tin.fish

I’m putting a lot of work into Notifications to make sure they are effective for notifying me of stuff, without becoming something valueless that I ultimately ignore.  It’s a slippery slope and I think the key is going to be just managing and considering notifications habitually and also regarding each individual notification on its merit.   I guess the idea is to be guided to the phone less and have the time on the phone the highest possible value. Laptop Minimal notifications to hold focus.  There is nothing worse than a popup or banner when you're right in the middle of something. DnD is your friend.  Use it when you need to concentrate.  Perhaps align them to Pomodoro sessions? Review notifications at the end of a DnD window.   Make it clear when you use DnD via status messages that you're not available. Tablet No notifications!  This is a device for reading or writing and and time here should be sacrosanct. iPh...

I have a friend - actually that’s an overstatement right away.  Let me start again. So there’s this douche. He and his lady wife brought another lady into their relationship some time ago.  I guess it’s important to get such taboos dealt with early on if you are so inclined and I dare say this makes them progressive.  This new squeeze was called Alexa and she seemed to be the answer to so many questions.  The wise girl who knew exactly how old the oldest person in the world was; who could pop the bedroom lights on to an inviting hue before the three of them retired to bed; who could be custodian of the shopping list and the DJ over Spotify.  When my friend asked Alexa a question when she, in fact, was not there, it had become clear that so pervasive was her influence on their lives that it was assumed she was always present. In my life, there was Siri.  My non-gender-binary assistant essentially faced off my home automation.  Lights on, he...