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Turning Down $20k Projects – Friday Notes 132
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I just turned down a $20k project for a local agency. On top of being a decent chunk of change for the year, this would have raised my profile greatly among many different organizations in the city. I would have also had a direct hand in helping provide information and assistance for local businesses to…
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Living with My Colonial Legacy – Friday Notes 131
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There was a point in my life when I would feel angry when I’d read the news and see Canadian First Nations talking about the colonial legacy. When a black person would talk about slavery and imply that I had anything to do with it. I haven’t had slaves. I haven’t knowingly committed racist acts.…
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Consistency is the Goal for 2021 – Friday Notes 130
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Welcome back, I hope your holiday season was decent. I’d say amazing, but with 2020 being 2020, let’s go for decent because anything above that is a huge win. Many years I’ve tried to push forward some big goal in my business. Last year I wanted to turn my YouTube channel into something and I…
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Revisiting Your Ideas – Friday Notes 129
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While listening to [Bookworm talk about The Practice](https://bookworm.fm/108/) they mentioned that Godin revisited the same topic a bunch of times. Far from a complaint, Mike and Joe looked at it as Godin tweaking his thoughts on something as he had a better understanding of a subject. While I’m not trying to compare myself to Godin,…
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Apple Doesn’t Want Me to Watch Content I’ve Purchased – Friday Notes 123
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> If I’m your audience, and I’ve spent a thousand bocks on my movie library, I don’t want to have to throw away that investment. I want to be able to use one family of devices and one program to manage my movies. [^1] I stopped purchasing video content or music from Apple a few…
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The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
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From the subtitle, Andrew Yang positions The War on Normal people as his answer to deal with the problems America is facing with disappearing jobs and thus income issues in their homes. ## What is the Problem? In Yang’s mind the issue is that we have a lack of financial mobility and stability. This insecurity…
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The Internet Lets us Mimic Expertise – Friday Notes 122
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One idea I keep coming back to, in part because I catch myself falling into the trap, is that the internet allows us to mimic expertise with an inexhaustible list of facts[^See [The Death of Expertise](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/01/31/how-expertise-died) for more on this]. I caught myself doing it two weeks ago with friends. We were talking about my…
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Scope Creep by Stealth – Friday Notes 120
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One insidious way that your time and attention gets stolen is scope creep by stealth. It starts with agreeing to a call to talk about something you’re interested in. Then they ask for a headshot and bio from you since they’ll be publishing the talk. Next they want to have a pre-call, which is likely…
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More Rules for the Lazy – Friday Notes 118
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Last week I talked about some of my new rules so that I didn’t fall into it inferior good activities regularly, well I’ve got a few other rules that I operate by as well that help keep my life calmer than most. ## Email Rules One of the terrible ideas that we easily fall into…
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Time Block Leisure? – Friday Notes 116
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> Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to…
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