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Non programmer and I found Pragmatic Programming excellent. Help me problem solve better in general, communication better with our development team, and understand more about their…

California resident here. Female and in what was then called junior high school when Senator Feinstein became Mayor of San Francisco. She was one the people who changed the profile…

I love this thread. TV: On My Block, which has a lot in common with Reservation Dogs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_My_Block Book: America Is Not The Heart, just a fantastic no…

I’m currently involved in a project to develop a tech intervention to support outreach workers in providing emergency shelter to unhoused individuals[1]. Part of the goal is to get…

I have an information triage process that ends with DEVONThink. I save bookmarks to drafts app, go through them when I have time. And if they are worth it, I save then in DEVONThin…

I’ve used ChatGPT to generate value scenarios, possible use cases, and descriptions of use for internal white papers. If another colleague were helping with this, I’d credit them i…

This.

I love https://rubyforgood.org/ they organize projects so there can be real impact.

I get this worry. I didn’t read it this way though. I read it as being more about being conscious in choosing how to spend you time and not assuming that productivity leads to open…

My system is very much like this. I capture most things to Drafts app with a “to process” or “to read” tag. And then review and handle at least once a week. If it’s a resource that…

H2O — https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ — is a now-defunct collaborative syllabus project from Harvard that gets at a lot of this I think. It’s basically a list maker with a lot of addi…

I think we have to separate caring for our fellow community members from and supporting people in being productive members of society. So many people are with stable homes because …

This feels like it could be solved partly, and more effectively, by a step wise show your work process. So if it’s Of Mice and Men, it could be a reading journal, then important po…

I got my 18-year-old one of those Jensen cassette players for Xmas this year. She listens to it in bed with a pair of chunky audio technics headphones on. She likes listen to thing…

My teenage daughter and I talk a lot about mental hygiene. We compare it to dental hygiene: you do stuff everyday to reduce the need to see a dentist and improve your experience wh…

The artifact we often use is “zoom recording of the meeting.” Which is less than useful. For non-sensitive meetings, we record to otter and then edit the transcript using highlight…

I used Yahoo! Pipes to help manage the firehouse part of RSS. I filtered on keywords, used it manage duplicates across feeds and a few other things. It would be great to have that …

As one of those business people, I find I’m not very good at requesting reports. There is a gap between what I think is interesting and what actually is interesting. I use spreadsh…

Drafts app is awesome for quick capture and then to integrate with other systems for processing. The recording function for it works pretty well.

Fiction: - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli: mixes the personal and political so skillfully - The Magician by Colm Tóibín: Thomas Mann, the German, author is the main char…

For me, what makes these tools useful is the time I spend in review. Which often feels like the opposite of productivity.

Readwise or similar?

+1 I adopted a cattle dog two years ago. A real habit builder.

> Why? Because once it's written down there's a paper trail and accountability. This. It’s the hard part of getting people to commit to operational plans on the business side as we…