Jeroen Sangers

Some more thoughts by Cal Newport based on the same research that led me to write this note in my Digital Garden.

The allure of productivity is therefore a complex one. We cannot dismiss it as the result of the evil master plan of mustache twirling capitalists. We also cannot embrace it as an unalloyed good. It’s a human drive tangled with the contradictory imperatives of culture.

This is by far my favorite feature in iOS 15: Scheduled Notification Summary.

Instead of having a constant stream of interesting things, I now receive my notifications bundled at my most convenient moments.

📷 It’s the season

This morning while watching a few Twitch streams, I briefly had the idea of starting my own channel. I quickly abandoned the idea when I realised that this would cost me an insane amount of time (since of course I would create the perfect templates) and it would be the most boring stream ever as there is no way an introverted person as I am would be able to fill an hour with banter.

The Netherlands offer so much more than Amsterdam and tulips. Most tourists do not take the opportinity to visit the heather field, which especillay in august, are very beautiful as shown by these spectacular photos by Albert Dros.

It usually starts mid or early Augusts and lasts until the end of the month, and it turns a lot of areas completely purple. What am I talking about? The heather plants. Compare it to the France’s Lavender fields that start a couple of weeks earlier in July. The purple heather fields in the Netherlands are a dream for any landscape photographer. Combine them with mist and you’ve got yourself a dreamscape that looks like it popped straight out of a fairytale.

I really wish I could open search results in the sidebar or the main screen instead of the fleeting floating popover window in @RoamResearch.

I just found myself going through my Twitter feed for some minutes, a clear sign that I should stop working and take a real break.

📷 Shelter

Recuerda: cuando un político está escribiendo en los RRSS o hablando delante una cámara o micrófono, no está haciendo política. Llámalo marketing, demagogia, propagando… lo que sea, pero no es política.