As I sit here going through a backlog of over 4,000 old notes I’ve accumulated across a multitude of different apps, to try to carve sense and order out of them, in order to corral them into just one app, I feel like I’m fighting the very chaos of the cosmos. That may be a … More Strive for Simplicity
Old tower of bones,old frosty oak, you,who twists and turns your way to the sky.Your knuckles and elbows and knees I descry.They’re all knobbled,old frosty oak,knobbled and knocked,all covered in mossthen covered in frost.What will you, bone tower,what will you say,who guards and glowersall gaunt on the way? ‘My bones are the home of the … More Old Tower of Bones (A Poem)
I’ve just finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. I may be on a bit of a kick about focus, flow and generally how we think, at the moment – up next in my book pile are Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul. It is going to be difficult … More Your attention has been stolen and you should be angry about it
Let me take you back to 2014 Nerd Ben, to show you what using technology was like in its heyday. (Yes, I called 2014 technology’s heyday. Get over it.) 2014 Ben was knuckling down with a few key apps to get his world really tuned up and humming. Emails were getting filed and filtered in … More Tech Tools and Thinking – 2014 vs. 2024
Careless Refuse, Unwanted, Forgotten, Trash.Card Receipts, Unopened Fidget Trinkets.Curated Rubbish Upbraids Forgotten Tenancies.Clutter Residing Under Fridges. Tyrrany.Codified Relationship UnFunctioning. Tiredness.Clothes. Regrettable Undies. Feathers. Tawdry.Crude, Rude, Undesirable Fluffy Trash.
What is this fascination with looking into the inner workings of people’s private lives that has arisen in the social media age? The private belongs to the past; privacy no longer has primacy, is no longer held in security; our privacy is now the plaything of private companies, made publicly available for all the world … More The end of privacy 📱
I ‘ve just spent maybe a month trying to tune up and craft digital systems to help me think and plan and get my work done. If I could just get the right combination of systems – calendars, notes, to-dos etc., – all to work together seamlessly to show me what I need, when I … More Fooled by the new and shiny. Again.
On my deathbed, I know which one I’d regret missing out on.
Let me tell you about my son. My son who wouldn’t put his coat on outside even though it was minus 3 celsius this morning. (Eventually I managed to persuade him to be carried so that I could keep him vaguely warm with my body heat.) My son who had to be carried from the … More Don’t Rush Me
Singing of salvation In contemporary worship, we’re very used to singing about the cross. It’s no surprise that of the Top 100 songs sung in churches today, many of them feature or focus on the cross as God’s work of salvation for us. ‘In Christ Alone’, ‘Cornerstone’, ‘How Great Thou Art’, ‘What A Beautiful Name’, … More ‘Crucified with Christ’ – what the cross meant for Paul (Galatians 2:20)
Ben David Trigg 