Google first released Family Link a few years ago, as a way to help parents monitor their kid’s devices. However, it had a few issues: When it first came out, you could only monitor new Google accounts. If your kids already had an account, like ours did, they simply couldn’t added. Later, they added the […]
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Busyness vs Clutter
A few days ago, a friend of Facebook posted a screenshot of their computer desktop and it was total chaos, with hundreds of folders and files filling the screen. She was proud of how busy she was, and I don’t doubt it, but it got me thinking about the intersection of busyness and clutter. I […]
Three lesssons from Before Breakfast
A few weeks ago, a new podcast came out called Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam. It’s a short (5 min), daily podcast to give you “productivity advice that will take your day from great to awesome.“ It’s been really interesting for me. Most days I think “that episode was a nice reminder of x”, but […]
Becoming Superhuman pushed me back to iPhone
I’ve loved Android for years (and still do), but I often said something like “I’m using Android for now, and for the foreseeable future, but I’ll move back to iPhone if it ever makes more sense for me.” In my opinion, people on both sides should always keep an open mind; “iPhone for life!” or […]