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Writing on my iPhone doesn’t feel the same as sitting down and writing at my desk — that feels like I am working. Whereas typing out some thoughts in between life events feels like I am texting to a friend, which in many ways I am — all of you.
I sometimes wish I was able to write on my iPhone, like Greg does. But my typing is sloppy, even on a computer, and I constantly need to edit my texts. I find it more difficult on my iPhone than on my Mac. Typing is the one thing I do for several hours a day, every day, and I still find it cumbersome.
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Use shared terminology. If the terms are different, use their term first and then equate it with your term. This is a form of education (for customer conversations) and a way to find common ground (in other conversations).
All 11 tips for a better conversation are great. Further more, the 12 things to avoid are spot on. Go read them.
Yet this one tip resonated the most with me. I’m a lawyer and the most satisfactory conversations with my clientes are those in which we share a common terminology. Opaque legalese is the worst service a client can get.
On my way to interview two people for a job to take care of my Mom. Winter was coming, didn’t we tell you.
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It turns out, though, that I actually do have something to say about yesterday’s announcements—two of the announcements, anyway. I’m not sure it was really worth 99 minutes
1 of my remaining life to watch it in real time, but that’s an issue I’ll consider before the next event.
From the very moment I read the title I was reading the post to the tune of 99 luftbaloons 😂
🔗 https://www.hiro.report/08sep2024/
I love The Hiro Report. You shouldn’t miss it.
I got bored with these hour-long Apple commercials, so I’m skipping this one too.
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If the government is serious about achieving a four-day working week to raise productivity and improve employee wellbeing, it needs to encourage trials in the public sector. A recent trial by South Cambridgeshire Council showed how a four-day working week (32 hours on the same pay) can work successfully and offers a blueprint for wider trials across the public sector.
The government also needs to target a future date, say 2040, for the realisation of a four-day working week. This could be facilitated by establishing a partnership of unions and employers to identify barriers to a four-day working week and ways to overcome them.
Pathways to a four-day working week must address issues of inequality. It is important that low wages are addressed alongside work-time reduction. Making a four-day working week viable for more workers will inevitably require higher wages including a higher minimum wage.
A four-day working week can help respond to the problem of low productivity and address issues of climate change while improving the quality of life. It can and must be a part of the future of work.
But it will take effort to achieve it – not least from the government – and will test the limits of the law. It will entail a reimagining of the economy and a move to a situation where work and life are experienced differently and better. In the end, we must all work to work less.
I want this debate in my country, too.
Two women the YouTube algorithm brought me. When it works, it works.
Rosetta Thorpe: youtu.be/3NFywQdeK…
Jackie Venson: youtu.be/R1VztRpRf…
Childless Cat Ladies FTW.
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Manifesto for the Intentional Web
We the humans of the Internet, promote and uphold the following ideals when it comes to the web content we want to create and consume.
- Written by humans.
- Written for humans.
- Engagement is not a measure, it is an action.
- Algorithms don’t direct our attention.
- We curate our consumption.
- Open discourse is not to be weaponized.
- Our feeds intend to feed the mind, not the machine.
- Attention is our currency; we spend wisely.
- Tools facilitate an action, not a solution.
- Intention is the seed for all we aim to grow.
If you resonate with this definition of the Intentional Web, it is yours to have and to represent. Propagate it and integrate it into your own little node of this web we hold so dear.
TIL That Conde Draco (from my childhood in Spain) is called Count von Count in the US… So, count… 🤯
Trying the new editor set up by @manton. On Safari on iOS. Not very sure what I am supposed to find, since I haven’t been using the online editor for a while, but this is working fine.
I just ditched my 17 year long @eumrz handle. I will be @estebantxo from now on. Here’s a very short introduction.
I guess a growing number of us feel this way.
I am beginning to feel squeezed for every penny, increasing prices of phones, services, and everything they can. Limiting features to the US and generally behaving like a petulant child when they have to comply with laws that protect users.
This is what I wrote:
I should go back to blogging and interacting with people in social media. I am not even reading my RSS feeds. Somebody told me that if I wanted to go analog I should go all in and I really took it to heart. I am reading more and writing more for myself and overall I am much less stressed than I used to be, but I miss the web. Or do I? I’m not even sure.
And this is MS Copilot’s version. Prompt: Rewrite this and clean it up.
I’ve been considering a return to blogging and engaging with others on social media, as I’ve neglected my RSS feeds lately. A friend suggested that if I truly wanted to embrace an analog lifestyle, I should commit fully, and I’ve taken that advice seriously. Now, I find myself reading and writing more for personal enjoyment, which has significantly reduced my stress levels. However, there’s a part of me that longs for the connection the internet provides. Yet, I’m torn, unsure if that’s truly what I miss.
Almog, Andrey, Shlomi and Noa, welcome home.
I hesitate about building a Now page because I have the feeling that I’ve been in the same state for the last twenty years (trying to keep up with my job) and I’m afraid a Now page is going to make it evident.
I read about a feature in Bluesky that lets you share a mute-list,with accounts that, for some particular reason, someone doesn’t want to read. One can subscribe to that kind of list and mute that people too. It’s the last thing I’d want for myself. I want to be exposed to views different from mine.
Day 30++: unputdownable #mbapr I have a few other watches and I always come back to this one.
