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Shawn Blanc on how he reads
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While Shawn wakes up an hour before his kids to workout and read, I set aside the first working hour of every day to read. We both share the same thought. To be candid, I don’t read nearly as much as I’d like to. I would love to read and study and research and write
Homeless mobility
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So the dockless scooters are helping homeless people move around. When I was on Vancouver Island last summer I saw many signs that hitchhiking was illegal and big fines would happen. The last two winters have seen unusual amounts of snow in Chilliwack that wasn’t cleared from side streets or sidewalks for weeks on end.
Taking the kids to work?
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Austin Kleon writes about his kids spending lots of time in his office. It sounds so good, but then I think about the focused time I need and wonder how I could do it. Could I set up a bit of an art table and then spend more time with them doing art and hanging
On kids and screens
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Doug has a short summary of some myths about kids and screens. The one I struggle with is number 3 that screen time is wasted when compared to outside time. I have the article Doug referenced in my queue to read so we shall see if my mind is changed. I’ve watched my 4 year
The survey says – we check email too much
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Adobe did a survey and in total we check email 5.6 hours a day. Holy crap this is crazy. I just checked Screen Time on my phone and my 7 day total is 5 minutes. Now my phone is not my main computing device. Checking in with my iPad I have a total of 3
On tracking sleep
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Someone got obsessed with tracking sleep and this is generally a good thing. I have a Fitbit Flex 2 which does sleep tracking and most of the time it’s pretty great. Occasionally it’s obviously wrong but overall it lets me know when I’m not getting enough sleep. Sleep is so important to being awesome and
Another possible reason to move away from Apple
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I heard about this from Doug. Evidently Apple has a software kill switch that’s currently off built into their machines. So it could go like this, you upgrade your RAM but since you don’t have the Apple software configuration thing, your machine doesn’t work anymore. So System76 anyone? It’s certainly what I’m leaning towards for
Paul Jarvis on Being “known”
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I feel some of this as I write across multiple topics. I’ve been told many times that I need to stick to a tighter lane of content, but I’m interested in so many things and they all come together to make the business/freelance content be what it is for you readers that come for it.
iOS and Citations
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While I love being iOS first, there are often some silly workarounds still. I’ve got one for my YouTube workflow that you’ll see in a week or so. Here is a bit of a silly workaround if you’re trying to reference sources properly for academic writing. I say silly, because you have to do the
So you’ve got “green dots” in Yoast
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My friend John takes a look at the real meaning of the green dots in Yoast SEO. It’s a good run down of what it means. SEO is a bit of a black art to me. John occasionally sends me an email to tell me what I should be doing better than I am, for