• Has Screentime changed your behaviour?

    by

    Chris Bowler got me thinking about Screentime again. We have no limits set up on my kid yet. When I see other share their reports, I’m wishing my phone wildly less than most and for very different things. Here is my pickup report for today. I’ve averaged 14 per day over 7 days. If the…

    Read More →

  • Shawn Blanc on how he reads

    by

    While Shawn wakes up an hour before his kids to workout and read, I set aside the first working hour of every day to read. We both share the same thought. To be candid, I don’t read nearly as much as I’d like to. I would love to read and study and research and write…

    Read More →

  • Homeless mobility

    by

    So the dockless scooters are helping homeless people move around. When I was on Vancouver Island last summer I saw many signs that hitchhiking was illegal and big fines would happen. The last two winters have seen unusual amounts of snow in Chilliwack that wasn’t cleared from side streets or sidewalks for weeks on end.…

    Read More →

  • Freelance Friday 027 – Oct 12 2018

    Freelance Friday 027 – Oct 12 2018

    by

    Well the office is coming together, and I had a great talk recently with Jason Resnick. We’re working on something for Black Friday to help you get clients and make sure that you have the time to do your marketing duties. It’s far to easy to know what you should do to get clients, and…

    Read More →

  • Taking the kids to work?

    by

    Austin Kleon writes about his kids spending lots of time in his office. It sounds so good, but then I think about the focused time I need and wonder how I could do it. Could I set up a bit of an art table and then spend more time with them doing art and hanging…

    Read More →

  • On kids and screens

    by

    Doug has a short summary of some myths about kids and screens. The one I struggle with is number 3 that screen time is wasted when compared to outside time. I have the article Doug referenced in my queue to read so we shall see if my mind is changed. I’ve watched my 4 year…

    Read More →

  • The survey says – we check email too much

    by

    Adobe did a survey and in total we check email 5.6 hours a day. Holy crap this is crazy. I just checked Screen Time on my phone and my 7 day total is 5 minutes. Now my phone is not my main computing device. Checking in with my iPad I have a total of 3…

    Read More →

  • On tracking sleep

    by

    Someone got obsessed with tracking sleep and this is generally a good thing. I have a Fitbit Flex 2 which does sleep tracking and most of the time it’s pretty great. Occasionally it’s obviously wrong but overall it lets me know when I’m not getting enough sleep. Sleep is so important to being awesome and…

    Read More →

  • Another possible reason to move away from Apple

    by

    I heard about this from Doug. Evidently Apple has a software kill switch that’s currently off built into their machines. So it could go like this, you upgrade your RAM but since you don’t have the Apple software configuration thing, your machine doesn’t work anymore. So System76 anyone? It’s certainly what I’m leaning towards for…

    Read More →

  • Experts are willing to say “I don’t know”

    Experts are willing to say “I don’t know”

    by

    I was listening to The Tim Ferriss Show on my morning run and the interview with Howard Marks continually made me think of how often we get over confident when we talk to clients. We do this because we want to win the work, but are we doing them a disservice? What should we be…

    Read More →