microblogs
- Peter Thiel, quoted in Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
I just discovered and used screenshotr.app for my previous post. This is an awesome free tool for making screenshots look more interesting and professional!
I removed my bio from the header of my blog and improved the user experience on my subscribe page to make the call-to-action clearer. I like the minimal look. 👍🧹
New Look 👶
Old Look 👴
Had a beautiful walk after working from a coffee shop this afternoon.
Coffee shop hack: bring your own stroopwafel ☕🧇
One of my wife’s many good ideas.
I kinda like Comic Sans. Also, today I learned that if you google Comic Sans or Vincent Connare (the guy that created it) the results come back in Comic Sans.
Love or hate the font, you gotta love internet easter eggs.
Dang, Google Photos over here making me cry 😭 It finds video snippets of my daughter, puts them in slow motion, and plays emotional piano music in the background 🥹
I would love to hear from the product team crafting these experiences and what their goal is for Photos. Not a feature I would think of putting in a Photos app, but I’ve really enjoyed it! I love that it surfaces nostalgic memories for me!
Feeling extra tired this morning. Started reading scripture but kept falling asleep. Ended up just throwing punches in the air to keep myself awake while I read. I’m glad I was alone, I probably looked crazy…
But it’s a nice new trick to keep myself awake while reading early in the morning. 🥊
🌊 man is deep water.
💨 will is wind. fleeting and weak.
🌕 what then be his moon?
I added an /ideas page to my blog, as mentioned recently in my post on indie hacking. I’ll update this page every now and then as I have new ideas or stumble on the ones scattered across my journals and note taking apps.
I love when I’m inspired by something I highlighted a long time ago in my Readwise Daily Review. This one feels especially relevant with my recent excitement around indie hacking.
I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait. I went to college. I went to law school. I worked in law and banking, though not for terribly long. But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don’t have to wait to start something. So if you’re planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it’s at least worth asking whether that’s the story you’re telling yourself, or whether that’s the reality.
I updated my bio (the words at the top of every page) and my about page. See the changelog for more details, or just check them out!
I just found out that UDisc Community was released a couple weeks ago. I’ve been waiting for this feature for years!
Here’s an invite link if you have the app but don’t have access to Community yet, and here’s my profile if you want to see how I’m playing!
A moment of silence for the people on low-carb diets…
So cool… Saving this to try out on my blog later. Matt Webb has “collaborative cursors” on his blog, so you can see other visitors' cursors and chat with people who are currently on the same page. I love that he hangs out on his home page and says “hi” to people sometimes.
Is it better to be a cowardly lion or a brave chicken?
My favorite doctor appointments are the ones where I wait forever, then the doctor comes in and says “After looking at your file, we can’t do anything until we run some tests. Schedule those and come back later”. /sigh
This seemed like it really hit the nail on the head. An insightful look at how “therapy culture” is imitating religion, but falling short.
Currently eating Chick-fil-A on a picnic blanket in the parking lot of a Barnes & Noble. I love Saturdays.
I recently started a tradition of working from a different coffee shop each Friday. Today’s Pumpkin Pie Latte was a nice complement to deep work ☕
Quests > Goals
This got me thinking about how I frame my objectives.