Revealing Your Failures Helps Others
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From a study titled Mitigating Malicious Envy: People are reticent to reveal their failures–both as they are happening and after they have occurred. However, in two experiments, we find that revealing successes and the failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. What that means is, when…
Out of Office Because I’m Working
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Justin Jackson asks why we don’t say we’re out of office when we have a big project to work on. What would happen if you took time away from your daily grind and focused on your personal project? I did this one year while writing a book. I took every Monday and figured I wasn’t…
It’s Exhausting Thankless Work
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I would like to produce more educational resources for #consultants, #freelancers, and #agencyfounders, but my previous experience in that world makes me hesitant. It’s exhausting, thankless work & left me doubting I have anything to offer. Am I the only one? – @chris_hawk The question above is one I’ve heard before and let slide by,…
Busy…or Focused and Happy?
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MacSparky on being busy: For instance, when you see an old friend and ask how they’re doing, they will often tell you how busy they are. Busy seems to have turned into something like a badge of honor. That’s a mistake. To me, busy means that you haven’t figured out yet what is truly important.…
Just Test It Out
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From Derek Sivers: There’s a huge difference between in-theory versus in-practice. If you’ve been deliberating on something for a while, get it out of your head, and into the world. One thing that people looking at freelance almost always leave to late is working to get their own client so they have to deal with…
Use Homebrew to Set Your Mac Up Faster
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One of the things that’s great about working on an iPad is that all my apps are saved in an iCloud backup. Setting it up again is a fairly painless process, which is not the same with macOS. Casey Liss showed off a way to make setting up a new macOS install easier with Homebrew.…
Friday Notes 074 – October 11 2019
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It’s turned cold around here, even had frost on the ground Thursday morning. Of course, give it a few weeks and I’ll see 15C and rain…for most of the rest of the year until summer decides to come. The continual ran was the hardest part of moving here from Ontario, where it isn’t grey for…
Is OmniFocus an iPadOS Power Tool?
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There are many times in my 10 year productivity journey that I’ve used OmniFocus as my main task manager. Back in 2013 I wrote a long post about how I use OmniFocus to get work done, but even before that I shared some speed tips to use OmniFocus from the keyboard. And that’s not even…
Adults Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
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Remembering the crazy predictions about a Rage Against the Machine concert, the author comes to a realization. It was the first time in my life I realized adults don’t know what they’re talking about. It was an important night. This is similar to a question I ask myself often, what do I believe now that…
What Does Time Well Spent Mean to You?
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From Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Define what “time well spent” means to you: sit down, and think about what really makes you happy and gets you in the flow, without overthinking about how feasible the final outcome would be. Just think of your output and how it makes you feel to work on producing it. Maybe…
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