Reading Time: < 1 min Writing daily can be tough. I’m about three years into daily blogging, and I still struggle quite a bit. The difference now is that I don’t wait to be inspired. Prior to 2020, I’d post “when I felt inspired”. This led to 14 posts in 2019, 9 in 2018, and similar numbers going back to […]
Advice is often an average that hides the distribution
Reading Time: 2 min I love seeking advice from others. In almost any area of my life there are people that know far more than I do, and learning from them is an amazing thing. Advice is tricky, though, as it usually defaults to the average response for any given situation and ignores the distribution. In the great conversation […]
USB-C is finally everywhere
Reading Time: 1 min I can’t believe it took nearly a decade since I first told you that USB-C was going to be a great thing, but we’re finally here. The newly-released iPhone 15 changed their port to be USB-C, and they were essentially the last device that needed to change. I know that iPhone users are going to […]
Just pick up the trash
Reading Time: 2 min A little over a year ago, we switched companies that handle our weekly trash pick-up. The previous company simply wasn’t consistent; we’d often get an email on the afternoon of the pick-up day that essentially said “Sorry, but we’re not going to be able to make it today. See you next week!“. Here is a […]
Access to knowledge is good, but creating it is better
Reading Time: < 1 min We live in an amazing time, where all of the world’s knowledge is just a few taps away. It’s fantastic! Having access to that kind of information 24/7 would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago. However, access to knowledge (and even consuming it) pales in value to creating it for yourself. It’s like […]
It intentionally doesn’t scale
Reading Time: 2 min Last year I shared some thoughts on doing things that don’t scale. In that case it was about invoicing, but I’ve seen this idea continue to pop up. Lumpy Mail The first is the idea of sending “lumpy mail”. It’s easy to send 1000 emails, and rather easy to send 100 letters in the mail, […]
The Sunday Summary: Digital prep, brain changes, more Readwise, and more AI
Reading Time: < 1 min In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, September 18: Digitally prepping for a tripHere are some things that I’m doing to get my digital pieces in order before I head off on a couple of […]
Yes, AI will take some jobs
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s a foregone conclusion that AI is going to replace some jobs in the coming years. I can’t say whether it’s be a small or large number, and no one knows for sure, but it’s clear that at least some jobs will be replaced by AI. This sounds like a bad thing, but is it? […]
Readwise at the end
Reading Time: 2 min As I’ve mentioned a few times on here, I have a handful of tools that I use every day. I mentioned some like Anki and Feedly last year, but now I’m adding Readwise to the mix because it has a great small feature that not many people notice. My main goal for each day is […]
Technology changes the focus of our brain
Reading Time: 2 min As technology develops, our skills change along with it. Not only does this means we have new skills to learn, but it also means that we have older skills that are no longer needed. When’s the last time you dipped a quill to write a letter? This kind of thing can lead to memes like […]