From the desktop of Joseph Dickson
When I’m not using a journal to collect my thoughts I dig up my aging Toshiba NB505, a fifteen year old netbook that I saved from e-waste when my dad upgraded. It’s currently running Debain + i3wm and it’s last practical use if for drafting and editing text. The keyboard, surprisingly is where this machine … Continue reading “Vim for Distraction Free Writing”
Another quiet evening at home, I wandered to the fridge to find a beverage. A bold high contrast can caught my eye, it features a silhouette of a terrier with a red cape around the collar. The typography, bold newspaper style cutout letters. The kind you’d see on a ransom note from the 80s. How’d … Continue reading “The Sterling Pooch by Second Chance Beer Co”
In 2013, I began using the Bullet Journal method, frequently either paired with a Moleskine or Leuchtturm1917 A5 hard-cover notebook and a Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. An A5 journal still serves as my filtered inbox. A trick I learned after Reading David Crensaw’s book The Myth of Multitasking, where he suggested using one inbox for everything, or was that … Continue reading “Journals”