This week: I talk about a terrible company, and relate decision fatigue to algorithm fatigue, I rate everyone, and lastly there is a new app that I am infatuated with.
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Month: April 2019
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A Starter Guide for Going iPad Pro Only
I don’t know how anyone can stand to use the new MacBooks out there, or why they would spend that much money on a computer. So, this is my quick guide on how to use an iPad Pro full time in a general computer sense (i.e. not for niche uses like Audio/video/photo editing or anything of that nature). Follow this guide and you can leave behind the world of overpriced computers that you will never fully utilize and instead enter a happier place.
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Member Journal for 4/22/19
This week: I talk about a name, I ask what are you doing, I offer a top tip, I share insights from a dense man, millennials, and I cull things.
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Tom Bihn Ghost Whale Organizer Pouch
Quite a name, for what is actually a very neat and simple pouch — I touched on this pouch for members, but it’s pretty great. So let’s talk about it a little more. I picked up the size ‘small’, but it does come in a few other sizes and I found the measurements provided to be very accurate overall.
For this, I am solely focused on the small size.
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My Dyneema (DCF) DOPP Kit
There have been no shortage of pouches I have used for DOPP kits, or toiletries bags, in the past. There’s the GR1 Field Pocket, and then for quite some time I used the Echo Field Pocket, recently I moved to the Bond Venture Pouch. All of those shared the same problems: they were really good, but not ideal. They had pockets and pouches, but they were all a bit too cramped while also being too small. The Venture pouch gave me constant problems managing items in the elastic straps.
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Member Only Post for 4/15/19
This week: I use a Mac; boredom makes things difficult; the privacy parts; and printed things make me sneeze.
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Why Newsletters Beat Social Media
I pay over $230/month for Mailchimp so I can keep sending you emails. But this cost (the most I pay for monthly software by a lot) is worth it because it’s doubly profitable: Mailchimp makes enough money from me so they don’t have any need to sell my or my subscribers’ data. And I make enough money from my products by sending emails on their platform to cover the costs and not have to resort to ever selling data from my subscribers either. So it’s a win-win-win!
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Member Post for 4/8/19
This week I dive deep into News+ to talk about the shittastic nature of its design, take a quick chicane into privacy and Facebook, hammerhead turn back around to a document pouch I am in love with, and sprint across the line with thoughts on the MacBook keyboard fiasco.
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Tom Bihn Synapse 25
Note: Tom Bihn sent this backpack for review purposes.
My dad previously reviewed this bag, but my review of Tom Bihn’s well loved Synapse has been a long time coming. I chose the 25L because it is a more versatile size than the 19L and because I wasn’t confident a 19L bag would look right on my back. For those who follow the cult of onebag travel, this bag is nothing new as it has been among the preferred bags in that group for years.
Let’s dive into Tom Bihn’s Synapse 25 and see what is what.
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Member Post for 4/1/19
In this issue: no April Fools jokes; almost but not quite there; small hand bags for men; science touches where you work.
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