Me with my excellent exterior painting crew.
Statuses
Execupundit.com: The “When You’re in the Used Bookstore” List
What a great idea for a list to keep handy!
On Chasing the Right “Zero.” – Merlin Mann
Once you’ve dedicated yourself to making the things you love, every inbox can and should become a well-monitored servant rather than a pitiless master.
This is an excellent refresher about what all this “productivity” stuff is really about.
(via CJ Chilvers)
Local folks: I’ll be at the Minnesota Bloggers Conference. If you consider yourself one, perhaps you should be too.
For the record: I’m behind on AI and plan to stay that way.
Is it wrong of me to think that Apple being “behind in AI” is a good thing?
I’d rather them get it right. Implement it intelligently and in ways that are specifically and intelligently useful (seems what AI they have sprinkled around so far is this). I’d rather them not rush it.
In Search of Lost Frost-It-Yourself Donuts – Voice – Carleton College
You are born into the bad and problematic past; your kids are born into the glorious future. But somehow they have the gall to call the glorious future you have provided their own bad and problematic past?
A really great piece of writing regardless of the local angle. She may just win another James Beard for this.
On the Expert Generalist — Kottke
“We’ve seen this capability be an essential quality in our best colleagues, to the degree that its importance is something we’ve taken for granted.”
I prefer the title, Master Generalist.
Rest in Peace, Phoebe B. Harden
Kurt delivers a lovely eulogy for his Mom. May we all live such a long, satisfying, and determined life.
Getting to deliver a little joy to the world is what I’m thankful for most of all.
My friend Stephen Hackett celebrates an important milestone.