Setting goals feels like action. It gives you the warm sense of progress without the discomfort of change. You can spend hours calibrating, optimizing, refining your goals. You can build a Notion dashboard. You can make a spreadsheet. You can go on a dopamine-fueled productivity binge and still never
Apple also announced some changes to the iPad for podcasts. I will try those out, but I’m more interested in the Apple Newsroom announcement for AirPods. I have several podcasts. 99% of the time I record from my home office. But if I could use my AirPods for decent
It was fun seeing all these changes come out from Apple. I always enjoy WWDC, and love seeing the hard work of all the people at Apple come through. That doesn’t mean there’s not things that concern me, but today I’m choosing to be an optimist. Apart
I remember iOS 7. I installed it day 1. My phone suffered all summer from bugs. My battery life dropped faster then a brand new iPhone during a cidada brood. But I loved it. It was a drastic shift—moving away from skeumorphic design into something new. As an illustrator
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It’s Apple Day for all who celebrate. For iPadOS I had a whole wishlist for Freeform. It looks like I’m going to have to wait another year for these items to come true. With the tiniest mention in the keynote I’d hoped to dig up more details.
Despite a crazy week on a personal level, I had a lot of fun with the small moments where I was able to get in writing. First, I want to say thank you to everyone who reads these posts. It means so much, and as always any feedback is welcome;
It’s almost WWDC, and time to ask the Cupertino gods for a boon. Though I’m very excited about the rumored diamorphic design, my desires are for something much simpler. Sketching is my life. I can’t imagine a way of working without it. It’s how I think
It can be hard to stay focused throughout the work day. My brain, long trained by social media and distractions from the shiny blue screens, wants to take every detour available. So I have to wrestle it back into place. And this is coming from someone who works from home,
If I’m headed out on a 3 mile run I can’t stop at 2.81 miles. Even if I’m back home I’ll loop around the neighborhood a bit. Not all runners do this. And it really doesn’t matter. But in my brain I find it
I love the Dark Noise app. Recently I tried switching away from it. I wanted to try out Apple’s Background Sounds. The quality of the sounds is just as good. I’ve been happy with them, and I can quickly trigger the dark noise to start from the control
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Two fun design bits of inspiration happened this week while I was decidedly not working. In the evenings I’ve been reading through the excellent Muybridge graphic novel. Earlier this week I also went and watched Thunderbolts in theatres. At the end of the movie the main-on-end credits
Inspired by this post from Baty, I’ve been thinking about meeting notes and their value. I take notes in most meetings I attend. I can’t imagine being part of a group of people talking and not capturing what’s being said. At this point it’s a habit.