I question almost everything about my life. Constantly wondering about each and everything I do and many things that I come into contact with. It’s one of the best and worst things about my brain, and for the past few months I’ve been thinking a lot about what I do and what I enjoy. This has led me to important discoveries, like my love of gaming, but also some questions writing and publishing online.
Patric Rhone on writing a blog post instead of tweets
please place any idea worth more than 280 characters and the value Twitter places on them (which is zero) on a blog that you own and/or can easily take your important/valuable/life-changing ideas with you and make them easy for others to read and share.The biggest thing I see people get stuck on is what to write about – and the answer is everything.
Feeling the need to defend Apple because another brand made an advert is a strange logic. Sure, the adverts are weird (no he’s not “just a normal guy”) but this really shouldn’t get the emotional response it has. A multi-trillion dollar company certainly does not need you to defend them. If anything the macBook speaks for itself in the market it is made for — which has very little cross over in the market this advert is aimed at.
Joe on trying to remain positive all the time:
Right now I am struggling with having positive thoughts. I want to get away from the eternal only fighting problems. I can’t. I can’t think of anything. Yes, I know… my family is healthy, I have a nice apartment and so on. There is enough. But that doesn’t distract me. I don’t know what it is recently but I feel exactly the same.
For the past few days, I have been looking into the new notes app, Craft. It has been lauded up as the best app currently available, so understandably I wanted to take a proper look. I rage quite a couple of times previously because it was missing loads of things and wanted to charge £45 a year, but this time I went deep.
I posted a long thread about strange little bits that hadn’t been thought through properly.
The last sentence of Jacks first tweet in his thread when following Trumps banning from Twitter has stuck with me. While the whole world can wax lyrical about the context and argue back and cowards about the correctness of the action. It’s this last sentence that the man in charge really shows the type of leader he is.
It’s an important step in anyone’s journey through life. Realising that in many situations your point of view could be affected by a range of different things.
It doesn’t exist. You can’t find everything you want from an app, it’s like finding a unicorn. You’re going to have to compromise in some areas to get something you’re happy with. These are all things I have heard said, or have been said to me when I have been looking for the perfect app previously. It doesn’t matter if it is a todo app, calendar app, or note-taking companion — the perfect thing just doesn’t seem to exist.
Andy on his avoidance of silence
I had a brief moment of silence today, only about a minute, but the feeling I had was so jarring, so alien to me, it actually felt like it would be interesting to write about. It probably made more sense at the time This is something I have had on my mind for, well years. I think silence is an important part of life and communication.
The usual over inflation from David Hansson on Twitter:
“HEY World is a tribute to the bliss of writing for the sake of having something to say. Not because you’re craving likes, because there aren’t any. Not because you want to brag about your follower count, because we don’t even show it.” https://t.co/trsy0zL8U0
— DHH (@dhh) March 10, 2021
I get it, hype sells things. You have to talk a good talk and apparently pick a fight with everything and everyone.
Mitchell Clark on Gmail labels in their iOS app
It is worth noting that Apple’s app privacy labels are meant to show all the things that the app might access, not what information that app will access. For example, an app may only use location data when it needs to show you a map, but the privacy labels don’t make that clear — it’s just a binary used/not used. Also, the information in the labels is submitted by the company itself, and Apple doesn’t make promises about its accuracy.