Friday Notes 073 – October 4 2019
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This week I finished Company of One by Paul Jarvis and I very much enjoyed the book, watch for a review of that coming in the next week or so. Outside of that, I’ve been thinking about doing more of what makes me happy. Sometimes that’s client work, but sometimes it’s not. Yesterday what was
We Might Actually Desire Slowness
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From Rainesford Stauffer in NY Times: The idea that young people like me are always on the go, always in transition and always on masks that we might actually desire slowness, want to relish an experience, or enjoy taking a moment to feel comfortable and human instead of curated and optimized. I read this article
Running and Mental Health
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Powerful video with three women talking about how running has helped them with mental health. They’re going to talk about childhood trauma, body image issues and eating disorders. If that’s going to bother you, maybe don’t watch. I particularly enjoyed the idea of substituting your bad addicitions for something good. That’s what James Clear talked
Friday Notes 077 – November 1 2019
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Yet another week of school is happening that isn’t a full week. Today my kids are home and in theory I’m still getting work done, but with noise cancelling headphones on because kids make a lot of noise. Seriously, I think that Starbucks is a quieter place to work than a house full of kids.
Going From Google Docs to Markdown in Statamic with iPadOS
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When I wrote about managing WordPress from your iPad for AppPresser I talked about how I get content from Google Docs over to WordPress. Well, with the advent of iPadOS 13 we have a change in my workflow which I’m going to share with you today. To get started, head over to docs.google.com in Safari
Personality Traits Are More Complex in Complex Societies
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So the short version of this is that the “big 5” personality traits aren’t as universal as we thought. It’s also good to remember this as we look at the importance of context in behaviour and grit. In Range we learned that you may be very gritty, in things you care about and not gritty
An Apple Watch Argument I Could Go For
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Frank on not running with an Apple Watch. Buying things is more fun than running, which is why I convinced myself that an Apple Watch was the perfect inspiration to get back into my trainers. It is now a few months on–I’m still not running regularly, but the watch provided a different and unexpected benefit.
If WordPress.org Died?
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Tammy brings up a great question regarding wordpress.org and Automattic killing it. Yes, they can’t really kill the GPL CMS, but what if. Me, I’d go with Statamic. Funny that’s what runs the site already. I picked a paid commercial, not open source CMS because I enjoyed Jack’s personality. I ended up finding WP people
If You Had Nothing to Hide, Why Is Everyone Trying to Get Your Data?
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From Carissa Véliz on Aeon: You might think your privacy is safe because you are a nobody – nothing special, interesting or important to see here. Don’t shortchange yourself. If you weren’t that important, businesses and governments wouldn’t be going to so much trouble to spy on you. This one in particular gets me as
Friday Notes 072 – September 27 2019
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Last night was the first race for the x-country team I’m helping coach at my daughter’s school. That meant two trips across town to get my wife to work, us back to the race, then us back to the arena so all of my kids could skate. Then back home after 7pm with three kids
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