Don't blame your phone, decide how you use it

Patrick Rhone’s great post meditates on the role tools should play in our lives—spoiler alert, he’s talking about our smartphones. What do we use our smartphones for? Everything, right? But all that choice can be paralyzing. When the same device handles work messages, family photos, and games,

Kindle Surprise: the next chapter of an E ink ecosystem?

Here’s something surprising: there’s Amazon Kindle news! This past week, Amazon announced four new Kindles. This is the first sign of life in the Kindle line for a long time. In fact, I feel, this is one of the largest announcements in the history of the Kindle. While

Celebrating our wedding

I’m getting back after two weeks off to celebrate my wedding. It was a perfect time that was also timeless. I’m excited to start this next chapter with my wife.

The difference of seeing the northern lights at home

Sometimes, we have to travel far and wide to experience natural wonders, but other times we’re lucky to experience them in our backyard

Jerry Seinfeld’s anti-establishment view about writing with pen and paper

Jerry Seinfeld recently had interesting things to say about the virtues of writing by hand versus typing: I think pens are a very important creative tool. Keyboards really crush your freedom. And it's too corporate to be creative. You wanna feel like you're getting away with

Soulver 3 for iOS

The only calculator app I use is finally on iOS. I used version 2 for as long as I could while the Mac and iPadOS got the update. It’s polished, snappy, and lives on my home screen. The only way working with numbers has made sense to me. Check

Taking your own photos is experiencing the Eclipse

Last week, a total eclipse took half the country by storm and most of the bandwidth on traditional and social media. (Here in Michigan, it was only 94%). Folks across platforms discussed the "best way" to experience it. There was lots of conversation about how to protect your

Afternoon Walk

Life was abundant today during my usual lunchtime walk. The weather is pleasant, about 56 degrees, with the sun shining and only a few clouds scattered across the sky. I took a longer route, The world seems to be in progress; the bees are active, and the butterflies are freely

Kindle Print Replica editions are just microfilm PDFs without any digital perks

For years, I’ve wanted to read Jaroslav Pelikan’s five volume series “The Christian Tradition.” I’ve owned the first volume but never got around to read it. With it being Lent, I wanted to start. As I went onto Amazon to look at the other four volumes, I

Highlighting podcasts: Matter’s transcript generation changed how I consume audio

All it takes is two taps to your headphones

5S Review -- Feb 3

What I'm reading, listening to and watching this week.

Installing custom fonts on Kindle and Kobo ebook readers

And it's easy to do!