Daily Note - January 05, 2022

Published Jan 6, 2022

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As part of building my personal brand, I save Reddit posts where I can be helpful. One of them I had in my todo list was about pasting links in Craft as plain text. I was going to suggest two things:
- the ⌃⌥⌘V trick, which someone already mentioned
- my Keyboard Maestro shortcut that I use every day to paste links into Obsidian in Markdown format.
That reminded me that I had a repo of KM macros that I started 10 years ago, and I thought that would be a good one to add there.
I continued working on a Twitter thread about goal setting and habits. I’ve been using Typefully to draft threads, and I love it so far.
One of the articles I had set aside to read was Expanding my horizons. After I read it, I looked at Justin’s other articles, and was excited to find How to build a static landing page using Tailwind CSS. That’s exactly what I was looking to do for my upcoming Ruby on Mac website, where I will sell a premium version of my Ruby script, along with a video course explaining the fundamentals to become confident doing development on a Mac.
It looks like Justin Jackson is working on a community platform called Meeps. I hadn’t heard of it before. The one I’ve been hearing a lot about is Circle. I’m planning on starting my own private community later this year, and one of the features I like about Circle is the live video that’s in beta right now. I’m curious to try it out.
Started drafting a new broadcast for my subscribers to let them know what I’ve been up to and what I’ve learned since quitting my job, along with some goodies.
Started reading Alex Hormozi’s $100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No on Scribd. In the introduction, he shares a life hack he discovered a long time ago: reading the book while listening to the audiobook at the same time. He claims this helps you retain more information.
I had never heard about that, so I did a quick search to see if there was any scientific research to back this up, but I couldn’t find anything. I’m curious to give it a try, but with another book because this one is not available as an audiobook in Scribd.

Bookmarked for later

While visiting GitHub, I noticed in my activity feed that someone I follow starred thesephist/lucerne: A Twitter reader designed for learning from the Twittersphere, built with Ink and Torus. I bookmarked it to look into later.

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Took the kids to get their required COVID test before school starts tomorrow. The nice thing is that their school provides the test. We just sign up for a time slot, then drive to the school, and they swab you in the car. I was able to get a test as well. Thankfully, we were all negative.
Our kids’ Montessori school held a great session with their health consultant. She said that right now, while Omicron cases are surging, she recommends KN95 or KF94 masks. Cloth masks by themselves are not going to cut it. The next best option is a cloth mask over a surgical mask.
I did some research on this a few weeks ago after my wife shared this NPR article: With omicron, you need a mask that means business. In that article, they mention Aaron Collins, aka “Mask Nerd”, who tested a bunch of masks and put the results in a very helpful spreadsheet for kid masks.
See my daily note from December 23 for the masks that I ended up getting for my kids.