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Today is my second week sharing the top five posts. Last week was a lot of fun, and I’m continuing the tradition. Some posts are from this week, and a few are before but ones I want to share. * On Learning the Wrong Lesson from Elon Musk’s Success
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That big todo on your list has been staring at you for weeks. Each day you dutifully move it forward. It’s never forgotten, always pushed down the road. I’ve been meaning to renew my passport for months. Somehow it always gets shifted to another day or week. if
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My blog is a mix between Gruber, Ben, and Kottke. My unique spin is being a product designer in a changing world, capturing the shift in AI and why strategic thinking and forced evolution may have a chance at designers staying relevant. Thanks to a suggestion from my brother, I’
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The church lights dim. The music swells. Onstage, a handful of figures step out and wait. Down the center aisle, nearly a dozen smaller silhouettes line up, waiting for their cue. The music shifts suddenly—the aisle and stage come alive. The figures surge forward, hands raised, each holding lights
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Anyone who has sent out an invitation knows the pain. You are trying to get a headcount for food and need to know how many people are coming. You sent the RSVPs to dozens of people and two responded in the correct manner, namely letting you know they can or
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I’m precious about my email. I try to keep an inbox zero, and have spent a lot of time playing with the best options to streamline it. When a business asks for my email I’ve often been hesitant, reluctant to share it. Does CVS really need that information
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A while back I wrote about Freeform as the best iPad sketching app. I still stand by that. That said, I’ve got a bunch of issues I’d love to see improved in the software. One of my biggest issues was: Moving objects to front and back Freeform has
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My browser of choice is Safari. This after a lifetime of Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. I switched about two years ago. Safari has a simplicity to it that I appreciate. It’s beautiful from a chrome perspective. It’s an incredibly elegant browser, and, at least until
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At this point running is just built into my veins. You can’t take it away from me. A few years ago I was playing hide and seek combined with tag outside in the dark. At this point I have to callout that the combination of those three things is
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If you’re anything like me you’ve likely felt massive excitement at the idea of starting a new thing. Maybe it’s a project, a hobby, or some idea that you can’t put down. It’s novel, uncertain, and there’s so much possibility. In fact, the possibility
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If there's one thing people love to see on a blog, it's self-indulgent meta-posting about the process of blogging – you're welcome. Go on. Basically: most blogs seem to die because the authors hit some kind of life-or-writing block, where they
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I find myself on the lookout for a new iPad. My mini is struggling to perform basic tasks, despite reformatting, and seems unhappy with the latest iPadOS. One of the things I’ve been pondering is what’s actually necessary. For me I need the new device to be faster