Jacoby Young
January 2019 
- 01.31.19 - “Being an ‘Apple person’ or a ‘Windows person’ is a marketing gimmick, not a personality trait. Amazon is just a version of Walmart that collaborates with cops. Your community existed before Facebook. Google wasn’t always a verb.” - Daniel Oberhaus
- 01.31.19 - Learning to curb my binge-watching habits and Niklas Göke has some great advice.
- 01.30.19 - Considering a camera-less existence. How few pictures can I get away with taking?
- 01.28.19 - Slide-HTML by Trikita is a perfectly minimal plain text presentation maker. It’s literally just an html file that is so easy to edit. So stoked to find this.
- 01.28.19 - The always insightful Derek Sivers on keeping a daily journal. Love his idea for “thoughtson.txt” as well.
- 01.28.19 - This point is especially relevant after reading Jaron Lanier’s arguments against social media.
- 01.25.19 - New personal systems are in place for productivity, scheduling, and reference. Been listening to interviews about Digital Minimalism from Cal Newport and looking forward to having a better personal philosophy of technology.
- 01.23.19 - Fiddling with task managers. Reluctantly settling on a todo.txt setup with Todotxt+ for iOS management.
- 01.22.19 - Way too fiddly with both paper and digital calendaring. Cannot figure out a reasonable solution to this.
- 01.22.19 - These Swedish Runic picture stones are too cool. H/T to David.
- 01.21.19 - Binky is a fake social network with a feed of random things to like, dismiss, and comment on and none of it means anything. Approved.
- 01.21.19 - Aaron Swartz’s life and death is always on my mind. Watch The Internet’s Own Boy.
- 01.20.19 - Revisiting Patrick Rhone’s essay collections. Absolutely one of my favorite writers.
- 01.19.19 - New wheels arrived from Hunt. So fun to ride.
- 01.18.19 - 4th graders are loving Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box and 5th grade is loving the Intro to HTML/CSS.
- 01.17.19 - Participated in the march highlighting the anniversary of Hawaiʻi’s overthrow and illegal occupation.
- 01.16.19 - Libby is the best way to borrow e-books and audiobooks from your local library.
- 01.16.19 - Added a Books Read list on the Lists page.
- 01.16.19 - Reabble is so cool! Working RSS on a Kindle.
- 01.15.19 - Revisited The Pixel Painter.
- 01.15.19 - Got an e-reader yesterday in an effort to spend less time on iOS with all of its distractions.
- 01.15.19 - My favorite step of making couscous is “fluff with fork.”
- 01.14.19 - Thankful for 10 hours of Aquatic Ambience.
- 01.14.19 - The Wikireader is still brilliant after all these years.
- 01.14.19 - Merry, pretzel, and bra, are in some sense all the same word.
- 01.13.19 - The trend of lo-fo hip hop partnered with super mellow anime videos is a great advancement in human chill.
- 01.13.19 - I love my AlphaSmart Neo2. It is still one of my favorite devices ever.
- 01.13.19 - Productive morning around the house with a lot of cleaning and minimizing. I definitely want to return to having far less things.
- 01.12.19 - Had a great long ride with lots of climbing. Almost 6,000 ft.
- 01.11.19 - Sparrow Sleeps makes lullaby covers of your favorite pop punk and emo tracks.
- 01.11.19 - Bandaged up after yesterday evening’s bike crash. Figuratively hit the wall in more ways than one.
- 01.11.19 - Revisited micro.blog. Love the idea, but don’t feel the need to interact. Hence… this.
