“Sleep” by Me The day is ending, the battle’s won. So now, to sleep, to rest. I’ve won the day, the battle’s done. Alive, with no strength left. The sweet reprieve, reviving calm, Returns to me my brawn. But lining that all-healing balm: The night ends with the dawn. The dark of dream brings peaceful zen, But also nervous angst. For tomorrow’s just today again, And again and again and again.

Creating a project template from an executable file First, open a new file using nano: sudo nano videofile Next, add your tasks, separated by a new line: record video edit video upload video Then just add “task add” to the front of each line: task add record video task add edit video task add upload video Now exit the file and save: ctrl + x y And now we can make the file executable:

Copy this command right into your terminal after navigating to the ~/.task/hooks directory: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior/dev/ext/on-modify.timewarrior Setting up Timewarrior with Taskwarrior First, install Timewarrior: sudo apt-get install timewarrior Once it’s installed, initialize Timwarrior: timew The next thing you want to do is install the hook to start time tracking when a task is started in Taskwarrior: cd ~/.task/hooks wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior/dev/ext/on-modify.timewarrior sudo chmod +x on-modify.timewarrior Now, just start a task:

I am a morning person. As tired or grumpy as I may be - the morning is always a time of calm and reflection. So much so that I got all artsy fartsy about it. Peter McKinnon, if you ever see this, two things: Your videos are the chief inspiration behind even thinking to make this. I may have kind of ripped off your style directly. It’s meant as a compliment :) Shot and edited on my Samsung Galaxy Note 9, using the Moment Tele 58mm lens and Adobe Rush.

When you work at a job, you have what’s called a manager. A lot of times your manager will have somebody do sole responsibility it is to make sure that what you’re doing now is the best thing for you to be doing now. Sometimes it’s the manager themselves, sometimes it’s the boss, whoever it is, if you are not owning the business yourself, somebody else is in charge of telling you what you should be doing now.

There is a strategic and a tactical side of every fight, every battle, everything that you do. Where am I going to place my people? When am I going to push? Who forward where to pull out the enemies x versus y so that I can then dominate when I want to. It has everything to do with data. It has everything to do with experience and has very little to do with combat skill.

I’ve been a freelance marketing and advertising consultant for about 15 years now and there’s a couple of traits of business owners or businesses that I’ve noticed that by themselves are totally fine, clearly innocuous, but when you put them together, there’s something about the combination of these two traits that have a tendency to be somewhat volatile or explosive. It’s kind of like that experiment back in in high school, sodium chloride and whatever the other chemical is that makes things go boom.

Getting fired is strangely one of my favorite things ever. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true. Sure, it sucks real bad while it’s happening, and it takes quite a while to recover from the pain and self-doubt that you feel from it, but in reality it is the best personal wake-up call you can get. I’ve been fired many times, both from jobs and from by clients and I’ve also been divorced so I can see, I know firsthand the similarities between the two.

Saw this in my feed the other week, and it struck me as incredibly ironic. Think about it - how often are people spouting platitudes like this one with no real thought put into them, seemingly all for the likes? This particular profile posts stuff like this all the time. It pops up in my feed once or twice a day and it’s always the same - platitude written out in a “notetaking” app with no real explanation in the description of why it was posted, what it means, or what I’m supposed to do with it.

I think the Rubik’s cube is the perfect metaphor/analogy for the point of this blog post. You see, the Rubik’s cube is a puzzle that was invented by [insert boring nonessential backstory here] and since then it has been assumed that anyone who could solve it was smart. I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but I can solve a Rubik’s cube. Myth = Busted. Seriously though, solving a Rubik’s cube is really simple, once you learn the patterns.

I think too often we get caught up in trying to make our life static. We have a distinctly human need for what we call stability, and it pushes us to try and nail down every part of our life so we can put it into its designated box with its designated label so we can make sense of it all. We see this a lot in how tightly we hold on to ideas, beliefs, relationships, jobs, phones, and just about anything else, even when there is direct evidence that making a change would be for the better.