I've been working on getting a better morning routine. My mornings tend to become compressed because I get to bed late (see: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination) so when it's time for me to wake up I'm not ready to actually wake up (see also: chemotherapy and tiredness thereof). So I've found …
read moreCleaning up
I had a read and review folder of old RSS articles, Bandcamp announcements, Patreon announcements, Youtube Videos, and more that has gotten over 2,000 items. Today I said "enough". In the GTD parlance any time a read and review pile falls over you throw it away. The problem is …
read moreFrom whence innovation? (or, why we need to rethink our current paradigms lest we continue to stagnate)
I just finished "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" after a late-night reading binge before bed. That book uncorked a lot of conflicted thoughts in me. Apple used to be a company that could be counted on to push the bar further with existing …
read moreAfter Steve and the lost soul of Apple
I'm almost done with the book "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul". It's a painful read, not because the writing is bad, but because you can see how a company like Apple has ossified over the years. I wrote about this in a previous …
read moreQuiet
I'm sitting here on the couch with my laptop on my lap (and a bamboo laptop desk underneath so I'm not relying on my legs to support said laptop. It's relatively quiet outside. I spent the afternoon writing a program to take my appointments for my treatment from a JSON …
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