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End of the work week. Time for my end of week review routine.
I’m really intrigued to see how obsidian properties work. So far I’ve been impressed by the features they add while keeping the simple text file approach.
“Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo, The Future of Man.
📹 Van Neistat’s rules of gift giving - YouTube Some great tips here. I love “Expensive, not costly”. My brother is good at these.
Ironically, I think I understand why Musk has done this rebrand now. Threads has stolen attention away from Twitter and presented it’s biggest threat to its existence. Musk needs to steal back attention and have something that points to a more positive future. The rebrand focuses attention back on them so even though they aren’t the “one app to rule them all” yet, it gets people to discuss how likely it could be, how good/bad it would be, can musk do it etc, rather than “Will Threads kill Twitter?”
It’s not a terrible move, but the better move would be to make it a place worth going to.
It’s been …I don’t know how many months since I put my account in non active mode and I realise that I’m so much happier and less anxious than back then.
So thanks for ruining twitter, Musk. You’ve improved my mental health.
It’s a Cory Wong kind of afternoon. 🎶
Working from home is great: I don’t have a long commute and get more time with my family.
Working from home is terrible: I feel guilty if I’m not “working” while at home, and there are so many distractions.
I switch through these emotions multiple times a week and day.
How to live like a Roman emperor.
- Get a time machine.
- Learn Latin and Roman cultural practices
- Go back in time to a few years before an emperor dies and at a stable period of history
- Rise through the ranks of the Political class and win favour with the emperor
- Become the new emperor
Apparently all it takes to make me want a book is to put it in a cloth cover. See
I decided to get my Nikon Z50 out and just see if I could turn it on. I could and I managed to use the viewfinder (even thought the lcd screen is still bust). This makes getting it repaired much cheaper!
I had wondered why I couldn’t see threads and now I know. It’s not in the EU.. That makes me raise an eyebrow over their use of data.
My car got a puncture while my wife was driving. Luckily an American friend came to help me replace the tire with our spare. Happy Independence Day.
I’m working on a new in-depth sketchnote tutorial. One of the best things about making these is that I iron out my own drawing processes and learn new techniques. So I grow and I get to help other people too. Win win.
While I was away last week, my team moved to notion projects. So now I have no idea what I need to do, I have an inbox with at least 300 notion notifications and I can’t find some of those tasks that are in the emails. How’s your Monday going?
For me, The main effect of Google analytics 4 will be that I remove analytics from most sites. I just don’t need it.
Really hoping and praying this coup will lead to a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. Doesn’t seem likely but it’s more likely than it was yesterday.