Not a checklist but some components for a good day

Recently, I moved my website — this one! — from Squarespace to Ghost and it was a process that was about as complex and time consuming as I’d thought it’d be.

Until late last year I’d been a Bullet Journal [https://www.bulletjournal.com] user for a little over three years. It had become an indispensable tool for keeping me focused on work and reducing distractions by being a concrete place to externalise thoughts. That all went out the window

I picked up some AirPods Pro—AirPod Pros? ProPods?—yesterday and having spent some time with them I’m very pleased. They’re steep in price but sound great. Firstly, the flagship feature, noise cancellation, works really nicely. It’s never going to rival the Boses, Beats, or Sonys of

> Yes. But also no…it’s complicated. This is a great analysis [https://birchtree.me/blog/have-iphones-been-getting-more-expensive/] by Matt Birchler that’s well worth a read. He covers not just the reasons why the changing prices of components but also the changes in market prices too for wider context.

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. The concept comes across as forced and is almost inevitably matched by the accompanying failure that follows. That said I do believe in the power of habits. They’re not tied to a change in calendar, though such events

I’m a big fan of Notion and it’s the main tool I use to keep track of the episodes I edit for my podcasting clients. The app is extremely flexible which makes it a little daunting to see value in it when you first try it but it’

I couldn’t agree more with James Vincent’s piece here [https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20951178/amazon-alexa-echo-launch-anniversary-age-funtionality-not-changed-use-cases] and describing Alexa and its accompanying Skill Store as “a mile wide and an inch deep” is perhaps the best description that matches my experience with Alexa as a platform.

Evidently I'm late to the party with this YouTube channel but it's full of well researched and insightful video essays. I came to the channel after recently rewatching The Last Jedi in advance of The Rise of Skywalker coming out next month. The video on how that film defies expectations