Just hire the accountant

February 27, 2012

I just wanted to textually echo Marco Arment’s advice to hire an accountant. It fits in well with the “do what you’re good at so you can pay someone else to do what they’re good at” message I tried to get across a few RSS entries ago. As I mentioned in that post, I had [...]

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Moom snap shots

February 20, 2012

I’ve made no secret of my love for Moom, the best $5 you can spend on Mac window management. Gabe of Macdrifter just made me realize I’ve been leaving some goodness on the table: Snap shots can be triggered with a keyboard shortcut. When I’m ready to work through my tasks, I hit ctrl-opt-cmd-T and [...]

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1Password: 1. Think, 2. Go

February 16, 2012

Brett Kelly explains how to create 1Password-specific bookmarks in your browser. It’s a really nice trick ideally suited for secure sites you regularly visit. I still find the keyboard faster. Whether it’s a site I go to every day or every three years, I know that I can get there nearly immediately by pressing ⌘F121, [...]

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The side economy

February 14, 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals: The marginal value of the last hour put into a business idea is usually much less than the first. The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in [...]

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Me on how I write

February 6, 2012

I’m sure you read Macdrifter every day just like I do. But in the off chance that you don’t, here’s a link to an interview there with none other than my self-promoting self. Gabe asked me some questions about my writing workflow. I talk about how I Markdownify my thoughts in nvALT, TextMate, Byword, MarsEdit, and [...]

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If that standing desk isn’t working out…

February 3, 2012

A WSJ article on the growing trend of stand-up meetings in the tech industry, a culture looking for any way possible to divorce its ass from its seat: Holding meetings standing up isn’t new. Some military leaders did it during World War I, according to Allen Bluedorn, a business professor at the University of Missouri. [...]

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iBooks Author: a preface

January 20, 2012

David Sparks: I just spent several hours playing with iBook Author’s media tools inserting movies, keynote animations, and interactive pictures into my new secret project and it ruined me. There is no turning back. As an author and a reader, I will never look at a static page e-book the same. While for some types [...]

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Steven’s notebook

January 19, 2012

What do you do when a guy like Steven Frank hands you his tech tip notebook? You go read it of course. … there has always been a subset of my notes that I’ve wanted to share with the public — those little techie one-liners that take hours to figure out or find on the [...]

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You are what you type

January 17, 2012

Before the rise of technology culture, knowing when to capitalize a noun was pretty intuitive. Proper nouns were capitalized, while common nouns generally were not. Things aren’t so simple now. The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the use of mixed case nouns. To complicate matters, the neologisms spouting from technology culture often [...]

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The forgotten manuals

January 12, 2012

General life lesson: If everyone else is doing Thing A, there’s probably an advantage to be gained doing something other than Thing A. I’ve seen at least one study [PDF] that shows that we’re reading significantly more thanks to the internet, and we’re spending a lot more time doing it. That’s not to say we’re [...]

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