Infrequent Posting Is Good
While I would love to commit to a steady stream of fresh and interesting content here, I'm just too busy. So if I'm not posting as much, it's because I'm busy. And that's a good thing, right?
The Apple Music family plan is worth it for the musical education my boys are getting. Access to hundreds of great albums and tracks. šøšµš¤
An argument that working faster is better.
Slowness seems to make a special contribution to this picture in our heads. Time is especially valuable. So as we learn that a task is slow, an especial cost accrues to it. Whenever we think of doing the task again, we see how expensive it is, and bail.
ā Speed matters by James Somers
I'm not sure about this, I tend to find that I'm better when I work at a more sustainable and slower pace.
Read, write, ask, plan, move, start and hold fast. It's all in NB's break out guide.
Atomās startup time is certainly a nuisance but if thatās my only critique of it then I can live with it.
Iāve just checked the order on a batch of Pentel pens and refill cartridges I bought from Amazon. It was around sixty days ago. Since receiving these pens from Amazon Iāve tried to build a habit of writing my morning pages on weekdays. Rather than typing like a demon possessed, Iāve used pen and paper for this task. To be honest Iāve skipped a few days, but Iāve fulfilled my daily quota on most of the days.
Yesterday was a bit of a milestone. I ran out of ink. That one pen lasted about sixty days in total. What I was left with was an empty ink cartridge. Iām not sure how many pages Iāve written in my notebooks in total as my morning pages are spread out across two different notebooks and thereās stuff between each set of morning pages. Might be time to dedicate a notebook to this.
Checking back on my writing Iāve looked through what Iāve achieved and been impressed by the amount of words that Iāve written. Most of it will never see the light of the Internet but thereās a few ideas in there for posts and writing projects. Hell, thereās even a few ideas for novels in there.
Iāve popped in a refill cartridge ready to start the process all over again. Around sixty days from now I expect to burn through another cartridge. If I havenāt, then Iāll know Iāve missed out on more than a fair share of writing days.
Work begins on a couple of software products. I'm not getting too wrapped up in the finished product, it's just too distracting.
Star Wars Battlefront - Fighter Squadron Gameplay
Star Wars Battlefront just keeps getting more and more awesome. Can't wait for November.
Measure the Right Things
This brings back nightmares of timesheets being used to measure performance. It's a poor way of measuring any employees performance regardless of what they do.
What do you use to measure employee performance? For many years I worked in places where time was what I was paid for and so work time was what was measured.
This became a problem when Iād see other people spending the day on Facebook and still getting paid. They produced nothing, but production wasnāt measured, time in seat was. So by that standard, those employees were doing what was required.
ā Measure the Right Things
by Curtis McHale