With Mastodon I get the same feeling as email in the early days.
Remember the hassle to change from yahoo.com to hotmail.com to gmail.com?
Having and using your own domain name makes switching email providers a breeze and should also be the norm for Mastodon. You can follow me at @jeroen@jeroensangers.com on Mastodon.
And yes: that’s certainly how a lot of capitalist cultures think about time — as something that can be wasted or optimized. It’s often predicated on the idea that you should be focused on doing one thing, and one thing only, very efficiently: time is money, etc. etc. But that itself, sometimes referred to as a “monochronic” understanding of time, is no more or less “natural” than other ways of conceiving of time, like “polychronic” culture, which understands time as dynamic, flexible, and filled with several tasks at once, each of which will take the time that they need. Monochronic cultures may be more “efficient” in their use of time, but in their treatment of time as a commodity, they lose the richness that comes with allowing tasks, conversations, and interactions to move forward at a more natural and sustainable pace.
My quest for the rest of this year: get better at living a “polychronic” life.
Para un proyecto estoy buscando un proveedor acreditado para el #KitDigital con experiencia demonstrable en diseño web con Squarespace.
What’s the benefit of 4K video when YouTube by default fills only a third of the screen (at most!) with its video player. I always maximize the player, but know I’m an exception.
Now that everybody is migrating to Mastodon, I suddenly remembered that a few years ago I created an account on mastodon.social to try it out.
It has been abandoned ever since, so today I deleted the account just to prevent people from subscribing to the wrong account.
If your interested in following me on Mastodon, you can follow my personal site (the one true source of all my writings, toots and tweets) at @jeroen@jeroensangers.com.
Once in a while I go through the ever growing list of Roam Research extensions and find something useful that apparently had been available for a while already. Is there a newsletter, Twitter account or RSS feed to get notifications of new additions to the Roam Depot?
If employees always feel that they need to be available, even outside of work hours, it can cause a lot of stress. This constant stress can lead to health problems such as high blood pressure, sleep issues, and a weakened immune system. The feeling that you always have to be “on,” without a clear separation between work and personal life, can also harm your mental health and cause anxiety and fatigue.
Additionally, checking emails outside of work hours can also cause problems in relationships. The constant distraction and the need to handle work matters can reduce the quality of personal relationships. Partners and family members may feel neglected or frustrated by the continuous interruptions, which can lead to conflicts and a poorer relationship. It is important to set clear boundaries and discuss expectations to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Finally, the pressure to check emails outside of work hours can contribute to feelings of anxiety. Employees may feel overwhelmed by the constant stream of work messages and the expectation to respond quickly. This can make them always alert and unable to relax properly, even in their free time. It is important for employers to have realistic expectations and encourage employees to set clear boundaries. This way, they have enough time to recover and ensure their well-being.
Why am I still using 1Password? A few days ago I asked myself this question, and the only answer I could come up with was “Because that’s what I have been doing for years”.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like 1Password and in the past it was vastly superior to any alternative. I loved that it could handle two-factor authentication without needing an additional app, and I liked their password suggestions.
But most features are now also available in the iCloud Keychain.
So today I migrated.
For a moment I thought that this would be the perfect occasion to clean up my list of passwords and delete services that don’t exist anymore, update easy to guess passwords. But that would change a 30-minute project into a 30-day project.
The migration itself was fairly simple. I followed the procedure from Simon B. Støvring: simply exporting all items from 1Password and importing them into the iCloud Keychain. Then I did an advanced search in 1Password for all items with two-factor authentication and created a locked note in Notes to store the backup codes.
Easy peasy…
I dedicated some more time to reflect on yesterday’s thoughts and decided to map out my whole personal information workflow in Roam Research.
It probably is incomplete and misses a lot of small nuances, but it looks complicated enough already and serves its purpose of getting a high level overview.
