"Friendliness is contaminous."
Designer of Habits and Systems. Entrepreneur and Digital Transformation Consultant. Effectiveness buff and student of human psychology. Comments, questions? Say hi@jjs.de!
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott, American author and poet
Producing > Consuming.
It’s easy to feel productive when you’re consuming productivity advice. Or “productivity porn”, as I call it these days. It’s easy to feel entertained when you’re consuming the latest TV show. It’s easy to feel smart when you’re reading what a great mind wrote.1 Reading, after a certain age, diverts [...]
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One subscription for a bunch of apps
While checking out the writing app Ulysses recently, I stumbled across Setapp, a subscription service for Mac apps. It gives you access to a big bundle of fully licensed apps you don’t have to buy/subscribe to anymore. Since Ulysses alone costs about half the 10$/month I’d pay for the whole Setapp offering, I decided to try [...]
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"We do not rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems."
Mighty UNIX: Process data with the tools available on your Mac
After pulling in data from various sources, I recently found myself staring at a long list of domain names combined with meta information about each. No apparent order, and I noticed at least some of them were duplicated. I wanted to change that. # unordered.txt, ~hundreds of lines d-domain.com, miscellaneous other info c-domain.com, [...]
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"Optimists see a task in every problem, not a problem in every task."
"Go for progress, not perfection."
"Love it, change it, or leave it."
"Everything’s amazing, yet nobody’s happy."