• Ben Brooks – We’ve lost our outrage

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    Ben has an excellent post about Reddit, Twitter, and Meta sucking. We should be taking a stand against assholes in hoodies (used to be suits) exploiting free labour and paid workers like these companies do.

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  • Cross Platform Snippet Management with Espanso

    Cross Platform Snippet Management with Espanso

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    Since I added Linux to my operating system workflow I am no longer able to have all my text snippets, including code, only available on macOS. I need a cross-platform snippet tool and today we’re going to look at Espanso which is my current option for a cross-platform snippet manager. Installing Espanso On macOS, you…

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  • Should You Read How to Make Notes and Write by Dan Allosso

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    There has been a glut of note-making books in the last few years, some are decent, and some are thinly veiled attempts at generating intellectual property so the author can sell you on more courses. I’m happy to say that How to Make Notes and Write by Dan Alloso and SF Allosso is one of…

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  • Reddit’s Headlong Dive into Enshitification

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    So Reddit is diving headlong into its enshitification cycle. Cory Doctrow popularized this idea which looks like this: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value…

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  • PKM Weekly June 11 2023 – Issue 073

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. 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…

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  • Knowledge Work is Leaky

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    The dark side of the freedom of knowledge work is that it’s leaky. To read this whole post become a member. Members get all my courses in addition to weekly research notes..

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  • Matt Says Camcorders Were Weird Too

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    Matt says that camcorders were weird too and people tensed up when camcorders came out. Now technology has changed enough that a phone coming out to take a video changes little about the behaviour of most people. On some level, I agree. Vision Pro will change lots and people will get used to it. My…

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  • iPadOS 17 Supports 4k External Cameras?

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    According to Patrick yes it does support an external camera in the beta. This is cool, and in some ways I’m also over waiting for the iPad to get so many features it should have had for years.

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  • Live Book Note Session – On Work

    Live Book Note Session – On Work

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    This week I’m going to walk you through a live note session on the book On Work by Derek Thompson. Outside of the plugins I use, the biggest takeaway is that you need to make time to process your notes. Stop looking for shortcuts to building good notes and extensive knowledge. Put in the work.…

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  • PKM Weekly June 4 2023 – Issue 072

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. 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…

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