Freelance Friday 065 – August 9
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Early this week I launched my new Statamic site. I didn’t bother with all the content so if you’re looking for a book you purchased you’ll find that stuff at [store.curtismchale.ca](https://store.curtismchale.ca) for now. I may move everything over to Statamic and Stripe long term, but for now I wanted to get future content on Markdown…
Do we assume that women are irrelevant to city infrastructure?
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This quote from [Invisible Women](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1419729071/?tag=strugwithfait-20), got me thinking about the [recent link I shared about cars](https://curtismchale.ca/2019/08/02/were-cars-a-mistake). > The gender gap in travel data continues with the intentional ommission in many transport surveys of shorter pedestrian and other ‘non-motorized’ trips. These trips, says Sanchez de Madrigal, are ‘not considered to be relevant for infrastructure policymaking’. Given…
Science says – we’re not actually that busy
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[From Inc](https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/science-confirms-it-talking-about-how-busy-you-are-is-a-humble-brag.html): > Ask basically any professional American how they’re doing these days and chances are good you’ll hear a single, standard answer: “busy.” But ask any expert in time use, or one of the many researchers who have painstakingly documented how we use our time, why Americans are so slammed all the time and…
I don’t mind getting lost at all
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[From Kate on Adventure Journal](https://www.adventure-journal.com/2019/08/the-endangered-art-of-getting-lost-and-why-it-may-be-good-for-us/): > But I would argue that occasionally losing one’s way is actually not that bad for us. After all, nothing will give you sharp presence of mind quite like not knowing where you are. Plus it forces us to engage in dying arts like navigation, orientation, and figuring out which…
Adding a metabox to WooCommerce Memberships for Teams
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I needed to add a metabox to log activities for our team owner but WooCommerce Memberships for teams was giving me a hard time. Turns out they have a whitelist of metaboxes allowed on their post type. This makes sense because WordPress plugins can be terrible for adding metaboxes on every single post type in…
Were Cars a Mistake?
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From Nathan Heller in The New Yorker: In America today, there are more cars than drivers. Yet our investment in these vehicles has yielded dubious returns. Since 1899, more than 3.6 million people have died in traffic accidents in the United States, and more than eighty million have been injured; pedestrian fatalities have risen in…
I Too Am an Introvert
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This point from Lisa really resonates with me: Or (this is a biggie) I get overwhelmed when I have hours left to socialize when I really just want to leave NOW, go home, and read my book alone. I’m the guy at many parties sitting by himself in an obscure corner of the place quietly…
How Joe Casabona Stays Organized
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You should read the whole post but what stuck out to me was the hybrid analogue and digital tools he uses. He says he uses and needs both. I’m 99% analogue for my personal organization of tasks. I use Trello with clients, and am dabbling with Github Issues/Projects/Milestones as an alternative. Every so often I…
How Many Apps Can Interrupt You?
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From Mike at The Sweet Setup: When you launch a new app on your iPhone, 90% of the time the first thing you see is a request to allow notifications. More often than not, the default is “yes.” Don’t believe me? Go into your Settings right now, tap Notifications, and count how many apps have…
Freelance Friday 064 – August 2
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I’ve almost got my new Statamic site ready to launch. No, it won’t have quite everything that I have now. My WooCommerce stuff will run at store.curtismchale.ca (not live yet), at least for now. I also made a few hours progress on The Freelancer’s Guide to Marketing. Needs a complete read through for proofing then…
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