I’ve long thought that having a standing desk at home would be helpful, but couldn’t quite figure out how to make it work in our house. I have a pretty hefty desk with three screens (old photo here) and none of the solutions I could find seemed right. Then I realized, with the help of […]
Reading for the altMBA
I’m taking part in Seth Godin’s latest class of the altMBA next month, and the books for the session just arrived at my house. These aren’t textbooks or anything — just normal books you can get on Amazon. Some have been on my “to read” list, and some weren’t, but they’ll all be getting read […]
Zwifting along
I’m sharing this largely because I wish I had known about it a few years ago, so maybe I can save someone else from that. In short, Zwift is an app that puts you in a virtual world connected to your treadmill or your stationary bike. It’s kind of like being in “Second Life”, in […]
The new WordPress.com site building service
A few weeks ago, WordPress.com (not to be confused with the free downloadable software at WordPress.org) announced that they were going to be offering a site building service. This has concerned a lot of folks in the industry (“they’re going to steal our business”), but I think the concern is overblown. In fact, this is […]
Your job is not to do the easy thing
If your job is doing something trivially easy, you’re in trouble. There is always someone willing to do that job for less money than you, and that job may just be replaced by a robot eventually. There’s a time in our life when flipping burgers for a summer might make sense, but that shouldn’t be […]
The WordPress Community
There’s something unique about the community of people that work with WordPress, and I absolutely love it. When explaining our Meetup to people, I generally say something like “We stand up and give away all of our secrets to our competition, and they stand up and give theirs away too“. We all leave the meeting […]
Am I an expert on that?
I mentioned David Perell’s “Write of Passage” course a few days ago, and even if the course doesn’t interest you he’s a great guy to follow. A few days ago, David tweeted this: If you’re unable to read the embedded tweet, it says: Writing is humbling because you realize that you don’t understand things you […]
You should save your published content in Roam Research
I saw this little tip in a recent video from Nat Eliason, and found it be very helpful. When you publish content on the web, such as in a blog, saving a full copy of it in Roam Research can be quite valuable. This short video shows you why.
PDFs are starting to go away
The UK has updated their content design guidelines in major way, and I suspect similar guidelines will find their way to the US before too long. Specifically, they now say: If you publish a PDF or other non-HTML document without an accessible version, you may be breaking the law. The reason for this is pretty […]
Seriously, start your own blog
While I’d love to see some kind of open-source, distributed social network start up, nothing is on the immediate horizon. However, we already have the tools in place to mostly do it ourselves. Here’s some thoughts about how we could make a better social network by starting our own blogs. If you need help getting […]