Reading Time: 2 minI’ve been a big fan of the reMarkable tablet over the past few years, as I find it an excellent way to take notes in various settings. Similarly, I’ve been a big fan of the Amazon Kindle for quite a few years now. I still read a good number of printed books, but most of […]
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From Twitter to Mastodon?
Reading Time: 2 minWhile the Elon Musk + Twitter situation seems to get stranger by the day, many people are moving over to Mastodon instead. Whether it sticks or not remains to be seen, but it has potential to be a great solution. At it’s core, Mastodon is a decentralized social network that feels a lot like Twitter. […]
The power of Supertags in Tana
Reading Time: < 1 minI briefly mentioned Tana last month, which is a new note-taking app that I’m playing with. I’m finding it to be a very powerful tool, but their “Supertags” feature might be the best part. Rather than try to explain it to you, here is a short video that I created to show how it works: […]
Social Networking versus Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minIn conversations that I have, I tend to mix the terms “social networking” and “social media”. According to Ian Bogost of The Atlantic, I probably shouldn’t. With all of the recent chaos on Twitter, Bogost spent some time in a recent article to unpack those two words, and how our shift from Social Networking –> […]
We’re at peak USB-C; is the next adaptor simply nothing?
Reading Time: 2 minSeven years ago, I wrote a post saying that you were going to love USB-C ports, and I think it’s held up well. I’m at the point now where literally every device that I own can be charged with a USB-C cable: Pixel Phone iPad Chromebook reMarkable tablet Kindle Verizon hotspot There’s probably more that […]
The Pixel Watch goes simple and I love it
Reading Time: 2 minWhen Google first introduced their smart watches, they were fantastic. They didn’t do much, but provided great notifications without much fuss. In fact, when Apple first introduced their Watch, it felt to me like the companies made each other’s products. Google tends to overengineer things, yet made a simple watch. Apple tends to keep things […]
Are fossil fuels moral?
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 […]
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 […]