Companies Don’t Change, But People Can
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The more I experience the increasingly enshittified world controlled by corporations, the less surprised I am when they find new ways to squeeze money out of both customers and creators alike. In their continual quest for profits, I’m extremely skeptical of any promises made and instead wait to see what actions companies take and then
The Efficiency Trap and the Power of Rest
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Once you stop struggling to get on top of everything, to stay in absolute control, or to make everything perfect, you’re rewarded with time, energy and psychological freedom to accomplish the most of which anyone could be capable. –Meditations for Mortals Pg 149 When I look at much of what concerns me in a day
Stop Renting Your Life – Own It
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I’m still thinking about ownership and simplicity so here are some tips on Emacs from others, some talk about the importance of physical ownership, and a thought from an upcoming short book on choosing a note tool. Owning tasks in Emacs I’ve been using Emacs with Org mode for a few weeks now and enjoying
What if it were easy?
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One of the key questions I’ve asked myself for years when a task comes along is “What if this were easy”, so seeing Oliver Burkeman bring up the same question in week three got me smiling. One problem with typical productivity advice is that it assumes you need a deep reservoir of motivation to do
From Shelter to Side Hustles – Profit Took Over Our Lives
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What happens to life when basic needs, like housing, becomes an investment vehicle? How does you life change when the joy of watching sports is tied up with the idolization of gambling? What do we do with our leisure time when so much of the push around us asks us to monetize our hobbies calling
Sipping the Comfortable Cocktail of Procrastination and Excuses
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I’ve lost count of how many people have told me they want to write a book — but never start. They want to be authors, but they’ve invented roadblocks limiting them from writing. They enjoy their comfortable cocktail of procrastination and excuses that gives them license to avoid writing. If you’ve got young kids and
Reclaiming Ownership – From Plain Text Tasks to Headphones and Book Reviews
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If you like this content, become a member or purchase my book Analogue Productivity. This helps the content continue. For the love of plain text Over the last two years I’ve taken ownership of much of my media. I own movies on discs that are placed on my server that are streamed via Jellyfin to
Be free of obligations
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In truth, I don’t actually like reading later. 99% of the time, if I save something to read later, the fact that I’m not reading it now is a good sign that I don’t actually want to read it and should free myself of the obligation. Saving the article is an act of self-soothing, telling
Endless Scroll, Empty Soul – The Tyranny of Reading Later
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Pull and refresh on YouTube to bring you some new videos that their algorithm thinks you’ll like. Pull and refresh on Mastodon to see new articles recommended by people you follow, I’m sure some of them are interesting. Reddit lets you scroll to the “bottom” of a list of things that may interest you that
Friction, Focus, and the Fight to Feel Human
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Today’s issue of 3 Threads ended up being all about the value of friction. Far from being something to avoid, it acts as a filtering function to help us decide what is valuable to us. Booking Time Should Require Friction I’ve long thought that friction is a filtering force in all aspects of your life.
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