Productive by Nature Can permaculture thinking help us better work with our natural creative rhythms? Hey Reader, Have you ever noticed how some days ideas flow effortlessly, while on others, extracting a single coherent thought feels like pulling teeth? For years, I approached this inconsistency as a problem to be solved. A personal failing, if you will. I'd force myself to stick to rigid schedules, push through creative blocks with sheer willpower, and feel guilty when my output didn't...

Digital Spring Cleaning A Digital deep clean can be a way to find a slice of calm in a chaotic times. Hey Reader, Last week, just as I was getting ready to dive into a productive work session, I noticed my Mac’s spinning beach ball of death. My computer was lagging badly. Apps were misbehaving—my screenshot software wouldn’t open, Adobe suite was crashing, and I discovered my email hadn’t been syncing for days. Everything was either crawling along or completely frozen. I couldn’t access the...

Fixing broken copy-and-pasted formulas If you're anything like me, you've been excited about the ability to write formulas in automations, but, as an educator—and just someone who loves sharing interesting solves—sharing these formulas is really, really broken challenging. This week I created a guide documenting the current state of sharing formulas in automations, along with a video documenting the workarounds I'm doing to make it easier to fix broken formulas. CHECK OUT THE GUIDE AND VIDEO...