I have had a “coming and going” relationship with Apple during my lifetime. The first computer I ever had was an Apple IIc, back when all of my friends had Commodore 64s. As a middle-school aged kid, I wasn’t terribly impressed by the monochrome screen that seemed as small as the little television we took […]
You done good. Real good. Like reinventing the “way many of us live” good.1 1 I’ll offer more on Steve Jobs in an article later this week…but here’s a bit of “eventual” nostalgia to tide you over until then.
Candle by Paddywax. Pencil by Uniball. Notebook by Moleskine. Computer by Apple.1 1 Believing by Me in this. And this.
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” — Jack Layton, 1950-2011 I had other things that I had planned to write today. But when my wife phoned me this morning to tell
In my last installment of the Decluttering iStuff series, I purged all but two of my third-party camera apps from my iPhone. This time around, I have the more daunting task of eliminating a ton of Twitter apps from both my iPhone and iPad. I suppose that some of the apps I’m eliminating don’t just
This morning I’m appearing on CBC Radio One’s On The Island, where I’ll be talking with this week’s host David Lennam about a bunch of lifehackery stuff. Ira Glass, host of the NPR program This American Life, had this to say about Canada’s public broadcaster: “I feel like there are more things on the CBC
The Over I’ve been overcome with emotion lately; it can be seen in much of what has been written here…like in this piece. I’ve been overwrought. Knowing that I’ve been steps away from either taking yet another big leap or from running in the other direction. I’ve been overwhelmed, mainly due to overcommitment. The resulting
The power of intention is a misnomer — and it’s fleeting unless you have more than just intent to do something. Intending to do something is a great notion, but it’s just that: a notion. Until you actually do the “something”, it’s nothing more. You can’t use the notion that you intend to do something
There’s nothing wrong with resting. Everyone needs to rest. It allows you to come back fresh and do really great stuff. There’s nothing wrong with comfort. Everyone needs comfort. It allows you to focus less on what you are good at so that you can work to get better at other aspects of what can
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