As a long suffering Sheffield Wednesday fan, I am hopeful for today’s playoff match, but ready regardless of what happens. It would have to be against Barnsley, wouldn’t it.

🔗 What if you could only use ONE APP on your iPhone? – Shawn Blanc

What if you could only use ONE APP on your iPhone? – Shawn Blanc

So this is a completely random but fun experiment… but what app would you pick if you could only pick ONE?

I read this quick post from Shawn a few days back and knew my answer almost instantly – Drafts.

I’d certainly miss the camera (but I have a ricoh gr), podcast, and the sat nav in some situations, but with drafts I’d cover the other 80% I use my phone for. I could even manage my tasks there too if I needed.

Continuing with the other devices… I’d probably pick

• Mac – Arc (cheating I know, but I’d need it for work). excluding that, Obsidian.
• iPad – Reader from Readwise

I’d never choose obsidian on the iPhone, it’s just not fast enough. In fact, it almost makes me wonder if I could just switch to drafts…

What about you?

Brian Eno on why you shouldn’t get a job and be part of a scenius instead..

Time to listen to some atmospheric music, I think.

Had some fun making a Matisse style cutouts for this Matisse quote. “Creativity takes courage”.

R.I.P. Tim Keller Twitter update

My tribute.

Printer: working fine for weeks. Me: Right, need to print this ticket in a hurry. Printer: Sorry, problem. Me: What problem? Printer: that, detective, is the right question.

I’ve noticed (and I feel the temptation too) to think of task management/PKM/bullet journaling/jorunaling/whatever as a binary thing — either you have some incredible complicated system which you use everyday the way the gurus on YouTube use theirs, or your “not doing it right”. … read more

My wife brought me Galaxy chocolate back from the UK after her trip. I brought her Tony’s chocolate… I think we brought each other the chocolate we wanted ourselves.

My silly little “coffee is the answer” t-shirt just got promoted in the same email as PCalc and the accidental tech podcast! I honestly did not see that coming.

Finished reading: Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday 📚 Probably the best, most varied and most practical of Ryan’s first trilogy.

The WordPress theme I’m using just released version 1.0. I downloaded and lost my custom page templates (whomp whomp). So I started to edit a button so it’s back in the theme colours and… the element can’t be displayed… Gutenberg is terrible.

A quick visual of The Paradox of Choice. I have a trick for shopping for craft beer. I have a price limit and look for items on sale in my local shop. 90% of the time, that makes my decision for me. Otherwise I use the process I say in the post.

It’s amazing how beepy bloopy music (example from today) can suddenly trigger my brain into a sense of focus and motivation for work. Anyone else experience that?

Side effect of GA4 is I’m removing analytics from many of my old sites. I never really check them anymore so why bother. Plus GA4 is a dumpster fire.

“Coffee is the answer”

Seen in work Slack.

Struggling with something in my head today so mucking around in procreate and single line portraits (With extra layers for colour).

I think this might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me with 1password. I have no idea what I’ll replace it with though, maybe just iCloud keychain now it can do one time passwords too.

Good news. I’ve found my Ricoh Gr at my folks place. I don’t have the right charger with me but at least I will be able to use it again soon. In the meantime it’s been fun to use my MJU ii in London.

I was reading about childhood wounds and acting out like a child yesterday. So I made so,e journaling prompts to help me think about situations where I don’t act the way I wish to. Feel free to use them if you think they are useful

• What traits of my dad am I worried about inheriting?
• What traits of my dad do I want to exhibit?
• What feelings and pains from childhood do I still feel?
• When do I react “like a child at work”, what causes that?
• When do I react “like an adult”?
• When do I react “like a child” at home, what causes that.

P.s. if you have better phrasing, especially for the third, I’d be happy to hear it.

Five beautiful things in this cafe

• A Dad reading to his daughter
• Old friends catching up
• “Thank you for tidying up” — a child repeats after her parents
• Ludovico Einaudi on the radio
• The aroma of freshly ground coffee infusing the air.

When you’re down on the south bank and have your iPad with you…

Hi from London.

The head of -Twitter- X corp could really do with listening to that Elon Musk bloke.

“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”

and

“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”

I started a little Van Gough inspired background for my zoom calls. I might add more details but I’m also tempted to try a more manga style one too.

I’ll be in London and free on Friday. I don’t suppose there are any micronauts who want to have a micro meetup in central London?