Micro
My approach to slack is to write one message (even if its long) and send that so I cause as few disturbances as possible.
My boss hates this.
It gives her a wall of text.
So what do other people do? They send a dozen small message one after another and another.
It’s often longer but it doesn’t look as long and forces you out of whatever task you’re doing at the time. I hate it.
Currently working out how I can afford/justify coming to the sketchnote camp in Texas this year. Current plan. Sell a kidney.
One of my favourite ironies is how much engineering work has gone into making camera lenses WITHOUT vignetting…and people add it in post production.
I wonder if secular ideas like “the miracle morning” have caused (Western/US) Evangelicalism to adopt a rushed, transactional view of spiritual disciplines. Has the “quiet time” been replaced with the “Optimised morning spiritual routine for peak performance”?
Me: “I don’t struggle with shiny object syndrome”
Them: “Okay, show me your domain name history.”
Me: “Alright, you got me.”
I wonder when Apple will realise that they’re the baddies over how they are holding developers hostage.
I just ordered a second hand Nikon 50-250mm lens for the z50. It’s not fast but the range is crazy. I’m hoping for some good wildlife shots with the kids in spring.
My youngest has pneumonia and so my wife is taking her into hospital. A few days of single dad-ing with my other two. Full time single parents have my upmost respect.
This is the exact loop in thinking I go through whenever I consider moving my newsletter off substack. “Helpfully”, my sketchy ideas website also seems to be down. So maybe this is the push I need to move platform (Is that Ghost whispering my name I hear?)
Time to say goodbye to the UK again. It was a great at trip and very tiring. Looking forward to a good nights sleep (but it won’t be tonight as we get in at 23:55 to the airport!
I think I’m going to change sketchyideas to the new default WordPress theme. I don’t really see the advantages of a custom theme with the way full site editing is going and the typical impact on load speed. But if you know another good theme, let me know.
How does one get a button with “reply on micro.blog” at the bottom of each post? I assume I need to edit my template but I’ve seen some that are next to a “reply on mastodon” but there’s no plugin for that.
Today I learned there’s a raspberry pi store in Cambridge. I’ve just managed to avoid buying one. For now.
I failed my reading goal last year. I’m not sure if I missed tracking some books I read, but I still know I read less than the last few years combined. I’m not 100% sure why but tiredness in the evenings, 3 kids and some issues with brain fog at the start of the year didn’t help. I’m hoping to change
A little late on my newsletter this week but I wanted a bit more time to get some things in order. I hope you enjoy (It’s about goals, yearly themes and more).
Submitted my paper on Jonah. I could have written so much more and every time I reduced a section I wanted to add a new one. I stilll have some lingering questions and would love some more resources to go deeper but for now I’m looking forward to some casual reading.