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Category: Week in Links

The Week in Links

After a brief break last week, I was on a mini-hol­i­day, The Week in links is back with it’s 26th edi­tion. This weeks take a look at how we work and think, how the design of the web is pushed a bit more. And then some furter thoughts on Apple Watch, head­phones, cam­eras, and the often spec­u­lat­ed Apple Car.

The Week in Links

Anoth­er Sun­day and anoth­er edi­tion of The Week in Links. This weeks fea­tured links focus large­ly on the iPad and it’s abil­i­ty to be used for work and not just for con­sump­tion. It’s a debate that has been rag­ing for years, and one which we seem to be no clos­er to end­ing, although we might be a step clos­er once iOS 9 arrives in Sep­tem­ber.
I hope you’re enjoy­ing your Sun­day, sit back with a cof­fee and have a read.

  • Cross­ing the iPad Rubi­con — 500ish Words — I love the idea of work­ing sole­ly on an iPad, along with many oth­ers, and the con­stant dis­cus­sion of whether it can actu­al­ly be done is inter­est­ing. But every time I read an arti­cle like this one, I can stop but come away feel­ing like the whole thing is just a roman­tic notion. That’s not to say that no one can sole­ly work on an iPad, but I know I won’t ever be able too. My work requires a Mac, with pro­fes­sion­al soft­ware in the form of Cre­ative Cloud. That said, if I had an office job of some kind, and only used a com­put­er at home for the likes of email and writ­ing for this site, then I’m pret­ty sure I could go all in right now.
  • The Tools & Toys Guide to Writ­ing with an iPad — Tools and Toys — It seems to be a bit of a theme this week, the top­ic of work­ing on an iPad. This is a real­ly good guide for those look­ing to find out where to begin using their iPad as a more seri­ous work tool by doing some writ­ing on it. Per­son­al­ly I’m a Byword fan and use it on all my com­put­ing devices that I use to pub­lish to this site.

The Best of the Rest

The Week in Lnks

It’s been a buy and stress­ful week since the last edi­tion of The Week in Links, but that’s why we call it work. It’s not always fluffy clouds and bright sun­shine, even for those of us for­tu­nate enough to be doing what we love for a liv­ing.
Despite all that, I have enjoyed quite a bit of read­ing this week. Once again I’ve high­light­ed a cou­ple of arti­cles which I real­ly con­nect­ed with. One from Shawn Blanc about work and one about work­ing for your­self… prob­a­bly not a coin­ci­dence after read­ing that first para­graph.
So sit back and enjoy this weeks edi­tion along­side your Sun­day cof­fee.

  • Con­cern­ing the Ebb and Flow of “Work” by Shawn Blanc — This is someti­h­ng I’m learn­ing about myself at the moment. Even before I was self-eployed my ten­den­cy was to do things all the time, I used to give my hol­i­days to go and do a bible hol­i­day club for two weeks every sum­mer. It was dif­fer­ent but incred­i­bly tir­ing and it caught up with me. Now I’m self-employed forc­ing myself to rest is hard, in fact it hit me last week­end. I need to be away from home to rest and shut out my work, oth­er­wise I and my work suf­fer.
  • Mas­ter work­ing for your­self with­out crush­ing your soul — Dis­patch­es from Paul Jarvis — Real­ly inter­est­ing insights and thoughts on the areas on which to focus if you’re a free­lancer. Focus upon what you want to do, talk about it lots and don’t be afraid of say­ing no. That final bit can be the hard­est of all.

The Best of the Rest

The Week in Links

This weeks edi­tion con­tin­ues the evo­lu­tion of the The Week in Links. Rather than pre­sent­ing a list of links of vary­ing length I decid­ed it was time to start adding a lit­tle com­men­tary and inject­ing some more of my inter­ests and per­son­al­i­ty into the col­umn. It is after all my per­son­al blog that it appears in.
This week cov­ers some tech­nol­o­gy news, some views on Art and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Le Tour de France, how dress­ing could affect our approach to work and an incred­i­ble video that I high­ly rec­om­mend you watch with your Sun­day morn­ing cof­fee or evening glass of wine.
Cheers!

  • The sto­ry of Win­dows 10 from inside Microsoft — It’s been a big week for com­put­ing with the arrival of Win­dows 10. I’ve long been a Mac user, and will be for a long time to come, but I have to say this release of Win­dows has me intrigued. I’m inter­est­ed to see how it does and whether it can bring any trac­tion in the mobile space.
  • Approval & Art by David duChemin — I real­ly iden­ti­fied with this when I read it, in par­tic­u­lar this short para­graph:

    The prob­lem is that safe­ty, in many ways, is tox­ic to art. We get addict­ed to it. We cling to it and ven­ture out less and less. We risk less. We repeat what “works” and avoid what doesn’t. But if what works is what holds us back, it becomes a kind of sab­o­tage to keep doing it.

  • Tak­ing on the Tour de France — With the end of Le Tour last week, this VSCO Jour­nal is timed nice­ly. Rather than your usu­al pho­to­graph­ic essay look­ing at Le Tour with a focus on the Pelo­ton this one has a more inter­est­ing take look­ing at those who are watch­ing as well.

Other Reads

The Week In Links

This weeks edi­tion is com­ing to you slight­ly late, no excus­es oth­er than yes­ter­day flew by and I for­got to post it. I’ve tried some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent this week, adding some com­men­tary to a cou­ple of links I real­ly enjoyed and then list­ing some oth­er good reads below them. I’m hop­ing to evolve this series a lit­tle over the sum­mer to inject a bit more of myself into them. Hope you enjoy this weeks edi­tion.

  • THE ALPS by STRAVA — The last week of this year’s Le Tour de France has been through the Alps. This pho­to sto­ry from Stra­va catch­es some of what the Pelo­ton has been through these last few days. Even if you’re not a cycling fan these pho­tos are worth view­ing. The moun­tains are stun­ning­ly beau­ti­ful, I could sit and look at them all day and I loved vis­it­ing the Alps the three times I’ve been ski­ing.
  • Don’t Let Suc­cess Breed Fail­ure — Shawn Blanc — The sec­ond half of this arti­cle from Shawn res­onat­ed with me and is why I’ve includ­ed it in this weeks edi­tion. As a self employed per­son I spend a lot of time think­ing about this kind of thing, espe­cial­ly after events ear­li­er this year. It’s so tempt­ing to con­tin­u­al­ly say yes to every­thing, but it’s not pos­si­ble to do it all. It takes a laser focus and dis­ci­pline to make sure that work­loads and pri­or­i­ties remain man­age­able.

Other links of interest

The Week in Links

Anoth­er Sun­day and anoth­er edi­tion of The Week in Links. The major­i­ty of this week’s edi­tion came across my path in the first half of the week. In par­tic­u­lar is the fas­ci­nat­ing and chal­leng­ing arti­cle on liv­ing well cheap­ly, whilst I don’t iden­ti­fy with the Mil­len­ni­als, I am tech­ni­cal­ly of that gen­er­a­tion. I found this an inter­est­ing read full of good advice.
Hope you enjoy these reads with your Sun­day cof­fee or evening glass of wine.

The Week in Links

It’s been an inter­est­ing week, dur­ing which I’ve man­aged to plough through a good chunk or arti­cles that I had been sav­ing. It’s made this weeks edi­tion a bit of a bumper one, and there’s a cou­ple of arti­cles that wouldn’t oth­er­wise have made it. One of my favourite sport­ing events of the year start­ed yes­ter­day, Le Tour de France, and so there are a cou­ple of inter­view with British rid­ers ahead of it. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

The Week in Links

Anoth­er new week, anoth­er edi­tion of The Week in Links. This week has been a good week with the launch of some updates to a client’s web­site and a new home­page for 18TWO, so my evenings have been filled with some relax­ation and bike rid­ing. Con­se­quent­ly there’s a good num­ber of links for you to devour over your lunchtime cof­fee, cov­er­ing Mac­Book, Apple Watch, pho­tog­ra­phy, prod­uct design, work­spaces, writ­ing and fin­ish­ing off with some cycling.

The Week in Links

This weeks edi­tion of The Week in Links cov­ers a rande of top­ics. There’s the usu­al dose of Apple things, some thoughts from Shawn Blanc on focus and cre­ativ­i­ty, an obit­u­ary to one of the great­est type design­ers of all time, a mov­ing video from Israel and a mov­ing sto­ry from the Welsh val­leys.
With the edi­tion also falling on Father’s Day it would be remiss not to men­tion my Dad. So just a quick note to him to say thanks for being my Dad, you sup­port me, you help me and you guide me and as well as being my Dad you’re also a great friend. Have a beer on me tonight!