Most of the studies I have seen in reading comprehension / learning favors physical books. One of the reasons is the distraction inherent in reading digital books on devices. This doesn’t really apply to dedicated e-readers though. Anyone know of studies / discussions that does a direct comparison with a dedicated device vs paper books?
“Thus, to the reverent question posed by Morse — What hath God wrought? — a disturbing answer came back: a neighborhood of strangers and pointless quantity; a world of fragments and discontinuities. God, of course, had nothing to do with it.” - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
What’s your favorite VPN?
Net neutrality is struck down by federal appeals court
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/03/nx-s1-5247840/net-neutrality-fcc-struck
Passed my AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification today! Nice surprise before the holidays!
https://www.credly.com/badges/522134b3-e754-4003-92e3-a703340bae22/public_url
In times like these I like to think that somewhere, out there, Johnny Gasparini is still searching for his, adjusted for inflation, $5.86.
About. Damn. Time.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDYpX6VxQPm/?igsh=cXQ4dGxtN3E4c2Vn
Sorry officer. No. Nope. I haven’t. I can’t see him. He’s out of network.
Here we go… 🙄🤦♂️😡
hE DOesn’T KNow aBOut pRoJecT 2025!!!!
I never did read the Dragonlance novels when I was younger. I’m reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight now and the “friends” are all absolute assholes to one another. 🤣
With all the talk of UFOs lately, I’m kind of hoping we get the “Childhood’s End” treatment. I’m ready. 🛸
Hello measles, my old friend…
Were cooked. 🤦♂️
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/14/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-hhs-secretary-pick-00188617
But, it was about the policies, right?
Starting off my spooky season listening/reading with “What Moves the Dead,” by T. Kingfisher.
Just finished importing my literature notes from “4000 Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman into TheBrain App.
Qobuz suggestion algo > Apple Music suggestion algo.
If Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers had taken place in Ohio, the humans would not have prevailed. 🤷♂️
I’m finally trying out TheBrain app.
Two things stand out. Deliberate terminology. You have a thought and a thought has a type. I find that refreshing. This begs for a relatively flat structure with tags added for flavor.
I have a thought about Groundhog Day. It’s a movie type. And its genre tag is comedy-ish. Just like, well, my brain.
This is still one of my go to’s when I’m feeling down. Not only is it full of great wisdom, but Mr. Bradbury uses the term flimflam and I think we need more of this type of vocabulary in our lives.
I just spent WAY too long investigating how to sync a highlighted Zotero pdf into Readwise with the highlights intact. All I had to do was look at the imports on Readwise to see that PDF is supported. Worked great! 🤦♂️
This is why I’m currently simplifying my digital stack.
Lines like this are why I love Murakami.
“Who’d want to use the dishes of someone who’d bummed them out.” (Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball)
This status update is created via an iOS shortcut that I triggered with assistive touch.
It cannot be this heavy of a lift to PREpend text to an Apple Note can it? Best I can tell, you need to:
- Find original note
- Get body
- Delete original note
- Create new note with new text followed by the original body text.
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Finally getting around to seeing Alien Romulus. Empty theater! Love it!
Currently importing all of my Readwise highlights to Apple Notes via the Readwise API and Shortcuts. Gonna try native Apple stack for writing, notes, etc. for a bit.
What is better? A medium amount of good pizza or all you can -
You’re getting CosaNostra
But-
Cosa Nostra
Testing iOS shortcut posting again as I had to change the Hugo version that the action ran.
This post was made from an iOS shortcut.