🎶 Blue In Green (Take 3) by Bill Evans Trio

Just discovered this version thanks to the YouTube music algorithm.

Round two of guess the book

Let’s play guess the book.

Can’t have a problem with trolls when you’re run by a troll and encourage trolling… sorry, “free speech maximumism.”

Urgh! What a day.

Chris, it’s 10am.

… the Google play store has fewer ads than the apple App Store…Google!

I resisted the iPadOS 16 betas because I wouldn’t get stage manager and I wanted to keep my iPad reliable…but now freefrom is out in beta and I’ve got to try it! Time to beta!

Currently reading: Political Gospel by Patrick Schreiner 📚

Today’s mood

Just curious, if you could get the SAME content but in.

  • a PDF
  • daily emails
  • An obsidian vault that you download
  • An online course platform like teachable
  • (another method?)

Which would you want most and why…also would it affect what you’d pay?

My 3 favourite pieces of tech hardware from 2022

The end of the year is in sight.

And while there’s still time for me to purchase a new piece of tech, I think it’s safe for me to create this roundup list (especially with my current financial situation).

I haven’t bought too many items this year, but these three stand out above the rest.

AirPods Pro

My wife is the best.
I had resisted replacing my old AirPods with news ones but my wife convinced me.
She was right. They’ve helped me with countless video calls, blocking out noisy neighbours (and kids) not to mention hours of podcast listening.

And It sounds like the second gen are even better.

Samsung M7

There’s no perfect cheap monitor for Apple computers, but this is close.

It’s a

  • 32"
  • 4k
  • USB-C connection monitor.

Back when I was deep in spreadsheets, reports and editing every day, this screen was invaluable. Now it is amazing for editing videos, recording screen casts (I can record a limited space on the screen and have notes in the rest) and for opening a ton of resources from Logos.

Caldigit ts3+

The two ports on the Macbook Air just aren’t enough.

Well, not when I make a video and have my camera, microphone, streamdeck, iPad, monitor and external hard drive all hooked up. This handy little device has made it all a dream.

Previously, I had a dongle that required some careful planning to get everything connected. Now I hook one thunderbolt 3 cable into my Macbook, and away I go.

**What about you? **What have been your favourite hardware tech purchases of the year.

I’m planning to do a massive update of my site LearnCreateShare next week I’d love your feedback and thoughts. Some things I’m considering

  1. The name /domain
  2. The navigation and experience
  3. Updating/correcting info (like the about page)

Probably won’t change the theme though.

Speaking with Paul Mignard on Twitter and he mentioned dropping the USB-C port, going wireless and making a thinner iPad. That could be an amazing iPad Air (that would hook up to a smart speaker for a home device?). A great sketchnoting device.

Turned off continuity webcam for my iPhone. I was getting multiple pings a day saying it was connected when I wasn’t even using a camera app. I’ll manually switch it on if I need it.

I shared this sketchnote summary of the One Minute Manager on my blog yesterday but I thought I’d share it here as well. I love the idea of focusing on catching good actions not mistakes. This was a core idea when I taught English to young learners.

New iPad Pros.

  • Pencil hover sounds like a great feature, I’d love to know why it’s locked to the new pros? (current prediction, so you’ll upgrade!)
  • M2 performance sounds CRAZY.
  • Faster wifi…cool. I guess that’s nice.

It doesn’t really sound that compelling. I guess it’s nice to have something even better if it’s the same price but I don’t think this has changed what iPad I’d probably by. Either the iPad Air or the last pro 12.9.

Today’s fun little slip of the tongue while recording “You can drag and drog”.

I want to know what drag and drog is.

I’d love a new iPad (money aside) so hopefully this new iPad Pro will help drive down prices of the last models and how knows what else they might bring out. The dead pixels in the middle of my screen have been annoying me for some time.

It turns out that N.T. Wright and Mike Birds excellent book on the New Testament is also excellent as a mic stand.

Playing with Linea for some quick easy drawings… really underrated app.