A collection of 207 posts
I’m retiring The BirchTree Podcast later this month. After posting religiously for 3 years, and accumulating 236 episodes, I really fell off the horse the moment COVID-19 hit the US hard. I’ve posted 6 episodes in the past 7 months, and I just don’t see this as
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
In case you didn't know, I have a weekly newsletter where I share the most interesting art, music, videos, and links of the week. This is the 34th week in a row with an issue, and while I'm biased, I have it on good auithority that
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
My keyboard has a whole new look.
I didn't set out to get featured on The Verge's front page, but here we are.
It was time for a change, so I hope you like it!
Ok, I know you're probably going "$15/month for some trendy note taking app that I can do for free in Apple Notes?" I hear you… I promise this video looks at Roam from a practical perspective. Check it out below!
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
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
I wanted to share two quick updates about my newsletter, Birch Bark. First, I've disabled all tracking in the emails that get sent out. I had this on at first since I wanted to be able to see what items people found the most interesting and got the
* Go here to donate to 39 bail funds across the US. * Go here to support the George Floyd memorial fund I won’t take much of your time because there are more valuable voices to hear now, but I want it on the permanent record of this site where I
Today I'm excited to introduce my new YouTube channel, A Better Computer. This channel will be devoted to helping you make the computer in front of you, whether it be an iPhone, and iPad, or PC, better than it was before; we want to make it a better
Over the past few weeks I've been selling a bunch of stuff on eBay so I could break even on a new camera. Now I'm a huge proponent of smartphone cameras, especially those in the iPhone 11 Pro and Pixel 4, being good enough for basically
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