Literally just saw a video with the title [description of spoiler] : SPOILER ALERT
Friend, your alert failed me.
It's okay to take it easy somtimes
Last week I felt utterly demotivated. I’m not even sure why. Although I was slowly plodding along with my work for SPS, I felt like it was pointless and wondered if I should even bother. It turned out that I wasn’t alone. Chad felt the same way too for reasons that were similar and different. We decided to have a “lighter sprint" or even a “Sabbatical Sprint" – following the six week cycles of Shawn Blanc and Sean McCabe as well as have a call to discuss some things. Well, we had our call earlier today and everything’s changed. It actually started yesterday when I realised I had done more than I had set myself to do and some of my previous barriers had been removed. Those two small changes boosted my motivation and when I could share that with Chad, I felt rejuvenated. Our call only served to magnify that effect as we shared our frustrations, recent successes (however small) and some ideas for how we could continue in the future.
As I was walking home yesterday, I had this thought
“I don’t know who needs to hear this but take it easy on yourself… I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s time to dig in."
There’s a real magic to knowing when we need to push past a barrier and when we need to slow down and take a step back. I’m glad I took a step back for this sprint, I’m excited to push harder for the next one.
Do as I say, not as I do.
I will never get over the number of times I see my company doing the very things we preach against. Today’s example. It’s probably that instead of updating a shared document, someone has made a new version that has updated details. Of course, they haven’t shared it with everyone which has caused some errors based on outdated information. The most infuriating part is we are using the very tools which are designed to avoid these issues. It seems the error lies between the monitor and chair.
Sold my old Olympus film camera. It wasn’t getting used and I have other film cameras. Although it’s sad to say goodbye, I believe that things and tools should be used, and it wasn’t.
I used final cut on my MacBook Air m1. It is incredible! Editing is just a breeze with this thing. I’m the bottleneck now.
Created a books page in my Obsidian system to track what I’m reading, what I’ve read and so on. I’ve had book notes in here for a while but not really a linking page/content page to connect to them. It’s nice to see an overview of what I’ve got on the go at once.
A meditation metaphor
Parkinson’s law, but for stuff.
Parkinson’s law says that work expands to fill the time allocated to it.
I’ve found something similar with “stuff” at home.
If we get more shelves or cupboards, they get filled.
We moved a few things around last week and opened up some floor space…now it’s my daughters favourite location to play with puzzles.
I’m not saying it always has to be this way, and you can certainly need more space, but it seems like we’ll probably fill however much space we have.
How it started. How it’s going. First Mac (retina MacBook Pro late 2013), new Mac (MacBook Air 2020 m1)
Sometimes I use copywriting formulas for email subject lines when I send internal emails. Just now was one of those times.
🔗 Google Nest 2 home device tracks body activity in bed - BBC
🔗 Google Nest 2 home device tracks body activity in bed - BBC
And Privacy is Power author Carissa Véliz asked: “What happens when you have sex?"
Google said the new features had been “built with privacy in mind” - and the data collected would not be used to create personalised advertising.
Of course Google won’t do anything creapy with that personal data. I wonder how many Nest users will suddenly see an increase in vigara adverts?
When I first saw the headline, I didn’t immediately think about sex…but it really didn’t take long to think about this connection. This makes me think of how tone deaf Facebook was over the portal…but maybe I’m wrong and people won’t care.
I think every Apple product I own is space grey…and yet none of them are the same colour!
Just crossed the last of my “urgent, must get done this week!” tasks and now I’m just down to normal Friday admin and longer term tasks! Fantastic feeling espeically as I wasn’t expecting that! 😎
Good morning from Wieliczka.
Some thoughts about tasks.
Today in every day sexism, asking someone to change a job position to say “their” rather than “his” (I’m hoping it was just a translation issue).
Cleaned up my obsidian database a bit. Starting to turn into something.
Just sent a new edition of the learn create share newsletter out with a new creative challenge. Now time to record a sketchnote video!
What is an idea from a productivity book you’ve found helpful?
I remember next actions being fantastic for helping teenage me break through procrastination. Tasks that seemed so massive could be broken into chunks and then I just had to do the next step.