A Worse Phone Breaks the Addiction
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In an effort to break my smartphone addiction, I’ve joined a small group of people turning their phone screens to grayscale — cutting out the colors and going with a range of shades from white to black. – Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone? I know that when iOS 11 basically made…
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is NOT an Effectively Written Book
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How we integrate kids into life from @bookwormfm
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Your job as a parent is to build a good adult. Mike and Joe get into this on a recent episode of Bookworm as they talk about 168 Hours. Specifically they talk about involving kids in stuff like passing you screws or helping around the house. You should be getting your kids involved. Stop saying…
The Wall Street Journal and Analogue Productivity
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I’ve never tried iCal. I use Google Calendar at work of course—refusing to accept co-workers’ meeting invites would be confusing and rude—but the idea of reducing the rest of my life to tiny cells on my phone screen fills me with dread. – Paper Planners in the Digital Age Just like Florsheim, I’m all in…
Security in Mediocrity as a WordPress Theme Builder
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Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can only work so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly better typist or a slightly faster coder is insufficient. You’re always looking over your shoulder, always trying to be a little less mediocre than the guy next to you. It wears you out.…
Save Yourself The Pain Just Don’t Do Anything
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You can save yourself the pain of failing by…Never. Doing. Anything. – From Frustrated To Frickin Awesome Failure sucks. In the middle of 2017, I failed huge as a parent. My oldest kid was acting her age, and I lost it. I yelled and scared her. I had little control over how I reacted. In…
Last Call to Plan Your Year with @shawnblanc
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One of the sites I’ve been reading for years has been Shawn Blanc’s. Good thought provoking content. Over the holidays he released Plan Your Year which is a course and worksheets to help you have a good plan for the year. I bought it and went through it with my wife. Good stuff. Today is…
Celebrated Talent is Not The Good Stuff
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Are you talented? What makes you talented? Typically, we associate talent only with celebrated excellence — with a strong emphasis on the word celebrated. – First Break All The Rules It’s easy to look at some well-known programmer and say they’re talented. Maybe you’ve never seen their code though, and it’s crap. I can think…
Writing in Exotic Locations via @ryanholiday
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“It was a time everyone was pressing wonderful houses on us. ‘I have a perfectly marvellous house for you to write in,’ they’d say. Of course no one needs marvellous houses to write in. I still knew that much. All you needed was one room. But somehow the next house always beckoned.” – Want To…
Behaviour or Goals – Which Matters Most?
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Many people set goals, particularly at this time of year, but don’t focus on the behavior that leads to achieving those goals. You have far more control over your behavior than any outcome. And if you focus on your behavior, it’s possible that you’ll end up with an outcome that exceeds your expectations. – Focus…
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