👋 I'm Joe. I strive to build productivity systems that stand the test of time and help me do more than check boxes. I'm here to help you do the same.
🎙 I read a lot of books and talk about it.
🐿 I can't focus on one thing for long, so I write a lot of code for an eclectic grouping of projects.
📓 And I'm a bit obsessed with finding non-proprietary solutions to digital problems. Thus, text files for the win! 🎉
The seed was planted about two years ago. I learned about the world of white-hat hacking and Hacker One. And although I haven't done much of anything with my hacker account there, I did spend a lot of time researching and developing a knowledge of what it takes to make any decent money on the platform. But that research showed me how easy and prevalent the exploitation of user privacy has become. It opened my eyes to the lack of privacy we truly have online.
My future starts when I wake up in the morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
I suppose you could just use a Mac instead. 😉
"3 Troubling Trends We See in iOS Email Apps" by @BobbleheadJoe via @thesweetsetup
Email apps on iOS is an extremely competitive and volatile market in the App Store today, but there are a few trends that have us concerned.
Every time I get a weather alert, my gut reaction is to ignore it as an overstatement.
It makes me happy to see these @OmniFocus scripts still in action.
Rose and David share some of their favorite recently created automations ranging from email, to meetings, to Rose’s experiments on her new Mac mini.
This article has me wanting to blog about my (in progress) Lyme journey. But that's a massive deviation from the focus of my blog. Would that be helpful/interesting to anyone?
"The Most Neglected & Powerful Act of Self-Care" by @leobabauta
By Leo Babauta Many of us are (rightfully) focused on taking care of our health, eating nourishing whole foods and trying to be active … while meditating and flossing and...
Man is a creature who makes pictures himself and then comes to resemble the picture. - Iris Murdoch
The latest on @bookwormfm is The Second Mountain by David Brooks. This is a heady, but extremely challenging book. My takeaway: build and nurture close relationships.
In today's book, Joe and Mike embark on a journey from self-centered individualism to others-centered relationalism in pursuit of discovering just what exactly a life worth living looks like. Join...
You see and hear about Hover on all the tech podcasts, but I've been using @Namecheap a lot lately. They're cheaper, understand the security side of things, and give me more features. So I'm in the process of moving everything over.
Just say no to Slack.
"What Happened When Our Team Switched to Only Asynchronous Meetings" by @buffer
When timezone differences kept our team apart, we decided to lean fully into asynchronous communication. Here's how we experimented and where we landed!
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. - Bruce Lee
For those who jumped in on my crazy idea in the newsletter this morning, thank you. 🤗
If you're not on the list, I have an article coming within the next 10 days with details.
For those stuck on Windows machines, the web version of @OmniFocus continues to get features that match the Mac version.
"OmniFocus for the Web Adds Forecast View"
Creators of Mac, iPad, and iPhone productivity software. Proud to bring you OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and OmniPlan.
Unless something comes up, I'll be there. 😉 https://twitter.com/LearnOmniFocus/status/1161293339406327808
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
At what point are we no longer surprised by this?
"Revealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls"
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function.
Tomorrow's newsletter grants early access to a new community (not on Discourse) that I've contemplated for quite a while, but decided to launch last minute. Be sure to join if want more details:
For anyone on the live page, we're having tech issues with the live server. So we have to forgo the stream today. We're really sorry, team.
I was looking to read some reflection articles about @macstockexpo last week and found them kind of hard to locate. So I compiled everything about #macstock2019 I could find. 😉
Macstock was especially awesome this year. Each time I return home I try to dedicate time to reflect on my time on the event. And I always come away with a better understanding of the Mac community, deepened friendships, new friendships, and way more tools to play with than I should ever download.
Had an appointment with my Lyme specialist last week. I was cleared to drop my 30-day gluten-free experiment. Which means I can eat my own bread again!
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. - Alan Cohen
I like my "planners" empty with no guidelines. In other words, notebooks over planners.
"A New Planner Won’t Change Your Life" by @joshua_becker
I wonder how many purchases we make in life because we believe the purchase alone will bring about the change we desire.
