[Busywork is satisfying (swoosh) and easy (ding), so do it cautiously. Email can lack affordances for priority while allowing anyone to send you one, which can easily get you absorbed in what other people demand of your attention. If you can do it hungover, it’s less valuable.]
[Increase your anti-fragility by honing keystone skills: public speaking, writing, sales, technical sensibility, design, and negotiation.]
[$10,000 per hour work is invisible and may produce no results for years or decades.]
Imagine every thought and action as sound that raises the loudness measured on a ‘sound meter’, then practice less activity to let the volume level drop as low and long as possible.
Single-bar bass loop probably never changes or stops; contrasted with sections featuring a kind of flute, chorus vocal hook (no idea what language it is), abstract saxophone solo and interjections; bass on each beat, booty-shaking, makes you dance and feel good.
[Divide the monthly price by average usage to get the hourly cost. Per hour, people might be paying about fifty cents for online streaming, a dollar or few for games and movies, five to fifteen for their creator subscriptions.]
[1. Distribute a self-hostable package; 2. Releases are free to distribute and use, source not available; 3. Offer free community support channels via a forum or chat; 4. Provide source and extended community access for a monthly fee; 5. Automatically make the source available on a rolling basis delayed by one year.]
Visualize a life compressed into blocks of one week and grouped be decade. The simple data file is written in YAML. This could be useful to help write one’s autobiography.
Most items appear in the timeline at the time they were created.
If an item attribute can be updated, such as by completing a to-do, a small update line appears at that time in the timeline.
If an item is scheduled for a future date or time, it appears there instead, and a simple update line appears at the time it was created and / or scheduled.
I see updates appear in my timeline when she schedules something. This is a very helpful transaction or record; I now know she set up an appointment for something I’m going to with her, or that she set up a meeting in the future, without any kind of extra “notification” feature, and without having to check future dates regularly for updates.
The more you hit “review later”, the longer it takes for the item to return, allowing items you’re less interested in to “float away” from you without requiring more destructive or detailed actions.
you can’t edit an existing note. Instead, you build on past notes using replies: you can reply to any past note with a new one that goes into your timeline now, forming a thread.
Much easier to compile buckets for ideas when you don’t need to label them—this is why people can write so much on micro-blogging platforms.