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Colter Reed
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Husband. Father. Christian. Tech nerd. Dev. Annoyingly optimistic at times. I help recovering perfectionists get the day-to-day out of the way so they can stop chasing the dream and start living the dream.

So far, I’ve only had to google one thing that wasn’t in the GrapheneOS install instructions:

How to restart an Android phone.

Sometimes, it’s the simple things.

Setting up a phone with GrapheneOS, just to see what the experience is like.

My morning routine is accurate to within 1/1000000 of a push-up.

Making the world a better place takes a low time preference.

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If you want to learn to touch-type, learn to code. Programmers use the full keyboard, not just the letters.

Qwerty is a fiat layout. Customize your keyboard to suit you for low-time-preference typing.

Probably. Otherwise, that’s a lot of capital they’re pledging.

It’s not that I want to get up at 5:00, but by the time it’s 7:00, I like having accomplished for the day everything that getting up at 5:00 lets me accomplish.

I had lots of data entry scheduled for this evening. I estimated it would take a good hour or two.

Lots of it involved reformatting dates and converting currency. I started by writing a couple of Keyboard Maestro macros to rewrite the pasteboard then type out the result. ChatGPT had the macros done in no time.

Copy a value from the web site, type a few characters, done. Copy, type, repeat.

Took about 20 minutes. Way faster. Much easier. No mistakes.

This is what low time preference looks like.

Most forms of multitasking don’t work. Our brains can only focus on one thing at a time.

Combining a physical activity with a mental activity is your best bet, like ironing while watching an episode of CHiPs (1977).

#productivity #multitasking #plex

Stop using do-not-reply addresses (text and email) to contact your customers. Set it up so that replies go at least to your customer service team. If your message is important enough to request your customer’s attention, they are important enough for you to hear from them.

So many businesses get this wrong, even really good ones. If communication isn’t two-way, you’re sending an unfortunate message about how important your customers really are to you.

Email addresses, SMS short codes, even automated phone calls can be configured so the customer just needs to reply. “This address is unmonitored” is little more than business jargon saying “we don’t want your problems, just your money”.

Growth happens in the crucible, not on the couch.

Started brewing a Roon deck last night. Now comes the hard part. I got it down to 132 today… #mtg

GM!

What are you doing today that’s worth getting out of your nice, warm bed for?