• Maybe the Friction of Mastodon is a good thing

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    Matt has a good point. As I’ve thought about before, I’m learning that I’m personally more excited about ActivityPub than I am about Mastodon specifically. I’m excited about the idea of being able to use Ivory to log into my Mastodon account and talk to people using Micro.blog, Tumblr, or Threads (one day). RSS currently…

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  • The Dilemma of Content Creators

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    From Sebastien Dubois: The one part I’m disappointed about is the MRR of this newsletter. As I write edition after edition, week after week, I notice how little progress I manage to make. You are now 800+ subscribers, and I’ve only managed to convince 6 of you (❤️) that my work is worth supporting (i.e.,…

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  • People Really Don’t Want to Work in the Office

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    So it turns out that people like flexible work and don’t want return-to-office policies mandated. I’m baffled that companies were caught off guard by high attrition rates when they mandated return-to-office policies. Employees got a taste of what autonomy is like and realized that sitting in the office every day all day was a bad…

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  • Bear 2.0 First Look

    Bear 2.0 First Look

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    Today we’re going to take a first look at Bear 2.0 released by Shiny Frog software. Bear is an excellent note-taking application for macOS, iPadOS and iOS. That means if you use Linux or Windows…you’re out of luck when it comes to this beautiful application. During this first look we tested out the formatting of…

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  • PKM Weekly July 30 2023 – Issue 080

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    If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. You can get this in your inbox by signing up. Bigger Ideas Platform…

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  • What is Conspirituality

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    This member’s post looks at the book Conspirituality and how yoga gurus turn into COVID denying conspiracy warriors. To read the whole post become a member. Members get my courses included..

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  • Hrm – can you even trust books?

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    So Dan Ariely seems to have fudged data that went into his books? Between this and If Books Could Kill I really wonder if I can trust any of the books that I read. At the very least I am far more skeptical of any claims made in books, but unfortunately I’m not always equipped…

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  • The long note task system avoids “due bombs”

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    Two interviewees described this approach as “like paper, but with links.” Many note-centric people I talked to appreciate that notes avoid the ceremony of GTD-style task-tracking tools, and the overwhelm that can come from “due bombs” and other anti-patterns in systems like this. Allen Pike Prompted by my earlier link to Greg and his Field…

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  • One book per month – Field Notes Bullet Journal

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    Love this short report on how Greg is using his Bullet Journal via Field Notes books. I do have TickTick as my regular task manager…in theory. In reality, I write down what I need to do in a notebook at my desk and then do it. The only hard part is tracking links to things…

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  • The Dictators Dilemma andMath Can’t Be Racist

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    I enjoyed this post at Pluralistic. Specifically showing how putting bad data into AI yields bad results, which then slurps up the results and puts out more bad data.

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