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Work, family or social life
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From Austin Kleon: Work, children, or a social life. You may pick two at a time. (Nobody wants to hear this.) I choose work and family. My only social life currently is the runs that one or two people want to come on. That has meant large numbers of friends I no longer hang out
Content Mills are just like Upwork and Freelancer
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Maddy Osman has a great look at content mills. All the same points apply to freelance market places. It’s the pickiest clients for the lowest prices and you often can’t take the work outside the freelance job platform so you’re only building a portfolio on said platform. If they decide that you’re no longer wanted,
More thoughts on alcohol excluding people from conferences and networking
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Further thoughts after this post. What if you’re at a place where you must be legal drinking age we are saying that the only people worth meeting are 21 (in some states). That’s hardly the truth. We are also excluding anyone that has struggled enough with alcohol in the past that they can’t be around
Opting Out of WordCamp “after” because of alcohol
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Things I’ve realized in 45 days of not drinking Higher education runs on booze. It’s remarkable how many events involve free alcohol and how much socialising after other events involves alcohol I’d say similar things about the WordCamp’s and other tech conferences I’ve been to. I have nothing against drinking but I’m a 1 beer
dad lists insult dad
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The insult to mums, of course, is the suggestion that dads should somehow be celebrated for achieving basic tasks when they get no such recognition. Yup I agree entirely. My wife and I talk about this at least weekly. People rave that I show up to figure skating and can name the jumps my kid
Always on YouTube – of course we have breakdown
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YouTube’s burnout problem. Constant changes to the platform’s algorithm, unhealthy obsessions with remaining relevant in a rapidly growing field and social media pressures are making it almost impossible for top creators to continue creating at the pace both the platform and audience want — and that can have a detrimental effect on the very ecosystem
@shawnblanc on what he’s most interested in with the new iOS
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The calmest iPhone yet Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve had my iPhone within arm’s reach since I bought the first one in 2007. And it can be easy to use it too much. Which is why I’m all for any features that make it easier to keep the phone less distracting while
Don’t prioritize in the moment value
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From Cal Newport A key idea in attention capital theory is that knowledge work organizations implicitly prioritize convenience over value production. It makes everyones’ life easier in the moment if you’re quick to reply to email, willing to hop on a call, attend one more planning meeting and join that internal committee. I freely admit
another reason I don’t watch the news
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Speaking of terrorism Today, a bombing in a Brussels metro station is drummed into our heads in real time through constant stories and vivid pictures. It feels like an attack on our own community. Yeah this stuff is never drummed in to my head. I pay way more attention to local news than international news.
How Fatherhood Changes You
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Enjoyed the piece on how men change in fatherhood. The best part was the quotes from dad’s at the end around what changed in them. “I do nothing I used to, I do things I never thought I would, I survive on less sleep than I ever thought and I love more than I believed