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Retiring The BirchTree Podcast
I’m retiring The BirchTree Podcast later this month.
After posting religiously for 3 years, and accumulating 236 episodes, I
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Being Precious (or not) About Your Blog
The Dent - Blog Like No One’s Watching
Despite barely posting to my blog for months, I’m still weirdly precious about what I post there. I always feel like I should only post longer form posts or something that I’ve over thought.
And then I read this post by Nitin Khanna:
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Birch Bark Issue 34
In case you didn't know, I have a weekly newsletter where I share the most interesting art, music,
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Grading My Apple Watch Predictions
3 days ago I made a bunch of predictions about what we'd see from the new Apple Watches and today we saw everything. Let's see how I did:
Apple Watch SE
I made 9 total guesses, and I got it more right than I ever would have expected:
* It will look
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A New Keyboard
My keyboard has a whole new look.
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I'm on The Verge
I didn't set out to get featured on The Verge's front page, but here we are.
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A New Look for BirchTree
It was time for a change, so I hope you like it!
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A Practical Introduction to Roam Research
Ok, I know you're probably going "$15/month for some trendy note taking app that I can
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Subscribe to A Better Computer
Almost 2 months ago I launched A Better Computer, a new YouTube channel where I planned on looking at the tips and tricks I use to be productive on the many computers in my life. Since then I've posted 18 videos and I'm getting a feel for what works and what
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An Update on BirchTree
Over the course of 2020, I have received more “we'd like to write a sponsored post on your site” emails than I have in the previous 9 years combined. I politely declined a few, but I've just started ignoring them, and today I wanted to publicly document my policies for this
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Newsletter Update
I wanted to share two quick updates about my newsletter, Birch Bark.
First, I've disabled all tracking in
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Black Lives Matter, and so Does Democracy
* Go here to donate to 39 bail funds across the US.
* Go here to support the George Floyd memorial fund
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A Better Computer
Today I'm excited to introduce my new YouTube channel, A Better Computer. This channel will be devoted to
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There is Still Room for "Real Cameras"
Over the past few weeks I've been selling a bunch of stuff on eBay so I could break
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My Place in Tech
When I look back on the past few months of things I’ve discussed at length on BirchTree, a few things jump out:
1. Magic Keyboard for iPad
2. What gets to call itself a podcast?
3. Stock apps vs third party options
4. Buying into a philosophy when using the iPad
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How I Use Things 3 To Organize My Life
Intro
First things first, I am a strong believe in the idea of “offloading your brain” into a task management
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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 pleasure of having access to the world’s information at all times, giving you opportunities to learn, to grow, and to share that growth with others. You have the freedom to try and make people’
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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