So true…

Life is slower on paper, and that’s a good thing!

This is powerful advice:

Shout-out to @RyanHVaughn for posting some of the most useful advice I've seen on r/startupshttps://t.co/DNW1mqI3a1 pic.twitter.com/FmJKUWyEeI

— Brian Wang (@brianmwang) September 5, 2020

Have → Do → Be or Be → Do → Have?

Oura now supports Sleep Sharing!

Therefore, simply because I can (and not because it is of interest to you) this is how my last night went:

Frank Meeuwsen is de laatste dagen Hypothesis aan het testen. Ik volg zijn bevindingen met interesse, want ik geloof dat er toekomst zit in social notetaking.

In deze post schrijft Frank dat de RSS feed nog geen link naar de originele pagina bevat.

Als lezer van Franks blog, mis ik ook de mogelijkheid om naar de originele pagina te gaan vanaf de Hypothesis notes pagina, bijvoorbeeld om deze op mijn eigen blog te delen. De enige manier die ik gevonden heb is de URL in de browser handmatig te wijzigen.

@rahego: ¿Y tú qué mides?

Una de las razones por que me gusta micro.blog es que puedes ver cuántos seguidores tienes.

In preparation of the migration of this site from WordPress to micro.blog, today I finished reviewing all post I published here since 1996.

Lost in translation:

Seth on dates:

One of the most expensive things a service business or freelancer can do is promise that work will be done by a certain day. Which is something we need to do, of course, but we should charge appropriately. “It’ll be done soon,” should be way cheaper than, “It’ll be done at exactly 11 am on Tuesday.”

And one of the most important things we can do to focus our energy and commitment is be prepared to promise a date certain. It sharpens everything.

Seth nailed the essence of a Zoom meeting:

The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated slot on the Google calendar invite. The purpose is to communicate an idea and the emotions that go with it, and to find out what’s missing via engaged conversation.

Twenty years after the introduction of the €, I still receive invoices mentioning the equivalent amount in Pesetas.

Today I deleted all collections from my Zotero database.

I find that most interesting studies are at the intersection of different fields and therefore, by definition, difficult to classify.

One more place where a single body of information works way better than a more structured system.

This is what I’m working on now.

I just read an old post on this blog describing the tools I used fourteen years ago.

What a great trip through memory lane!

A lot have changed since then and none of those tools have lasted that long. Even sadder is that many of them don’t exist anymore.

A few weeks back I made de jump back from Zettlr to Roam Research for my notes, and today I noticed it pays off. This morning I added over 30 new notes to my system with very little effort.

Messier is better.

For meetings, I have a yellow legal pad and a .5mm rollerball. I used to roll with a .38mm, but the .5 feels way more messy and therefore better.

Productivity is a philosophy.

Influencers make us feel that productivity is important, and yet they rarely define the term, let alone helpfully. For example, David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) book, which became very popular in software circles, uses the term productivity very loosely. Many of the core examples in the GTD method relate to general activities such as cleaning one’s garage as opposed to working with knowledge. And the GTD principles have no reference to cognitive science, even though cognitive science is the modern interdisciplinary science of understanding the information processing we do in our brains, with or without the aid of technology.

don’t just talk - do some work! Write. Curate. Connect. Architect. Build on other peoples’ ideas. Share. Ask. Reflect. Show your work. Accept feedback gracefully.

Lee Bryant

Write about the things you practice; practice the things you write about. Words without action is fraudulent. (It’s hard, but I try.)

Professionals don’t need fake deadlines and don’t respect them. Instead, we have the chance to build in appropriate slack, get our priorities straight and keep our promises.

Is it a coincidence that WFH looks very similar to WTF?

In the world of the compass, direction is important. Where are we going? Why excatly are we once again on a Monday morning feeling out of control? In the world of the compass we are concerned less about 'getting stuff done' and more about getting the right things done. Do those and we invariably have to get less stuff done tomorrow.

Change your clock for a compass.

mmhmm