Short form
-
although from “PHYSICAL FACTORS” onwards it gets a bit over the top for my taste I would sum up my strategy on this topic as: exercise, eat and sleep well and take time to unwind and relax a bit. ↩︎
Just finished moving some old photos from instagram to my dedicated photo-micro-blog maintainingfocus.com. Done for today, moving content to my own space on the web.
By the way, here is an important lesson about delegation: remember that everyone else is also most productive when they’re doing what they like, and do what you’d want other people to do for you—try to figure out who likes (and is good at) doing what, and delegate that way.
Good advice1
Challenge accepted
1Blocker will be releasing a new version called 1Blocker X on 26 April, pre-order now available. I have no doubt it will be even better than the original (now called 1Blocker Legacy), so I’m in.
Unread will no longer show “Untitled” or placeholder text from syncing services when displaying posts without titles…
Less is more
Source: burk.io
Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica
No surprises here, but I am still curious what the final number will be. Place your bets…
Microcasting (short form podcasting) comes to Micro.blog. Welcome Wavelength. What a great addition to Micro.blog and the Indieweb!
Benedict Evans in his article “The death of the newsfeed” very clearly provides insight on why big tech companies are forced to a more algorithmic world, inadvertently forcing them between a rock and a hard place.
I couldn’t agree more to all Benedict states in this article and highly recommend anyone interested in this subject to read the article (twice!).
Unavoidable as it seems, though, this approach has two problems. First, getting that sample ‘right’ is very hard, and beset by all sorts of conceptual challenges. But second, even if it’s a successful sample, it’s still a sample.
Using signals of what people seem to want to see risks over-fitting, circularity and filter bubbles. People’s desires change, and they get bored of things.
In my opinion this is one of the biggest challenges in data science.
How can we help people navigate an abundance of choices (post, pictures, search results or products) without unethically steer behaviour, creating self-fulfilling prophecy1 or limit the room for people to change their preferences and discover new stuff.
The battery of my Apple Watch(v1) really starts showing it’s age. After being on my wrist daily for years, I don’t know if I will get another one… Having a completely muted iPhone is great but wrist based notification are still a major distraction during one-on-one conversations.
After writing another post on Facebook and the recent privacy scandals I deleted it all; because it’s not about Facebook at all.
It’s about alternatives (preferably which can not be “acquired”, but this is a topic for a different post) and this is exactly why moved all my writing to Micro.blog.
“Measure your success by the success of others.” Dave Winer
Seems only natural to stumble upon a striking quote by Dave Winer browsing a micro.blog. (Dave more or less invented blogging and RSS syndication and has the longest continuously running blog on the Internet).