Topic
writing
- Weekend Reading: Tradeoffs, the Margins, and PR FAQs
āļø Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making Farnam Street: Time is our most fundamental constraint. If you use an hour for one thing, you canāt use it for anything else. Time passes, whatever we do with it. It seemsā¦
- Weekend Reading: Blot, Hand-Drawn Visualizations, and Megafire Detection
š Blot.im Blot is a super-minimal open source blogging system based on plain text files in a folder. It supports markdown, Word docs, images, and HTML ā just drag the files into the folder and it generates web pages.ā¦
- The Every Day Blog
Inspired by Fred Wilsonās AVC blog, I started posting something every day here last year on October 4th. The 1 year mark passed by and I didnāt even notice. Itās become such a part of my mental routine to keep up withā¦
- Dictating Notes with Siri
Iāve been looking for a smooth way to dictate notes and thoughts while hands-free from my phone, particularly while running or driving. When I run I typically wear one AirPod and have my phone inaccessible in a waistbā¦
- Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write
I've linked before to pieces about Amazon's culture of long-form writing and memos in place of PowerPoint for meetings and conveying new business concepts. In their case, the discipline around this kind of thoroughnesā¦
- Day One Templates
Day One is an excellent app for iOS and macOS for personal journaling. I've had it for a number of years, but have always been fairly irregular in my usage. Most of what I log there is photos of the kids and other kidā¦
- Writing Shape Up
This is a cool little background post from Ryan Singer explaining the origins and his process behind Shape Up, a web book about product development. One of the things he did when getting started (with no solid idea ofā¦
- Weekend Reading: nvUltra, Progress, and Comma.ai
š nvULTRA This is a new notes app from Brett Terpstra (creator of nvALT) and Fletcher Penney (creator of MultiMarkdown). I used nvALT for years for note taking on my Mac. This new version looks like a slick reboot ofā¦
- Writing Docs at Amazon
Amazon is famous for its "No PowerPoint" policy for meetings, requiring that those calling meetings for any new idea, project, or effort write a narrative document to describe the ins-and-outs of what's on the table fā¦
- The Reunion
A science fiction story about surveillance in China, written by a Chinese author.
- A Post Each Day
Iām now a couple of weeks into writing a blog post every day. I started doing it sort of on a whim because Iāve wanted to write more often, and a forcing function of āsomethingā every day at least drives me to do theā¦
- Writing on the iPad
I posted a couple weeks ago about moving much of my computing activity to the iPad full time. Part of what I had to crack to make that possible was a writing workflow that supported using the tools I prefer, and a metā¦
- A Week with the iPad
For the last 7 days I've only been using the iPad. I've had a 12.9ā iPad Pro for about a year, but have only used it in āwork modeā occasionally so I don't have to lug the laptop home all the time. Most of what I do tā¦
- Writing Workflow
I write a ton on the computer, whether it's for our product blog, internal documents, product help guides, this blog (rarely), or many other things, I tend to stick to the same set of tools for different pieces of myā¦