This is how you buy things.
Did I comparison shop? Nope. Ask around? Nada.
There's no buyer's remorse when you just don't want to know.
I always find it extremely difficult to rate books, movies and tv series. First, whenever something is actually bad, I simply don’t finish it and also cannot be bothered to rate it. And when omething is good I have a hard time deciding wherer it was good or really good. It’s so subjective… Most works of art have some great parts and some good aspects. What exactly is the difference between ★★★ and ★★★★?
The best way to deal with information overload is to embrace it.
Think of Information as Food.
Imagine you’re at a 5 Star buffet, with loads of options. It’s stressful if you think you have to consume it all. But it’s liberating if you know what you want to eat so that you can find the right balance of taste and nutrients to create your meal.
My main problem with web apps is that they live in the browser. My monkey mind keeps on closing the browser application when I finish reading, closing all those browser apps as well…
Know your keyboard shortcuts on Windows.
What we’re doing is not the same as working remotely.
We’re not working remotely. We’re surviving a global pandemic while trying to get some work done.
This is outrageous!
A database containing the phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook users is being freely traded online, and Facebook is trying to pin the blame on everyone but themselves.
Usually the YouTube algorithm doesn’t help me very well in finding new and interesting videos, but yesterday I discovered something that excites me: Kyūdō.
While I’m looking up information on possibilities to practice Kyūdō in Spain, I’ll leave you with the two videos I saw yesterday:
After many years in the productivity space, I still have to remind myself sometimes that the tool won’t solve my issues.
There’s no getting out of this fact: these apps are all going to take more constant input from you than you’d wish for. They don’t take away the need for some amount of self-discipline to use them effectively.
I don’t use a case on my mobile phone. My experience is that if you put a cheap piece of silicone around your phone, you’ll treat your whole phone as a cheap piece of silicone. I treat my phone as an expensive piece of electronics.