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 you can browse

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

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

At What Point Do You Give Up?

As I wrote about yesterday, I have been using my time to build a blog. This effort stems partly from annoyance and partly from a desire for extra learning. The blog is built on a static site generator called 11ty, and I’ve developed it to a point where I