It’s been nearly three years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and there’s still no clear way forward.
Reads, Listens
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
🎧 “The Daily”: ‘The Most Significant Campaign Contributions’ in U.S. History| New York Times
We spoke with Neal Katyal, a lawyer who wrote the special counsel regulations, about the case against Michael Cohen and what it means for President Trump.
👓 WordPress is like a free buffet | Joseph Dickson
WordPress is a like a free buffet. You can do a lot very cheaply; but if you don’t know what you’re doing it will cost you later.
— Joseph Dickson
👓 My current workflow for dealing with dvds | Henrik Carlsson
As previously stated, when it comes to watching movies I don’t like dvds or blurays. However I also don’t like piracy so back in the dvd days I bought a lot of dvds and these days ̵…
👓 More thoughts about Micro.blog as an indie social network | Paul Jacobson
Brad Enslen is doing some great work over at Micro.blog, spreading the word about this innovative service. He published a post titled “The Case for Moving Your Social Network to Micro.blog…
👓 “Create the kind of communities and ideas you want people to talk about” | Paul Jacobson
I’ve had an idea in my task list for a week or so now, and I just haven’t made the time to write about it, at least not as I originally intended when I read the post that inspired it. J…
Some ideas worth chewing on here. Paul almost uses the phrase “thought spaces” here and though he doesn’t, he’s certainly dancing around it.
👓 I’ve always known that my family was Irish descended in some way. | Charlie Owen
Charlie Owen (sonniesedge.co.uk)I've always known that my family was Irish descended in some way. We're too prone to doughiness and large multi-generational households to be anything but that. What with Brexit looking to be an absolute shitshow and me wanting to, you know, STILL BE EUROPEAN, I thought it'd be worth looking into my...
👓 Tools to start a podcast | Indie Digital Media
If you’re thinking of creating a podcast, or want to know how to improve your existing podcast, you’ll need to spend a bit of money and a chunk of time setting yourself up for success. The good news: there’s no shortage of free or inexpensive professional-level tools and services to…
The piece missing from this is the getting over the inertia even if you’ve got all the tools. Sometimes thinking about a microcast of 10 minutes or less can help one get over this mental speed bump.
👓 Bullet Journal: One Book to Rule Them All | Jamie Todd Rubin
I recently began using a Bullet Journal. Longtime readers who recall my going paperless days might find this odd. My going paperless experiment was just that–an experiment to see how far I could go without paper. Eventually, I decided that there were good reasons (for me) to continue to use paper....
👓 One Tool To Rule Them All | Oki Doki Digital
Getting out of productivity limbo with Notion.
👓 The Best of My Media Diet for 2018 | Kottke.org
Just like last year, I kept track of almost everything I read, watched, listened to, and experienced in my media diet posts. In...
👓 Keeping track of my media diet | Paul Jacobson
This idea of tracking my media diet really appeals to me: Just like last year, I kept track of almost everything I read, watched, listened to, and experienced in my media diet posts.Jason Kottke I …
👓 A vague Notion of a more productive system | Paul Jacobson
I spent a little time in my Pocket recommendations, and found this great post by Marie Poulin titled “One Tool To Rule Them All” and her, and her partner’s search for a more effec…
👓 A Look at my Blogging in 2018 | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)Inspired by Chris Aldrich's post on his 2018 review of blogging I decided to take a quick peak and see what my productivity looked like this past year. Overall I posted 4,449 times from my website. 2, 529 from my Known site (where I migrated to in December) and 1,920 times from my old WordPress sit...
🎧 “The Daily”: The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How U.S. Law Enforcement Ignored It | New York Times
In an atmosphere of seeming indifference on the part of U.S. law enforcement, a dangerous movement has grown and metastasized.
It’s tremendously painful that the optics of right wing extremism in the Obama administration was used as a means of allowing the alt-right, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis to rise unfettered in the United States. This is worse when one thinks of the death and destruction they have caused in relation to the obscene amounts of money that have been thrown at decreasing international terrorism within our borders.