This is my first attempt at writing an entry since the fire. I am using mountain lions Mountain Lion’s built-in Dictation feature to write this portion, but what you’ll see below is the tactic I used to write the majority of this post. Any kind of strikers strikethroughs in this paragraph are a result of […]
Fire is pretty dangerous. Screw that, fire is incredibly dangerous. It deserves your respect. It deserves to be treated with respect because it can change lives in mere seconds. And it certainly changed the lives of the Vardy family yesterday. That’s because yesterday I battled a small kitchen fire in our house. Luckily, no one
A couple of weeks back I started my search for a new email app of choice. I had several options I was weighing: Notify Postbox MailPlane MailMate Mail.app After spending some time with each app (and some somewhat wasted time with one of these apps since it has been discontinued), I’ve rendered my decision…
My friend Patrick Rhone still has his original iPad. So do I. That may make me one of the latest to get a new iPad, but that’s fine. Right now, my iPad does everything I need it to do…which is more than fine. It’s funny how “the latest” can have multiple meanings. It can mean the
“I have this image of a whole wave of stories getting posted about fear and failure that are full of humility and the messiness of real life. ” – Yuvi Zalkow My friend Yuvi Zalkow has a book out – released today – entitled A Brilliant Novel in the Works. To celebrate the launch, he
Before we get into this series, I want to reiterate that this is a search for my new email app of choice. The idea behind this exploration is so you can get a sense of not just what will work best for me, but what will work best for you. There have already been a
Ever since the news broke that Sparrow was no longer going to be developed, I began a search for my new mail application of choice in earnest. It pained me to leave Sparrow behind because I really enjoyed its minimal approach to email, so the new app of choice will have some big shoes to
This week on Mikes on Mics, Schechter and I talk about my posts here regarding a move back to Gmail (here) and OmniFocus (here), other tools I’ve added to my workflow, and we even touch on why we make the choices we make when it comes to the tools we use. (And Schechter enjoyed naming
The very thing that brought me to where I’m at today is dead. Not so much because I’m killing it (which I’d discussed possibly doing in a previous post), but because it has died of what would amount to “natural causes”. Today marks the end of my first ever entry into the productivity realm, the
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