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
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.
Today was a lazy Saturday spent doing laundry and wasting time watching TV.
Finished reading: The Last Graduate: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 2) by Naomi Novik 📚
Witty and funny, a likeable main character who realizes that she is likeable while trying to be unlikeable is a neat storyline for a YA magic school.
Finished reading: A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 1) by Naomi Novik 📚
Great story. Something familiar but slightly different. Good chararcters. If you like YA and magic, I would reccommend giving this a read/listen.
There’s a lot of Kelp on the California coast.
Today’s sunset.
