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On iOS, we can hold down the space key and slide a finger around the keyboard to position the cursor anywhere in the text.
I just discovered this.
I’ve always. I tried using my finger directly on the text, which is always cumbersome.
Quality of life improvement that I wish I had known about sooner!
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Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) - Wait But Why
Making this shift isn’t easy for anyone, but it’s worth obsessing over. Your Authentic Voice has been given one life—and it’s your job to make sure it gets the opportunity to live it.
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Dumb phones are not the answer to digital minimalism - Code.Mac.Life
Dumb phones won’t address the problem within us. They can help us disconnect and re-evaluate what we are doing on smartphones. The feature phone breaks up our dependency on constant access to the internet. However, there are some drawbacks…
It’s challenging to find the balance between balance between usefulness and distraction when using a smartphone—so many conveniences at the cost of many distractions (if you let it).
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Want to read: How to Be Miserable by Randy J. Paterson 📚
This was talked about on the Focused podcast episode 185. It sounds like a fun read if you’re tired of the typical self development books.
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Documentation using Azure DevOps and Obsidian
My company and I decided to use Azure DevOps for shared documentation of our best practices, standards, deployment steps, and other SOPs. What I like about it is that anyone in the team can easily view and edit the documentation online. But for those inclined, we can use Git and keep the files locally and use our favor markdown editor to make updates. I’ve been using Obsidian to update documentation and the Obsidian Git plugin to easily sync the updates to the Wiki in DevOps. Continue reading →
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Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head
“Our brain is made up of a massive complex network of neurons that store information, and when the mind is free to wander, it may unwittingly land on a song that has been encoded through recency and repetition,”
This article describes why we get those songs stuck in our head, often on repeat.
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The care and training of your pet rock
Pet Rock is a collectible toy made in 1975 by advertising executive Gary Dahl. Pet Rocks are smooth stones from Mexico’s Rosarito Beach. They were marketed like live pets, in custom cardboard boxes, complete with straw and breathing holes. The fad lasted about six months, ending after a short increase in sales during the Christmas season of December 1975.
I stumbled up on this user manual about how to care and train your pet rock. All my problems are solved.
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How to Add an H-Card to Your Micro.blog Site
An h-card is an open microformat standard for embedding data in HTML that is often used to establish identity online. However, you can easily add your own H-Card to your Micro.blog site by editing your site footer from your account. Log into your Micro.blog account and click Design > Edit Footer. Add the below html snippet, and customize it as much as you like. You can add many additional custom h-card properties. Continue reading →
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Quick Links
Some interesting apps and content that I’ve discovered recently. Apps Lazy - A capture tool for knowledge. One keyboard shortcut to save every idea, link, tweet and so much more. BibGuru - A free APA, Harvard, & MLA Citation Generator Refind - Every day we pick the most relevant links from around the web for you. Digest - Create a personalized newsletter with your favorite content. Heptabase - Heptabase empowers you to visually make sense of your learning, research, and projects. Continue reading →
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Currently reading: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul 📚
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What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing - NEOMA
But simply abiding by the rules doesn’t make excellent writing — it makes conventional, unremarkable writing, the kind usually found in business reports, policy memos and research articles.
The article discusses how AI can be used for writing. While it may produce concise and clear content, it cannot yet evoke the emotional responses from readers that a skilled human writer can.
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Growth loops are extremely simple: we simply need to commit to action, monitor our progress, and reflect on the results so we can keep on adding layers of learning through each cycle. There is no need to worry about the ultimate destination: success emerges as a result of the repeated experimentation and learning.
Where I struggle with this is that it requires measuring and reflecting. I’ve yet to find a tool that I stick with (tried several the habit/goal apps).
I should try paper. 🤔 Perhaps I’ll try logging something in my new planner.
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🖋️ I received the second edition of the Time Block Planner [1]. The paper quality is great, and the planner features a spiral binder, allowing it to lay flat.
Plan your day and adjust your time blocks as you go. Jot down anything that comes up. I prefer doing this on paper.
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The Time Block Planner was created by Cal Newport as a tool to help implement his time blocking method on paper. ↩
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Michael Tsai - Blog - GrammarlyGO Training on User Content With Questionable Opt Out
[W]e use Microsoft Azure as our LLM provider and don’t allow Azure, or any third party, to use our customers’ data to train their models—this is contractually mandated. For text analyzed by Grammarly to provide revision suggestions …, we may retain randomly sampled, anonymized, and de-identified data to improve the product. This data is disassociated from user accounts and ONLY used in aggregate.
A statement from Grammarly’s CISO about how they use your data.
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Finished reading: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter 📚
It is a nice blend of story and scientific evidence stating how we have grown too comfortable in our day-to-day lives.
No big surprises were revealed. Yet an interesting story made it enjoyable to read. It was inspiring but depressing knowing how much healthier I could be with significant lifestyle changes.
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“This creep phenomenon applies directly to how we now relate to comfort, said Levari. Call it comfort creep. When a new comfort is introduced, we adapt to it, and our old comforts become unacceptable. Today’s comfort is tomorrow’s discomfort. This leads to a new level of what’s considered comfortable.” (Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis)
We’re constantly getting comfortable with our lives. Each comfort replaces other comforts, and we get deeper and deeper into the comfort hole, making it harder to get out.
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First impressions of Reflect.app
I’ve been reflecting on what I like about the Reflect.app. I’ve been using the app for a couple of weeks, experimenting with it to determine if it’s something I want to use long-term. I think the main thing is its simplicity. It feels like a minimal app. In fact, when I started using it, I thought it felt incomplete somehow. The lack of buttons and menus threw me off. Yet, as I used it, I felt as though it had just the right amount of features to make it a quite powerful tool for writing. Continue reading →
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Add Tinylytics to Obsidian Publish
If you use Obsidian Publish to host your Digital Garden and want a simple and privacy-focused analytics solution to track how people view your site, you can connect with Tinylytics, a simple and privacy-focused analytics service. Create a file named publish.js in your root directory. Add the following script to the file. Publish the file! var tinylyticsScript = document.createElement('script'); tinylyticsScript.defer = true; tinylyticsScript.src = '[tinylytics.app/embed/YOU...](https://tinylytics.app/embed/YOUREMBEDCODE.js';) document.head.appendChild(tinylyticsScript); Continue reading →
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What I Use - PKM Tools - August 2023
I find it beneficial to periodically review the tools I'm using. Reflecting on the current state and observing how things evolve has been insightful. These are the tools I'm using as of August 2023. My workflow is very simple. Readwise Reader I use Readwise Reader for nearly all of my consumption, which includes RSS, articles, videos, and PDFs. I also use it to highlight and take notes, which automatically sync to Readwise. Continue reading →
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I’m experimenting with Twos, an app that I’ve seen but never paid attention to.
The app seems to be heavily inspired by the Bullet Journal. You capture throughout the day and use various Bullet styles. You can also create lists (collections).
It’s a nice blend of note-taking and task management.
