Category: 6. 🎮🧠🖥🏀
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Endless Scroll
I flick two fingerstweets and tweets they scroll and scroll …I flick two fingers
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The Journey of Learning Colemak Keyboard Layout
In summary, it was a change driven by the ego (I am special- I type with the most efficient keyboard layout), and adopting this alternative keyboard layout has some benefits that don’t outweigh the real life inconveniences. I decided to switch to typing using the Colemak keyboard layout from the more common QWERTY keyboard. The…
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TikTok the Tipping Point
(Inspired by Ben Thompson, a tech writer, who wrote about US potentially banning TikTok) The Watershed I have worked and lived in China since the mid 90s. In the 90s, things were basic- Bus rides costed a few cents, there were no taxis, and plumbing was not a national priority. The 2000s were a watershed…
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Nike Rise’s Shitty Press Release
The press release of the new “Nike Rise” store was not written for humans 🥴 Members of Nike’s family of retail concepts:Nike RiseHouse of InnovationNike LiveKicks LoungeHouse of Hoops… As a visitor, I could be categorised as a:shopperconsumermemberMemberNike Member Services I need to learn to name:Nike ExperiencesMember UnlockScan To LearnScan to TryNike FitNike By You…
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🗞 The Newsletter Binge 🍽
I have been on a binge lately. I started subscribing to Tim Ferriss’ 5 bullet Friday about a year ago. I didn’t subscribe to any another newsletter, until I came across David Perell’s interview with Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman, the founders of Morning Brew. The podcast episode had all the feel good factors: the…
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Facebook Eats Dog Food
As the legend goes, every year the president of Kal Kan Pet Food would eat a can of the company’s dog food at the share-holders’ meeting. “Dogfooding” means using you own products/services, so you get to understand what it is like to be your customers. Facebook recently said it would permanently embrace remote work. “We’re…
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FaceTime Has a Branding Problem
It’s not serious enough for work. Apple’s FaceTime is actually fantastic for one-on-one virtual meetings- it is very easy to use, secured, and reliable. Yet every time when I suggested FaceTime, the other side would always say, “Oh I have never used it for REAL meetings.” It really didn’t matter if we actually needed the…
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Read smarter with Readwise and Drafts
Two apps that make taking and reviewing reading notes simple and enjoyable. I used to highlight in the Kindle, and use a notes app to write things down from books, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. Now, I use Readwise.io and Drafts. Readwise makes reviewing your reading notes easy and delightful. It connects to your Kindle and captures…
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“Quarantined” Coaching
The Verdict of Online Meetings Because of the coronavirus, I have been conducting coaching sessions via voice and video calls. I love them. Clients find them more flexible and accommodating. Yet, I actually prefer voice over video because video calls simply have more ways to go wrong. I am old school 🤦🏻♂️. 1) With video, in…
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Year 2019 in Podcasts
That messed up the trajectory of my life The Peter Attia Drive Podcast: “Sam Harris, Ph.D.: The transformative power of mindfulness” https://peterattiamd.com/samharris/ https://peterattiamd.com/samharris/ This particular podcast opened my eyes to Buddhism and meditation. It was one of those mysterious moments that things somehow just clicked. Since then, I was able to stick to a regular meditation routine,…