Perhaps their definition of their customer has evolved to focus on resellers/manufacturers, and we, the public consumers, are simply a crop to be farmed?
Was just about to post fakespot.com -- I've used it to great benefit in spotting some of my purchases that didn't have a reasonably priced, stand-out name brand to choose from (HDMI -> RCA audio splitters, or as mentioned in this thread, good bluetooth wireless earbuds.
Amazon is consistently allowing multi-hundred unverified 5 star reviews for new products to persist, and my wife and I are starting to drift to other, more reputable resources. After a decade+ of Prime membership, this is a really disappointing betrayal of trust.
How well does it handle chords? I had a heck of a time covering a lot of my common key combos using a bluetooth keyboard on an iPad pro.
Would love to know if anyone has a good terminal solution for emacs, (ideally kickingvegas' blink.sh/mosh + tmux) ... I returned to XWindows via WSL (Ubuntu 18.04) + VcXsrv for emacs daily use.
Blink.sh has support for swapping caps and control, which goes a long way for the chords I use in emacs. Not all the meta keys are supported if you’re looking for that, but esc is handled fine.
A few years ago I came across a comic[0] that stated "Serotonin and Dopamine are technically the only two things that you enjoy," which had an surprising impact on the way I look at happiness. I'm still processing the idea that on a fundamental level, joy is just a chemical response.
Long story short, I'm trying to focus on fulfillment, scaling the Maslow pyramid[1], and accept that happiness may or may not be a byproduct.
Money seems almost always necessary for the journey, but I have no idea if it gets you past the first few levels of the hierarchy of needs. Direct observation shows me that it can help a person acquire the trappings of all five, but I'm not convinced about the authenticity of self-actualization or esteem based on materialism.
> eventually the Pomodoros inevitably give way to extended sessions with flow.
I have also found this to be a great way to trick my mind into working. Promise myself "just one" pomodoro, then I can go do something else. If I get that first session started, by the end of it I don't want to stop even for the five-minute break, and then next thing I know four pomodoros have gone by and, lo and behold, the opposite of the usual procrastination timesuck: I actually spent two hours working on the thing without thinking about it! The mind is such a weirdo like that.
That's a good perspective. I drifted away from pomodoro's precisely because I found the intervals too be a bit too rigid and the breaks occurred when I'd be in the middle of something. Instead using one or more as a bootstrap for productivity is something I hadn't considered, but it seems obvious now.
I'll admit they kind of fade in and out of usefulness for me. But I always feel free to bleed into a break, too, if I'm right smack in the middle of something. I have found it important to actually take the break at some point, though. Timer rings, take a minute or two to finish the thought, then reset the timer for your break.
Thirding Asana. Just set up a major series of teams and projects and hooked in Zapier for some automation with a ticket system (Teamwork Desk). While Asana isn't a CRM by any means, we're creating a workflow with Kanban and automation to capture the vital interactions with clients.
Asana has the added benefit of allowing the user to interweave non-project-specific tasks to achieve something of a GTD workflow. It really helps me to get every actionable item out of my head space and assign some kind of priority / responsibility / due date to it.
One recommendation (if it hasn't already been mentioned)... easy dismissal of the drop-down. Once I have opened the menu, if I choose not to click on any of the navigation, I cannot simply click outside the <nav> element to dismiss it and return to my content. I'm forced to either engage with the Menu button again, or make a navigation selection.
Tested on Chrome Version 67.0.3396.87 and Firefox 60.0.2
