I wish more places offered round-ups for local charities. I’ll almost always say yes.
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But I also have an M1 MacBook Air that I use for work. Recently, jumping back and forth between the two, I’ve come to appreciate the wedge more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but I find it easier to type on. When I’m writing a draft, the sloped edge is more comfortable under my palms. When I tuck it under my arm while walking through the office, it just feels better. […] I still feel the same fuzzy feeling when I unzip my backpack and see that wedge waiting in the laptop sleeve.
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Whelp, got out guiding rock today, March 4th. What a strange, strange winter. Hard to say goodbye to ice season, but with a Red Rocks trip quickly approaching, it felt good to plug some gear and pull on rock. 🧗 📷
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it’s deeply ingrained in all of us that having children is what we’re “supposed” to do, when our need to repopulate has been overstated for some time. i’d much rather folks be enthusiastic about having children than being ambivalent and doing it anyway.
I don’t face a ton of scrutiny for choosing not to have children, but if I do, this might become my go-to response.
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I sometimes like to use the term “weave the web” to describe people who publish on their personal website. While web-themed, “weave the web” speaks only to one aspect of the web: its interconnectivity. Internet gardening evokes thoughts of the other side of the web: where you are on your own land, cultivating the thoughts on your mind. Letting ideas grow.
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Along with the usual smorgasbord of links, this week marks the 9th album entry for my 52 Albums project. Any other dodie fans out there?
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Today was the first time I’ve ever heard this quote, and it’s sticking with me. It’s quite practical advice! (Origins are apparently unclear.)
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The collection includes big name titles like The Wolf of Wall Street, Saving Private Ryan, Mad Max: Fury Road and more.
There’s actually a pretty good number of movies on this list that I’ve been meaning to watch. Might be just the extra push I needed!
I was feeling pretty motivated earlier to get a couple of blog posts out of my head. But losing a draft really took the wind out of my sails, and I don’t much feel like forcing it. I’d rather one in particular was published today, the 29th, but I dunno.
LOL I love @dmoren@zeppelin.flights’s writing
What a difference eight months makes. That’s in no small part due to Whisky, an app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very friendly interface. That removes pretty much all of the work out of the process, to the point where all I had to do was download Whisky and drag it into my Applications folder. It installed all the necessary under-the-hood software, leaving me with nothing but time on my hands.
What a fascinating concept. You might hit the limit and then ask people not actually reading to unsubscribe to open spots for new readers.
The public incentives of social media — likes, hearts, reblogs, follower counts, the metrics that platforms enthusiastically refer to as “engagement” — didn’t exist in email, and especially not on TinyLetter. The platform itself had no built-in recommendations or ways to self-promote, quashing any aspirations for virality. Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.
You can usually tell from where I’m microblogging based on the type of blockquotes I use. If it’s a Quoteback, probably I’m committing minor time theft when it’s slow at work. If it’s a ‘🔗 Title - domain // Author’ format with a traditional blockquote, I’m likely using my Publish Quote shortcut.
Yesterday, @rsilvernail wished me a happy 30th birthday by congratulating me on “reaching a new high score” and it totally made my day. 🥳 Gonna keep gunning for the next high score! 😂
What will you take the leap on today?
Every four years, we have a worldwide holiday to celebrate this sort of leap. The leap of choice. Not to suddenly get from here to there, but to choose to go on the journey.
It’s only once every 1,460 days, you can do it.
Leap today.
I’m gonna call a #MykeWasRight to say that “Apple Enthusiast” is my preferred term for my interest and coverage of the company and its products. I am enthusiastic about what they make, and it does color what I think and share. But my enthusiasm also makes me wish for them to do better and more.
[The internet] has enough hot takes, perfect websites, and thoughts on the latest [news] stories. Write about you, write about the person behind the screen who wants to be seen and heard. Write about what makes you tick and what makes you happy. That’s the blog I want to read and that’s the type of blogs we need if we want to make a better internet. We don’t need another news blog, we need something folks can relate to and you can show your not so techy savvy friends that makes them think, “Wow, the internet can be something more than just [scrolling social media.]”
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To feel that being a “writer” is one of the markers of my identity, I need to be writing often. The word identity was originally derived from the Latin words essentitas, which means being, and “identidem, which means repeatedly. Identity is literally “repeated being" — I am a writer because I write repeatedly.
You must read this. Another bit:
The more I wrote with prompts, the less I needed them. Prompts gave me the push I needed to build a habit, a ritual. Now, life and its gifts and grievances are generally all the prompting I need.
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Be kind, be honest and engage on your own terms. Walk away from anything that doesn’t serve you and don’t be afraid to craft a browsing experience that best suits you. A healthier web is one that’s slower, friendly and serves you. Eschew things that make demands of you, insist or impose upon your time and attention.
Cory’s post is full of good rules of thumb when it comes to being a happy and healthy internet citizen.
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2023 marked the end of the transition to Apple silicon. It may have taken longer than Apple anticipated, but it’s hard to argue with the results. Macs are running faster, cooler and longer than they ever could with Intel inside.
All it cost was the Mac Pro’s dignity, which it just regained in 2019. The last Intel model was everything a Mac Pro should be — expandable, upgradeable and more powerful than anything else in the line. The new one is a Mac Studio with slots and optional wheels.
A banger of a line from @ismh@eworld.social. 😂
Thanks to @arne@spezi.social for the good list of articles I perused this morning!
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Calendars, on the other hand, cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.
I was already thinking of how I can better use my calendar to log things like a journal, but this post unlocked more imagination. I’d love to be able to look back at how I actually spent my time!
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But hey, if it’s all pretty much the same stuff — and it is — why stop at distilling it into a single book? Why not condense the repeated lessons of an entire genre into one article? That’s what I’ve attempted here, after reading dozens of history’s biggest bestsellers so you don’t have to. Here is the essence of the advice I’ve seen delivered again and again.
Good reminders, concisely summarized.
🔗 You’d Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don’t You?
“What if I were neighbors with all of my friends? Every day [during the pandemic], as I took long walks through North Vancouver that were still nowhere near long enough to land me at a single pal’s doorstep, I would reflect on the potential joys of a physically closer network. Wouldn’t it be great to have someone who could join me on a stroll at a moment’s notice? […] How good would it be to have more spontaneous hangs instead of ones that had to be planned, scheduled, and most likely rescheduled weeks in advance?”
🔗 The science of why you have great ideas in the shower — nationalgeographic.co.uk // Stacey Colino
During the day, doing something easy and familiar, often involving some kind of movement, is likely to facilitate the flow of spontaneous thoughts. When you’re in the shower, for example, “you don’t have a lot to do, you can’t see much, and there’s white noise,” notes Kounios. “Your brain thinks in a more chaotic fashion. Your executive processes diminish and associative processes amp up. Ideas bounce around, and different thoughts can collide and connect.”