Author: sjwillis
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The Real Meaning of Productivity: Why Oliver Burkeman Gets GTD (and Cal Newport Doesn’t)
I am an Oliver Burkeman fan. I deeply enjoyed Four Thousand Weeks and have been a long time subscriber to his newsletter, The Imperfectionist. His new book, Meditations for Mortals is currently on my nightstand. What draws me to Burkeman is his “reformed productivity enthusiast” point of view which we both share, perhaps for different…
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HiFi Woes
For unknown reasons, my streaming audio isn’t working this morning. For years I’ve been streaming from my iPad to an AirPort Express connected to an external DAC connected to my amp. This morning, nothing. The CD player plugged into the amp works fine and is functioning as an enjoyable fallback but I’m going to have…
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audio & self-hosting updates
It’s been a busy few weeks as I reorient myself from the warm-weather version of me that spends almost zero time on personal technology projects to the cold-weather version of me that spend most of my time on personal technology projects. As always, I know I contain multitudes but sometimes the difference between some of…
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Freddie King
Stumbled across this album yesterday afternoon: The entire album is gold. After years of listening to live album (that I can’t seem to find the name of anywhere) it was great to hear some of the original studio versions. Also on:
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Links, agh.
Just spent 15 minutes trying to surface an article from a blog I read a couple of weeks ago. Coudn’t find it in Reader, or my Shaarli instance. Eventually found it by digging into my RSS feed reader and reviewing all of my feeds. Fortunately I pruned that number down a bit a few months…
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Twitter
My journal entry from 17 years ago today was a copy of a message i sent out to few friends of mine: So but anyway, I’m sjwillis on Twitter. If you’re not signed up, you should check it out. You can go to Twitter to do so or you can do it right from your…
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Reminders Quick Entry
I was looking for a quick way to add reminders to Apple Reminders on my Mac similar to Things hotkey quick entry. There are several out there that I found through Google but ultimately landed on this one for its simplicity and natural language processing: https://github.com/surrealroad/alfred-reminders Also on:
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New Releases
A lot of new releases to check out from the past 2 weeks: The Windham Hill Guitar one isn’t new but I just added it to my library, the rest though, I’m excited to check out. I’ve already been really loving the new Vasen/Hawktail release. Can’t believe the Brand New Heavies album is 30 years…
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Jimmy Bruno has the best musical instruction channel on YouTube in case you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2x_VVq-Do #jazzguitar #guitar Also on:
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Generative AI tools further the importance of quality over quantity in employee evaluation. Another key future skill: managers who can spot true excellence amid AI-enhanced mediocrity. #FutureOfWork #AI Also on: