I’ve been enjoying watching Picard on Amazon Prime for the last couple of nights. Just a few episodes in, but really enjoying it.
A paid tier on Twitter? If the benefits were right, I’d definitely go for it.
We had a new deck put in the back garden to give us more seating space. Up until that time, Scotland had been enjoying a wonderful sunshine. Since the deck was finished, and coincidentally lockdown restrictions eased, it’s been pretty much grey and wet.
That’s Scotland for you.
The 3 x 5 card
Nicholas Bate gives us a productivity system so simple it can fit on a single index card.
A fresh 3 by 5 card taken from the stack. One side is work. One side is home. Each side is divided in half with a vertical line. On the LHS side are things you need/have to do. E.g. at work return a client’s call; at home buy some pasta. On the RHS are things you don’t have to do but you will do because they will make your future life easier by reducing the things you have to do on the LHS.
— The Tools of Excellence for a Brave New World, 8: The 3 x 5 card
Sat down with the rest of the family tonight and watched Hamilton on Disney+. Absolutely amazing, loved it!
Today’s plan was to get in a round of golf with my son, my dad and my uncle at my dad’s golf club. I’ve been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks. As always though, the weather has scuppered these plans.
Taking the day to instead work on my product for a few hours.
Friday night fun.
Pizzas from our favourite local Italian restaurant, a couple of cocktails for me and Jen, and a few board games, including the family favourite, King of Tokyo.
A great way to start the weekend.
Despite switching to TailwindCSS, I still style components similar to Bootstrap. I’m still starting out on the journey of TailwindCSS, though, and I think in time, I’ll start to find ways to get away from this styling.
Hello Hey!
I’m sold on Hey email.
In the last six days that I have been using it, I’ve been getting my head around its features and workflows that make Hey different from most other email services.
The screener is a nice feature. When you receive an email from someone from the first time, Hey asks you if you want to continue to receive email from that person. Instead of you trying to determine if you have received an email from someone, Hey lets you know. Nice touch!
What I like best about Hey though is that it doesn’t look or act like a typical email client. There are some similarities sure, but instead of going down the same route as every other email client and using the same view for each collection of email, Hey goes a step further to make different groups of email more comfortable to read. The Paper Trail allows to scan recently received receipts, but The Feed page shows recently received newsletters and also makes them easy to browse through much like you might scroll through RSS feeds.
One advantage I’ve found from signing up to Hey is that I can stop using an email address tied to my domain name. Sure, it’s nice to own your domain name as well as use it for your email address, but I often wondered if tying these two together was a bit of a hindrance. Over the years my email address has been used for all manner of accounts and is probably on quite a few mailing lists that I would rather it wasn’t on.
In signing up for a Hey email address, it felt like I had a clean slate to start over with again. When Hey adds the ability to use custom domains, I might not transfer over my domain right away. I think I’ll keep going with Hey’s email address for as long as I can.
I’m going to pull the trigger on the subscription tomorrow at some point. Sure, it’s early days for Hey, and there are lots of things that are missing, but for a product in its first few weeks of launch, it’s got more than enough new features to make me switch over.
Is it time to go out on your own?
In a post-Covid world, maybe the time has come to go out on your own. Keep it simple initially: just you, no start-up capital and a desire to be beholden to nobody. Except you, of course.
Since the lockdown started, it’s clear to me that striking out on my own again is the best way to go.