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Airtable and Shortcuts with Chris
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Started working with Airtable this morning to build a chore tracking sheet for kids. Of course Chris Lawley has a good video for an introduction to Shortcuts and Airtable.
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Friday Notes 083 – December 13 2019
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This week was full of Christmas stuff, including a 1am wake up to rescue a fallen tree and the ornaments that took a plunge. Surprisingly, only three were broken and they’re all fixable. Also, my 5-year-old decided to get up 6 times between 1-5 when I got out of bed. Yes the next day was
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The Messy Desk Busyness Number
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My desk and workbench also show how busy I am. What I noticed about my desk, was that it was like the overcast clouds that had rolled in: much of it seemed to be covered, and in disarray. I tend to turn to the desk to my left to write things down, open books, read
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Daydream What You Want for Christmas
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Daydream with Jamie Todd Rubin: With Christmas just a few weeks away, I’ve been daydreaming. When I daydream–something that occurs with increasing frequency these days–I often find myself having imaginary conversations with people. Sometimes these are people I know, and other times they are constructs, like characters in a story, that allow the conversation to
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Fixing My Wifi With Eero
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With my family complaining about the Wifi performance in parts of the house I was watching Black Friday deals. Well, there is now an Eero system in the house and you can watch me muddle through setting it up. ## Links – [Purchase Eero on Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WMLPSRL/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) ## My Gear – My gear: https://curtismchale.ca/my-gear – Patreon:
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The Favourite Apps of an iPad Based Web Developer
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Today is a look at all the apps that I love on my iPad. In most cases, I feel handicapped by not having them when I have to use macOS. The first app, which gets a category of it’s own is [Shortcuts](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id915249334?mt=8). I’m not crazy having hundreds of shortcuts like some people, but this is
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Publishers Restricting Library Access to Ebooks
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[So the big publishers are restricting access to Libraries when it comes to purchasing ebooks in the first 8 weeks of publishing](https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775150979/you-may-have-to-wait-to-borrow-a-new-e-book-from-the-library). While I can see that it’s *possible* that Library lending cuts into initial purchases of ebooks, I’m not sure it’s as big an impact as the publishers think. Heck they even say that
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Every Winner Begins as a Loser
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[So you do have to fail first to be successful](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/failure-found-to-be-an-essential-prerequisite-for-success/) > The takeaway? “Every winner begins as a loser,” says Wang, associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, who conceived and led the study. Now it’s not persistence, repeated failure, that marks people that succeed eventually. It’s taking the time
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We Need to Support People That Quit Stuff
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[Justin Jackson on the importance of quitting stuff](https://justinjackson.ca/moving-on). > For most people, It will take multiple attempts to find something that works. If you keep doing what’s not working, how will you ever find what does work? I think another key idea to remember is that whatever you’re doing now was a commitment you made
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Ben Brooks on Why You Should Ditch Your Laptop for an iPad Pro
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[Ben Brooks on Why You Should Ditch Your Laptop for an iPad Pro](https://brooksreview.net/2019/11/why-you-should-ditch-your-laptop-for-ipad-pro/). Here are a few of my highlights. > Why do people care about battery life? Who needs to carry a charger? These are the basic questions I find myself thinking about now that I have been on an iPad Pro for four
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