"there is a very strong capitalist-critical argument to be made about buying in more intentional and ethical ways, but color me shocked that very few of these minimalist troubadours ever really take things to an economic or class-based argument."
As long as they look critically at their consumerism and are voting with their wallet for ethical consumer goods, let them have their Instagram pictures. Even if they don't care about consumerism and are doing it for aesthetics, it shows people that you can think different about your consumption habits.
- SelfControl app, you can change the timer to 1 month instead of 24 hours, so you are not forced to click it every morning.
- Simple Pomodoro timer, which honestly I use more as a signal for me to get up and stretch my legs a bit.
- Disabled all notifications on phone, macs.
- Things as my todo list, simple and tells me what to focus on every day with recurring todo's.
- Only really visit 3 websites: HN, Designer News & Stack overflow, tagging the interesting posts in the morning, then reading them on Kindle in the evening. Or sometimes between Pomodoro breaks, like now.
- I block all the news websites and other useless information with Opendns.
- Bought a Wacom pen and a mac so I can't play videogames.
- Podcasts for when I'm doing the dishes, Spotify for when I'm doing work.
- No mail, slack before 1pm, I'm most productive in the mornings.
I read in Do The Work that the best thing is to not think, but just start. So I meditate in the morning and try to be completely free of thoughts when I arrive at work, sit down and just start. That was the single thing that made the biggest difference for me. Don't give The Resistance a chance.
There are some interesting lessons to be learned on how Apple employees communicate. The use of hyperboles, the emphasis on positive words or how every sentence works as a one liner.
I liked the moment when the interviewer is trying to steer the conversation and Tim Cook firmly responds by mentioning the interviewer's name which promptly gave Tim Cook the upper hand in the rest of the interview.
Anyone reading some good books about this? I could surely use some of these techniques in meeting rooms or at client presentations.
Been on Mavericks for about a good week now. Was pretty much a painless move, the only problem I had was that at this moment After Effects CC is unsupported.
It's a real tangible performance boost though. Feels extremely snappy on my Retina Macbook Pro. Scrolling is faster and I went from 2,5 hours of battery life to 4,5 !
I always figured that these are not "official" stores thus having limited stock and resupply makes them willing to fight consumers over every small repair, replacement and warranty issue.
When these Apple Stores are charging money for repairs that should have been under warranty or pushing their Apple Care products by stating you only have 1 year warranty they are basically taking advantage of uneducated consumers.
Apple stores in Belgium are an extremely negative experience to say the least, I hope this will change eventually.
Until then you should buy your Apple products through the online apple store, no problems there. ( if you happen to be Belgian )
I always wondered why they never seem to highlight their best feature, which is the ability to search text in images or scanned documents. That has been a huge timesaver in the past. One day I'll put all my important documents in there.
If this handheld works offline the battle is already lost. Same goes for the PS3 and the wii, if you disable the system from calling home you can easily open it and do whatever you want with it.
These companies should instead focus on creating enough value and reason for gamers to be online. Like Steam, introduce social incentives to create a game collection and interact with your friends and half the battle against piracy is won.
There will always be piracy, these companies don't seem to understand that most pirates wouldn't even buy your console if they wouldn't be able to hack it.
Facebook actually handles this pretty well, I have different groups of people and I can cater my status message carefully to each and every one of them.
This problem happens more to me when I'm on twitter however, as I'd like to tweet about how crazy my weekends were, but my entire network is reading along so I really couldn't.
How is this going to affect search results when someone googles my name ? This could be very useful because I have a very common name and it would be nice to get bumped up a bit because I have a google profile.
Everyone is copying media. _EVERYONE_. How can it NOT be socially acceptable ?
The other 30% just doesn't realize that lending a game or buying a game and selling it after you've finished it is exactly the same thing as what an internet pirate is doing.
As long as they look critically at their consumerism and are voting with their wallet for ethical consumer goods, let them have their Instagram pictures. Even if they don't care about consumerism and are doing it for aesthetics, it shows people that you can think different about your consumption habits.