we’re going to look at is the Apple Magic Keyboard as an iPad keyboard, mainly…
Friday Notes 075 – October 18 2019
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Canada finished celebrating Turkey Day last weekend, and we threw a family birthday for a new 9-year-old in the house. Brunch was had and we were eating cake around lunch time. That means it’s been a busy, but great week around the McHale house. To continue my email list only content let’s talk about being…
Playing Hooky From Commitments for Productivity
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This piece from Derek Sivers goes well with the one I just published from Justin Jackson, but back to Sivers: Some of my best, most productive, and enjoyable days have been while playing hooky. Not only is it okay to book “out of office” days to get work done like Jackson says, it’s totally fine…
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