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First time on the 3rd guess in a long time.

Parody.
For when you can’t tell if it is true.

Continuing to look at photos from Yellowstone this morning.

Here’s a heron hanging out.

Throwback to the sunrise at [Swan Lake] in Yellowstone National Park.

We set out in the early morning with the intent to drive Lamar Valley, but the road was closed due to the flood in the summer. Instead we continued driving the loop around to Swan Lake.

We spend the morning making espresso in travel espresso machines and waiting for the sun to rise. We enjoyed the peace and quiet of the early morning.

I want to continue to make time for enjoying nature and peace and quiet.

River getting ready to watch the World Cup.

How did Sports Betting get so big in the US? It seems like suddenly it’s everywhere.

⚽️ Correlation is not Causation World Cup Edition:

Ghana makes a substitution and Portugal scores 2 goals.

Love when I order fountain pen ink and realize I already had the same color fountain pen ink I ordered, but it was hidden behind another color of fountain pen ink.

I might have too much ink. ✒️

David Pierce writing in The Verge

But nobody’s figured out how to make ambient computing profitable.

Sorry, not sorry.

This is the way.

Finishing up importing my Evernote files to Notion this morning. Just in case I don’t like the direction Evernote heads in next year. I might take a look at Obsidian as well soon.

David Pierce writing for The Verge, The Arc browser is the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for:

Switching to the Arc browser is hard.

No. It is not.
Not at all.

Indeed.

Evernote’s Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps

Whelp. This might be the thing that makes me leave Evernote. Not sure yet, though. I’ll have to see how the acquisition turns out and what, exactly, Bending Spoons, is going to do with Evernote.

Watching.

I’ve bought too much stuff online recently but I still really want to get the Lego Lighthouse set.

Paul Krugman in a tweet thread about the midterm elections

If Democrats were a stock, its price would surge, just like that of a company still losing money but at a much slower rate than expected. Unfortunately, that’s not how politics works 6/

Not a bad analogy.

This morning’s random task that I started without a plan:

Rearranging the office.

Seth Godin says culture changes bit by bit, not all at once, we end up arguing for something that is wrong because we drift.

He ends with

Standing for something is a good way to avoid having someone stand on you

But, if we drift, we are not firmly standing on principals.

Shawn Blanc, quoting Ray Dalio
Perfectionists spend too much time on little difference as the margins at the expense of the important things.

I’m not really a fan of using a finance person to sell your productivity philosophy.