Work was mainly focussed on escalations. Understanding them, removing drama from reality and then dealing with the fallout and navigating an actual way forward. It’s frustrating how much time is consumed from a sometimes 2 minute conversation with the right/wrong person that then dictates much of the working week. Sometimes for good, often not. It was also pretty full on with little downtime – must avoid falling back into old habits. Work to Live and not Live to Work.
Increasingly retreating my online reading to only what I want to consume. That means RSS so I get to choose who I read and not an algorithm, BBC and Guardian for news and Mastodon. While I still have Threads and Bluesky accounts I don’t spend time there. Being forced fed content (rich after loving Twitter for so long) is making me switch off. Instagram also on a shaky peg after the recent Meta changes. Getting so much nonsense thrown my way when I do use it.
And related to that, Why Blog If Nobody Read It struck a chord with me. If I want to put something on my site, or a photo on Flickr, does it matter if anyone else consumes it? Nope.
Matt Gemmell is back on a Mac. Struck a chord with a number of people I follow. I love the iPad Pro M4 I picked up last year but it will never replace my Mac even though it could and should have years ago. Apple are not pursuing that slice of the market no matter how many people try and bend it to make it fit their workflows. There are still too many activities that are easier/quicker/better on the Mac thanks to glacial iPadOS updates and Apples restrictions on what you can use the platform for.
Some great travel tips from Kevin Kelly although I’d need a personality transplant for some of them!
Louie Mantia makes fantastic icons and his new release of drive icons based on Super Mario characters, Super Storage, is no exception. Makes me want to customise my Mac icons like I used to back in the day.
Caught up on Severance and loving it. Best thing on Apple TV+ and feels like their first show where you anticipate the drop date. Enjoyed September 5.