JUST realised it’s INKTOBER today! Now where’s my pentel Brush pen!

My wife uses her bag’s laptop compartment as her main compartment. As in it’s the most filled section and bulges into the actual main compartment. I feel like I don’t know my wife…I also wonder how many people do this.

Watching the debate. I’ve heard that it was poorly moderated so Interested to see what it was like. So far, the first question and… it’s not good.

Just ate so much chilli that I feel sick… I regret nothing…a bit..I regret it a bit.

I try to avoid talking about “outstanding work” because it might be really good…or really late.

Went for an autumnal walk over the weekend. And it will get even more golden in the next few days :)

It’s really interesting to see how Moment has adapted as a company. Once the iPhone added a second lens, making their lenses less useful, they started to focus on filters, first for phones, then drones and now DSLR/mirrorless cameras. At the same time, they expanded into making bags and other accessories AND moved into selling lessons and trips. Although they were a hardware product company that was “sherlocked”, they followed their audiences interests and diversified. Now, like when they started, they help photographers and videographers create things. Really intersting to see.

For the professional photographer, the best camera is probably the one with the best image quality. For the armature, it’s the camera that encourages you to take more photos.

So Trumps re-election strategy is to hope he gets more in person votes than Joe Biden in the right states, complain to the Supreme Court (with his new justice on) about mail in voting and refuse to leave power? Democracy at work.

The walk home from work yesterday. Okay, the iPhone can take okay photos.

Sometimes I look at productivity advice, compare that advice with what I actually do, and then read the description of how horrifically unproductive I must surely be and how “terrible” my life is because I don’t follow this simple advice… it’s not true.

"What do you mean you don't have access?"

At work we have a tool that allows for collaboration and transparancy, so we can all see what everyone is up to and the changes we log. It’s also part of the ideas and values we preach… and yet I keep finding that different teams set their privacy to full so no other team can access files (and when they grant access, they do it on a case by case basis often leading to multiple requests) plus instead of using the collaborative tool, people will download their own copy, make their edits, and then reshare…often missing edits other people have made.

I really wonder why on earth we use these expensive solutions if no one is going to use them to do what they were designed for.

It looks like Notion has added a form of bi-directional linking. that’s pretty exciting!

I try doing this all the time. “If I were advising a friend, I’d say/ask…” Still isn’t helping my camera dilemma!

Current camera thoughts…the Sony A7c looks just what I want…but I can’t afford that. So a Sony a6(something)00 looks like what I will probably go for…but part of me still loves Olympus (even though it’s m43).

My daughter has a runny nose and so can’t go to nursery. So today is going to be sticker books, singing and feeding some ducks. Oh no :)

I tried to update my Apple Watch this morning. No space. Deleted some apps; still no space. Removed photos, podcasts and songs (I didn’t know I had them on there!): still no space! Removed EVERY APP… not. enough. space. Unpaired and then repaired Apple Watch… success!

Apple One… I’ve been really interested to see this. Before the whole Hey/Epic drama I was really onboard with this, now I’m not certain this is the kind of company I really want to give my money too. Seeing as Poland doesn’t have News+ or fitness+ I guess we won’t have the premium option.

I hate newbie shaming

I really hate the culture of shaming newbies and amatures who try to copy something they see online but don’t do it as well.

  • Everyone sucks when they start.
  • If they enjoy it, what does it matter if it’s “good”
  • It’s very easy to be the cynic who critiques everyone else (and does nothing)
  • okay, if they are pretending to be a pro/guru and they have just started…you can roll your eyes a little.