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 for even a short period of time, you begin to realise there is no hack for hard work. In the least few years, self-help advice has exploded to become a multi-billion pound industry.

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04 Feb 2024

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. What if the opposite were true and you could pull a healthy? I stumbled on this idea as a meme reel on Instagram, but I think they are on to something.

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02 Feb 2024

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 them out. Not all of them were published, but I got to the stage where I was constantly putting things on my blog — currently, not so much.

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01 Feb 2024

Visit More Blogs

Evan Sheehan in their post RSS?: I wonder what the alternative looks like. A tool that helps you remember the sites you like to visit so that you can browse them at your leisure, but that doesn’t create a commitment to read—or at least look at—absolutely everything that is published on all of those sites. At first, this seemed like a crazy idea, but the more I thought about it, the more it made perfect sense.

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29 Jan 2024

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 wrong until proven otherwise. This is one of those posts that makes me think about a small throwaway point and change my view.

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28 Jan 2024

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 covers controversy in academic publishing and the plagiarism that could be caused by sloppy writing and the pressures of education. However, I spent the whole time thinking about blogging and linking posts.

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28 Jan 2024

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 we need to know more before we get started — leading, of course, to inaction. There are always times when this is the case, but more often than not it is simply a logical fallacy.

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27 Jan 2024

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 any attention to Apple payments and other things going on in the developer world. Not because I don’t care, but because I don’t really have an opinion and what I do think as a user might not always be very popular.

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27 Jan 2024

High vs Low-Energy Tasks

This week, I’ve had two lengthy meetings at the end of the working day. Important, interesting meetings, but exhausting, and it brought to mind the often overlooked skill of scheduling things for the best possible time. The instinct for those convening with others is to arrange a meeting when they have time. The first thing the participants know about it is a calendar invite with green or red buttons (and occasionally a yellow), with very little thought about the other things going on around them and the capacity to be at their best at the scheduled time.

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26 Jan 2024

🔗 The blessing of uncertainty

Uncertainty is uncomfortable. And, for many people, uncertainty not only feels uncomfortable, it feels wrong.

The human brain doesn’t like open loops. It makes every effort to close them, some times making huge logical leaps, for its own good. There’s a skill to becoming comfortable with uncertainty but in some contexts you unfortunately never will.

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25 Jan 2024