Is a Book Summary Really Reading?
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From Jamie: I’ve been thinking about abridgments lately because of an ad that keeps popping up on Facebook. It’s for a service called Blinkist. The service claims it allows you to “fit reading into your life.” It does this by providing short (15 minute or so) key takeaways of popular nonfiction books. I took a…
Is It Better to Be an Early Success or Late Bloomer?
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Much of our society today looks to early success as the only type of success and hypes it as the thing we all need to achieve[^1]. If you’re not an early success, then forget about it. This is where [Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard](https://amzn.to/2Tu3RbQ) is here to make some changes to the early success narrative…
How Meal Planning Saved our Bacon
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We didn’t know it when we did our meal prep, but we were in for a hard week of sickness. One adult was running a high fever and all of the kids got sick too. Without the work we put in on this Saturday, we would have been hard pressed to keep everything together for…
You Can’t Buy Time
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=35sp4S2w9ZI%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv%26%2395%3Bload%26%2395%3Bpolicy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Great video shared on Signal V. Noise. Monday I shared what went well and what was bad about my 2018. One of my conclusions is that I’m way to busy, in that I feel rushed so much of the time. This isn’t a good thing. I say this in the midst of a week…
Joe is cutting Slack
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Joe Casabona: This might sound crazy to people in my space, as Slack has become the de-facto standard for communication for the lot of us. But it’s also a HUGE distraction. So Joe took these “drastic” steps: Log out of most Slack teams. There’s maybe 4 I feel I should be logged into. Turn off…
What sucked in 2018 and how 2019 will be better
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Yup, we’re half way through January and you’re just getting my 2018 recap post and my 2019 goals and such. What can I say, I took a few weeks off over the holiday’s to hang out with my family and you can all wait. 2018 With my mastermind groups we answer four questions every week.…
Freelance Friday 038 – January 18 2019
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Today is the last day to get this Google Analytics Course from my friend Cinthia. I went through it and it’s great. This week was my first real productive week back at work for 2019, and even then my wife has been sick so I’ve been doing a bit more around the house than usual…
So you want to write
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Or really, do anything well Kris Gage has a thought when someone asks him what the secret is: And right as I start to wonder if they Might Be On To Something Here, I go check their post history, and half the time I see that they rarely write. So I then I point out…
A Good Look at our changing ideas of dad
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From daddilife: In 2018, among a slew of statistics about the changing realities of fatherhood, it was revealed that dads spend three times more time with their children than their grandfathers did. And Research finds that dads are just as likely as mums to say that parenting is extremely important to their identity. Dads are…
iOS Podcasting with Ferrite Recording Studio
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If you’ve been looking for an awesome recording and editing app for podcasting, then you can end your search with Ferrite. Note, I didn’t even qualify it as an iOS app, because it’s just awesome all around. Much better and faster than what I was using on my Mac. I covered it in more detail…
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