Interesting… Mastodon Twitter Crossposter

On giving:

Why where your giving goes matters more than what you give

“We discovered that the best charities are hundreds of times more effective at improving lives than merely “good” charities.” (William MacAskill, Doing Good Better)

“People aren’t happy when they’re working on things they don’t care about. Part of avoiding that issue is hiring people who care about the problems that you’re solving. And the other part is knowing deeply what each team member’s strengths and interests are, so that you can put them to work on projects and tasks that they’ll love (and thus, do well).” (groovehq.com, How Regular One-On-One Meetings Saved Our Company Culture)

An #oldread about downsides of “instant” messaging

On “defensive decision making”

Because I said so!

“Why on earth would any parent want that? Because persuasion is powerful. Rhetoric originated in the lawsuits of ancient Greece, when citizens who weren’t good at persuading could lose their houses — or their lives. It was a staple of education until the early 1800s, teaching society’s elite how to debate, make public decisions, and reach consensus. It probably explains how the founding fathers managed to carve a nation out of 13 squabbling colonies.” (figarospeech.com, Teach a Kid to Argue - Figures of Speech)

This is super-cool! I never owned one of these classics, but I want to print them all out and display them in my office! Papercraft Models — Rocky Bergen

TIL I should obfuscate my send-to-kindle email address! KindleDrip — From Your Kindle’s Email Address to Using Your Credit Card - by Yogev Bar-On - Realmode Labs - Jan, 2021 - Medium

Not as bad for the home / hobbyist user as it seems at first, based on comments… Announcing pfSense plus: PFSENSE

This is a bummer… www.theverge.com

Apple scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention

Testing cross-posting via Medium …

I found a kindred spirit - someone else who interacts with their apple watch using their nose! Using Apple Watch Faces to Simplify Your Day – The Sweet Setup

Fortunately, I can easily switch watch faces using my nose

Great news! Notion.so no longer has a 1000-block limit on free accounts! (https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c)

Based on ConvertKit vs. Mailchimp: Which is Better for 2020 - The Blueprint, I’ve decided to keep (but dust off) my mailing lists on MailChimp 🐵

Good news, everybody: Thomas Kurian: Google will donate Istio to a foundation - Protocol

Whoa. I need to up my remote-work-in-the-car game! Remote working from your vehicle - Mark Christian James

Looks like I dodged a bullet when I didn’t buy the new Magic Keyboard for my ipad…

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Giving Things on the Apple Watch another try, after this big update: New Things for Apple Watch - Things Blog - Cultured Code

A neat way to produce good-looking PDFs of your ebook : Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim — Vladimir Keleshev (I might use this if I weren’t already publishing Funky Penguin’s Geek Cookbook on LeanPub

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than - Wow. My high-school computer-science lessons used Turbo Pascal. The good ol’ days…

Great news: GitHub goes free for teams, reduces premium pricing - TechRepublic. I had a few GitLab repositories hanging around, which I setup before GitHub permitted personal private repositories. I’ve since moved the active ones to GitHub - it’s so much easier to collaborate!

Test - hello blog :)