I’m worried. They don’t even have digital vaccine certificates and their Covid app i just won’t use ( though I do carry a pen to sign in manually ).
I just kept nodding my head!
New terms that I like
BOAT - Block Of Atomic Thought
MoC - Map of Content
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”
💬Franklin Jones
”Before having a second brain: “That’s important, I’ll keep it in mind” “After having a second brain: “That’s important, I won’t keep it in mind”
💬Tiago Forte
”Everything interesting begins in the “unimportant and not urgent” quadrant. Eliminating it is the dumbest thing you can do and the worst advice Covey gave.”
💬Venkatesh Rao
Really enjoying Nick Milo on his Linking Your Thinking YouTube channel. If you are trying to learn Obsidian he has a nice style and delivers in easily manageable chunks.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
💬 William Faulkner
“I will die on this hill. Web apps are not as good as native apps. Even apps made on top of web technologies feel worse. I’m looking at you Electron.”
💬 Mcdrifter
“Only one of us now sits on the Supreme Court. By all accounts, he and four of his colleagues — all appointed by Republican presidents, three by a president who instigated a coup against the United States — are getting ready to violate state decisions and, judicial precedent.”
💬 Robert Reich
Crypto-Trading Hamster Performs Better Than Warren Buffett And The S&P 500 : NPR
It makes total sense.
“Among the unvaccinated, the virus travels unhindered on a highway with multiple off-ramps and refueling stations. In the vaccinated, it gets lost in a maze of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs.”
💬 Craig Spencer
Writing in The Atlantic
Apple Updates Pages with Screen View, Numbers with Pivot Tables, Keynote with Live Video …
Numbers gets Pivot tables.
Finally?
“The GOP’s war-like hostility drives the news. If you do not understand that, you do not understand American politics.”
John Stoehr
”Last September in Europe it cost €119 ($139) to buy enough gas to heat the average home for a year and the continent’s gas-storage facilities were brimming. Today it costs €738 and stocks are scarce.”
💬 The Economist
… via John Naughton
I wish people would stop pronouncing counties that end with ‘shire’ as if they are extensions of a Hobbit ‘shire’.
Those same people go out of their way to pronounce place names in non English speaking countries correctly,
First post from the Micro Blog club over at literal.club