The Week #213

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  • 🍿 We saw Toy Story 5 in English. What a film, perhaps my favorite one yet? The writers really do hit the nail on the head about the challenges that parenting in the world of prolific screens provides. How do you balance between keeping your kid engaged with the real world and socialising with their friends (when a lot of that starts to happen online). And when every kid is a dopamine addicted iPad kid...how do you find that balance? (The answer is enforced boundaries, but that gets harder and harder to enforce as they get older and cleverer and you're tried).  I know I'll hold out on connected tech for as long as feasible.
  • ☑️ I've felt a bit like my brain has been all over the place. Work. Home. All the tasks popping into my head all the time. As fate would have it, Tim Ferris had David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done and reposted it this week in episode 873. I am not a regular listener to his podcast, but it seemed wildly appropriate. Almost the algorithm has made the leap to mine directly from my head (though it's just plain ol' RSS).

    This in turn encouraged me to re-read Getting Things Done. It's been 20 years since I read it and, my life wasn't nearly complex enough back then to really need it. And it's been like an epiphany. Still early days (and I haven't finished re-reading it), but having a single inbox for all things is helping my mind relax. And that's because everything is in one place, rather than split across Slack reminder me later, Obsidian, written down somewhere, or in my inbox. If there's something I need to do, I add it to....
  • 💻 OmniFocus 4. The last time I tried OmniFocus in an attempt to start GTD, I was too cheap to go on all in and thought I could manage with just the iPhone app. Needless to say, when most of your work occurs at desk, it's suboptimal to need to reference your phone each time. Now a single license works across platforms, so it's easier to add all the things in the moment.

    The app itself, I am still getting used to, but it's made me remember an era of macOS history that is gone. You know the one. Back when every app was native and they were crafted for the platform, not web apps bolted into a wrapper. What a breath of fresh air.