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On the ZenGeek Podcast

Andrew Marvin and Jeffrey Inacho have started a new podcast and it is pretty terrific. It’s called the ZenGeek Podcast, and the style of delivery and conversation is refreshing, not because others aren’t doing these types of podcasts, but because the voices are so fresh and the thoughts and ideas coming from them are articulate […]

Sometimes You Just Have to Go Home

After spending over two weeks away from home, I was incredibly happy to get back to it. Not that I didn’t have an amazing time during my travels (I clearly did), but it was my time away that made me realize that home has so much to offer me. The road has a way of

Mountain Lion

I’m not going to spend a ton of time talking about Mountain Lion (the latest iteration of the Mac operating system that was released today) because I haven’t spent much time with it yet. But these folks have. Stephen Hackett offers a comprehensive review (and his thoughts on the operating system fall in line with

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