I’m taking a break from dealing with my browser tabs. It’s completely out-of-control insane. I’m making progress, but I have a lot more ot go through. Almost every time I close a tab without doing something, I command-shift-t to open the tab back up and bookmark it in Pinboard. I have over 30,000 bookmarks in Pinboard, dating back to the early aughts thanks to del.icio.us. I’m a digital packrat hoarder, but it really does come in handy for recalling information. My rule is simple – if I think there’s a chance I might want to refer back to it later, I bookmark and tag it. Tagging is essential. It’s not something one goes back to do. If you don’t tag things going in, well, good luck to you.
Tag: life
Oliver Sacks: Sabbath
The seventh day of the week, the seventh day of life.
Source: Oliver Sacks: Sabbath
Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997
The way to build a great anything — a product, a company, a book, a blog, an app, a service, a movie, anything — is not to obsess over not making mistakes. That leads to paralysis. Try to avoid mistakes, sure. But recognize that you’ll inevitably make some, and create a culture and work ethic where mistakes get identified and fixed.
Seth’s Blog: Are you certain that you’re trapped?
Tim Ferriss on Twitter
I read this at least once every few weeks.
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
Walt Whitman (via bijan)
Luke Wroblewski on Twitter
“If you don’t have an opinion, everyone else will give you theirs.”
When people are confronted with evidence that is “inconsistent with their beliefs” (ie. the odds of winning by switching doors being ⅔, instead of ½), they first respond by refuting the information, then band together with like-minded dissenters and champion their own hard-set opinion.
Being skillful and exercising your mastery is what you’re here to do. Doing anything less undermines the whole point of being alive.