oh no, I’m now looking at capacities app.
I really appreciate that they built in robust backup and export from the start.
Potential new opportunities in non-dinosaur-based performance fibers đź§¶
Havron’s First Law of Personal Information Management: Use Tools You Love to Use. Then you have half a chance of actually keeping up with it.
From @annahavron: Analog Office - Keep a Canonical Address Book
TIL: “inspiresting“
Note: the linked essay is recommended reading, as well.
📚 Four Thousand Weeks: it’s as good as they say.
Nothing original, but a great collection of wisdom distilled from various traditions (faith, agile/lean, strategy, psychology, etc.).
New Readwise milestone.
I’m familiar with a few retrospective or blameless-postmortem techniques, but I learned a new one today. 4 Ls:
(note: some write-ups have “lacked” in place of “loathed”, but “lacked” is already covered by “longed for”)
Cheri’s tips for a better relationship with the Internet:
1. I abstain from ad-supported and/or algorithmically manipulated social media.
2. I avoid websites with an endless scroll. Aka “doomscrolling.”
3. The only notifications I allow on my phone are calendar appointments.
4. I use privacy-respecting hardware and software, when they exist. When they don’t, I make do with the next best thing. (I’m looking at you, Apple!)
5. I minimize opinion-checking. That is, I form my own conclusions rather than caring what “the internet thinks” about a topic.
6. I don’t frequent places where assholes thrive.
Beautiful Trouble updated their toolkit.
With the new toolkit you can slice and dice depending on what you are considering, and also create pdfs from your favorites.
This is a nice online companion to the deck of cards.
📚 After reading The Shallows I’ve been wondering if there is some optimal blend between strengthening deep thinking pathways and Internet thinking pathways.
Along the lines of “explore vs. exploit”, what’s sweet spot between attentive consideration and inattentive collection?