Heck yeah! The new Keyboard Maestro Field Guide is the perfect intersection of my favorite Mac Utility and my favorite Apple Nerd. These are so great. Not only is the video a great way to learn Keyboard Maestro, but each segment includes a transcript and downloadable macros. I’ll buy pretty much anything David Sparks makes. It’s top quality and presented with enthusiasm and joy. For $24 I think this is a bargain.

This tip by Steven Pressfield, while violating his own rules, is still good advice. I started this entire blog based on this idea. I keep failing at part one but I try. Thanks for reading.

My first version of the this shortcut worked great for getting a new text note into DEVONthink. I run the shortcut from Siri and from my home screen. This is an improved version that uses an x-call-back URL to open the note in DEVONthink after it is created. The new modification is for handling the call back URL and extracting the document ID from the DEVONthink response. We trigger an x-call-back-url in the shortcut and we wait for the URL to return from DEVONthink.

It’s a long article with some really neat demo pages. But the top comment sums it up nicely. It’s like JupyterHub, but for people who only know javascript?

I do enjoy an occasional grapefruit water, but what I really need on most days is a human readable translation of corporate bullshit. So refreshing! Shannon Palus at Slate Speaking of woeful acts of God, by 2018, America was drinking so much LaCroix that “pamplemousse” LaCroix bathing suits became a thing. The more offensive of Caporella’s words and alleged actions aside, maybe this total nonsense is what we get for not properly scolding a beverage that can’t just say “grapefruit.

I still really enjoy Feedbin as my RSS reader. One of the things that I like about the post-Google world of RSS aggregators is how community focused most of them are. It just feels like these are all kindred spirits that don’t want to give up on RSS or the ideas that made it popular. RSS comes from the culture of the “blogroll” and I really miss that. Here’s Feedbin’s Ben Ubisoft talking about their full-content extractor:

We might finally be coming out of the shared delusion that “follow your passion” is some how good career advice. While I’m sure there are people that have discovered the unlikely intersection of fun and employment my own experience is that each of these diminishes the other. It’s from this experience that I bring this article by Molly Conway at Man Repeller: The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated to Turn Hobbies Into Hustles

OmniFocus can be a bit frustrating but one feature that keeps me coming back is the custom perspective engine. For new users this can seem like impossible magic. It’s not, but it does help to see some examples. A perspective is simply a set of filters. The more filters you add, the narrower the list you see. Filters can be nested and grouped. Filters can include or exclude tasks based on some condition.

While I’m not really an investor, I enjoyed this piece by Morgan Housel because “caring” can be overweighted in decision making. There are some good nuggets in this short article, even if they aren’t true or even supported by data. Some problems can never be solved because the world they live in is always adapting and changing. Portfolio construction is one of them. Incredible amounts of effort are devoted to finding the optimal level of diversification and position sizing.

This is a wonderful long read from Stephen Wolfram, of Mathematica fame. There are many interesting ideas and tips for dealing with workloads and the bits of friction that are inevitable. I found myself nodding along with many of the passages but this one really struck me: When I mention to people that I’m a remote CEO, they often say, “You must do lots of videoconferencing”. Well, actually, I do basically no videoconferencing.