Eilberker Loft: Der Bau schreitet voran, das neueste Update findet sich hier.
In der Grünen Stunde beim Kanal 14 Podcast hab ich mir einen Traum erfüllt und mir unter anderem die Frage beantworten lassen, ob man am Altglascontainer wirklich die Deckel abnehmen muss.
Beim Speaking English Podcast sind wir inzwischen bei Folge 137 angekommen. Das neue Intro gefällt mir immer besser:
Schon eine Weile her, aber WBN (mein Arbeitgeben) hat für die Sonne-Sonne-Sonne-Kampagne den Sustainable Energy Europe Award gewonnen.
I think this will turn out to be the Golden Rule for me. This isn’t necessarily about productivity – which it easily could be since it applies beautifully – but about putting ideas into tangible results. Shipping, so to speak.
When you consume you are not producing
When you have time at hand and you for example choose to watch a YouTube video you are not writing code, a blog post, filming a video or teaching. And the biggest bummer is, even when you read Paul Graham’s tips on how to start a business or listen to Mitch Joel’s podcast or watch the documentary about how Tim Ferriss learned Yabusame in 4 days, you are not producing. Sure you might learn, get inspired, connect but you are not crushing it. Mind you, I do read Graham, listen to Joel and watched the documentary and it surely was worth it. But I chose learning, inspiration and connection over progress. You just have to know how to choose when progress is needed.
I’ll keep the intro short: PowerBook G4, White MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPhone 3, 3GS, iPods… iPad: for sure!
I actually buy quite some music and TV shows in the iTunes Store. And I wonder: Why is it so, well, 1999? The only thing it seems to remember is my name. Certainly not my previous purchases. If it did, it would tell me at login that there is a new episode of House ready to download. It should do that whether I have a season pass or buy every single episode.
You know which music I buy – why don’t you automatically show me new releases? Why does the Genius feature not work on your end and present me with “you might like to listen to this too.” It doesn’t have to be on my machine, could be in the cloud and thus much faster. I would probably purchase even more…
Do you know what the worst part of buying TV shows at the Store is? The ever-returning Downloads which I can’t delete.
Example: I bought season 1 of West Wing and later got the DVD box set. Obviously, I didn’t need to download all episodes. But that is what the Store intends me to do every time I purchase something. A year later still, because it won’t start downloads in reverse chronological order as it should, but chronologically. To make matter worse, I got How I met your mother Season 4 which had Standard D and HD for one price. I only downloaded one definition yet, but iTunes Store wants me to download the rest.
Which means that every time I buy a new TV show the Store automatically starts downloading old West Wing episodes. To-be-downloaded-items that I can’t permanently delete. Do you really want me to download 20 GBs just to get rid of this?
