Reading Time: 2 minYou know that I love to challenge my existing beliefs to see if they’re solid or not, so when a friend gave me a copy of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” by Alex Epstein, I was excited to give it a read. I couldn’t understand why a book would have that title (other than […]
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Some early thoughts on the Kindle Scribe
Reading Time: 3 minAmazon recently announced the Kindle Scribe, a new 10″ Kindle that comes with a pen. It’s very much like a Kindle meets a reMarkable, and I’m very excited about what that could mean. If you’ve not seen it, here is the official announcement video from Amazon: The video doesn’t show a lot of how it […]
Exploring versus exploiting
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen it comes to tools and systems, there are two areas you can lean on: exploring and exploiting. To put it another way, are you spending time exploring new tools and playing with the shiny toys, or are you actually exploiting (in a good way) the tools at your disposal? Admittedly, I fall a bit […]
Storytelling could have saved Google Stadia
Reading Time: 2 minYesterday, Google announced that they were shutting down Google Stadia. While I was a big fan of the service, the announcement didn’t surprise me very much, as Stadia just never really caught on. If you’re asking “What was Stadia?”, that pretty much explains what happened. If you saw Google’s official Stadia launch trailer a few […]
Readwise is breathing new life into RSS
Reading Time: 4 minI’ve been using the Readwise Reader app for a few months now, and it’s quickly becoming an indispensable tool for me. You can learn about it on their site here, but for me it really just combines two things — the “read it later” functionality from tools like Pocket, and then the traditional RSS reading […]
What does AI-generated art mean for our future?
Reading Time: 3 minAI-generated art is an area that is growing incredibly quickly. In most cases, these tools allow you to type in a short description of what you want and the system will create the image automatically. A recent episode of the Cortex podcast got into it quite a bit, and it opened my eyes to some […]
Filtering the entirety of my internetting through RSS
Reading Time: 2 minIn an episode of the Cortex podcast (#122: State of the Apps 2022), one of the hosts expressed his desire (and near achievement) to “filter the entirety of my internetting through RSS“. As that’s something I’m chasing as well, I thought it was an interesting statement and something worth unpacking a bit. First, some of […]
Organize your world’s information
Reading Time: 2 minPart of Google’s original mission statement was to “organize the world’s information”. While they’re imperfect, I think they’ve done far more toward that goal than any other company in history. You can search for almost anything from “the world’s information” and they’ll find it for you. While Google is great at organizing the world’s information, […]
Know what to ignore
Reading Time: < 1 minWe are faced with a problem that was unthinkable until just the past few decades — we have too much information at our fingertips. Really, it’s not the issue of what’s at our fingertips but how much is being thrust at us. As I shared with my “Facebook still isn’t listening to you” post, each […]
Write notes with propositional titles
Reading Time: < 1 minAs I’m digging further into the Obsidian tool, I’ve also been taking a closer look at how I assemble my notes. I came across a fantastic article from Nick Seitz that dug into a lot of the first steps one might take with Obsidian, and it included the push to use “propositional titles”. In short, […]