Freelance Friday 047 – March 22 2019
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Yup, you missed the video and all content this week until today. I’m still working on two bigger videos about Digital Minimalism and what I do to have a minimal digital footprint on my life. Outside of that, it’s been a wonderfully warm sunny start to the spring break for my kids. It was 20C…
A Vim writing workflow
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Seems to be a day for writing workflows. Here is one based on Vim. The most interesting part is flashbake which takes his plain text work and checks it into a Git repository every 15 minutes. For everything there is to love about Ulysses, I do love Vim and I do like the idea of…
The iPad Blogging Workflow of Shawn Blanc
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You can read the whole thing here. The coolest thing I found is a “pro tip”… First, highlight the text you want to send into Ulysses, but don’t share from the little pop-up menu that appears after you highlight the text. Instead, go to the main Safari Share button and share the whole page URL.…
We find happiness in…
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What Technology Wants: We don’t find happiness in more gadgets and experiences. So do find happiness in having some control of our time and work, a chance for real leisure, in the escape from the uncertainties of war, poverty, and corruption, and a chance to pursue individual freedoms — all of which come with increased…
The Starving Luminary
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From Stand Out: Unfortunately, for many aspiring thought leaders seeking to make a living from their work, it would be easy to devote all their time to writing free online article, helping others termendously, and building a powerful reputation — all while starving. Yup, there have been times in the last 12 months where I’m…
Forget Business Cards, Go for Depth
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From Stand Out: Do you have enough people in your professional life who really know you? The bias in most discussions about networking is toward meeting more people, going to more cocktail parties, and trading more business cards. But sometimes depth can be as important, if not more so, than breadth. I hate networking. Those…
Critique is easy, creating is hard
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From Justin: Creating something, and releasing it to the public, is hard. Producing a quality product takes a long time. Plus, there are years of experience and practice that have to happen beforehand. Do you know what’s easy? Critique. Putting someone down. Tearing something apart. It only takes a few keystrokes to say “this sucks.”…
Good or bad, it’s your fault
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From Farnam Street: The hard truth is that most things in your life – good and bad – are your fault. The sooner you realize that, the better things will be. How many people never want to hear that. They want to find some other person, company, thing…to blame so that they remain faultless. If…
A Guide to the Upsides of reading books
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Zaria Gorvett for the BBC makes the point first that reading helps you build empathy by citing some studies done on the subject. Then to get more reading in: So now that you’re convinced of the benefits of reading, consider this: according to a 2017 survey of 1,875 people by the UK media regulator Ofcom,…
The false impression you’re saying more than you are
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From Paul Graham in 2015: If you want people to read and understand what you write, yes. Written language is more complex, which makes it more work to read. It’s also more formal and distant, which gives the reader’s attention permission to drift. But perhaps worst of all, the complex sentences and fancy words give…
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