In Atomic Habits author James Clear states:

The greater the obstacle—that is, the more difficult the habit—the more friction there is between you and your desired end state. This is why it is crucial to make your habits so easy that you’ll do them even when you don’t feel like it. If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll be more likely to follow through on them.

Reducing friction is a concept I’m very familiar in my work as a designer, but for some reason it’s something that I forget in my day to day life. So I’m trying a little experiment with my blogging. I’m going to test a few different ways of posting and then whichever has the least friction thus enabling me to post more regularly then that’s what I’m going to go with.

Giving Ulysses another go to see if I should keep the subscription or not.

Happy Easter!

“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28:6‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

Life is about tradeoffs. When we know what to say no to, and we know why, we can say yes with comfort and confidence to the things that matter. To the things that last.

In conversation with one of my favourite authors Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday finished a post with this quote. They were discussing the choices between work, family, and scene, but I the sentence above can be applied to a lot of things.

What about this for an Apple lineup? MacBook, MacBook Studio, and MacBook Pro with iPad, iPad Studio, and iPad Pro. When you consider it alongside iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro it kind of makes sense…

Spent the evening watching the football and adding link posts to my blog. Still some refinement to do but should be able to go live with them by the end of the week.

It’s world book day today, how did I forget!? To celebrate, what’s the book that’s like a blanket on a cold day and you keep returning to over and over? 📚

Opened this beautiful coffee this morning ☕️

Not quite sure why, but each day I’m chipping away at my Obsidian interface to get rid of some of the janky electron feel. It’s getting there, the focus of the last couple of days has been the right sidebar.

It’s both palindrome and ambigram day today. 22022022. Very cool…