Too much you, in f^!k you

Can I quote post, a quote post? Well, tough, I am. Matt Birchler talking about dunking on people being a sport: > …a surefire way for you to generate engagement this week is to talk shit about… The first thing that comes to mind reading Matt’s post is the

The Enjoyment Sponge

Ali Abdaal writing The Optimisation Paradox edition of his newsletter: There’s nothing wrong with optimising something for growth, and “treating it like a business”. But it comes with the trade-off that, usually, the thing becomes a little less fun. It doesn’t matter what you like doing, the

There Is No Hack

For far too many years of my life, I was seeking ideas to boost the things I could get done. At first, it was tips for better conversion rates, better management styles and more recently it’s pure productivity “getting things done” advice. When you digest this kind of thing

Pulled a healthy

There are some mornings you get up, feel so under the weather from illness that you can’t face the world. Not to mention, you shouldn’t be spreading your infliction around to the rest of the workforce — so you ring in ill. Spending the day resting and recuperating instead.

The Struggle

Whenever anyone asks me how I write so much, my default answer used to be because I read so much. The words from other people producing content I enjoyed, be it on the web or in a book, never failed to give my pause of thought and inspiration to write

Visit More Blogs

Evan Sheehan in their post <a href="https://darthmall.net/weblog/2023/rss/" class="u-in-reply-to">RSS?</a>: > I wonder what the alternative looks like. A tool that helps you remember the sites you like to visit so that

Turning Words Into Your Own

Alan Jacobs with an interesting note on plagiarism: > …see something in a digital book or article that they want to use, copy the relevant text, and then paste it into Word with the intention of editing it later to in some sense make it their own. Alan’s note

Fast Living

Leo Babauta saying Become Quiet So You Can Listen: > …it’s a very human tendency to want to be busy, productive, filling every space with something useful or entertaining. I’m one of those suckers. Those people who accuse the modern world of always being to blame for everything

Other App Stores

Sebastian de With, on Threads: > This is apparently incomprehensible to some people on this website, but to many people it’s actually a good and beneficial feature that Apple doesn’t let you install software on your iPhone from anywhere else. It has been a while since I paid

Not A Knowledge Problem

The reasons that have sparked this thought process are not sharable; however, it relates to quite a few things in our lives, and society at large, that I thought it worth sharing. It relates to the often used delaying tactic to action is the amount of knowledge we have. That