Increasing Your Facebook Privacy: Putting lipstick on a pig
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While David says he was a curmudgeon I’m thinking of becoming one. I’ve done all the stuff David suggests and I still wonder if I’m causing people to waste time on Facebook. I know this post gets sent to Facebook which results in some vanishingly small amount of traffic. Even practicing slow social media doesn’t ring…
Missing a Friend
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Brett just wrote a post about grieving. We are still going through it after we lost Roxy a month back after 12 years with her. As he says, there is no timeline. You just slowly heal. Very slowly sometimes. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and things feel better most days.
The Key Productivity Concept of Constraint
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One of the key ideas that I built my system on is constraints. It’s the reason I use a mostly analogue system for my task management. The idea is that by making it harder to write down some ideas, I’m forced to judge their worth right away. I can’t whip out my phone and jot…
Third Spaces and Creativity
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Austin Kleon in Community and creativity in mundane retail spaces Besides fast food restaurants, I collect other stories of creative people hanging out in mundane retail spaces For me it’s a local Starbucks. I got asked this week if I was a writer and then had a 30 minute conversation with a man named David…
The Key Concepts for Choosing A Productivity System
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Finding a good productivity system is so much more than the mechanics of whatever tool you use. In fact, almost every tool is more or less the same. They have due dates, and start dates. You can organize things into projects and sub-folders. Some of them allow collaboration and some don’t. Some follow Agile methods…
How Do You Pick a Good Productivity System?
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Over the course of the next number of weeks we’re going to take a look at what it takes to have a great productivity system. We’re going to dig through the whole thing, starting with the assumptions I have made as I’ve built it out. Yes, it’s always a bit of a work in progress,…
Delete Facebook, Am I Contributing To You Staying?
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From Derek Sivers: Maybe the fact that I use it to share my blog posts is a tiny tiny reason why others are still using it I cited Cal Newport earlier today on deleting Facebook and doing social media slow so you might know already that I’m part of a single reading group that is…
Slow Social Media
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A more nuanced approach to evaluating social media from Cal Newport. Only use a given social media service if it provides valuable benefits that would be hard to replace. Use these services only for these purposes. Delete all social media apps from your phone. (Few serious uses for social media require that you can access…
You can’t teach hustle from @MaddyOsman
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Maddy Osman gets a bit ranty (and it’s well deserved) with this one calling out business coaches and online courses. Oh and I love the whole article. First with some great points like: Building a successful business takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears (more so the latter…
Blog to write, tweet to fight
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I met many people through Twitter who became and remain important collaborators and friends. But the salad days of “blog to reflect, tweet to connect” are gone. Long gone. Over the last year, especially, it has seemed much more like “blog to write, tweet to fight.” – Back to the Blog I never left and…
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