There was an 3.9-magnitude earthquake about 40km from Montreal just after 7am this morning. Felt like a truck ran into my building, accompanied by a low-frequency boom. Happy Monday!
Elsewhere: Week of May 10, 2021
Elsewhere is a series of interesting things I came across during the week, published every Sunday.
Elsewhere: Week of May 3, 2021
Elsewhere is a series of interesting things I came across during the week, published every Sunday.
💉 Applying bugfix_pfizer_1.patch…
Elsewhere: Week of April 26, 2021
Elsewhere is a series of interesting things I came across during the week, published every Sunday.
Thought Detox “It's Gonna Be May” Sale
Thought Detox is on sale during Mental Health Awareness Month.
Yesterday, on my Write.as/WriteFreely-related blog, I wrote about holding office hours for anyone wanting to contribute to the WriteFreely Swift projects I maintain. Check it out!
Elsewhere: Week of April 19, 2021
Elsewhere is a series of interesting things I came across during the week, published every Sunday.
- I'm worried about post-factual democracy. This article suggests how we might re-establish trust (hint: as always, it involves transparency).
- While I've been focusing most of my time lately on iOS/Swift development and writing, I also specialize in being a generalist.
- Procrastination is not laziness, it's a coping mechanism for dealing with negative emotions. There's even more on the topic in this excellent Life Kit interview.
- I can't stop thinking about this tweet by my pal and former colleague Margarita Noriega:
“Metrics are not goals. And goals are not values. Ask yourself today: does your work reflect your values, or a goal, or a metric?”
Elsewhere: Week of April 12, 2021
Elsewhere is a series of interesting things I came across during the week, published every Sunday.
- Ian's Awesome Counter is an app for Apple Watch to help you stay on task. I love the story on how how father and son teamed up to develop this.
- I came across the idea of topic journals and I love it: individual journals meant purely for your thoughts on a given topic.
- I'm trying to go deeper on my reading, and this article on how to learn and retain technical knowledge has a lot of great tips.
- Turns Out: Québec “likes to think of itself as a generous society capable of great social solidarity”, but as this sociologist points out, the pandemic has proven much of how we think of ourselves to be false.
- Watch This: Iron Maiden's “Fear of the Dark”, arranged for symphony orchestra, and performed remotely by 160 musicians around the world.
On Burning Out While Doing What You Love
The topic of “do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life” has been popping up on my Twitter timeline again lately.