My last "How I Work" post was in 2018 and and the first one was in 2015 and I thought it was time to update, even though much of how I work remains similar to last time.
[lead dropcap="yes"]It’s been three years since I first did a “How I Work” blog post (at the prompting of Tom McDonald) and since then I moved to a different full-time job and then to another (current) full-time job, where what I do is now almost... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Actually, delete Facebook if it will make you feel better, but the reality is that it doesn’t matter at this point and it won’t do any good.1 Here’s the backstory: A big news story broke this week about a British company... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]It's my custom to start the new year with a personal review of the year just ended1. While many people claim 2016 to be the worst year ever, it was far from that for us, although we did have quite a bit more upheaval than in past... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]In recent years, I've occasionally ended the year with some blog posts on my favorite iOS and Mac apps from the previous 12 months, although I haven't written one recently1. These aren't necessarily apps that have come out in the... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Among the most useful and most overlooked of Mac software applications are Menu Bar Apps. These are small, often single-purpose applications that reside in the top-right part of your Mac’s menu bar, usually behind a small icon... [Continue Reading]
Update: For more must-have Mac apps, see my follow up article where I give you six more apps. [lead dropcap="yes"]As a known Mac geek in my social circles, I often hear from people who are switching to Macs or iPhones or iPads and asked my advice... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I’ve changed jobs recently under amicable circumstances and when I left I had to disentangle myself—digitally—from my old iMac.[/lead] In some places, you don’t have control over the computer supplied by your employer. It’s... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Password security is a problem everywhere. We are constantly reading news stories about yet another breach of a computer system’s security, even among government agencies and businesses that tout their attention to privacy, and... [Continue Reading]
Thomas McDonald has had his How I Pray series of blog posts in which he asks various people about their prayer life (including one of particular interest to me), modeled on Lifehacker’s How I Work series, in which people describe their work... [Continue Reading]