ttttask
Problem: You’re online with your iPhone or iPad and you come across something you want to do, but at the moment don’t have the time to do it (or perhaps because of the device you’re on you don’t have the ability).
The solution: Something that, so far as I can tell, does not yet exist: A cloud-based, task-management bucket where you can throw links, tips, bookmarks, and the like — all of which are actionable. It would be able to receive these tasks via in-app services, email, or a browser bookmarklet. And I vote we call it ttttask.
Similarly to the way Instapaper as a service is for articles you wish to read later, ttttask would be a service for things you wish to do later.
I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time now. I love TeuxDeux but it’s not great for random bits like Shawn mentioned in his article. SimpleNote might do the trick temporarily with it’s new tag feature, but I hate the thought of cluttering it up.
Found one of my old poetry/song notebooks from over 10 years ago. Reminiscing… While most of it is rather embarrassing rantings about a girl that broke my heart, there are a couple poems that made me smile. It’s interesting to look back and see yourself progress even in one notebook.
I think the key to improving anything is to just do it constantly. 95% of what you write/create might be trash but you’ll find gems in the remaining 5% that would never of happened if you hadn’t written through the crap.
The Wilderness Downtown
This is pretty rad…
If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy.
My amazingly talented friend, Stephanie Christy, recently opened up an Etsy shop. Check it out: Nuda Designs
Art is an idea that’s found perfect form. There are too many possibilities. No matter how perfectly you do something, it can still be improved.
I love this label.
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.
Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity?
As creatives, we can often rationalize spending time on shopping by telling ourselves that we’re investing our time, energy, and money in a new tool – an item that’s going to catapult our creativity to the next level. Maybe it’s a new computer, maybe it’s a musical instrument, maybe it’s a studio of one’s own. Once you get that new thing, you think, you’ll have a superior means to complete your work.
It’s a false promise, of course. A means of procrastination baked into our consumerist culture. No external thing can prompt creativity, and there’s no substitute for just getting down to doing the work. In fact, it’s been proven that hardship – being deprived of things – stimulates creativity more than being well-off.
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Ouch. This article really hits home. Definitely sheds some light on why I like to spend so much time searching for new gear, etc.
