Hey there,
Training a puppy is a great way to test your patience.
While your morning tea is getting cold sitting on the table, you're out on the balcony waiting for your puppy to do his business so that you can get back to your cup of tea.
And when you think that he's finally getting the hang of the training, he pees all over the house or chews the furniture to dust.
All these require incredible patience and calmness.
And while at first, I lost my patience now and then, with time, I'm getting better at staying calm and waiting.
What started as training for my puppy became a life-changing exercise for me too.
But:
You don't need a pet to build patience.
Activities such as assembling a puzzle or solving a problem at work can demand significant patience from you.
Do more such activities. The more you exercise your patience, the better you'll get at being calm.
Now, grab a coffee, sit tight, and enjoy this week's issue:
Book to Read
Joyful
Contrary to popular belief that joy can only be found inside, this book demonstrates finding joy in our surroundings. Learn how to tweak your surroundings to bring more joy to your life.
View it on Goodreads
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Apps & Services
Qatalog lets you connect all your work apps and form a single dashboard where you can search across apps for anything. You can also create your custom homepage to pin updates or files from across apps for easy access. Popular integrations include Zoom,
Google Drive, Google Calendar, Asana, Jira, Dropbox, and more. Qatalog is free to use for up to 10 members and 5 integrations.
Vinegar ➔
Pleasant viewing experience for YouTube
Vinegar is a Safari extension that transforms YouTube videos into regular HTML5 videos right on the YouTube page. One of the biggest advantages of this is not digging through YouTube's resolution change menu. You can choose a resolution on a floating
top bar. Also, this extension makes YouTube videos support Picture-in-Picture mode on macOS. Vinegar is available for a one-time cost of $1.99.
Skiff ➔
End-to-end encrypted workspace
Skiff is like Google Docs, but with more security and no prying eyes. While you get all the modern features of a document processor, like markdown support, slash commands, subpages, granular sharing controls, etc., your documents are end-to-end encrypted.
That means even Skiff won't be able to read them if they wanted to. Also, you can choose to host your files on
a decentralised file network instead of Skiff's servers. Skiff starts at a generous free plan and costs
$10/month to upgrade to more storage and features.
If you've ever used GitHub, you'd be familiar with the beautiful commit history heatmap. Life of Discipline takes inspiration from that design and applies it to tracking habits. You can set up multiple habits to track and log your daily updates to form
a beautiful heatmap. You can also share your progress with your friends to help build habits together. This web app is free to start and costs $28/year to upgrade.
Taking the Shortcut
Scroll down a screen on the current page on Safari.
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Interesting Reads
If you're having trouble focusing on your task at hand, it means that you aren't ignoring as many other non-essential tasks as you need to. You'll constantly be bombarded with distractions and ad-hoc requests from other people. Learn to filter what to
pay attention to, and you'll get better at focusing.
When you learn how to ignore the menial tasks at present using the previous article, this post will show you how to batch those tasks into a single day and get them over with. Think of "hate days" as the time to work on the tasks that you don't enjoy
but have to get done regardless.
This newsletter features bright ideas every week in the form of intellectual articles. However, if you only read them without applying any learnings to your life, they're a wasted effort. Theory is good, but action is better. This post talks about how
putting philosophies into practice can enrich your life.
Conventional wisdom says with practice comes perfection. Spend 10,000 hours on something, and you'll be good at it. But, that doesn't always work. If you're putting a decade of your time on the wrong approach, it'll never be fruitful. This post paints
this picture with some splendid examples.
The cashflow quadrant is a fantastic framework that'll help you go from trading your time for money to making money work for you as you spend your time as you want to. Use this framework to figure out where you are currently at and where you want to go
in terms of finances.
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