Author: sjwillis

  • Read: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

    To be able to see change is to be able to make change. I’m an advocate for slowness, not in the sense of dragging your feet or delaying your reaction but in the sense of scaling your perception to to perceive the events unfolding, because I’m an advocate for making change. There’s a wonderful scene…

  • Read: It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity

    The bigger challenge of Slow Productivity is that it requires systems to manage work that’s not yet assigned. If you’re a boss, and an important task pops to mind—“We need to update our Web site with new client testimonials!”—you can no longer simply e-mail the request to one of your underlings and move on with…

  • Read: Find the Life Task

    For a start, a life task will be something you can accomplish “only by effort and with difficulty,” as Jung puts it – and specifically, I’d say, with that feeling of “good difficulty” that comes from pushing back against your conditioned preferences for comfort and security. Source: Find the Life Task – ckarchive.com Also on:

  • Read: Vision Pro, Unscrambled, Is “I Poison VR”

    The fact is, a two-trillion-dollar company is asking you to shut yourself off from your family, your friends, and your dog in order fully inhabit an environment manipulated and fine-tuned to serve a growth-at-any-cost ethos. This means you’ll be kept fully passive, and under surveillance at all times, to be be slowly monetized, like a…

  • Jazz & Chinese Food

    For a Chinese restaurant with live jazz, I expected at least one half of the equation to be meh but the food was great and the band was exceptional.

  • Fixing one channel audio in iPad videos

    When making quickie recording videos with my iPad and audio interface, I’m just using the built in iPad camera for the video. It picks up my mic via the usb interface but only records to the left channel (presumably if I added a 2nd mic to my 2 channel interface I’d get left/right but 2…

  • It’s 1:18PM and I’m just now finally able to open my Morning Checklist. Eeeesh. It’s days like this that make Cal Newport’s vision of what “knowledge work” is like sound like a fairy tale. Also on:

  • I’ve been trying to achieve an easy way to POSSE from my phone with a nice interface, good editor, handles photos, etc. Neither iOS shortcuts nor the WordPress app are especially satisfying to use. Beluga looks interesting. Thanks @matthiasotthttps://beluga.social Also on:

  • On Mic Preamps

    I recently rewired my home studio and added the capacity to include some outboard gear in the process. Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing some recordings to work out the kinks and get set up to record a new batch of originals that I’ve been working on. As is inevitable once my recording…

  • Prompt: Write me a powershell script to run on a MICROSOFT Windows device that returns the enabled TLS versions.ChatGPT: (copy script, run): You’re running v. 1.2 (true!)MICROSOFT’S CoPilot (copy script/run): You don’t have any TLS (false!)Copilot, why you so dumb? Also on: