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What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media? - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media? - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
A reader named Alexander recently pointed me toward an essay he wrote about his experiment avoiding social media for all of 2021. What caught my attention is the fact that Alexander runs an online business as a freelance copywriter. I frequently hear from people who are exhausted by the frenetic, anxiety-inducing churn of social media, […]
·calnewport.com·
What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media? - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Don’t waste the good days
Don’t waste the good days
If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else.…
·seths.blog·
Don’t waste the good days
kung fu grippe
kung fu grippe
# The "q" trick # [**Download MP3 of "MPU 023: Workflows with Merlin Mann"**](http://media.libsyn.com/media/macpowerusers/MPU023.mp3 "MPU 023: Workflows with Merlin Mann") I mentioned this on the...
·kungfugrippe.com·
kung fu grippe
Managing Music From Your Mac’s Menu Bar
Managing Music From Your Mac’s Menu Bar
As Club MacStories members know, I use my Mac’s menu bar sparingly. With Bartender, our MacStories Selects Mac app of the year, I limit my menu bar to a handful of frequently-used apps and system controls that take up as little space as possible. That cuts down on clutter and means everything will fit when
·macstories.net·
Managing Music From Your Mac’s Menu Bar
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?”
·themarginalian.org·
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
The Key to Find Time for Learning - Scott H Young
The Key to Find Time for Learning - Scott H Young
How do you find time to learn in a busy schedule? Here are four strategies I use to find time between work and family life.
·scotthyoung.com·
The Key to Find Time for Learning - Scott H Young
#101 One Thing At A Time
#101 One Thing At A Time
On productivity and visual storytelling
·adamwestbrook.substack.com·
#101 One Thing At A Time
Keep A Log
Keep A Log
One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for the more superficial knowledge, there are just too many layers in a professional codebase that it’s impossible to grok it immediately.
·bruno-oliveira.github.io·
Keep A Log
No notebook is perfect, but the reMarkable comes really close
No notebook is perfect, but the reMarkable comes really close
The reMarkable is a premium e-ink notebook. Imagine a Kindle, but you can write on it. It has become my daily notebook. I take all my meeting notes on it, dump my ideas and designs, and carry it with me everywhere. As a bonus, it also has replaced
·cfenollosa.com·
No notebook is perfect, but the reMarkable comes really close
A Complete Ulysses Writing Workflow – The Sweet Setup
A Complete Ulysses Writing Workflow – The Sweet Setup
This is how I’ve set up my Ulysses app to fit my various writing adventures. I’ve worked to keep it simple and dumbed-down. This ensures it doesn’t require a lot of mental overhead to keep organized, and it ensures my brain is on the writing rather than the meta.
·thesweetsetup.com·
A Complete Ulysses Writing Workflow – The Sweet Setup
Turning Obsidian into My Perfect Writing App
Turning Obsidian into My Perfect Writing App
When I first started using Obsidian, I expected it would help me make connections between my notes and inspire new ideas. But over the last 12 months I've been using the app, I have also fallen in love with it as a writing tool.
·thesweetsetup.com·
Turning Obsidian into My Perfect Writing App
Drafts 29: Autocomplete
Drafts 29: Autocomplete
With Techtober coming to an end, all of the major OS releases from Apple are finally out there, however buggy they may be. And of course, Drafts 29 has been released to accommodate the features in …
·nahumck.me·
Drafts 29: Autocomplete