iPad Diaries: Using a Mac from iOS, Part 1 – Finder Folders, Siri Shortcuts, and App Windows with Keyboard Maestro
iPad Diaries is a regular series about using the iPad as a primary computer. You can find more installments here and subscribe to the dedicated RSS feed. After several years without updates to a product that, somewhat oddly, “remained in Apple’s lineup”, the Mac mini was revived by the company last November with a major
“Part of my view is that employees actually prefer this. Expedites career cycle for them. And even if company has some cruft long term. If plays out in 2 years not 20. Employees have more at bats and have more leverage when switching jobs.”
Part of my view is that employees actually prefer this. Expedites career cycle for them. And even if company has some cruft long term. If plays out in 2 years not 20. Employees have more at bats and have more leverage when switching jobs— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) February 18, 2019
“I’ll give you this, Amazon: telling people you’re going to Queens and then bailing is one thing New Yorkers can relate to.”
I'll give you this, Amazon: Telling people you're going to Queens and then bailing is one thing New Yorkers can relate to.— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) February 14, 2019
“‘personal data’ reinscribes the idea that data is property rather than situated information; but that encourages the false idea that you ‘make’ your own data rather than data being read off of you in a potentially infinite number of ways”
"personal data" reinscribes the idea that data is property rather than situated information; but that encourages the false idea that you "make" your own data rather than data being read off of you in a potentially infinite number of ways— Rob Horning (@robhorning) February 15, 2019
On streaming services squeezing out content providers
streaming-service users ultimately end up consuming/enjoying/needing the content-delivery model and not the content itself — streaming itself if the product, what is streamed is eventually arbitrary— Rob Horning (@robhorning) February 13, 2019
Make a list of links from your open tabs in Safari, instantly. Take your browser window of research straight into an email to send to a friend, create footnotes for your paper, or drop links into the show notes for your podcast. Tabs to Links detects open pages and can trim repeated text from th…
“off topic but a couple of records that came out this month that i love so much”
Kunal’s thoughts on qualifying tweets outside your normal “realm” with “off topic” (the bookmarked tweet being an example). Don’t think it’s necessary at all, but also understand why people do it. If you know/believe that people are following you for a specific reason, then understandable [to] qualify it. Some people use Twitter to exist as full people—all things they are interested in and care about are fair game. Others are much more focused on a specific passion or something that aligns with their career. FWIW, I prefer the former kind of person in almost every case. The same drumbeat gets boring after a while.
I know conferences can be expensive, and everyone has to judge for themselves what “affordable” means. But I’ve seen a lot of people lately say that they simply can’t do WWDC anymore because it’s “way too expensive” and I wanted to address that. Now, of course, depending
Emergence is Artsy's tvOS app, Artsy Shows. I'm running through a full code review of all of the important bits with the rest of the mobile team. The app is in Swift, is 4 view controllers big and so is pretty reasonable to get through within an hour.
“Something I am working on professionally is being okay with not being liked. I get very hung up on if people like me or not, when that is something I have no control over. I only control my output and actions towards impactful change.”
Something I am working on professionally is being okay with not being liked. I get very hung up on if people like me or not, when that is something I have no control over. I only control my output and actions towards impactful change.— sarajo (@SaraJChipps) February 11, 2019
“this tweet inspired by elissa, who has been sitting next to me on the couch as i've spent all day writing, who just turned to me and said: ‘i feel like you think i don't love you when you're writing but i just wanted to let you know that i do’”
this tweet inspired by elissa, who has been sitting next to me on the couch as i've spent all day writing, who just turned to me and said: "i feel like you think i don't love you when you're writing but i just wanted to let you know that i do"— jonny sun (@jonnysun) February 10, 2019
Every time I take my iPad out to the cafe instead of my laptop to encourage myself to get some writing done, I’m reminded that if I were primarily a writer, there’s no doubt in my mind I’d be using iOS full time by now.
likely in childhood, when life seemed to limit itself to the small world around us. that the contours of their experience were articulated It reminds me of the passage I quote in my original piece from social psychologist Devon Price: “If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you,” Price writes, “it is because you are missing a part of their context. It’s that simple.” As I said last week, no one’s “bottom half of their to-do list” — the things they avoid and find themselves incapable of completing — are exactly the same, and the consequences of the inability to complete them are different. The question can’t just be how I can prevent my burnout; it has to be how I can prevent yours. The answer will entail not just creating better workplaces, but also becoming better people. How can you communicate to your kid — in a way that they will actually hear and trust and internalize — that you care about them learning, but that their ability to get into a “good” college is not tied to your love for them? How can you work to make the “mental load” in your household visible to your partner, and collaborate with them, in a way that’s not passive aggressive or creating even more load, to share it? How can you implement policies in your workplace that don’t incentivize demonstrations of “overwork”? (It’s not just saying that there’s no expectation to answer emails after 6 pm, for example, but that no emails should be sent). Or even just simply acknowledge that events that seem like fun work “escape” to some people on your team feel like much, much more labor to others?
a nervous, obligated curiosity We had witnessed the end of its long southbound journey out of mundanity and darkness. It was one more of the small, strange, lit up events the city offers, the tree like a hallucination, devoured by the darkening avenues, brought in to offer a visible reason to exclaim about something, the city inventing something upon which to rejoice. The holidays feel overwhelmingly personal, but perhaps the best thing about them is that they are not personal at all. look to the unnamed days of January and February
