• I keep grabbing my phone

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    Kevin Rose for The New York Times: For the rest of the week, I became acutely aware of the bizarre phone habits I’d developed. I noticed that I reach for my phone every time I brush my teeth or step outside the front door of my apartment building, and that, for some pathological reason, I

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  • What man needs to know when 28 days have passed?

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    Caroline Criado Perez: Going back to the theatre of Man the Hunter, the lives of men have been taken to represent those of humans overall. When it comes to the other half of humanity, there is often nothing but silence. And these silences are everywhere. I feel like I’m more attuned to this with 3

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  • On Mental Toughness

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    James Clear: Research is starting to reveal that your mental toughness — or “grit” as they call it — plays a more important role than anything else for achieving your goals in health, business, and life. That’s good news because you can’t do much about the genes you were born with, but you can do

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  • Do we need Chrome?

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    Read Leiden writes: The dominance of Chrome has a major detrimental effect on the Web as an open platform: developers are increasingly shunning other browsers in their testing and bug-fixing routines. I’m not so sure about this, though I do think that we need browser diversity. I wonder what it would take to have the

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  • Freelance Friday 044 – March 1 2019

    Freelance Friday 044 – March 1 2019

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    Well the snow appears to mostly be melting in Chilliwack. My biggest issue with snow is that it reduces the mobility of so many of the people in town. At our last house I’d end up giving rides to people who couldn’t walk to get groceries or drop people off at work that couldn’t ride

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  • Third Party Apple Repair Shops

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    This article got me reflecting on my Apple repair blessings over Christmas. I had two iPhones that qualified under the Apple battery replacement program and instead of needing to drive an hour towards Vancouver my local London Drugs is an authorized repair facility. I was very surprised to find this local store could repair my

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  • Snow Day Tuesday with the Kids

    Snow Day Tuesday with the Kids

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    https://youtu.be/u_cje7qkP5o_ We had a rare snow day in Chilliwack so after skating and some work we got out with the sleds and had some fun. My gear: https://curtismchale.ca/my-gear Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtismchale Music: https://curtismchale.ca/epidemic

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  • I’m a productivity Champ?

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    Over at Asian Efficiency there is a short profile on me if you’re interested in reading a bit about my journey to productivity.

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  • How I use Ulysses and Shortcuts to write from my iPad Pro

    How I use Ulysses and Shortcuts to write from my iPad Pro

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    All the blogging and video editing work I do to produce content for my site is done done from my iPad. In fact, lots of my writing was done on my iPad 2 8 years ago when I got that device and fell in love with it as a writing tool. Today I’m going to

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  • Yes I’d get a job

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    This is a great post from Steve Campbell following his journey from leaving his corporate job to starting something on his own. To pivoting, to running out of money and time to make it work. Now to polishing his resume. I’ve always said that I’ll work any job that I don’t find morally objectionable to keep

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