Seth on dates:
One of the most expensive things a service business or freelancer can do is promise that work will be done by a certain day. Which is something we need to do, of course, but we should charge appropriately. “It’ll be done soon,” should be way cheaper than, “It’ll be done at exactly 11 am on Tuesday.”
And one of the most important things we can do to focus our energy and commitment is be prepared to promise a date certain. It sharpens everything.
Seth nailed the essence of a Zoom meeting:
The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated slot on the Google calendar invite. The purpose is to communicate an idea and the emotions that go with it, and to find out what’s missing via engaged conversation.
Twenty years after the introduction of the €, I still receive invoices mentioning the equivalent amount in Pesetas.
Today I deleted all collections from my Zotero database.
I find that most interesting studies are at the intersection of different fields and therefore, by definition, difficult to classify.
One more place where a single body of information works way better than a more structured system.
This morning I was checking my data in the health app, when I noticed two new sections: Symptoms and Mobility.
Both could be useful, but as a walking enthusiast, the Mobility metrics caught my eye:
Four of the new mobility types, Step Length, Walking Asymmetry, Walking Speed, and Double Support Time have a paragraph similar to the screenshot above.
That means that no external device is needed to collect this data, as long a I carry my iPhone in my pocket, which I always do.
One question remains though: How can I activate this function? I found no options in the settings. I guess I’ll have to wait for the final release to find out…
This is what I’m working on now.
I just read an old post on this blog describing the tools I used fourteen years ago.
What a great trip through memory lane!
A lot have changed since then and none of those tools have lasted that long. Even sadder is that many of them don’t exist anymore.
A few weeks back I made de jump back from Zettlr to Roam Research for my notes, and today I noticed it pays off. This morning I added over 30 new notes to my system with very little effort.
Messier is better.
For meetings, I have a yellow legal pad and a .5mm rollerball. I used to roll with a .38mm, but the .5 feels way more messy and therefore better.
Productivity is a philosophy.
