How we make decisions:

We like to think we make complicated decisions based on rational analysis, but most of the time, we actually make an emotional decision and then invent a rational analysis to justify it.

Much time management and getting things done is not about time: it's about scale.

Home, sweet home 📷

This caught my attention:

Taken as a whole, these results suggest that, sometimes, attention can mislead us about the world. This is not to say that attention always distorts our knowledge of the world, but it does suggest that it might not be the unproblematic guide to knowledge that we originally thought.

Something I observed on my vacation: The Netherlands are quickly becoming a cashless society. Many places don’t ask how you want to pay and immediately pass you the credit card terminal.

Such a great article by Joe Zadeh: The Tyranny Of Time

This made me wonder: under which circumstances should I follow ‘clock time’ and when should I listen to nature’s rhythm?

Investing advice:

A recommended daily habit: Replace one hour of screen time with one hour of reading in your job's subject area.

📷 Donostia

Now that was a wonderful weekend full of music, art, spectacular landscapes, friendship and great food.

Slow down!

An easy trick to slow down is to ask: “Why the rush?” and to take a step back. Is speed really adding to the quality of the output?

Thanks @ttscoff for showing me Dato.

Dato is a simple menu bar calendar utility to show me a calendar and my upcoming appointments.

What do you do when all of your inboxes are empty or ignored? That’s your purpose in life.

What activities act as a magnet for your attention? Which of today’s actions will you dream about? What makes you truely happy?

You can find breadcrumbs to your purpose in many corners of life.

This is how I know what color car is parked in front of the house

Effectiveness:

The flip-side of the "To-Do" list should always be the "Not To-Do" list. 

Damn you, CGP Grey. Now I’m hooked on Magic the Gatheting.

Currently reading: Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull 📚

Am I the only one using the iron mostly in lateral movements and hardly ever with the point part facing forward?

This is mesmerizing: The Shortcut

Vía Jason Kottke

It’s done: I ordered a brand new, maxed out purple M1 iMac.

By far the biggest tech purchase in my life.

If you spend more time chatting with people you don’t know than talking with the persons around you, you’ve got a problem.

Finished reading: Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson Tate 📚

When reading this book I felt like I was ready two books simultaneously: a mediocre book about personal productivity and a great book about personalizing your own productivity system based on your psychology.

I was hoping Apple would announce a bigger iMac at the WWDC. They did not.

Now I have to decide which color of the 24” iMac I prefer.

There is nothing more productive than finishing a 90 minute personal effectiveness workshop in 60 minutes.

Under promise and over deliver…

I feel like I should write more on my blog. But whenever I sit down to write, I don’t know what to write about. And whenever I have interesting stuff going on in my life, I am to busy doing the stuff, so I end up not writing about it.

I don’t know when they added the ‘smart suggestions’ feature to Setapp, but it should be disabled by default. I don’t expect an app store to be monitoring how I use my computer in order to promote new applications.

This is how you switch them off.