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Own Your Domain and Tend Your Garden
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Own your own domain and tend your garden. Cross-post to Twitter or Facebook if you must, but own your turf and tend your garden. Now that you can register your own domain name at micro.blog you have no excuse: it’s easy-peasy. I’d add to this that if you’re writing a Twitter thread, it should be
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Crocs Save the Day
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This is just purely funny for your day. Crocs as climbing shoes. I also love it because I too wear crocs for 10 years as my winter slippers because they’re warmer than my flip flops which are summer slippers. Found it on Adventure Journal.
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Nir Eyal on How to Become Indistractable
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In the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others and those who proudly call themselves “indistractable”. 1 With that early in the book Nir Eyal sets the tone for Indistractable, a book about helping us learn to control
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Quitting a Freelance Gig
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Seth Godin on quitting a freelance gig: A powerful thing a freelancer can do for her career is to figure out when to fire the bad clients. Firing bad clients is an essential step on the way to finding better ones. He ends with some great questions you need to ask yourself as you get
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Using the Akko 3068 Mechanical Keyboard With iPadOS
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Back in 2012 was my first review of the Kinesis Freestyle Keyboard. Since that review of the V1 I’ve owned the V2 update and most recently the Kinesis Freestyle Blue multi-device variant of my trusty keyboard. I was so confident in the V2 and the Blue I had in desk drawers that a friend was
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Pair Hard Work With Corrective Action to Win
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Chase Parnell reminds us to pair effort with analysis of how things could be done better next time. Now sure, working hard is admirable, but there are a lot of people out there that work their ass off but never progress to the next level because they don’t take that critical next step of pairing
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Does Your Work Show Your Values?
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From Derek Sivers: Once you realize that one value is more important to you than another, you have to ask yourself if you’re living accordingly A great question I’ve been asking myself lately. Is the work I’m pushing forward on conforming to the values I have? Does it allow me the time I want to
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One Action Shortcuts
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One action shortcuts from Rosemary Orchard. I can’t tell you how much Shortcuts has automated in my work…actually I can. Every time I am on macOS and don’t have Shortcuts I feel handicapped. There are a very few things that macOS is better for. Browsing CSS selectors in web developer tools being one of them.
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Friday Notes 076 – October 25 2019
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This week we saw crazy rain followed by very sunny warm days that were beautiful. The kids got some new playground equipment at school, and I’m writing this a day early because it’s a 1/2 day of school and Friday off for the kids. Actually they don’t have a full week of school in October
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Passion Doesn’t Have to Be Part of the Work Equation
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From Paul Jarvis: Passion or love doesn’t have to be part of the work/job equation. The value of work is that you get paid to do it, not that you’d do it even if you didn’t get paid. It even bothers a lot of other writers that my main reason for being a writer is
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