Cal Newport
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"I'm not right now. There are certain things I do where Trello is the right tool. In particular, if it's a complicated project with multiple people involved, Trello is the right tool."
"Earlier this year, I switched to a new task management app. It's called Things 3. I spent $10 to buy a copy for my phone and then I spent $50 to buy a copy for my Mac."
"So I bought a Raspberry Pi. This then hooks into an Ethernet network switch."
"iPhone, Apple Music right there, constantly playing the songs. Like you get to a chapter like, 'Oh, I got to hear the song first.'"
"I bought a Hobonichi notebook. Not a Hobonichi Cousin, which is the planner she used because obviously I'm a big fan of my time block planner."
"Right now, I use Field Notes primarily, but I'm giving this Hobonichi a try."
"I am now moving over to running the open-source FPP Falcon controller software on a Raspberry Pi as my main controller."
"I got the vintage video game maintenance manual from 1980 for the Galaxian arcade cabinet because I'm taking out some of the circuit diagrams to frame."
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"The average worker receives 153 Teams messages. That's like Slack, Instant Messenger, per weekday. That adds up to 270 interruptions a day when you only have about 480 total minutes to work with."
"OpenClaw is an open-source framework that makes it easy for average people to write their own DIY AI agents without the careful safeguards and guard rails that commercial companies put into their products."
"Distraction in the workplace is driven by workplace communication tools like email and Slack."
"We still hear these arguments today, that if we don't let 12-year-olds in Australia be on TikTok, they won't be able to know about world events."
"I had read a snarky profile in Wired. There's this like famous mean profile of Brandon Sanderson from Wired magazine."
"it is written in the style of World War Z... I read World War Z. I really didn't like it. I don't like watching zombie movies"
"I have to go into this cold plunge to stimulate exactly this type of response or whatever it is"
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Clear filters"There's a massive new Sam Altman article in the New Yorker. It's by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz."
"I read a book over the weekend called Magic Journey by Kevin Raferty. He's a kind of big-time Disney imagineer."
"I'm a fan of the show The Mythbusters. I've watched basically all the episodes with my kids over the years."
"My fifth book, as mentioned, is this Brandon Sanderson book, Mistborn, that my middle son has insisted that I read. I'm enjoying it though."
"He read the Mistborn trilogy and is now has started on the King something. So I said I would read the first Mistborn book."
"I got the vintage video game maintenance manual from 1980 for the Galaxian arcade cabinet because I'm taking out some of the circuit diagrams to frame."
"I also finished a parenting book called What Do You Say by William Stricks Ruddd and Ned Johnson. God do we need this advice."
"One was Maryann Wolf's book, Reader Come Home. Fantastic book."
"I bought a Hobonichi notebook. Not a Hobonichi Cousin, which is the planner she used because obviously I'm a big fan of my time block planner."
"So I bought a Raspberry Pi. This then hooks into an Ethernet network switch."
"Right now, I use Field Notes primarily, but I'm giving this Hobonichi a try."
"I am now moving over to running the open-source FPP Falcon controller software on a Raspberry Pi as my main controller."
"I keep track of task, you know, largely in things three and some Trello."
"I'm not right now. There are certain things I do where Trello is the right tool. In particular, if it's a complicated project with multiple people involved, Trello is the right tool."
"iPhone, Apple Music right there, constantly playing the songs. Like you get to a chapter like, 'Oh, I got to hear the song first.'"
"I keep track of task, you know, largely in things three and some Trello."
"Earlier this year, I switched to a new task management app. It's called Things 3. I spent $10 to buy a copy for my phone and then I spent $50 to buy a copy for my Mac."
"I read The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul Fischer. This is a book that was basically like invented in a lab to be exactly what I want to read. The rise of Spielberg, Lucas, and Coppola. Obviously, I love this book."
"I watched The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne Johnson was great. The filming was in that really confident impressive standard safety style naturalism which I think is really impressive alterior film making."
"We also watched Song Blue, which was starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson about dramatizing the life of a Neil Diamond husband wife tribute band from the 90s and 2000s. It was fine."
"I've been teaching with my iPad, so I'm used to this now"
"I really like Tim Wu's writing. I really like that book and I really respect Tim Wu. It's a great argument that this is not normal."
"The best book on this would be The Shallows, Nick Carr's book, The Shallows."