It seems Seth was listening in on our Zoom call this morning, in which we decided to dedicate the month of January to review our processes and systems.
When will you sharpen the saw?
In any given moment, an urgency that feels like an emergency gives us the permission to abandon our systems and simply dive in and fix it, as only we can. And this permission is precisely why we get stuck, precisely why the next urgency is likely to appear tomorrow.
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
It really bothers me when services with a well working web app oblige me to install their app to access their service from my phone.
Usually I prefer native apps, but not for something I only need very occasionally.
I love this quote about Serena Williams using Toggl Track:
Cover subject Serena Williams tells senior writer Nicole LaPorte that she uses the app Toggl to help track her time with her daughter, Olympia. Victory, for this athlete-entrepreneur-investor, is when she overindexes on parenting.
Entiendo la popularidad de iVoox para escuchar a podcast. Pero desde el punto de vista de los productores de podcast es un servicio nefasta. No entiendo porqué duplican el feed original eliminando metadatos como, por ejemplo, los enlaces en las notas del programa.
Over the last days, my todo list slowly morphed into a Tetris puzzle with too many dependencies.
When I’m that time restrained I feel I can’t trust OmniFocus anymore and am afraid that I’m overcommitting.
So, I moved all my tasks to SchedPal and let my limited time available determine what to focus on.
I’m seriously wondering why I’m not posting more often when there really is no friction to write down and publish a message.
I agree with all these observations: Let’s talk video conferencing
Hace 14 años hizo algo que me ha cambiado la vida: publiqué el primer post en mi blog El Canasto.
No me podía imaginar que este pequeño proyecto se convertiría en mi pasión y mi profesión.
Quiero dar las gracias a todos y a todas que me han seguido en alguna forma en algún momento en estos años.
Why isn’t the Notes app available in the share sheet of an Music song?
Nicholas Bate is the master of list posts. I always like to read them, but somehow today’s post struck something deep inside me.
Though there is nothing shockingly new on the list with Standards in a Covid World, there are several pieced of advice I really, really need to implement.
As a productivity nerd, whenever I encounter an in-depth interview about personal organization and decision making with high performers such as Marc Andreessen, I instantly subscribe.
Nice to have been part of the TemPredict study that used biometric data from the Oura ring to detect COVID-19 days before symptoms appear. Early results look promising!
We need to be careful to not optimize everything to be efficient. Efficiency is for robots, humans are inefficient.
Discovery, adventure, every single thing that we really value as humans is terribly inefficient.
En la última entrega de Causas y Azares descubrí Todos tus libros, una interesante alternativa a Amazon para comprar tus libros en pequeñas librerías en toda España.
No sé si tendrá éxito, pero les deseo mucho suerte. Yo leo mis libros en digital, pero para regalar un libro en papel, siempre compro en las pequeñas librerías.
This is my current iPad home Screen:
After having used an iPad for eight years, today was the first time I connected a Bluetooth keyboard. This changes everything!
Since last summer, we are in the market for a new iMac 🖥 to replace a 7-year old MacBook Air 💻. The MacBook served us well for occasional work, but in the era of remote work we really need a bigger screen.
We prefer not to buy an Intel computer on the verge of a new architecture launch so we postponed the buying decision to today. In the unlikely event that Apple announces a new iMac with Silicon, we will purchase it right away. Otherwise, we won’t wait any longer and buy the current Intel-based model.
I did not know this: the bridges on the € banknotes are fictitious, but an architect in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse recreated them.
(via Patrick Loonstra)
23 years ago, I decided to add a page to my website where I explain what has been going on in my life. A few years later I learned that there was a name for such a page: a web log.
A lot has changed since then.
I have changed the blogging engine several times. The first page was made in Microsoft FrontPage, followed by hand-crafted Server Side Includes (SSI), the NewsPro CGI script and Movable Type, my favorite blogging engine of all times. Later, I decided that tweaking servers, databases and scripts was no longer a good use of my time, so I parked the blog on the hosted version of WordPress. And finally, this year I made the switch to Micro.blog.
Also the contents of the blogposts have changed in those years. Starting with a monthly post in Dutch summing up previous months activities in my life, I changed to writing in English when I migrated to Spain and wanted to keep an international group of friends up-to-date on my life here. When I got bored explaining my life I slowly shifted to a mixture of technology, humor, music and web standards. There also have been several years with hardly any new posts, as I focused on my successful Spanish productivity blog el Canasto. As of last year, I am back to blogging again (mostly in English, but sometimes in Dutch or Spanish), (un)focused on a mixture of personal themes, interesting stuff I found on the web and some technology.
As for the future of this blog, seen my recent interest in publishing more (I even wish to publish daily), I think it is safe to say that the blog won’t go anywhere. Now that I have kept it alive for 23 years, I surely want to make sure to celebrate its 25th anniversary in two years.
The more a play around in Tribe.so, the more I like it as a tool for creating a community.
Dear MailChimp,
I am having an issue upgrading a free account to a paid account.
I would like to talk to someone from your support department, but you tell me that I first have to upgrade my free account to a paid account. 🤯
Though this looks like a joke, the message is absolutely necessary.
At almost 5 kg, the elgato Weighted Base for the Multi Mount System is deceptively heavy for its size.
The only issue is that this message is printed on the inner box and not on the outer box, so the delivery guy had no idea…
Waiting on the the Silicon computers. I really, really need to buy a new iMac 🖥, but don’t want to buy Intel right before the switch.