Rest the day away
A day of rest from video chaos. Although, to HDR, or to not HDR?
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500th parkrun at Hagley
Our first, and Natalie’s first 5k. Made a video about it. Always cut out the boring parts.
Fruit of labour, and video formats
Reap what you sow, even when it’s been many years since planting. Learning to make videos that stand upright.
Continue, persist, keep going
It’s only the second week of the year. We’ve just passed 7 days of the new year. Just write. Make the world simple.
Sleep, the foundation for doing
Offline, in order to focus on things that are most important, and valuable. A way to work without distraction.
Focus, write more
Less of specific things. Decide on which specific things. People; that sounds like a good less to have.
More of everything
Maybe tomorrow should be about less of specific things, rather than more.
More in a day
Doing more in a day, and testing Substack, then back to Ghost
Finding a point
Is it easy to just live? Do what’s needed for the day, constantly work toward your goals; read and write. Is that even a good goal, with all the rest of the world out there, unknown to me, suffering, or enjoying culture. Who’s to know. I expect reading
Clean run
Summer direction
Not aimlessness.
A standard holiday
This is a way to write through your tasks so they’re easier to do. It’s a standard productivity tip, included in GTD and many other ways of doing tasks. The secret, is that you’ve already thought through how something will be done, now you only have to
Notes to Self
A Goal
Enough readers to pay for a Medium subscription, was the goal. Now the goal is Ghost.
What’s in a column?
Writing a column for your friends; formatting letter, forming a newsletter.
Why Buttondown?
A requiem, and issue #1 of this newsletter, on Buttondown.
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New favourite apps
Play for YouTube videos, HiCoffee for caffeine tracking, and honourable mentions; Debit & Credit, Callsheet, updated Les Mills, GoodLinks.
Priority Horizons
Priority Horizons 2024
Projects, focus for family, goals to travel, visions of a house, purpose for learning.
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Panic’s ‘SLOWBIZ’ with Playdate
I’ve been inspired by this session by Cabel Sasser on his company Panic, and developing the Playdate. As everything was falling apart, this quote from his kid got me: “You’re gonna find a way to fix this. You’ve been working on this for so many years and
Films
City of Joel
The story itself is more interesting than the movie, but making this movie was a feat as a whole. The movie’s main plot focuses on local political conflict, with the subplot being the fascinating City of Joel. Kiryas Joel (Kiri-yas Joel [Yo-el], KJ) is, in short, a small town
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Some may consider The Lottery as a story that is, very old, very famous, and very stark, in both senses of the word—bare and severe. The Lottery is short, with and ending that tightens like a cobra. It’s over before you can try stop it. It is without
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Bird or owl?
Maria Konnikova is writing about ‘Moral Mornings’. I remember reading about Early Birds and Night Owls with their circadian rhythms and chronotypes in Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. As an introvert I’ve always appreciated late nights for their stillness and quiet. However, living as a working and married
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Your two favourite apps
Dan is asking about favourite apps. My two favourite apps at the moment are iA Writer, and right now I’m really enjoying Threads. iA Writer has long been a favourite app for writing anything in plain text; from blog posts to CVs, website copy, and more. It’s an
Books
The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht
The Mysteries is a very short ‘fable for grownups’. It’s either a book about climate change and how the universe goes on without us.[1] Or a book about mysteries themselves. And how they can disappear with time, and then reappear in overwhelming waves, or creep up on us.
Notes to Self
What makes you ‘come alive’?
This is what makes me ‘come alive’: * Simplicity * Creativity * Restriction * Challenge? * Learning * Focus? * People (sometimes) * Leading? * Understanding * Consistency When the world doesn’t change too much.