Switch costs
Workers lose 9% of their time at work by toggling roughly 1200 times per day between applications and websites.
Related: Multitasking, Task switching, Attention residue, Screen size, Phone addiction
For those who gift with joy, that joy is their reward
— Khalil Gibran in On Giving
This footnote brings up so many questions about the discussions there must have been between the authors of this paper.
📸 Back to my mid-morning coffee and reading routine
¿Estás usando la inteligencia artificial en tu trabajo? ¿Me puedes dar algún ejemplo concreto?
Each day I here more and more about Bluesky and little by little I’m getting curious.
Does anybody have an invite for me?
Workers lose 9% of their time at work by toggling roughly 1200 times per day between applications and websites.
Related: Multitasking, Task switching, Attention residue, Screen size, Phone addiction
Playing videos, music or voice messages using your phone’s speaker in a public space such as in restaurants or public transport is rude.
I guess this is a lost battle for me, as it seems to happening more and more …
BCN 🛫🛬 AMS
This is one of the finest capture apps I have ever used.
Especially the voice recordings in combination with Tana’s transcribe function is magic.
I wanted to try out GPT4, but OpenAI rejected my credit cards. So now I have more money and more time (but less fun).
As with many new tools I try out, I found that Wavelength didn’t improve my life in a meaningful way, so I will close my account.
It was nice chatting with a few of the Micro.blog users for the first days, but that seemed weird from the beginning. after all, why wouldn’t we have those conversations right on Micro.blog?
See you all over here…
I updated some minor details in the list of the tools I use for my daily work.
Why does macOS only warn me about my Magic Mouse’s battery level when it gets to 1%. You know I can’t charge it while working…
Remember before looking at your device:
«A wealth of information creates poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently» — Herb Simon
Last week I imported my whole tweet archive into Micro.blog to save my insignificant ramblings for the future (since some maniac may suddenly decide to delete them).
Until this morning I did not have the possibility to review the results and came to two conclusions:
📸 Golden door
I was afraid that the gold paint would look too “over the top”, but it turned out very nice.
Finished rereading: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 📚
Oura ring brings back Clippy for April fool’s day
Next week I will be a few days in London. Any tips?
I simplified the site navigation by deleting the “On this day” page. The idea is nice, but I guess nobody besides me uses that page. And I even have a better solution in the form of Day One.
I should use the dictation function more. Each day I write a lot of texts, most of them small. Those text are a fine candidate for being dictated. Just like this text.
I never ever use the skin tones on emoji. To me, yellow is the all-inclusive color and using a skin tone is only appropriate when referring to a specific person.
Something to reflect on:
Our brain craves focus.
When it is focused, it is happy, still, powerful.
But a focused brain is a rarity in today’s world.
What do you do to keep your brain focused?
📸 Blossom in Aitona
This post is hilarious:
Actually, You Should Wake Up at 4:12 a.m.—Don’t Ask Me Why, It Just Sounds Right—and Nine Reasons We Should Cyberbully People Who Wake Up Later Than That