A collection of 207 posts
A couple weeks ago I decided to stop using Twitter for a few days. A few days went by and I felt really good, so I kept going. It's been 2 weeks and I just reinstalled Tweetbot on my iPhone. I really enjoyed taking a quick break from
It recently dawned on me that I've used Twitter basically every day for over a decade, and while I'm not mad at the platform, nor is it making me sad or anything like that, I just wanted to take some time away to see how I
I read The Infinite Game a few years ago, and it really stuck with me in ways I didn't necessarily expect at the time. I won't summarize the whole book here, but one of the core ideas is that the game you're playing in
This was going to be a very long post, but I got bored reading my own post, so I threw it away and here’s the super-short version 🏃♂️ I Replaced My HomePods For the past 4 years I’ve have 2 HomePods next to my TV. They played music, performed
Check it out here! What is This? Every few weeks I post something like this on Twitter: This was a one-day read for me, and I quite enjoyed it! This book poked on some issues I've been dealing with and helped clarify those ideas. It may not change
2021 was easily my best year for side projects ever, and as I sit here at the start of the new year and look over my reports for 2021, I'm incredibly happy & proud of what I'm starting to achieve with these projects. I'm
I wanted to address a couple things that I didn’t mention in my original post announcing the newsletter changes. No one has asked these yet, but I wanted to get ahead of them anyway, just in case. How Many Emails am I Getting, Exactly? You will still get 1
Let's do some open sharing of information…here's my subscriber count for my Birch Bark newsletter over the course of 2021. I moved to Substack from Mailchimp in December last year and brought my nearly-400 subs with me. Quick shout out to the value of owning
There's an old joke that on the internet no one knows you're a dog. It's a classic, one of the greats, and I'd like to add my own twist on this: on the internet no one knows you don't know
This was going to be a short post, but here we are and I've got almost 2,000 words on my favorite things of the year. If nothing else, let this be a time capsule of what entertainment I enjoyed in 2021. Also, check out The Dent for
Over the years I've created an apparently very useful cycle of content creation and consumption and I thought I'd share it here. It's All the Same Workflow Between this blog, my newsletter, and my YouTube channel, I'm always in need of things
I wasn't expecting to write about this but based on the number of texts, DMs, and @ replies I got to yesterday's video, lots of folks were surprised and I thought I should explain myself. The M1 Air is Great, Why Get a Pro? It came down
On January 4, 2021 I made this video making a bunch of predictions and hopes for what Apple would announce in 2021. One day before their final event of the year, I wanted to check in and see how I did. iPhone 12 Pro Max camera tech trickles down to
Today this site turns 11 years old! I never quite know how to celebrate these anniversaries other than to share what is on my mind at the time. This year, it’s all about how I’ve found a modest bit of success doing this. First, nobody has time for
Another 6 months means another iteration on the design of Birchtree! This is 100% a meta post, but I’ll try to keep it as interesting as possible! Font Updates My Hoefler&Co subscription was about to renew, and I just didn’t want to spend the money on