What probability tells us about large and small numbers.

This was not part of the newsletter and was a separate essay I wrote July 24, 2020.

Focusing on the verb not the noun.

Links:

Eugene Wallingford: Persistence wins, even for someone like you

Austin Kleon: The noun and the verb

On giving good notes to creative people.

Links

My presentation on Getting the most from your time

Aline Brosh-McKenna on Scriptnotes

Jose Molina's Note quote

A look back at staying social while leaving social media giant Facebook.

This was originally posted as an essay on Keep Two Thoughts - and was not the newsletter for July 14, 2020. We'll resume with those essays next week.

Finding the role you're meant to play. We do so much more than our job title.

Links: Interview with Josh and Eliza

In the original essay I shared plans of what I was planning to do next and pointed to this blog post called "Cups and Balls

I also menitoned and linked to this essay on a coding mistake I made.

It's not a competition - find your place, find your pace.

Link:

Take a Breath video from try!Swift WWDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf3L44h6mks&t=107s

A bit of a technical discussion about the keynote and state of the union at Apple's annual developer conference.

Links:

Developers, Developers, Developers

Graham Lee's post

Erica Sadun's post

Being passionate about what you do may be more important than doing what you're passionate about. It's what gets your behind into the seat day after day.

Links:

Nick Lockwood on motivation Big Think on Decision making

The answer we give may depend on who's asking and the work that they've put in.

On the importance of putting ourselves in other people's shoes and what we can do when we recognize we're hurting someone.