still rules youtu.be/oRn_dGg4x… #metal #doom
Astonishing: A Wartime Zine Made in 1943-45 by a Jewish Man Hiding From the Nazis
Amazing these survived, and how incredible the design and artwork is. This type of collage style design work was all the rage when I got into design in the 90s, and this man’s work just shines through, as it was obviously extremely constrained and authentic in the message they were portraying.
Installed busycal last night from setapp after trying it a long time ago and immediately dismissing it because it was so ugly. It’s actually kinda nice now? Seriously considering saving the money on the fantastical subscription next time around ๐ค
a capybara we met in japan
App Defaults 2023
Inspired by the App Defaults page that lists the stuff a bunch of different people use, I figured I’d make one too. I live for this shit.
๐จ Mail Client: Currently using Spark (via SetApp), but might go back to Fastmail UI in a tab
๐ฎ Mail Server: Fastmail
๐ Notes: Notebooks (Plotter, Midori, Field Notes), Obsidian digitally
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To-Do: Notebooks (Plotter, Midori, Field Notes), Ugmonk Analog, Things 3
๐๏ธ Pens: Pilot Vanishing Point, Studio Neat Mark One, Lamy Multipen
๐ท iPhone Photo Shooting: Halide via action button shortcut
๐ฆ Photo Management: Photos.app
๐ง๐ปโ๐ป Photo Editing: Darkroom
๐ Calendar: Fantastical
๐ Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
๐ RSS: Feedbin, web UI on desktop, Reeder on phone
๐ Book: Kindle on Boox Palma, Libro.fm and Prologue for audio
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Contacts: Cardhop
๐ Browser: Arc on laptop, Safari on phone
๐ Search: Kagi
๐ Mastodon: Phanpy and Mona
๐ฌ Chat: Messages, Signal
๐ Bookmarks: micro.blog, Goodlinks
๐ Read It Later: Readwise Reader
๐ Word Processing: Obsidian, Ulysses, Google Docs for work
๐ Spreadsheets: Google Sheets I guess
๐ Presentations: Google Slides because I have to, Obsidian advanced slides plugin when I can
๐ Shopping Lists: Reminders
๐ด Meal Planning: Mela
๐ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: Empower (formerly Personal Capital)
๐ฐ News: Apple News, Mastodon, YouTube
๐ต Music: Apple Music
๐ค Podcasts: Apple Podcasts (because it works in my car now), Snipd is pretty rad though
๐ Password Management: 1Password
๐ Launcher: Raycast
I’ll probably write individual posts for a bunch of these things over time, we’ll see how far I get. It’ll probably end up like Sufjan Stevens making an album for each state.
just finished watching the Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed documentary, and damn. megachurches just doin' the megachurch thing. how could anyone not know that carl lentz dude was a gigantic piece of shit from the very beginning?
Lingua Ignota #photography
God DAMN this song is absolutely perfect https://youtu.be/liVnl2gIdhs #metal
a cute mushroom i saw on the trail
took a trip to Yachats for my birthday, the Oregon coast is amazing
Botch in Portland #metal #nostalgia
this is ridiculously good #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sossVHoi2R4
Notebooking at Wonderwood Springs
had a really fun holiday party for work last night #photography
HAHA! BUSINESS BOOKS: https://takeo.blog/2023/12/18/haha-business-books.html
HAHA! BUSINESS BOOKS
๐ My work is giving me access to a business coach, which has been pretty cool. I’d been thinking it would be pretty nice to have someone to talk to, essentially like a work therapist, and then I got added to a program at work that gives people access to BetterUp, which is BetterHelp for work, without all the podcast ads. I filled out a survey thingy and they matched me up with a coach that could help with the stuff I wanted to talk about. We had a kickoff session and they seemed like a good fit, so we scheduled some weekly sessions.
In one of the sessions I was telling them about a big project I’m helping lead and the questions I had about how to get the word out to the right people, get them to buy into the vision, get excited, etc. After talking things through for a bit, they assigned a PDF to me that was an excerpt from Harvard Business Review by some dude named John P. Kotter. It was titled “Leading Change โ Why Transformation Efforts Fail” and it was originally published in 1995, the year after I graduated high school. Almost 30 years ago.
I was skeptical.
As I read it, though, I found myself nodding my head like an old lady in the front pew of a Baptist church. This mf was spittin'. He was laying out pretty much all the stuff I was facing and struggling to formulate strategies for to a T. And, he had an Eight Step Planโข I could follow to address everything I was worried about, as well as all the stuff I hadn’t yet considered.
Which made me realize that none of this shit is new. The same politics, bureaucracy, and jockeying this dude was writing about from the mid 90s is the same old stuff every business is still dealing with. For all the technical advancements, management trends, LLMs, real-time collaboration, etc., good old human dysfunction will always reign supreme. Undefeated World Champion.
Anyways, I just finished listening to the full book on libro.fm (referral link for a cool Audible alternative that gives money to the local bookstore of your choice) and, while obviously dated and read by a dorky narrator, it was all still super relevant. I went to Powell’s and bought some more of his books used to read over the holiday. If you’re working on trying to introduce some big changes at work, check out this 30 year old book full of apparently evergreen ideas.
๐๏ธnotebooking at wonderwood springs #photography #stationery