This post at The Visual Exegesis was entertaining, but it's the video embedded half way down that really stuck with me.1 I wouldn't consider myself a comic book fan. I like them well enough and I have my own personal preferences, but I am no Andy Ihnatko. That also means I don't really know anything about Neal Adams who is the artist in the video.
Here's the video:
I watch that video and I see someone making hundreds of directed mistakes.
MindMeister is having a sale for the next five days. The iPad app is free for five days and a MindMeister account is 25% off their normal pricing. A MindMeister account is required to use the app.
I still greatly prefer iThoughts HD but MindMeister provides web access to mind maps which is very convenient.
This latest Dr. Bunsen post by Seth Brown is a good introduction to his site as it links to some of his best posts. But it also stands on its own as a thoughtful discussion of managing information input and processing. It also has one of the best opening lines I’ve read in a long time.
The human brain has a capacity to store an estimated 2.5 petabytes of data and execute 6.
Remember this post and the followup post here for creating cheat sheets? Well, Brett has done an amazing job taking a hack solution and turning it into something gorgeous. Please, go download it and revel in it's perfection.
For the record, I don't consider it a "ripoff" as Brett describes. It's an evolution by someone better than me. That's awesome.
There are only a couple dozen people in the world doing truly original work.
Here's something to consider. What would you do if your entire email archive (work and personal) was blown away overnight? That's becoming a reality for many people at large corporations.1 It's also a real possibility for anyone using email in general. GMail provides no guarantees. iCloud provides no guarantees. Even my own SMTP server does not provide a guarantee. That's the single best reason I can think of to process email as often as possible and to get every bit of valuable information our of email and into something more permanent.
I've learned enough about Agile Programming to know that it is not a work practice I would like. Then again, I program for fun and not profit, so I don't have a good position to argue from.
Agile does have good ideas though. This post from Pete Sergeant at WriteMoreTests.com does an excellent job framing the reasons behind some Agile techniques. The valuable bit for the layperson is that he shows how they are relevant to any kind of work that involves estimating tasks and projects, which is pretty much all time constrained work.
This is not a review. I've been relying on Moom for many months and these are examples of how I use it. If you're not using Moom then you probably spend a lot of time moving and tweaking windows on your Mac. Stop it. Just go get Moom and play along.
Snap Shots One of my favorite uses of Moom is to create work environments and save them as Moom Snap Shots.
Hi. My name is Gabe and I have a problem with planning.
Now that I’ve gotten that off of my chest, the healing can begin. I use OmniFocus to manage tasks. Well, to be honest I use OmniFocus, Outlook Exchange, Simplenote, post-it notes, lipstick on mirrors and full body tattoos.
One major issue with tracking tasks, as I have lamented many times before, is that I work on Windows all day.
Just a friendly reminder for tax time if you use TurboTax or another downloaded tax application.1 I always save a copy of the installer disk image along with that years tax documents. This has absolutely saved me a headache in the past. There's no way to be sure that next years version of TurboTax will open this years data file, let alone the data file from 3 years ago.
I keep all of my tax documents in a single encrypted sparseimage file that is redundantly backed up.
There are plenty of good reasons to be eagerly awaiting a stable release of Textmate 2 but there are also equally valid reasons to avoid it. I’ve used both but I’ve never been an expert at either. I’ve used them for small personal projects but nothing that would exercise all of the features. For web development, I use Coda, for python scripts, I use BBEdit and now CodeRunner. Most of my writing for this site is done between Simplenote, NVAlt and MultiMarkdown Composer.
