Why Is There So Much Personal Data to Protect
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In this good article on privacy this made me laugh out loud The question we need to ask is not whether our data is safe, but why there is suddenly so much of it that needs protecting. The problem with the dragon, after all, is not its stockpile stewardship, but its appetite. Basically if Google…
The Success of the Tortoise and the Hare in Law and the LSAT
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My notes from Revisionist History: The Tortoise and the Hare 4:40 the best former clerk Jeff Sutton would never have been hired, and he’s a tortoise 7:40 the LSAT favours people who can process difficult problems quickly. Processing without understanding is the key thing that the LSAT tests for. 10:50 reading for The Supreme Court…
Freelance Friday 061 – July 12
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I’ve been back from vacation since Tuesday and I’m feeling like I’m on top of work again. One project with one client I need to have a short call on tomorrow, but otherwise things are moving as they ever were. This makes the first vacation in almost 10 years that I truly unplugged and didn’t…
Is It Your First Time? Don’t Be Nervous at a Startup Event
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Startups are not small businesses, well not usually anyway. To be clear the requirement to be considered a small business is by the number of employees you have hired. If it’s not above a certain number you don’t qualify. Anything less than 20 is considered a micro business. Anything above 20 and under 500 is…
Are We Asking Too Much of Marriage?
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Interesting article about the usefulness of marriage. The part that gets me thinking most about my marriage is below. In his book The All-or-Nothing Marriage, the psychologist Eli Finkel examines how, over the past 200 years, American expectations of marriage have slowly climbed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Just a few generations ago, the ideal marriage…
3 Innovation Tokens
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In a treatise for choosing boring technology I very much liked this quote: Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while. You might get a few more after you achieve a certain level of stability and maturity, but…
Now I Want Notecards
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Reading this piece by Ryan Holiday makes me want to start keeping notecards instead of putting everything in DEVONthink. I wish I had some satisfying explanation about why notecards are so powerful, but I don’t. I don’t know why they are so integral (and yet used in such diverse ways) to so many fascinating people.…
Advice From Tarzan
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From Derek Sivers. Remember how Tarzan swings through the jungle? He doesn’t let go of the previous vine until the next vine is supporting his weight. Good advice to keep in mind at any point in your working career.
One Month Without a Smartphone
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I’ve been thinking about doing exactly what Isaac has done, trade in my iPhone for a basic phone like I had in 2001. This is the big reason. What surprised me was the lingering residue of mental clutter that carrying a smartphone for six plus years had left. I bet there is more clutter than…
Introverts, Extroverts and Conference Attendance
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As WordCamp Vancouver comes up I have some thoughts on conference organization in general. I don’t really know what’s happening at WordCamp, I’m speaking from my experiences at conferences, including WordCamps. Overall, I dislike going to them and I think I’m starting to figure out why. In short, they’re built for extroverts and I’m not…
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