My friend Saadia has been gently challenging me to try Apple default apps for as many things in my life as possible. He’s been right in every case. It started with Apple Calendar. I switched from Google to Apple, and suddenly most things worked better. Events showed up on
It’s 2025. Blogging was supposed to be dead years ago. WordPress market share is shaky. Social media continues to be all consuming as things have moved into short form video. Text form content isn’t doing great when it comes to the most popular forms of media out htere.
Field Notes Notebooks comes with a message, “I’m not writing it down to remember later, I’m writing it down to remember now”. This is, of course, a handy message for a company selling paper. They want you to write down more so you’ll buy more. And I
I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of websites over the past few weeks. To save on costs I just shut down a WordPress server that I’d been running for 6-7 years. This was something that had been sitting in the back of my mind for
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Many years I’ve made lists. Goals, resolutions, plans. I’ve done them all. Some years the effort pays off. That’s how I ran my first marathon, making a plan and using the new year to kick the habit into gear. But this year I’m not so sure
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I’ve started watching more Studio Ghibli films. starting to think they are more about atmosphere than the typical heroes journey. I kind of like it. So far I’ve seen Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and half of Ponyo. A little weird, but a nice change in movies I’
As we wrapup this year I want to share a few things I’m grateful for—which frankly are evergreen topics for me. This list isn’t even close to exhaustive, but it’s fun to share. I’ll be off from writing—unless something strikes my fancy—until January
You can do a thing with haste or meaning. Just today I was sitting down to do my daily body and neck stretches. In the last month or so I’ve noticed an improvement in pain levels and generally feeling better in my neck; a huge win given a previous
I’ve been thinking a lot about energy output and feedback loops. For the last few days I’ve been reading The Rational Optimist. It’s an old book at this point, and perhaps it’s been greatly refuted in the time since it’s been published. With that said,
I’m eschewing infinity wells. I’m on a two month experiment to reduce my reliance on apps that allow for unlimited scrolling. It’s going mostly ok. If I can I’d like to turn this into a permanent experiment, but we’ll see how it goes. In the
Feeling worn out can come from factors such as sleep, diet, sickness, stages of life, and much more. There’s so many factors that can lead to just feeling plain tired. Also, it’s winter right now in the northern hemisphere. But there’s something else. In work, which is
It’s easy to wish we had more time to get something done. Given more time we could accomplish anything. But this is usually the wrong way to look at something. In the constraints of lacking time we often come up with solutions. I work in software as a product