• Professional Jobs are Less Secure Than Everyone Told Us

    Professional Jobs are Less Secure Than Everyone Told Us

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    According to Global News, spending a bunch of time in University or College, then doing a bunch of low paid/maybe unpaid internship work will not mean that you get the reward you were promised. Whether you are a teacher, an engineer, or social worker, it doesn’t matter you’re more likely to be a contract worker

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  • The Features I’m Excited about in iOS 12

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    This is not a full breakdown of iOS 12. If you want that go read MacStories, I’ll see you in a few hours. Screen Time With the addition of Screen Time we’re going to see how many times we really touch our phones in the day. One day while I was trying to move some

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  • More Goodness in Ferrite for iOS

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    I read this and yes I’ll be purchasing the update to Ferrite. The only reason I haven’t is that I run my business on Profit First and it’s not pay day so I don’t have expenses in my expense account. That means on Sept 25th I’ll make the purchase. Unfortunately, I still don’t see the

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  • Alternatives to Evernote

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    This post on DEVONthink and Notebooks as an alternative to Evernote got me thinking again about what I do. Here is a quick rundown of what I tried. DEVONthink for iOS and macOS I tried this and there is so much to love about it. The “trial” mode felt really weird at first, but in

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  • Freelance Friday 024 – Sept 21 2018

    Freelance Friday 024 – Sept 21 2018

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    Only one more week until we move and I’m excited. Not excited about the work to move, but that I get my own office in the house that’s not a bedroom. I’ve had an office before, but it was a 5km commute and with kid logistics it stopped working. Now I can do the good

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  • Tracking Goes Everywhere

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    While I love working at home, I also love the freedom to work from anywhere. I’m writing this sitting at a local coffee shop just down the road from my house. It’s literally a block of walking to get here. In many ways it’s been my favourite place to work for years. Not because it’s

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  • The New iPhones just don’t provide the value to justify the price point

    The New iPhones just don’t provide the value to justify the price point

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    Let’s get this out of the way, the new iPhones are crazy expensive. Sure many/most people never pay the actual ticket price, but they’re still crazy expensive. When I look at new purchases I always start by asking myself how much utility I get out of a device/thing. Do I get $1000 dollars of utility

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  • Tracking ACDC in your business

    Tracking ACDC in your business

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    In Clockwork they have a metric called ACDC and inside those 4 areas you need to track one thing to make sure that your business is running smoothly. Today we’re going to talk about what ACDC is and give a few examples of things you might track to make sure that your business is running

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  • Missing Keyboard Shortcuts in Ferrite for iOS

    Missing Keyboard Shortcuts in Ferrite for iOS

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    I love being iOS first in my workflows. Where macOS applications were big behemoths that were hard to use, most iPad apps are trimmed down and amazing. Unfortunately, sometimes, this trimming means you miss out on a few things though. Part of my work is editing podcasts and while I love Ferrite, there are a

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  • I Hate Twitter Threads and They Produce Little Value

    I Hate Twitter Threads and They Produce Little Value

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    “Your “thread” should have been a blog post… Yes. All of them. Every time.” – Rhoneisms I agree with Patrick, Twitter threads are a terrible use of your content writing. There are so many awesome Twitter threads out there. This one on making sure your work isn’t devalued during review time…solid gold. Unfortunately for the

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