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.
Does Farsighted by Steven Johnson Actually Help You Make Better Decisions?
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This month we looked at Farsighted by Steven Johnson in book club. Join the club to get all the content on it. Next month we’re reading Meditations for Mortals. The purpose of Farsighted is to help us make better decisions with Johnson saying that outside of a pro/con list, we teach almost nothing to most
What are you optimizing life for?
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Optimize for what you care about Because, at the risk of sounding a little fruity, I believe that a life in which we habitually abandon the known Good Things in order to helplessly stab at “”managing”” a nebulous morass of chaoses that we can never control is not much of a life at all. –
How to See Your Blindspots Before They Burn You
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While this newsletter is free, membership helps support my work so that it can keep showing up in your inbox. Last week we looked at how diversity improves decisions, today let’s look at how we can improve our decisions when we’re faced with personal decisions. One of the first questions I ask when evaluating a
AI, Quantum Computing, Automation – All the Hype that Money Can Buy
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Want to keep this newsletter coming become a member. Anyone know the name of the music album this blog post title refers to? No looking it up. Quantum Computer’s Aren’t Real While I had heard of this paper debunking the breathless media headlines about quantum factorization I admit it was above my head but luckily
Diversity matters if you want good decisions
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Let’s start with the point that Steven Johnson makes over and over in Farsighted, if you want to make good decisions the diversity in background, gender, all other factors…matters. Homogenous groups – whether they are united by ethnic background, gender, or some other worldview like politics – tend to come to decisions too quickly. They
Dehumanizing Safety Gear
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Two friends got run over by a car this week while riding their bikes. One is doing fine, the other was likely on his last ride. I’ve been on the radio this week and talking to a number of my non-cycling friends about bike and pedestrian safety this week and I wanted to share a
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