Birch Bark Public Post (2020-05-15)
I like to share these every once in a while, so here's this past week's issue
Matt Birchler
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Falling to the Level of Your Systems
I just read James Clear’s Atomic Habits, and I found it to be one of the best productivity books
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Pride Wallpapers 2020
Apple included some new versions of their Pride watch face in watchOS 6.2.5, and I had to take
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David Hayter on PAL Keys (and Feeling Genuine Joy for Your Friends’ Success)
My friend Daryl Baxter has a podcast about videos games called PAL Keys. It's a really fun show,
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How I Use Things 3 To Organize My Life
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First things first, I am a strong believe in the idea of “offloading your brain” into a task management
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VR Should be Having a Moment…It’s Not
VR misses its pandemic moment - Axios
Virtual reality can bring faraway people together and take us places we can&
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Too Restrictive?
A class war over social distancing? New data suggests otherwise. - The Washington Post
The new Post poll probes public
My Best Productivity Hack
One of the best ways to pick up a new behavior is to link it in your brain with something
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Renewable Energy to Pass Coal in the US this Year
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.
The United States is on track to
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Download your App.net Post History
Before I say anything else, I will tell you that this tool is SLOOOOOW. I’m not a super clever
Would We Hear More About Speed if the Fastest Mobile Chips Were in Android Phones
John Gruber asks:
But one gets the feeling that if these performance tables were turned, you’d hear a lot
How to Post to from Instagram to Micro.blog using Zapier Premium
Please note this requires the premium version of Zapier since the action we’re using is not on the free
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The Full App.net Archive
Internet good guy Manton Reece has made an accessible archive of all public posts on App.net.
In the final
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A Perpetual Hate Machine
The internet enables us to talk to each other about anythings we want at all times. You have the unusual
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COVID-19 by the Numbers
One thing I hear bandied about with COVID-19, specifically related to the stay-at-hope orders that have been in effect, is
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Can’t Use All That Power…Today
iPhone SE review: Can mid-range Androids compete? [Video] - 9to5Google
We know that the A13 Bionic chipset is an absolute
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98% of Users Then and Now
John Gruber linked to this amazing article from 1998:
The iMac doesn’t include a floppy disk drive for doing
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Using Zapier to Automate My Life Just Enough
I’ve never gotten into Zapier, mostly because it was too expensive (free plan, but you probably want to pay