November 9th will always be a special day. 22 years ago I started writing on my personal blog. I have not always been equally active on jeroensangers.com, but it will always be my digital home.
November 9th will always be a special day. 22 years ago I started writing on my personal blog. I have not always been equally active on jeroensangers.com, but it will always be my digital home.
Once in a while, I rotate the OS language of my devices between Dutch, Spanish, Catalan and English. It is amazing how simply organising yourself in another language completely changes your perspective on the work to be done.
Since I’m reinstalling my main computer, today I did my tasks using almost exclusively my iPad and iPhone.
It went way better than I expected, though there are some little things, such as text snippets, that I have to fix if I want to use my mobile devices more often for work.
Whenever I visit a website and a dialog pops up telling me that “We care about your privacy”, I always think “No, you do not. You’re just complying with the GDPR rules.”
Stukje bij beetje gaan de bedrijven de goede kant uit: Bij deze bedrijven moet je stil zijn onder werktijd: ‘Ik krijg veel meer gedaan’ × Madelon Meester
Is er op jouw kantoor ook tijd en ruimte voor stilte?
Far too many people are unaware of the real consequences of giving up their privacy. As Carissa Véliz writes, privacy is not a private problem, privacy is a collective issue.
Because we are intertwined in ways that make us vulnerable to each other, we are responsible for each other’s privacy. I might, for instance, be extremely careful with my phone number and physical address. But if you have me as a contact in your mobile phone and then give access to companies to that phone, my privacy will be at risk regardless of the precautions I have taken. This is why you shouldn’t store more sensitive data than necessary in your address book, post photos of others without their permission, or even expose your own privacy unnecessarily. When you expose information about yourself, you are almost always exposing information about others.
I lostinvested half the morning on finding good alternatives to Zencastr for recording podcast interviews locally, since Zencastr had technical issues.
Fortunately, the issues have been resolved, but now I have two alternative solutions ready in case they ever have issues again: a local solution based on the Audio Hijack–BlackHole combination and Ringr.
Autumn walk through fruit trees
I had exactly the same problem happen to me.
Even though I have my iPhone configured to only allow calls from my contacts, some some spam calls got through. I just needed to delete my old ‘Don’t answer’ contact, which I used in the past to silence known phone spammers.
The is so much great advice in this article. More than ‘hacks’ these are basic principles.
A neuroscientist shares 5 ways to hack productivity × Aileen Kwun
I advised many coaching clients to create a repository of great questions. I always say that the quality of your thoughts is directly related to the quality of the questions you ask.
To become more efficient, ask better questions × Thomas Oppong
I wish I could set a default skin tone for all emoji instead of having to do it one by one #firstworldproblems
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As you start with your meditation practice, the first thing you’ll notice is that your mind is completely out of control.
I’ve been wanting to up my meditation practice for a while now. Today I started Sam Harris' 50 day training course Waking Up, since I’ve heard many good things about it.
The first session was—as expected—a very basic 5–minute breathing mindfulness exercise. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s session…
So true: Content ownership is not complicated × @manton
On this Micro Monday, I"d like to recommend @PatrickRhone. His posts make me either reflect or smile (and sometimes both).
This is such a great list of healthy habits by Nicholas Bate: Hunter-Gatherer 21C: The Complete Two Score and Ten
Este altavoz es mío: qué manera más poetica de hablar de POSSE.
Who else finds this Google patent super creepy?
🤔 I’m having mixed feelings on WordPress.
On one side, the platform is hopelessly bloated, and on the other side, anytime I want to change something on my site I need “Yet Another Plugin”, since Wordpress doesn’t do it out of the box.
Derek Sivers discusses what it is like to live according to your values:
Once you realize that one value is more important to you than another, you have to ask yourself if you’re living accordingly.What’s ultimately more important to you?
Once you know which takes top place, consider taking it to an extreme, to its logical conclusion, and optimizing your entire life around that top priority, letting go of almost everything else.
- Learning? Or creating?
- Money? Or time?
- Expanding? Or focusing?
- (… etc.)
This is so important. If everything is a priority, nothing is and your output will most likely be mediocre.
As every year, we went within a few days from sunny at 28℃ to cold and wet. Autumn has officially started in Lleida.
If I notice an error on a page on my site, is there any way to quickly open the current entry or page in WordPress?
Creo que debería existir un carné por puntos para periodistas. Para cada mentira que hay en sus artículos, el periodista pierde un punto. Para ganar puntos hay que encontrar mentiras en los artículos de otros periodistas.
Since VideoDrive doesn’t work on macOS Catalina (and I don’t see an update coming soon), I decides to give iFlicks a try for importing video files in the TV app.
So far I like it very much, especially the rules engine for customising and fixing meta data errors.