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Navigating into 2024 🗺️

"The sun is the same in a relative wayBut you're older" Time, by Pink Floyd Hello friends, It's always a little shocking when we arrive at the end of another year, particularly this year, because so much of my life, my reference in time before this period, was my work, and I'm coming out of the second year of being a stay-at-home dad. That's an extraordinary job, but not one where monthly benchmarking, quarterly reporting, or yearly budget meetings keep the calendar in perspective. The fiscal...

9 months ago • 2 min read

24 Letters June 2023 Apple's other announcement... 📓 Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer Conference earlier this month. It’s an opportunity for the company to announce to developers and the world the updates to its operating systems. They typically reveal a few new pieces of hardware too, and the headline for this year’s WWDC was the long-rumored Apple Vision Pro, their entry into the AR/VR headset market. The more exciting story for me (and probably ONLY me) is Journal, a new app...

about 1 year ago • 2 min read
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Hello! This month was a little quieter on the blog. However, I did write several entries on journaling, including one detailing a Shortcut that I use to quickly access my daily gratitude journal on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I also wrote about the rumor that Apple might be getting into the world of journaling with a new app coming in iOS 17, expected to be released later this year. More will be revealed in June at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. While it's just a rumor, I hope it's...

over 1 year ago • 2 min read
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Hello and welcome to the 24 Newsletter, thanks for subscribing and welcome to our new members! If you know someone who might want to join, send them this way so they don't miss out. I've been thinking a lot about kindness this month. I shared a quote from Coach Ted Lasso and the Latin writer and Mime Publilius Syrus on the blog. Ted is firmly rooted in the present, while Syrus comes to us from the depths of history, but both quotes share a similar idea about the power of being kind. Fred...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read
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Hello Reader, The first month of 2023 is coming to an end. How’s it going? Did your projects and goals make it through quit day? If not, remember the power of the fresh start effect and take the first of February as your chance to start again. I feel like I’ve been less effective in my creative endeavors this month than I had hoped (more on that at the end of this email), and my self-talk hasn’t always been kind. Have you noticed this happening to you? Your brain says things that aren’t nice...

over 1 year ago • 2 min read
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Hi Reader, Happy holidays! December is a month of celebration and a great chance for personal reflection as the new year approaches. I took a few hours on a quiet afternoon last week to review 2022 and I wrote some insights from that reflection to help guide the coming year. Quarterly Planning in 2023 In 2022, I made some efforts around quarterly planning. Unfortunately, the results were mixed, and I was about 50% successful, meaning I spent much of the year traveling without a map. I am well...

over 1 year ago • 2 min read