Today’s digital cleaning was checking on the applets I have setup on IFTTT to see if they are still setup how I actually use the services they are checking.
Everybody’s so nice and polite
#WheelOfFortune puzzle
If Dave Winer Were CEO of the NYT
Dave Winer on how to dilute the NYTimes brand while getting nothing of value in return.
Wasted Hours
In a chain of blog posts I had a pretty profound revelation about how I spend my time.
Tim Smith at Bright Pixels linking to David Sparks at Macsparky writing about block scheduling led me to look at my own calendar.
I work in a warehouse shipping electronics to customers. I don’t have the luxury of scheduling my work day like the creative people that I like to read online. There are hard deadlines for orders to ship through out the work day and I have to focus on those deadlines rather than carving time out to think about what to write about. That time that I can use is in the morning before my shift starts.
If I wake up at 9 am every day and leave for work at 1 pm every day; I will have 4 hours during the day to schedule my own stuff. That’s twenty (20) hours a week that I have available to me to work on projects, goals, tasks, whatever. Twenty hours.
Right now I spend the majority of those four hours a day sitting on the couch drinking coffee and reading RSS feeds while YouTube plays music videos on my TV. That is a waste of time. I am not using my time effectively. I am wasting my time.
What am I going to do about it? I don’t know yet. But, just realizing that I have 20 hours in the week to do what I want to do is a sudden eye opener for me. I have never stopped to think about how much time I am wasting every day.
Modern Times: Down Near the Border
About 1,000 migrants have been found in Arizona, waiting for the Border Patrol, not fleeing to commit heinous crimes against Americans, since last summer.
This is a National Emergency?
Why It Doesn’t Seem To Matter That Amazon Will Soon Be The Largest American Clothing Retailer
How you can compare Amazon competing with Macy’s and Walmart with Mr. Porters? If you’re shopping Mr. Porters you’re not shopping Amazon. The lowest price desert boot on Mr. Porter is $500. That’s not the area Amazon is competing for.
Kashmir Hill Concludes Her Experiment in Blocking the Five Biggest Tech Companies
Apple sure does offer consumers a lot of choice: either you buy their stuff, or you don’t.
Sounds more like an ultimatum and not a choice.
Dickpic, Lightning
The first story and the puns involved are the reason to read Dave Pell. So good.
Jeff Bezos’s War With National Enquirer Involves a Huge Spy Scandal
John Gruber commenting on Jeff Bezos’s War With National Enquirer Involves a Huge Spy Scandal
But if they were iMessages, they couldn’t be intercepted in transit.
I’m sure someone, somewhere has figured out how to intercept end to end encrypted messages and we don’t know about it because they’re not reporting the fact that they can do it.
I finished The Lost World by Michael Crichton last night. It was a fast paced adventure once it got going. Completely different from the movie and so much better. More action, more danger, and none of the taking back dinosaurs and hunting T-rex crap. 📚
I really need to stop looking at phones on Amazon.
I do not need a new phone, my Pixel 2 is alive and kicking and I am still really impressed by it. I just like buying things I don’t need to “try”.
A cheap phone is not a good impulse buy right now.
Countdown to my first MLB game of the year: 45 days ⚾️
Every time my music player of choice starts playing a Free Dominguez song I’m reminded of how much her voice feels me with calm. 🎵
Firewatch for $4.99 on Steam? I really don’t have a reason not to buy it now.
I have an IFTTT recipe that created a note anytime I shared an artile from my RSS reader to Evernote in the belief that I would go back and review them to create more in depth blog posts at some point. I checked today and there were 400 notes in that notebook. I haven’t shared a single one.
This week my digital cleaning will be cleaning up this notebook to find articles that I want to explore further and actually write posts about.
Hey, look at that Google Voice got a redesign. And there’s so much white space.