Mike Vardy

A Return to OmniFocus

Today I’m offering up another admission. and it’s a big one. It’s true. I’ve gone back to OmniFocus. Sort of. I’m still using Asana for any tasks or projects that involve communicating with others – basically anything collaborative. I really enjoy the way Asana operates in this regard; I can use it (especially with the […]

Goodbye Google: The Epilogue

It’s been a few months since I gave a shot at eliminating much of Google from my life. I wasn’t going to revisit the series with this epilogue so early, but with the company’s acquisition of Sparrow (my former email client of choice) late last week I felt that moving it up a week or

Letting the Sparks Fly

Today is a travel day.1 I don’t have a lot to say as a result, mainly because I don’t have the time to say it. I do, however, have something for you that is worth listening to: the latest Mikes on Mics podcast episode. This week, Schechter and I talk with David Sparks (MacSparky, Mac

Celebrating Brett Terpstra

Today has been dubbed Terpstra Day by Gabe over at MacDrifter. Several folks on the Internet are joining Gabe in the celebration (including my podcasting partner Michael Schechter), so I thought I’d join in as well. To celebrate the occasion, I’m going to share with you a brief story about the first time I met

Go For It

Fellow podcaster and writer Stephen Hackett wrote about how he’d love to take his work at 512pixels and turn it into his full time gig. And he also wrote about how scared he is to just go for it. I was too.

Gone Fishing Again

Spending time offline for much of the past week or so has allowed me some time to reconnect with a lot of things, and perhaps the most fitting of these things is the essay within an app known as Fish by Robin Sloan. I’ve “gone fishing” more than once (as in I’ve used this app

Spot Picking

Have you ever played the game Twister? It starts out easy, because you only need to pick one spot to place a hand or foot on. But as you are given more and more spots to pick, it gets progressively difficult. Never mind the fact you have to contort yourself — and try contorting yourself

How Stillness Works

I’ve only been in The Yukon for a little over two days, and I’m already noticing a difference. The main difference is that I’m noticing more.

Everyone is Edison: How the Internet Enables Creation

The following is a short guest post by my friend Kemp Edmonds. I’ve known Kemp for a few years (we met at a Vancouver freelance event0 and I asked him if he’d be willing to offer up a post during my travels. He was more than happy to — and he’s also offering up some