I Wasn’t Productive Today and I Won’t be Productive Tomorrow Either
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Today we talk about the myth pushed by businesses and self-help guru’s that the reason you’re not successful is that you’re not working hard enough. That if you just do more you’ll finally be successful. Really, it’s a way to exploit your labour and take as much value as possible from you. If you want…
YouTuber’s Waste My Time
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Watching YouTube videos today for PKM Weekly and the biggest frustration I have with YouTuber’s is “fancy” intros that spend a minute or more wasting my time showing off stuff. Just get to the point. Even the PKM community is not immune to it. What baffles me is that some of the “biggest” channels spend…
Writing advice from Matt Haughey – Don’t be an asshole
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Good advice from Matt. Forget the word salad corporate speak and just tell people what you’re providing. I find this in YouTube videos as well. Everyone wants to do some fancy intro so you don’t get to the meat of the content for at least a minute. My goal is to get people into the…
Does VC Money Do Anything Good?
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After reading this article about the future of media companies I wonder if VC money does anything good at all. Uber was supposed to revolutionize cars, but just looses money. The only thing it did was drive pricing down for similar services, like Taxi’s, and make it harder to earn a living in the field.…
Things 3 Interface Tour
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Today’s video will take a look at the main areas of Things 3 interface.
Apathetic about Social Media
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Much like Tom, I’m feeling pretty apathetic about social media lately. Social media drives little traffic to my site. While people I have met on social media have contributed to my career (working an entire year for someone I met via Twitter) I’m still not sure I want to invest time there. What if I…
Talking about Book Wars by John B Thompson
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While Book Wars doesn’t quite hit the mark for a full post pulling out the relevant take aways, I did want to highlight a few things. eBooks Didn’t Kill Print One of the biggest takeaways is that ebooks didn’t kill print like many people thought it would. Unlike music, which ate the recording industry particularly…
iPadOS 16.2 Beta 4 Breaks AirPlay
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If you’re running iPadOS 16.2 Beta, don’t upgrade to version 4 as it breaks AirPlay to devices when you’re connected to an external display. Once you’ve updated to Beta 4 and try to AirPlay to external speakers iPadOS tells you that you can’t use AirPlay while connected to an external display. If this persists it…
Let’s Just Use Passwords Please
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One of the things I dislike most about modern account creation for sites is when they do not use a password and username combination. I’m sitting here waiting for 20 minutes for a code from Synology to setup my new device. Their advice is to, send another code and wait for 15 minutes to see…
PKM Weekly Dec 4 2022 – Issue 047
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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…