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This week: my FaceTime Christmas iPad rig; turning 38, my list strategy you should copy.

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This week: Office finally has good trackpad support; large widgets are better than small widgets; privacy labels for apps; tips for men; Pepsi; and the Solar Winds hack is a nightmare.

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This week: fitness trackers are fitness theater and are not really great for anyone who is their target market; headphones; privacy first web analytics; the best boots; Chrome is having another *thing*.
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This week: watch wearing in 2020; music in 2020; Reeder 5 is better than Pocket; Dress Code and Data Stewardship; 3 apps I tried; Autonomous.ai Support; Ergonomics reminder; Mini Osborne.

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This week: Thanksgiving recap; update on using Reminders; Best of 2020 is coming; Bag Closet; and Amazon is being shady again.

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This week: iPhone 12 Mini and MagSafe thoughts; my iPhone Home Screen; Notes app; Reminders instead of Things; My Kids Text Me; Remote Work Gurus; Ring Lights.

Stay safe.

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This week: iPhone 12 Mini; what iPhone sizes might tell us about future iPad Pros; sale items; Texas and Lockdowns; and the second coming of QVC.

## iPhone 12 Mini

As I write the first draft of this section, I have had my iPhone 12 Mini for under 24 hours. And yet, I already can tell it’s going to be with me and make me happy for a very long time. I was never an iPhone SE proponent — when they first debuted to satiate the need of those longing for a ‘get off my lawn’ model of the iPhone. When the Plus sizes, and then the Max sizes came out, I tried them and mostly didn’t care about them enough to feel strongly one way or another.

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This week: sling bags, private Discord group, online voting, that idea about carrying a dedicated camera, some neat stuff I saw but didn’t buy, and following up on my hat talk.

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This week: heating the outdoors; fast WiFi; baseball caps; bailouts.

Also, November? *Dang*.

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This week: iPad use, trackpad versus finger; should you even buy a laptop; looking at Fast Company’s top iPad tips; notes on a bunch of site updates; save up to buy something big, or buy the cheaper version as often as needed; pasta sauce.

Anyways…

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This week: a HomePod mini in every bathroom, for sanitary reasons. There’s other stuff too, but does anyone read these little preview sections?

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This week: things I am still procrastinating about during COVID; the small wins I did have; purses; my COVID purse; carbonated water is fine; Ulysses 21; my cat.

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This week: some tech stuff I like; buy for winter comfort now; fire pits; thoughts on The James Brand; some TV shows I recommend; and some cleaning stuff I recommend.

Quite a potpourri this week.

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This week: keycaps are a luxury we all need right now; killing off echo chambers and useless feeds; you should buy a watch, not an Apple “watch”; an unpopular Multitool thought; best daypack found?; GORUCK I/O Cross Trainer review; and six words for 2020.

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This week: iOS widget tips; best of the year preview; headlamps preview; Multitools preview; review city. Short post this week, because I have no need to waste your time to spike word counts.

Also: it’s almost the end of September. Wtf.

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This week: my dad bag needed more gear; building emergency kits for kids while the west burns; I actually wrote a section about which wrist I wear my watch on; preview of the Mystery Ranch 3 Way Briefcase; and a fantastic and affordable clothes drying rack.

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This week: State of iPad heading into iOS 14; Privacy; Waterproof paper; and taking off medical gloves.

## State of iPad Heading to iOS 14

Sometimes I forget to write stuff like this out, because part of my day to day work is diving into and thinking about all of this. That said, I wanted to capture some things I have been thinking about, since iOS 14 is coming soonish, and there will be plenty more to write about then.

For the most part, iPadOS, and iPad as hardware, are both well suited to be the best computer for *many* people, for *many* tasks. No longer is there a true limit because of performance — iPad hardware is even faster/more powerful than computers that many people still own and use. There is only a very niche subgroup held back by hardware, and that group may well never be able to adopt something like an iPad — unless iPads gain a plug in hardware expander like eGPUs.

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This week: wait, it’s the *end* of August *now*? Shit.

Oh, anyways, I write about Jerry Seinfeld and remote work; Epic; Surge Capacity; Zuckerberg being an awful person; pop culture; and this Hurricane Laura close call.

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This week: I learned about Airsoft; my optimal video call lighting setup; houses without windows; continuation of the App Store drama; people finally see San Francisco for what is.

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This week: elementary online learning is shit; new video lighting setup; App Store lawsuit; update on a mask I like; bag stuff.

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