You can broadcast your own (small) AM or FM radio station, as long as it doesn’t access licensed broadcast frequencies.
Part 15 regulations govern all the many varieties of low-power RF transmitters in use today, including “cordless phones, baby monitors, garage door openers…”J. Hale, Go Beyond Now
Find unused Radio Frequencies with RadioLocator.com. Here is an example of what I found locally to me:
The FCC also offers the option to search for unused frequencies on their Low Power FM (LPFM) page. Note: the FCC isn’t accepting low power FM applications now, so you have to stick to broadcasting your own signal for yourself.
If you do it right, AWS can be an excellent low-cost option to host a service. This guy figured out how to rock a nice, quick web service using AWS. The breakdown is costs is surprising. Cheggitout:
…the total AWS charges for the month of November add up to $11.12. This is the total bill for processing the 2.1 million API requests and all of the infrastructure necessary to support them.
I clicked through at least 20 “pages” of her site. I never do that. I’m a skimmer. I browse through a site and skim for the stuff I think I want, then perhaps bookmark it and never go back.
There is something (visceral | curious | engaging) about seeing someone’s handwriting and dirty dishes right next to each other.
I’ll admit, I’m a judger. Visiting someone’s website, I want to nitpick it. I want to find the outdated portions and secretly judge people deep down for not having an amazing proofreading staff. AH HA! You forgot to spell Guns n Roses correctly! Ha!
Actually, that isn’t true. I don’t want artists and writers to have a proofreader. I want them. I want to engage with another human being and learn about them. I want to see their silly imperfect handwritten letters and be reminded I’m imperfect and interesting. You should see my wife’s cursive lower-case letter ‘a’. It is adorable. When she writes an ‘a’, it looks like Jigglypuff ate too much and decided to go to sleep in a coma of cuteness. I mistake her letter a for o. ALL. THE. TIME. And it is adorable and human. Her letters remind me that I am adorable and human and slowly gaining weight like Jigglepuff. (JP, if you are reading this: lay off the puffs, puff.)
I want to see their silly imperfect handwritten letters and be reminded I’m imperfect and interesting.
I’m excited. I think we need more Web Brutalism. We need more top-of-the-fridge whiteboards websites. We need more people being people- softer, rounder, real-er people.
Why do to-do lists work better for some people? They dutifully check off their lists and seem to move ever-closer to their goals. What can non-listers do to improve their tasking? Kara Benz offered great tips in How to Craft a Better To-Do list.
Energy
I’ve taken some of my repetitive daily, weekly, and monthly tasks and categorized them into two lists. The first is my “If I have lots of energy then I will…” list, and the second is my “If I’m feeling sluggish then I will…” list. Kara Benz
Great point. I know my energy isn’t always the same, and I should adapt my goals and method accordingly. I liked how the author addresses how to have a list for when I’m feeling sluggish or I have a lot of energy. I can give myself permission to get out and walk or experience some sunshine to give myself a break.
Listers and Forgettors
It is easy to separate people into list-makers or forgetters, and classify myself as the latter. I don’t list. I try to keep it all rolling around in my head. Ask me how that is working. It isn’t, thanks for asking.
I’m not a list checker. I don’t enjoy going back and re-checking the list to re-center myself. Lists aren’t interesting to me. Remembering is interesting, enjoyable and unfortunately it is also unsustainable. Eventually things drop off my memory radar which causes stress and slows me down.
It feels great to have all those thoughts rolling around in my head, like a big Halloween candy bucket. I can choose to snatch a snickers (memory: free A/B testing tools for WordPress blog headlines), or an Alexander the Grape (idea: web comic detailing the captivating life of a concrete sidewalk portion). Using this (failing) method, I am rich with ideas but poor in implementation- a memory hoarder that refuses to select a goal and stick to it.
Sure, I get a shot of positivity when I get something done, but i think others get a more powerful high.
Focus on the Goal: People
My method has been to focus on the thing I enjoy, and factor in how my task will point to that.
I love helping people share their ideas. I think the world needs more people sharing and listening to others. Looking at my task list; my car needs oil, I need a haircut, the website needs updating and we need to make a more efficient email message.
Now, to give myself motivation to focus on a goal I’m interested in, I reconsider those tasks in light of how it will help people share themselves. Getting a haircut will help me focus on my job and give me a boost of confidence. Updating our email email encourage people to engage with the website. Ok, I can do this. Hey Inbox, you suck (at prioritizing my goals)
Too often it is easy for me to sit down and start checking emails for things I need to do. Instead, I can write them down, thinking as I write and prioritizing as they go into the list. I can use the bullet journal method to make another list of the top three things I will commit to complete.
My Add brain is already frustrated I am writing something down twice. This is inefficient! This sucks! Go answer random, semi-important emails and get frustrated nothing actually was completed!
In reality, writing and re-writing items probably gives my mind more time to consider a solution to the task. Which, in reality gives my mind more time to do what I love to do: think about interesting things that are important to me.
Kara has a great site focused on helping people live goal-oriented positive lives at BohoBerry.com. (Phew, that sounds like a dorky positive Hallmark card endorsement, but I believe the world is better when we examine life and focus ourselves on greatness.) Thanks, Kara!
P.S. Kara also wrote a post on Bullet Journaling + the Getting Things Done method, which sounds like it will be a hot mess of flapjack goodness. Stay tuned and I’ll provide my hot takedown from an Add mindset soon. After all, it is on my to-do list. 😉
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