This is my third, and longest, post in a series on the importance of (post 1) and the science behind reading (post 2) and what that means for any ‘service’ or ‘read it later’ app that comes after Pocket. The goal of higher income is not just bigger piles of money. The goal of longer […]
Reading is different, pt II.
This is my second post in a series on the importance of reading (post nr 1) and what that means for any ‘service’ or ‘read it later’ app that comes after Pocket. I did not wake up one day as an infrequent reader and work slowly towards one hundred pages a day out of some […]
Reading is different, pt I.
(…) enormous numbers of Americans say they wish they read more than they do, if only they could figure out how. It is to such persons that the following is addressed. – Matthew Walther, The Hundred Pages Strategy, The Lamp Magazine (December 2024) (If you’re not interested in my love of reading, go print out […]
Saying Goodbye to Pocket
When Mozilla announced that Pocket would shut down on July 8, 2025, I felt a pang—not just because of my personal attachment to the app, but because of the broader implications about our digital habits. It got me thinking again about two articles I wrote back in 2022, when I still believed Pocket had a […]
Summary of ‘Deep Work’, Cal Newport
I’m trying to be a better reader. Part of that is taking notes. So now I have all these notes about ‘Deep Work’, a book by Cal Newport about why not being distracted is so important if you want to get anything meaningful done. I thought I might as well share them. If you like […]
Pocket users: ‘Please help us read more’
Last week I shared my 12-month plan for improving Pocket. In it, I made the presumption that Pocket users want more out of the service than just saving articles. Here’s what I wrote: Like squirrels scouring the forest to find nuts that they then methodically store and only sometimes consume, so too do Pocket users browse […]
How I Would Improve Pocket
(Hint: it has nothing to do with data products and machine learning) Last week, I sent my 10-page plan for improving Pocket to it’s parent company Mozilla, and all I got was a robot response. The irony! My plan for revamping reading in Pocket was a reply to their recently posted vacancy for a Product […]
Looking back at 2021
With a new year starting, I thought I’d write a short post to recap the year, and to reflect on Q4 and 2021 as a whole. Main takeaways: keep setting goals – and reflect on your progress My main takeaway is definitely that I should keep setting goals. Q3 was when I really started experimenting […]
Sprint update 16/8 – 29/8 2021
Leadership Had another really great intervision session. Intervision is a training technique where you and fellow trainees reflect on leadership, or whatever your training is about, in your day-to-day work, and how the course is changing your approach. The intervision sessions have been really good, because one of the participants has been really struggling with […]
Sprint update 1/8 – 15/8 2021
This was a full-on vacation sprint, so I purposely put little thought and effort into my Leadership and PMI certification goals. I did put a lot of thought into blogging, though. Especially the Recommended Reading posts I used to post here. I realized writing those little summaries that accompanied each link was time spent not […]