Make Before Break

Frank and Angelo discuss the daily diary of small steps, Angelo's return to Swift, the value of guidance when learning complex things, and Frank's new Stream Deck.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Per Rewrite Diary | Angelo Stavrow
• A Daily Diary of Small Steps | Angelo Stavrow
• Stream Deck | elgato.com
• OmniFocus Video Tutorials, Articles & Webinars - Learn OmniFocus
• MacSparky Field Guides
• wizard zines
• XVimProject/XVim: Xcode plugin for Vim keybindings
• The Someday/Maybe List is a Lie | Angelo Stavrow
• The Hacking with Swift store
• Missing Manuals
• PaintCode - Turn your drawings into Objective-C or Swift drawing code

Frank and Angelo discuss the weird ways that software creates breadcrumbs of your life, and the idea of digital hoarding.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Stream Deck | elgato.com
• Deliveries: a package tracker for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac
• Your iPhone Knows Exactly Where You've Been And This Is How To See It
• Day One - Your Journal for Life. App for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Slogger - BrettTerpstra.com
• 5by5 | Back to Work #457: A Buddhist Gift
• Dropped Bits - Per
• The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information | Praxis
• Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software
• FreshBooks | Invoice and Accounting Software for Small Businesses
• Drafts | Where Text Starts
• Alfred - Productivity App for macOS
• Bear - Notes for iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Ulysses

Frank and Angelo discuss backpacks, pulling stuff out of OmniFocus, and returning to Evernote, Notion, and good ol' textfiles.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Everyday Backpack 20L & 30L V1 | Peak Design Official Site
• Anti-theft Backpack | Venturesafe® 25L GII in Black by Pacsafe
• Cortex #88: Cortex Airport - Relay FM
• The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information | Praxis
• Evernote
• Notion
• The Most Powerful Productivity App I Use - Notion - YouTube
• TaskPaper – Plain text to-do lists for Mac
• Mind map - Wikipedia
• TOKYO - try! Swift Conference
• Mind Map & Brainstorm Ideas - MindNode
• How I Mind Map - BrettTerpstra.com

Following up on last episode's discussion of annual retrospectives, Frank and Angelo think about setting SMART goals for 2020.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Make Before Break Episode 17: Retrospecting, Annually
• Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
• Five-Whybot on Glitch
• Your output depends on your input - Austin Kleon

Frank and Angelo discuss annual retrospectives — why they're valuable, how they prepare, and what their process is.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Make Before Break: A Belated 2018 Annual Retrospective
• Choice 3: Schedule the Big Rocks
• Core Intuition
• Loneliness Cited as Public Health Threat | Psychology Today
• Year in Pixels

Frank and Angelo discuss workshops, releasing a thing to the world, Drafts, and the 16-inch MacBook Pro.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Mastering iOS Concurrency with GCD
• Toastmasters International
• Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
• Angelo's current iPhone home screen
• Drafts | Where Text Starts
• Drafts Directory | Drafts Action Directory
• Keyboard Maestro 9.0.4: Work Faster with Macros for macOS
• StopTheMadness
• MacBook Pro 16-inch - Apple (CA)
• ErgoDox EZ: An Incredible Mechanical Ergonomic Keyboard
• If your MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) keeps shutting down - Apple Support

Frank and Angelo discuss a variety of things that are on their minds, including Hey Siri, activity rings, AirPods Pro, open source task management, and why books are a waste of time.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Triple Cask Whisky - 15 Years Old - The Macallan®
• Old Pulteney Scotch Whisky - 12 Years Old
• AirPods Pro - Apple
• QuietComfort® 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones— Apple® devices
• How to test the fit of your AirPods Pro ear tips | iMore
• The official site of Philips Hue | Meethue.com
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
• AngeloStavrow/indigo: An IndieWeb-friendly custom theme for Hugo
• The Alter Ego Effect, Todd Herman

Frank talks to Angelo about how big changes help shake out your priorities, creating better travel systems, and why he finally decided to get his first iPhone case after 7 years.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Margaret Heffernan: The human skills we need in an unpredictable world | TED Talk
• Frank's workshop: Mastering iOS Concurrency with GCD
• Phone Loop - Grip Strap - UNICORN
• Microsoft Design
• Give your iOS Shortcuts a boost with Glitch
• Automators podcast
• Core Intuition » Episode 386: Just Say The Word Privacy
• The World-Wide Work. — Ethan Marcotte
• Function, Episode 13 // We Can't Just Log Off: Mental Health and Tech

Frank and Angelo discuss attention audits, clearing the decks, and shorthand.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

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Links:

• Back to Work #439: Servant of the Red Badge
• The Dopamine Dot
• Shorthand on Wikipedia
• Quick Introduction to Forkner Shorthand on Imgur
• Hello Internet
• Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM on YouTube
• GoodNotes
• Notability
• iOS Coach Frank
• Indigo Theme Demo

Frank and Angelo discuss introspection, notifications, and giving it all up to become potato farmers.

Make Before Break is a podcast about the struggle in doing meaningful work. If you enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you left a review on iTunes. We don't do ads, so if you'd like to help offset our production costs, you can buy us a coffee.

Visit us on the web, follow us on Twitter, or send us an email.

Links:

• Building for the Long Haul: Preparing Your App for SwiftUI - Frank Courville on Vimeo
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) - The New York Times
• The Margin Course — The Focus Course
• RESET is a cosmic tune-up for your workday.
• Australian researchers find 'horns' growing on young people's skulls from phone overuse - The Washington Post
• Angelo Stavrow - Add notifications to your app/website in two easy steps
• Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films - YouTube
• Frank Courville on Twitter
• Thought Detox by Angelo Stavrow