Happy play off finals day! Half time and Forest are 1-0 up… we can do it 🫣 ⚽️
Happy Jerusalem Day! 🇮🇱
I love articles that show the tools of choice for designers and artists like this one from Jonny Ive. Some of the items are a little unrelatable but still fascinating to look at.
Inside arun.is · Writing
Over the last few months I’ve come across a number of personal blogs which have been inspiring me and fuelling my own desire to blog more. One of those is from Arun Venkatesan. His most recent post about his writing process is fascinating and worth a read. I like how each of his posts is seen as a creative exercise about something he is interested in. It’s more of a slow blogging process than the stream of links and sharing that’s became popular in the mid 00’s and has lasted until now.
Decided to give the Fastmail app a go on my iPhone instead of using mail. We’ll see how I get on.
I made a mistake and read the comments. Never. Read. The. Comments.
Enjoyed watching Mr Gregory Porter at the Jazz Festival tonight. Wonderful music. 🎵
I enjoyed David Sparks’ calendar tricks webinar about getting the most from a digital calendar. I’ve tried some of his tips in the past but I think it might be time to have another look at them.
Love this project by Max Braun to bring an iSight back to life. I bought a Logitech stream cam as it was the nicest high quality webcam I could find. If only they still made the iSight.
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.