Spotify Podcasts Are Podcasts
Disclaimer: this is new thinking on my part, and I could be wrong here, but I wanted to make the case while it's fresh in my mind. I'm aware this is not the currently accepted feeling among a lot of people in our niche.
Recently, Stephen Spielberg took a stand against
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It’s Just Politics
Opinion | When the Mask You’re Wearing ‘Tastes Like Socialism’ - The New York Times
From the perspective of moral foundations theory, conservatives’ greater concern for purity and fear of contamination would suggest that they would respond more vigorously to a virus than would liberals. This was indeed the case with the Ebola crisis during the
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Pushing AirPods Too Hard
Kuo: Apple may not include EarPods headphones in iPhone 12 box to boost AirPods sales - 9to5Mac
According to the latest report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may not include the wired EarPods headphones in the box of the iPhone 12. This would naturally drive sales of Apple’s second-generation AirPods, as customers would
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What Getting Back to Normal Looks Like
Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Finding Normalcy in the Abnormal - The New York Times
Hong Kong has recorded just three locally transmitted cases in the last 30 days. Only four people are reported to have died of Covid-19. The government has loosened social-distancing restrictions, allowing civil servants to go back to work and restaurants to
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World Environment Day iPhone Wallpapers
Another day, another piece of Apple marketing to turn into a wallpaper! Apple is having an activity challenge next month,
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A Key Under Your Door Mat
Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption - John Gruber
This framing is entirely wrong. This suggests that Apple has the ability to “just unlock” an iPhone encrypted with a passcode or passphrase. They don’t. The difference between 2014 and today isn’t that Apple previously was cooperative with law enforcement requests
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Making Control Center and Notifications More Discoverable with a Cursor on the iPad
So this is a little janky, but I mocked up a quick idea to make the options to access notifications
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Chicago iPhone Wallpapers
I'm kind of on a wallpaper tear right now, and after seeing the city of Chicago was using
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Don’t Celebrate Too Early
How Virus Data Can Mislead - The New York Times
With more parts of the U.S. starting to reopen, many people will be tempted to look at the data this week and start proclaiming victory over the virus. But this week’s data won’t tell us much. It will instead reflect the reality from
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More on Stock Apps
The Value of Using Stock Apps – Chris Hannah
I’ve actually slowly using more stock apps/services recently, such as Reminders, Notes, and Mail. In the past, I’ve used third-party options for all three of these, but I seem to always come back to Apple’s built-in apps.
Chris’s response to
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The RSS Numbers
It's Time to Get Back Into RSS | Daniel Miessler
It’s unclear what exactly destroyed RSS, but Google closing Google Reader definitely didn’t help. Another factor was the rise of aggregation sites like Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit, which seductively took on the burden of surfacing the best content.
A couple things on
The Case for Using Third Party Apps
This pairs well with the companion piece, The Value of Using Stock Apps.
Your iPhone comes with a collection of perfectly capable apps for things like task reminders, maps, and notes, so why not use them? They’re free, after all! But I use very few of them, and below I’ll try to explain
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The Value of Using Stock Apps
This is part 1 of a two part series. Read the followup on the value of third party apps here.
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 of the Birch Bark newsletter. If you'd like to get this story of thing delivered to your inbox every Friday morning, please subscribe!
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DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2009
USPS: Last
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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 I’ve ever read. The book was able to put into words a lot of ideas that I’ve had, but never knew how to verbalize appropriately. Seeing them laid out so clearly in this
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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,
