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April 2021
Bible study with Obsidian
April 2021
Moving to a 4-day workweek
March 2021
Using tags in Obsidian
March 2021
The Wheel of Time entry on Wikipedia
March 2021
The Compounding Effect of Small Leaks
February 2021
How to get started with tools like Obsidian
February 2021
The discipline
January 2021
Re-reading goals
January 2021
Writing more
December 2020
Roam vs. Obsidian
December 2020
Matter
December 2020
Making sense of Roam Research
December 2020
Deep listening
October 2020
Intentional days with Sunsama
August 2020
A little less noise…
August 2020
Björk — Post
August 2020
Parenting during COVID-19
August 2020
How Andy Matuschak's notes compare to a Zettel
July 2020
Why books don't work
July 2020
The move to Ghost
July 2020
The importance of meeting together
July 2020
Analog
June 2020
Working on an iPad
May 2020
Do Journal from Baron Fig
May 2020
Does Jesus really like me?
April 2020
The Roam cult
April 2020
Context to context
April 2020
Roam: why I love it and how I use it
April 2020
How much screen time?
March 2020
The core habits of a successful GTD system
March 2020
Thoughts on Tot
March 2020
Running a membership business
February 2020
From the abundance of the heart
February 2020
Why I'm not crazy for Notion
February 2020
Where do I look for help?
February 2020
Just write
January 2020
A system for making the most of what I read
December 2019
Fortnite pastoral
December 2019
People-First Jobs
December 2019
The secret to enjoying a long winter
December 2019
15 Years
December 2019
Finding the right name
December 2019
Analog Senses's 10th anniversary
December 2019
A few words about Bibles
December 2019
Polar Vantage update
November 2019
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
November 2019
Pray without ceasing
November 2019
Fortnite chapter 2
November 2019
Media accounting 101: appholes and contracts
October 2019
RescueTime for iOS
October 2019
Mouse or trackpad?
September 2019
Travel / walking gear
September 2019
Getting started with the Zettelkastën
September 2019
On Cloudsurfer
September 2019
Trying
August 2019
Bloat
August 2019
Into the personal-website-verse
July 2019
Whimsical: my app of the week
July 2019
One month with a dumbed down phone
July 2019
What I learned co-founding Dribbble
June 2019
The dumb phone I already own
June 2019
Independent publishing
June 2019
Digital nomads are not the future
May 2019
Long conversations
May 2019
Wondrous creatures
May 2019
A sucker for a new bag
May 2019
Oh God, it's raining newsletters
March 2019
Am I doing enough?
March 2019
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
January 2019
The Polar Vantage M
January 2019
Should I focus on habits or my task list?
December 2018
Apps that help build habits
December 2018
My zettelkasten
November 2018
The alternative to thinking all the time
November 2018
When you have so many things on the go
November 2018
Spend thirty minutes in heaven
November 2018
Expanding your design system
October 2018
Screen Time for parents
October 2018
Frontier Journal Issue #2
September 2018
Extreme athleticism is the new midlife crisis
September 2018
The emphasis on faith in Matthew
August 2018
I completed my first marathon — now what?
August 2018
Building a better training log
August 2018
Can our digital tools help build habits?
August 2018
Even short, practical think weeks are powerful
July 2018
The power of regular reviews
July 2018
Anti-flow
July 2018
Rest
July 2018
macOS Mojave: back to the Mac
June 2018
Using the ESV API
June 2018
Ulysses for bible study
June 2018
Don't make me think
May 2018
Kottke: On Margins
May 2018
The new rules of marathon nutrition
May 2018
On gaming & the Breath of the Wild
May 2018
The value of owning your own domain
April 2018
In praise of paper
April 2018
How do you think about mental health?
March 2018
CJ thinks I’m wrong
March 2018
A few notes on daily blogging
March 2018
How I journal
March 2018
Build the life you want with a hybrid system
February 2018
How to recover when things get overwhelming
February 2018
Is it even good to have goals?
February 2018
Bible reading plans
February 2018
Dictatorship
February 2018
There is nothing virtual about bitcoin’s energy appetite
January 2018
Morning routines
January 2018
How to use Day One as a commonplace book
January 2018
Better defaults
January 2018
Quality after quantity
January 2018
Habits of mind in an age of distraction
January 2018
My favourite reads from 2017
January 2018
Nock Lanier
December 2017
Waiting on the Lord
December 2017
Year end planning
December 2017
The cure for complaining
November 2017
Oak & meditation
November 2017
The life changing magic of taking long walks
November 2017
What happens when we work with our hands?
November 2017
An inbox for your time
November 2017
Dropbox: utility vs. collaboration & creativity
November 2017
Women aren’t nags — we’re just fed up
November 2017
Experiencing the peace of God
October 2017
Quartz: Daily Obsession
September 2017
How much screen time?
August 2017
The 2 hour rule
August 2017
Getting more from Ulysses
August 2017
Living with anxiety
August 2017
Have smartphones destroyed a generation?
August 2017
A return to the disciplines: prayer
August 2017
The IRL fetish
August 2017
Why you should quit reading paper books
July 2017
Keynote is king
July 2017
Singular focus
July 2017
What am I doing in Uganda?
July 2017
The fragility of the IoT
July 2017
How and why to keep a “commonplace book”
July 2017
The discipline of study
June 2017
A better approach to managing tasks
May 2017
Can Coffee Help You Sleep?
May 2017
How to manage up with your boss
May 2017
Deep prayer > deep work
May 2017
Recovering entrepreneurs
April 2017
Bluetooth & AirPods … who knew?
April 2017
What’s in my Day One
April 2017
Alexa, make my kids more self-sufficient
April 2017
Medium subscriptions
April 2017
Changing desires
March 2017
Tracking your progress or just gaming?
March 2017
A new type of work schedule
March 2017
What makes the perfect office?
March 2017
Seeking his presence
February 2017
Sustained excellence
February 2017
Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills’
February 2017
The Pursuit of God: Book Review
February 2017
Four reasons to slow down
February 2017
Socks from Icebreaker
February 2017
Why walking helps us think
February 2017
The primary paradox of Christianity: faith & works
February 2017
Designing your days
January 2017
Fitbit Charge 2
January 2017
How I got my attention back
January 2017
Baron Fig Squire
January 2017
Renewing Medium’s focus
December 2016
Knowing vs. knowing about
December 2016
Leadership hacks from Rands
December 2016
SupConf
December 2016
How I use notebooks
December 2016
Focus for 2017
December 2016
Becoming better writers
December 2016
Life as a Christian
December 2016
Faith and the workplace: created for good works
December 2016
Being busy doesn’t mean you're successful
November 2016
The Focus Summit
November 2016
Basecamp 3 is rocking my socks
November 2016
The best meditation app is no app at all
November 2016
In it for the long haul: the habit of Bible journaling
November 2016
A process for consistent weekly reviews
September 2016
Focused on the grass
September 2016
How to design words
August 2016
Is calendar based productivity a fad?
August 2016
You’re meant to do what you’re good at
August 2016
The definitive guide to customer success
August 2016
The merits of pacing
August 2016
Finding your bliss station
August 2016
Getting value from wireframes
August 2016
From the brain, via the hands
August 2016
Raising children in the age of distraction
July 2016
Product fit
July 2016
My favourite email newsletters
July 2016
My creative process
June 2016
Entropy crushers
June 2016
The changing financial industry
June 2016
The value of multi-typeface design
June 2016
Diversification
June 2016
Customer-centric roles in SaaS
June 2016
Rethinking the work-life equation
June 2016
Documentation needs, met
May 2016
Is email the problem?
May 2016
The age of distraction
May 2016
How I use Day One
May 2016
The outgoing introvert
May 2016
Our generation ships will sink
May 2016
Moving from OmniFocus
April 2016
Newsletters are the new zines
April 2016
Oppression in our industry
April 2016
The useless agony of going offline
April 2016
First things first
April 2016
A family friendly culture
April 2016
Improving my habits
March 2016
Future reading
March 2016
Long live the hyperlink
March 2016
Employee benefits at Basecamp
March 2016
The immediacy effect
March 2016
The growing emphasis on the customer
March 2016
Best laid plans
March 2016
When the coffee machine is just a human
February 2016
Writing an onboarding series
February 2016
43 words to cut from your writing
February 2016
Slack and the state of technology (2015)
February 2016
Photos
February 2016
The real victims of climate change
February 2016
Deep Work: a book that can change you
February 2016
Save for later
January 2016
On standing
January 2016
One size onboarding?
January 2016
Finding our way
January 2016
Book reviews: A Focus on Type
January 2016
Easy reading is damn hard writing
January 2016
New beginnings
December 2015
Open arms
December 2015
Contentment where we are
December 2015
Competing on customer journeys
December 2015
Current publishing trends
December 2015
WorkingMemory.txt
October 2015
Medium: for sharing
October 2015
The Force Awakens
October 2015
Writing to think
October 2015
Some thoughts on solitude
September 2015
Tenure means trust
September 2015
Customer Success as a function of your business
September 2015
Upon this wrist
September 2015
The rise in phone reading
September 2015
Finding iPad's future
July 2015
The problem with calories
July 2015
Steve Martin: wild and crazy introvert
July 2015
Sin no more
June 2015
The Focus Course
June 2015
Return to philosophy
June 2015
Ben Brooks on negativity
June 2015
The hand on the purse strings
June 2015
When explosive growth hurts a product
June 2015
Hybrid — Shawn Blanc
June 2015
Why can’t we read anymore?
May 2015
Version control for writers
May 2015
Be kind
May 2015
Tales of a non-unicorn
May 2015
Are you just LARPing your job?
April 2015
The full-stack employee
April 2015
Blogging tools
April 2015
Tools for formatting your ebook
April 2015
Make it boring
April 2015
Build your morning habits first
April 2015
The best UI typeface goes unnoticed
April 2015
A guide to using Medium
April 2015
Type in UI design
April 2015
The importance of the 1-on-1
April 2015
Still blogging
March 2015
Random House
March 2015
How to showcase your wares
March 2015
The consistency of Paul Jarvis
March 2015
The best icon is a text label
March 2015
Know your content
March 2015
The billionaire’s typewriter
March 2015
The Sunday Edition
March 2015
Time, spent wisely
February 2015
The iterative life
February 2015
Defining customer success
January 2015
Are you ready to teach?
December 2014
Back to The Weekly Review
November 2014
Ulysses
August 2014
Hard work is hard
July 2014
A beginning
June 2014
Persona
June 2014
Faith requires more than intellect
June 2014
New tools: Launchbar 6 and Flat Tomato
June 2014
Reading with intention
May 2014
Being a leader
May 2014
The Twitter web interface
May 2014
My favourite typographic resources
April 2014
Hoban Cards
April 2014
For the love of pen and paper
April 2014
Singular focus
April 2014
The right mix
March 2014
Memberships, newsletters, and hot sauce
March 2014
Winning the lottery
March 2014
Publish with Day One
March 2014
Remote(ly) working
March 2014
Using iCloud for file storage
February 2014
Keep it simple
February 2014
6 weeks with Writer Pro
February 2014
Reading vs. processing
February 2014
Web Type West
February 2014
Face to face
January 2014
On the court
January 2014
Getting to half full
December 2013
Getting started with Sass, part II
December 2013
Apple's office applications
November 2013
Abundance
November 2013
The maturation of Safari
November 2013
Cultivating contentment
November 2013
App fatigue
October 2013
Good support is vital to your business
October 2013
Take control of desktop applications
October 2013
Getting started with Sass
September 2013
Random musings From XOXO
September 2013
Slipping through the cracks
August 2013
Chasing the unattainable?
August 2013
Congestion
August 2013
Creating effective type pairings
August 2013
xScope: A designer's Swiss Army Knife
July 2013
The basics of Safari's Web Inspector
July 2013
Cloud.typography vs. Typekit
July 2013
Caring for craft
July 2013
Different measures of success
June 2013
Waiting for the dust to settle
June 2013
Familiarity for users
June 2013
The iterations of OS X
June 2013
Using Flickr for stock photography
May 2013
iPad first
May 2013
Choosing the right type
May 2013
Where the people are
May 2013
Every day
May 2013
Reading list
April 2013
Selling your hard work
April 2013
Jack
April 2013
50 minutes
April 2013
Little bits of words
April 2013
Crisis management
April 2013
Content ownership
March 2013
Early
March 2013
The race is on
March 2013
A new kind of craftsmen, same as the old one
March 2013
Hammers are sucking the soul from carpentry
February 2013
Greater joy through fasting
February 2013
Housekeeping
February 2013
Good teams, good processes
February 2013
Apprenticeship vs discipleship
February 2013
Local development with Hammer & Anvil
January 2013
Good software delights
January 2013
Migrating from ExpressionEngine to Kirby
January 2013
Soft mixtures
January 2013
Set goals that benefit others
January 2013
Consider your eulogy
January 2013
Creating value that lasts
December 2012
Define writing
December 2012
iOS keyboard has room for improvement
December 2012
The (un)obviousness of iCloud
December 2012
Subcompact publishing
November 2012
Are frameworks the new cookie cutters?
November 2012
Surreal
November 2012
Grasping at straws
November 2012
Less
November 2012
Having motivation at your disposal
November 2012
A daily choice
November 2012
Not the iPad Mini. The iPad
October 2012
Creating reminders with LaunchBar
October 2012
How to start
October 2012
Overcoming project guilt
October 2012
Using Hazel with folder contents
October 2012
Curation & discovery
October 2012
Dick moves
September 2012
A clash of cultures
September 2012
Three things
September 2012
New spaces
August 2012
Writers gonna write
August 2012
Out of focus
August 2012
The hand that feeds
August 2012
Obedience
August 2012
webkit-tap-highlight-color
August 2012
Day One is just right
July 2012
Is email broken?
July 2012
A digital symbiosis
July 2012
Self publishing
July 2012
Offscreen Magazine
July 2012
Tracking with Day One
July 2012
The busy trap
June 2012
DIY standing desk
June 2012
Built to not last
June 2012
A Time of transition
April 2012
Information buckets
April 2012
Content everywhere
April 2012
A young problem
March 2012
The importance of touch
March 2012
In the end, creation always trumps curation
February 2012
Why French parents are superior
February 2012
Doing what you (don't) love
October 2011
How important is the source?
October 2011
Embracing white space
September 2011
AeroPress by Aerobie
August 2011
Putting the focus on the conversation
August 2011
Work to live
August 2011
Cinnamon?
June 2011
Intake, creative output and habit fields
June 2011
The Case against the EM dash
May 2011
Paper, or not
May 2011
The purpose varies
May 2011
Pulling stumps
April 2011
Rdio is clever
April 2011
A bag of marbles
March 2011
Beginning to end: a tale of good support
March 2011
A solid option
March 2011
Alternate CSS files
March 2011
Community
March 2011
Beyond OmniFocus: you
February 2011
On file browsing
February 2011
Out of sight, out of mind
February 2011
Bad form, Twitter
January 2010
Imitating the swiss
December 2009
Multi-faceted: an interview with Garrett Murray
May 2009
Software A.D.D
May 2009
Spring disconnections
April 2009
Keeping it together
March 2009
Quicksilver usage
March 2009
iTunes movie rentals - a good alternative
March 2009
Getting to know Automator
March 2009
On Deck
October 2008
“At hand” paper filing
September 2008
Why we tinker
September 2008
Custom log file, revisited
September 2008
In search of depth
August 2008
Track yourself with a custom log file
April 2008
The Power of the weekly review
April 2008
GTD overview part 3: simplification
April 2008
GTD overview part 2: my setup
April 2008
GTD overview part 1: the concepts
March 2008
Tasks versus relationships
March 2008
Making the most of iTunes
March 2008
Always on
February 2008
Communities
February 2008
GTD with Highrise