The past days I have been trying out Refind to receive my own daily personlized newsletter with 10 interesting articles.

So far I like the experience and have already found some very interesting material.

📷 Day 4 | Layers

Preparing the artwork for this week’s podcast episode in Pixelmator Pro.

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Why does the Mac App Store ignore my language preferences?

Currently reading: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 📚

📷 Day 3| Comfort

When working from home you need some essential items: a good chair, good light and comfortable slippers. These arrived just yesterday.

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This is the way:

Publish. Consistently. With patience. Own your assets. Don’t let a middleman be your landlord. Yell at Google for blocking your emails and hope it’ll work eventually. Continually push for RSS and an open web. With patience.

📷 Day 2 | Morning beverage

Be water my friend! 🚰 Though I usually start the day with a lemon tea, the rest of the mornings I have this water bottle on my desk.

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📷 Day 1 | Close up

Podcasting 🎤

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Last week I started watching The Blacklist on Amazon Prime. Yesterday, suddenly, Amazon states that “This video is currently unavailable to watch in your location”. This unreliability is a major problem with streaming services.

This is the basis for a functioning society:

To reduce conflict in our lives, we need to fully accept the truth that other people are not meant to think the same way as we do, since we all have fundamentally different thinking systems, informed by our past experiences, upbringing, education, the things we read, etc.

This is such an amazing idea by @patrickrhone: pipe your Instagram and Twitter posts to the Day One app, so you can print them out as a book.

The most intelligent photo ever taken

I’m simultaneously exporting a video in Final Cut Pro and bouncing a podcast episode in Logic Pro on a seven year old.

I can’t wait until  releases the next generation iMac.

What happened to my pupils?

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, many fashion retailers are stuck with huge amounts of stock they will never be able to sell, since fashion changes each season.

What used to be a money-making machine is now a problem.

I think this is a great opportunity to leave the old unsustainable model behind us and invest in quality, evergreen and unique styles.

Michael Wade proposes adding a fifth quadrant to the Eisenhower priority matrix and he calls it Important and Ugh.

You know the characteristics of Important and Ugh: not urgent but so distasteful that an extra effort will be required to trick/nudge/cajole you into tackling it.

Most messages in the user forums of any productivity tool are from people who overcomplicate their workflows.

Somehow, Spotlight stopped working on my iMac. Neither the keyboard shortcut or the icon in the menu bar did anything. Time for a reboot…

WhatsApp’s canary died 😔

Uh-oh. WhatsApp's canary just died; they removed the statement that they never have access to your private keys. If you were using it because of its privacy, it's time to find something else.

Well said:

Discussions of ‘time management’ and ‘productivity’ often hide the real issue.

Soul management.

Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated in weeks. Could Apple’s privacy labels be the reason?

Probably…

As usual, effectiveness is a question of habits. Tools come in second place.

So more than the bells and whistles, ask yourself which app feels useful to you. Which one helps you get to what you want? Which one do you feel inspired to write in? Which one feels enjoyable to write in? Which one feels like the initial seeds of a system can be enjoyable to maintain?

So true:

artwork by Liz Fosslien

Nicholas Base reminds us to be a good gardener:

Although he/she wouldn't be so bold as to proclaim it, the good gardener has stumbled upon a brilliant approach for business, parenting and life.