Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past 10 months, I have been writing, editing, and publishing two blog posts each week, each on very different topics. I’ve published an Original Mac Guy post on Tuesdays and a Retirement Reinvented post on Saturdays. Starting this week, I’m going to publish one standard post each Tuesday morning. I’ll be alternating between …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Lie We All Believe About Everyone Else All of us feel like we’re winging it through life. We feel we don’t have it together, but everyone else does. We look at other people, and especially people we look up to, like creators, productivity gurus, spiritual leaders, and believe they have it all together. We …
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently, I started using Claude Cowork. I use it for everything from doing research and helping edit blog posts to planning my week, reviewing my day, week, month, and quarter, and publishing my blog posts to WordPress. I’ve been using my journaling in the Day One app as a part of several Claude Cowork skills. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Love Isn’t Enough I felt helpless. About six months ago, my wife’s shoulder and arm started to hurt more and more. It got to the point where, for several months, she was in agony. Her arm and shoulder throbbed, and nothing — not hot pads, not cold pads, not medication — seemed to help. …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Chat Box Era Is Over Until two months ago, the only way we had to interact with AI was to have a conversation. We’d ask it questions, and it would give us answers. The focus was entirely on “prompt engineering,” which was the way you asked questions. We used AI primarily to look up …
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne Purpose, One Life — Who Invented That Rule? For years, I couldn’t figure out my life purpose. Everyone seemed to have one. I didn’t. That bothered me. When I was growing up, there was an assumption that everyone had a specific life purpose to discover and follow. According to this viewpoint, you were expected …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Apple announcing new products on Wednesday, I figured this was the perfect time to resurface something many veterans and military families don’t realize: Apple offers a 10% discount to current and Veteran members of the US Military, the National Guard, and the Reserve. This covers all branches — Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Question That Changes Everything About Productivity Productivity advice is everywhere. Tips, tricks, hacks, systems. The goal is always the same: get more done, faster. But here’s the question almost nobody stops to ask: Why? Why be productive in the first place? Science Has Already Figured Out What Drives You In his recent book, Intentional: …
Reading Time: 5 minutesComing to AI on My Own Terms I’ve been slow coming to the AI party. It took me a while to learn about AI and understand its capabilities. Early on, I came up with a basic rule: I always develop my own ideas and write my first draft without AI, then use it to improve …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Age of Anxiety Many people today live their lives filled with anger and fear much of the time. I have a friend who was one of the kindest, gentlest, and most positive people I knew. However, over the past ten years, she has become increasingly negative, angry, and hateful. She became obsessed with political …