David Kadavy is author of Mind Management, Not Time Management, The Heart to Start & Design for Hackers.
As you may have seen in my twits, sustainlane.com has launched! SustainLane allows people to review sustainable, “green,” and organic products and businesses, and I’m more excited about it than probably anything I’ve ever done before in my life (yes, I know, it’s “just a website”…this is how simple my life is). It’s going to make it easier than ever for people to find products and businesses that are socially, environmentally, and/or health conscious.
I guess this post is to serve two functions. One of them is to tell you about my new job, and another is to announce my launch into geekebrity status.
Friends of David Kadavy, rejoice! Given my current living situation, I was finally able to accomplish one of my life’s dreams. It’s been a long and hard road, but I made it! I am finally free…
UPDATE: January 18, 2009: The Twitter badge options have been updated, so you’re probably better off using their options than TwitBlog.
Twitter allows you to keep your friends – and the world – updated on what you’re up to from the comfort of your own mobile device.
This post is going to be a disaster. I’m going to just barf it out. That’s how this all started in the first place. Remember when blogging used to be a casual thing? Then you have a few readers, and you start thinking, “I better make sure that I provide quality content. I better make sure every post is really great.” You make a few good posts, try spending hours refining a few others, and what do you get? Nothing. It’s perfection paralysis. A wise man recently told me, “done beats perfect every time.” Well, perfect and done beats done, but if you’re going for perfect, you never get done. Capicé?
My friend Joe was talking about his improv class. He said it went something like this:
Instructor: Let’s go around the room and each of us explain why we do comedy.
Common response of classmates: I want to move to LA and become a big star.
Joe: I do this because if I didn’t – I would probably bring a gun to work.
That. Is art.
Many people hate Southwest’s format for seating. For those of you who aren’t familiar, when you check in, you are assigned a group, “A,” “B,” or “C,” depending on how early you have checked in. Then the plane is boarded in group “A,” then “B,” then “C.” This results in people standing in line for as long as an hour so they can be sure to get the best spot. All of that effort is uneccesary though if you just follow these tips, which work best when you are flying alone.
I know that with whom you live is every bit as important as where you live, so Meetro’s own Vinnie and I are organizing Flatmate Meetup, at Zeitgeist Bar in San Francisco next Wednesday, August 30th. Looking through Craigslist postings just doesn’t cut it sometimes. Now you can meet potential roommies face-to-face, and have a great time!
Yes, this event does have a self-serving purpose. I’m looking for a place in San Francisco in The Mission or Hayes Valley area…with cool roommates. Tell everyone you know in San Francisco who is looking for roommates to RSVP for the Flatmate Meetup now!
Does anyone else find this sponsorship to be a bit. Uhm. Inappropriate? Ah, the power of random ad serving.
From New York Times
OnMyCommand is a mind-blowingly useful contextual menu plugin for OS X that allows you to execute UNIX commands from your right-click menus. Fortunately for the UNIX illiterate among us, users have submitted hundreds of useful commands that will give you Quicksilver-like savings of time and RSIs. The best part is, you don’t have to learn anything fancy – it puts your most common tasks just a right-click away. Here are some of the commands I use regularly:
h3. Send File(s) via e-mail
Frustrated by the Finder<Services<Mail<Send File command’s inability to attach multiple files to an e-mail, not to mention the clunkiness of this “shortcut?” This command attaches multiple files to new Mail.app e-mail and populates the subject line with the file names. Since commands can be edited, I even made customized copies of this command to then immediately send the e-mail to people I send attachments to most, or to populate the address field with their e-mail addresses, so I can then write them a short message before sending. This command has easily saved me hours.