May 2013
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May 21st
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Reads: human brain, 210 mph Bugatti, welfare...
The Atlantic: Why Spend a Billion Dollars to Map the Human Brain? Marketwatch: At 210 mph in a Bugatti, for a long, long time Medium: The 51% Rule NYT: Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault Medium: The distraction-free iPhone (or ‘Why I’m happier since I disabled Safari’). Removing infinity from in his pocket to live better. NYT: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout Psychology...
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 13th
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May 9th
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May 5th
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May 3rd
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Reads: Autofocus, habits, charity, letters,...
Autofocus Forums Electronic AF with TaskPaper Zenhabits Habit Mastery: Creating the New Study Hacks You Can Be Busy or Remarkable — But Not Both hbr.org Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money hbr.org A Well-Crafted Letter Still Gets the Job Done The Atlantic ‘We’re Going to Have a Crisis’: David Stockman’s Stark Warning for America Science Daily Mindfulness...
May 1st
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5 tips to create and maintain a minimalist desk →
May 1st
April 2013
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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“But it’s revealing, I think, of why so many members of Mr. Jordan’s generation...”
– Constance Winters, WSJ, page C10, April 27, 2013, reviewing In the City of Bikes, by Pete Jordan
Apr 29th
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Decisions can sap energy and increase stress
I have a job which involves endless decisions, often when fatigued and at odd times of day such as the middle of the night. I am constantly having to problem-solve with high stakes at play. I’ve been reading a book called The Power of Full Engagement. One point it makes is that decisions take energy from us. Our energy is finite. President Obama has a compatible approach to lower-level...
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Grasshopper 250m Test | Natural Sound →
This is quite cool SpaceX’s Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has …
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t...”
– swissmiss | Build A Ship
Apr 21st
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Apr 8th
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“The first thing I do when I wake up is meditate. The most difficult thing to...”
Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 5th
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Reads: Fountain pens, Taskpaper, Italy, ships,...
Tools and Toys: Guide to Fountain Pens Tundramonkey: Why I Switched Back to Taskpaper Medium: Italy: The Letter. An adventurous first solo trip to Italy. A Continuous Lean: The Most Famous Ship that Didn’t Sink (USS United States) The Atlantic: The Syrian Rape Crisis ZenHabits: Meditation: The Most Fundamental Habit WSJ: Our inalienable right to snarf junk food NYTimes - from...
Apr 5th
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The 12 most beautiful iOS apps of 2012 - The Next... →
Apr 3rd
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A Collection of Beautiful, Minimalist App Icons →
Apr 1st
March 2013
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Mar 31st
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Building Better Software › Scrum and... →
Mar 29th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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Thinking of switching back to Simplenote
I’m thinking of switching back to Simplenote sync after an 8 week trial in the Dropbox-only sync world. I have greater than 1500 notes. I have trialed several apps including Writeroom, Notesy, Byword, Elements, iA Writer, nvNotes, TextForce, Scribe, MyEditor. Reasons I would switch back: Improved sync - nvALT update from 3/24 adds the new Symperium API for more stable and reliable...
Mar 26th
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Quick Review: Habit List
I have been trying Habit List for tracking foundational habits. I currently have limited the number of habits to 3-4 a day with at least one being a habit I am trying to develop. This is a very nice app. (+) Clean interface Export option Calendar view Bar graph view Somewhat minimalist design Ability to change away from default font (-) No integrated graph of all tracking results ...
Mar 26th
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Mar 23rd
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11 Best Minimalist iPhone App Designs (2012)  →
Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Taskpaper archive as a journal base and plain text...
I quite like Dayone as a journal app. It is well designed and easy to use. I have been using it since October 1, 2011, and have 400 entries. One concern I have is the increasing sophistication in Dayone with updates. This may sound paradoxical. Dayone has now added location, images, others. I tend to prefer simplification. For example, plain text files are much better than Word files...
Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
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