BLOCKBLOCK TIM FERRISS CODE

By elongating the life of our gadgets, we put more use into the energy, materials and human labor invested in creating the product. If we put a small amount of time into caring for our gadgets, they can last indefinitely. Also, the Netflix documentary 13th is excellent, and available on YouTube. I’ve found the podcast Seeing White by Scene on Radio particularly enlightening, and at times mind-blowing. This is a fantastic resource for people who, like me, are going on a learning journey at the moment. We need to get uncomfortable in asking ourselves tough questions, with an understanding that this is a lifelong, ongoing process of learning. We need to examine ourselves, ask questions, and learn to examine our own perspectives. To ensure that the fight continues for justice, we need to participate in our own ongoing reflection of self and biases. To do the work, we are developing a space for all individuals to read, share, discuss, and interrogate perspectives on race, racism, anti-racism, identity in an educational setting. The initial decision to form this initiative is based on the myriad calls from people of color for white-bodied people to do internal work. We were inspired by the initial demand, and the idea of self-study, interracial groups. We are a small group of volunteers who met as members of the Higher Ed Learning Collective. Tim Ferriss has this question he asks podcast guests: “If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it what would it say and why?” I feel like the title of this blog post is one of the answers I would give to that question.

I measure it in what my days look like and the quality of my creative expression: Do I have time to write? Can I say what I think? Do I direct my schedule or does my schedule direct me? Is my life enjoyable or is it a chore? Ryan Holiday I don’t measure it in copies sold or dollars earned. Today, I don’t define success the way that I did when I was younger.

There’s definitely a lot of money to be made for whoever manages to build an integrated solution, although I think we’re a long way off something which is flexible enough for every use case. For example, (which our co-op uses) rebranded itself a few months ago as a ‘Work OS’. OK, so this is a sponsored post by Dropbox on the WIRED website, but what it highlights is interesting. “We have all that technology now, but we don’t yet have the ‘digital knowledge worker operating system’ to bring it all together.” WIRED

BLOCKBLOCK TIM FERRISS CODE

So I will do my product design in Figma, and then I will submit the code change on GitHub, I will push the product out live on AWS, and then I will communicate with my team using Gmail and Slack and Zoom,” he says.

“What we have right now is a bunch of different productivity and collaboration tools that are stitched together. To Bharat Mediratta, chief technology officer at Dropbox, the quarantine experience has highlighted a huge gap in the market. Whew, so many useful bookmarks to re-read for this week’s roundup! It took me a while, so let’s get on with it…

Blockblock tim ferriss