🔗 Desirable difficulties — Wikipedia

🔗 Desirable difficulties from Wikipedia

A desirable difficulty is a learning task that requires a considerable but desirable amount of effort, thereby improving long-term performance. The term was first coined by Robert A. Bjork in 1994. As the name suggests, desirable difficulties should be both desirable and difficult. Research suggests that while difficult tasks might slow down learning initially, the long term benefits are greater than with easy tasks. However, to be desirable, the tasks must also be accomplishable.

This concept came up in Range: Why generatlists trumph in a specialized world.

🔗 There are six seasons instead of four — Kottke

🔗 Kurt Vonnegut quoted by Jason Kottke

Here is the truth about the seasons: Spring is May and June. What could be springier than May and June? Summer is July and August. Really hot, right? Autumn is September and October. See the pumpkins? Smell those burning leaves? Next comes the season called Locking. November and December aren’t winter. They’re Locking. Next comes winter, January and February. Boy! Are they ever cold!

What comes next? Not spring. ‘Unlocking’ comes next. What else could cruel March and only slightly less cruel April be? March and April are not spring. They’re Unlocking.

Seems to work for Poland as well.

🔗 Humans.fyi - A website all about personal websites designed by humans A very cool site with some personal website design inspiration…I wish I could make stuff like this.

🔗 Coming in November: 30 Practical Tactics to Decrease Your Anxiety — CJ Chilvers

🔗 Coming in November: 30 Practical Tactics to Decrease Your Anxiety — CJ Chilvers

I’m going to post every day to this blog for the entire month of November on one subject: anxiety. More specifically, I’m going to post 30 practical tactics to decrease your anxiety, one per day. Summaries of these posts will appear in my newsletter.

I’m a big CJ Chilvers fan and this sound like a great thing to watch. I remember Ben Brooks doing something similar (posting to his blog daily) a year or two ago and really great to read and follow. I’ve had a few creative challenge ideas for November and haven’t yet settled on which I’ll take on. At least there are a few days left.

“You see how much time you have,” Gustie Herrigel writes in Zen in The Art of Flower Arrangement, “only when you stop thinking you have none.”

From Ryan Holiday’s newsletter “Daily Dad”

🔗 The Phone Foyer Method — Cal Newport

The Phone Foyer Method

When you get home after work, you put your phone on a table in your foyer near your front door. Then — and this is the important part — you leave it there until you next leave the house.

Simple but effective idea. My wife and I do something similar to this on a table out of the way…But I don’t always stick to it.

🔗 Mu Two | Next Generation 63W Dual USB Type-C Wall Charger - Kickstarter

Mu Two | Next Generation 63W Dual USB Type-C Wall Charger - Kickstarter

Simultaneously charge your devices with the dual USB Type-C ports. Designed with a primary USB C port for the latest Type-C charged laptops, and secondary USB C port for tablets and smartphones.

This is probaby the closest I’ve come to “Shut up and take my money” in a long time. I have a Mu Traveller Duo and it’s fantastic. This seems like the same device for the next generation of devices.

New Ludavico Einaudi Album which is 6 Hours long…Well that’s my work music sorted.

🔗 "Interesting" is the Basis of Blogging - One Man and His Blog

“Interesting” is the Basis of Blogging - One Man and His Blog

One of the stock ideas I use when training journalists to blog is that the basic currency of the blog is the thought “that’s interesting”. Everything you post to a blog is something you find interesting and want to share with others, be it a link, an article, a photo or a video.

@adders shared this post of his yesterday and it speaks a lot to me. I have tried to cultivate a habit of being interested and then curious to continue asking questions. Sometimes I inhabit these traits better than others and, as you might expect, I always write and publish more when I do.

I also find that my writing is of a higher quality when I live these traits. After all, if you aren’t curious then you might stop after answering the first question. But when you are curious, you can’t help but carry on asking questions and discovering more.

Dale Carnegie said

To be interesting, be interested.

and I agree.

Stay curious.

Song link have made some iOS shortcuts! This is great! Now I just need to test them out.