Weeknote 39: Personal Productivity Snake Oil
I’ll keep this short because I’m still tired from my outing yesterday.
Dad came to visit this weekend. He enjoys gardening, so we went to Krishnendra Nursery and Indo-American Hybrid Seeds on Sunday. If you love plants, both these places come highly recommended.
In Dad’s opinion, the nurseries in Bangalore carry a wider variety of plants compared to Delhi. Their quality is better, too. He wanted to take quite a few back home for his rooftop garden, but we couldn’t find a good way of transporting them two thousand kilometers north without destroying them in transit.
Here are some fun new words for you: in Hindi, anxiety is called दुश्चिंता, depression is called अवसाद, and bipolar disorder is called द्विध्रुवी विकार. Now you know.
I fell down a familiar rabbit hole this week: watching videos about task management, time management, note-taking, quick capture systems, and apps that enable each of these functions. I hate the part of me that’s so easily taken in by this personal productivity snake oil, but I’m still unable to restrain myself.
I moved all my email to iCloud+ as an experiment. Pray for me, because this thing does not inspire confidence.
Links of the Week
Mentioning the War by Matt Gemmell
Accent shame by Matt Gemmell
Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more by Jen Simmons for the WebKit blog