by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
A Productive Conversation | Making Space for Grace (PM Talks S3E5)
Patrick Rhone is back, and so is PM Talks — the monthly series where Patrick and I take our time with one idea and actually see where it goes. This is Season 3, Episode 5, and Patrick has just returned from a trip to Greece with his family — a trip built around anniversary celebrations, Mamma Mia filming locations, and the kind of serendipitous moments that only happen when you’re open enough to notice them.
Always a good time.
How to Spend Money So It Actually Makes You Happier – YouTube
This video by Daniel Pink is interesting and useful. Everything within backed by scientific research. My own personal experience, where applied, backs it up. Worth the time to watch. Things that make you go, “Hmmm…”
Geography is four-dimensional | Derek Sivers
When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place – only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when.
Interesting insight. Derek nails it (yet again).
An interesting idea; start your work surface with nothing:
The next time you begin your workday, try this: clear your work surface completely. Close all browser tabs. Create a fresh page in your notebook. Open only the one file you need.
What are you doing to be a good netizen?
Beatrix’s final Spring Show performance at Circus Juventas today. My wife posted a collection of photos of her spring performances through the years (since age 2!).
Today, I won’t be rigging. Bethany and I will be in the audience — the proudest parents in the room.
My wife wishes a happy Commitment Day to all who are celebrating (or already have).
Mike Carson bought Friendster for $30KM – Boing Boing
Carson’s pitch is a social network that doesn’t work without face-to-face contact. To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.
A truly social network. Fascinating. May have to give it a spin (and find a friend who wants to as well).
The same is true of us all.
Community Letter from Tim – Apple
This is not goodbye. But at this moment of transition, I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you. Not on behalf of the company, this time, though there is a wellspring of gratitude for you that overflows inside our walls. But simply on behalf of me. Tim. A person who grew up in a rural place in a different time and, for these magical moments, got to be the CEO of the greatest company in the world.
Big news at Apple.