In this week’s issue: — The lost art of chatting Winning MacOS with keyboard shortcuts Amazon’s data machine Companies buying your credit card transactions The music producer using his eyes to produce music Interesting The Lost Art of Having a Chat is a good read. We “chat” so much. Texting, messaging on Facebook, WhatsApp, and billion…

Included: Dark web vs. data brokers Your microbiome and your personality may be connected Block those distracting websites Stealing your email data Interesting Gut Bacteria May Be Linked to Personality Traits Your guts may be related to how social you are. From the article: “people with larger social networks tend to have a more diverse gut microbiome, which is…

Welcome back to another issue. Covered this week is: Mindfulness isn’t always consistent Productivity — Tracking 12 years of to-dos with a text file Amazon’s Kindle — recording what you’re reading UK council sites giving out data to 3rd parties Diminishing anxiety through action Clean your desk Interesting Mindfulness is Situational? According to researchers…

Welcome to another issue. In this one we have interesting baby books, practicing mindfulness without an app, Ring (again), selling your DNA, and more. Hope you like it! Feedback is always welcome, so let me know what you think. Interesting I discovered baby books covering Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, and…

Welcome to another dose of privacy, productivity, and things I found interesting this week. Here’s issue #8! Interesting If you’ve never checked out Wait But Why, you should. Tim Urban puts some epic work into these posts and they stand up well over time. Recently, he posted “It’s 2020 and you’re…

Better late than never. This week was a whirlwind with a lot of challenges, but it’s all part of how things go in life. :) Interesting Programming Frogger: Scientists use frog stem cells to build living robots We’re starting to use stem cell from frogs to build living robots. Kind of cool, kind of spooky. Right now these cells can do basic…

Welcome new people joining the newsletter! It’s humbling to see a new person signing up here and there. I hope you enjoy the newsletter. I’m always up for feedback, so please hit reply and send me your thoughts. Are Some Toys a Form of Gambling? L.O.L. Surprise dolls and other “blind bag” toys are essentially gambling and…

Creepy cars tracking your every move, one of the best podcasts I’ve heard all year, and saving time on social media are featured in this week’s newsletter. How to Get Rich — Naval Ravikant This is one of my favorite podcasts I’ve listened to this year and one I will listen to again. …

I’m still figuring out the flow of this newsletter, how to write it, when to write it, what to include, and the best format. It’s an interesting process, to go through. Having a system for this will helpful for getting this out same time each week. …