An Hour of Free Play Is Like a Drop of Water in the Desert
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[An hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/childhood-suicide-depression-anxiety.html). > According to the psychologist Peter Gray, children today are more depressed than they were during the Great Depression and more anxious than they were at the height of the Cold War. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Abnormal…
Medicine Is Family Friendly if You’re in the Right Field
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[So medicine is sort of family friendly, at least if you’re in the right field](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/upshot/medicine-family-friendly-profession-women.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share). > Medicine has become something of a stealth family-friendly profession, at a time when other professions are growing more greedy about employees’ time. Jobs increasingly require long, inflexible hours, and pay disproportionately more to people who work them. But if…
Getting to the Tipping Point With Malcolm Gladwell
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While I had listened to [Tipping Point](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316346624/?tag=strugwithfait-20), by Malcolm Gladwell a bunch of times, this was my first read through it. If you’re interested in what it takes to make an idea spread, without all the deep science and chart that we found in [Connected](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/05/17/connected-how-a-social-network-works-in-everything-from-stds-to-friendship/), then Tipping Point is a good start. Gladwell does a…
Freelance Friday 067 – August 23
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It was a short week this week, really only about 2.5 days of work. I had Monday off to go do a big run in the mountains, and then my wife is leaving in a few short hours (I write this Thursday) to race near Mt Rainer. That means I’m on kid patrol after lunch…
iPadOS Shortcuts for Publishing with Statamic
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After 10 years I’ve moved my site from WordPress to Statamic. I’ve got a post/video coming on **why** I made the change but today is not the day you get to read that. Today I’m sharing two iPadOS 13 Shortcuts I put together to automate my publishing workflow so that I don’t mess up my…
I Promise I Don’t Check Social Media That Much
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[Mike Schmitz over at The Sweet Setup about a distraction free phone](https://thesweetsetup.com/the-distraction-free-phone/). > Looking back, it’s safe to say no one really knew what that “internet communications device” piece would morph into. At the time, there were no third-party apps and the App Store wouldn’t appear for another year after the original iPhone was released.…
Matt Howie’s Tips for Working From Home
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I’ve worked remote or from home since 2009 which puts me at 10 years working from home. Most of that time my office was a shared space with my bedroom. For 2 years I rented an office in town that was just mine and for the last 10 months I’ve had a mostly dedicated[^1] room…
Adding an Edit Link to the Frontend of a Statamic Theme
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As I’ve moved to Statamic from WordPress, one of the things I’ve missed is the WordPress Admin Bar. For those unfamiliar, in a standard WordPress setup when you’re logged in viewing a blog post you can edit, a direct edit link show up in the header of the site. You don’t need to navigate to…
Ryan Says: This Is My Working Sandbox of Thought and Personal Development
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[Ryan wrote about Automattic’s purchase of Tumblr](https://ryandsullivan.com/automattic-bought-tumblr-and-thats-a-good-thing/). Here is the main point that stuck out to me. > GeoCities is always a running joke around the internet, but I’d love to see us return to a place where “this is my working sandbox of thought and personal development” is more widely accepted. This is what…
Chris on His Move Away From WordPress to Hugo
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[My friend Chris talked about his move off of WordPress after 10 years](https://chriswiegman.com/2019/08/its-time-for-a-new-site/). > Simple fact is, I still love WordPress and make my living with it but it simply isn’t the best tool for every job. Since the release of WordPress 5.0 I’ve found actually writing content in WordPress to be a tedious and…
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