• Are headphones bad for your hearing?

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    No as long as you keep the volume low enough and in fact noise cancelling headphones can help preserve hearing in some cases, but they’re not hearing protection. If you’re doing construction wear hearing protection and properly guard your hearing.

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  • Just Try and then Try Again

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    This was an excellent podcast with David Roche and the thing that stuck out to me was David saying that you just need to keep shooting your shot and good things can happen. If you don’t take a chance then nothing will happen because no effort was put out. Good reminder for me this year.

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  • The Power of Linked Writing

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    In this very short piece Kotte shows the power of linked writing online. As he says, it’s 110 words on how unfit Trump is to run a country but leads to hours of reading about the in depth bad stuff he’s done. Your own site can do this. It takes a while to get started…

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  • Reading Well – 3 Threads

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    For 2025 I’m starting a book club and we’re starting with Right Thing Right Now by Ryan Holiday. If you want to get the weekly insights sign up as they’re only coming via email. Members will get some extras like PDF/ePub copies of the book insights and if there is enough interest a group call…

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  • Still looking for a reading chair

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    His top recommendation looks nice, I wish I could find a place to test it out that’s not an entire day of driving away. Do you have a favourite chair? What is it?

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  • Done is Better

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    Make a habit of shipping things, instead of starting things that never get done.

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  • The iPad Ideal

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    This was the ideal I hoped would happen with my iPad. The reality of my iPad usage is that it mostly sits with my bicycle training station and runs the app that connects to my trainer. I watch YouTube videos on it while I ride, or watch YouTube videos while I deal with laundry. While…

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  • All about Reading Books for 2025 – 3 Threads

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    This is brought to you by members become one to keep the content coming. Reading for 2024 – read more?? In 2024 (46 books as of writing) I read more than 2023 (31 books total) which makes me happier but is still below the previous 9 years of around 70 books per year. I’m not…

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  • User hostile operating systems steal time

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    While Ed’s story of crappy tech points directly to a Windows computer, Apple isn’t much better. Yes the hardware is nicer so you don’t have multiple minutes to wait while you login in, but it’s also more expensive meaning that many people couldn’t afford the supposedly “better” experience. Then if you’re a power user Apple…

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  • Monetization Christmas Miracle at YouTube

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    A few days ago I was one of the many people that did something to support a creator that YouTube demonetized and wouldn’t communicate with. Well she’s back and that’s good and all, but damn YouTube is broken. You have to have a big enough channel go viral and get lots of complaints for YouTube…

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