Currently reading: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown 📚
📷 Puiggròs 🚶♂️
So true:
These huge threaded tweets drive me insane.
It sounds really interesting but hard to read, impossible to follow and can disappear at any point.
Write a bloody blog post!
The real issue is that the author is more interested in getting likes and retweets than in being read and understood.
Finished reading: The Second Mountain by David Brooks 📚
Llevo muchos años explicando que, antes de comunicarte, siempre debes parar un momento para seleccionar el mejor canal de comunicación para este mensaje. Y Zoom, correo electrónico o WhatsApp rara vez son el canal óptimo.
A medida que este tipo de elementos culturales se van normalizando, sigue persistiendo una tendencia al exceso de uso de la videoconferencia para cuestiones que, seguramente, podrían solucionarse de manera mucho más sencilla y directa con una simple llamada de teléfono. De hecho, un estudio llevado a cabo en Carnegie Mellon viene a certificar que las videoconferencias generan una falta de sincronía y una disminución de la inteligencia colectiva frente a otros medios de comunicación más sencillos como el teléfono.
I just love the smell of a freshly broken branch of the tomato plant.
A small jewel from James Clear’s newsletter:
When people hesitate to give honest feedback on an idea, draft, or performance, I ask for a 0-10 score.
No one ever says 10. Then I ask how I can get closer to a 10.
It motivates them to start coaching me—and motivates me to be coachable. I want to learn how to close the gap.
Reeder 5 improvements
I have been using Reeder for my feed reading since early 2011 (that’s over a decade!), so of course I immediately updated to version 5 last October.
Only now, five months later, have I started looking at the new features in this version and I really love them! 💕
I disconnected the app from Inoreader and Instapaper (my feed server and read later service) and started using the built-in iCloud Feeds and iCloud Read Later services.
But the biggest improvement is Bionic Reading! Added to Reeder in version 4 (2019), it looks weird but actually works! I read with more focus and attention and am less distracted.
I switch Bionic Reading off when I triage my feeds, but when I switch too the Read Later section I turn it on for some slow and focused reading.
Have you tried Bionic Reading in Reeder or any other app?
📷 Pleasure 🍓🍫
I tried Sorted³
After seeing this video by Shu Omi I wanted to try out the Sorted³ app for scheduling my tasks.
I see a bright future for hyperscheduling tools, since they are the easiest way to be aware of the volume of current commitments. Timeblocking can quickly turn into a rescheduling Tetris, but automated tools such as Sorted and SkedPal eliminate this issue.
That said, I really liked the sorted interface. They have some innovative ways to select and modify multiple items.
However, there is one important feature I am missing: due dates. I can work without do dates, but being able to control my deadlines is essential for me.