Hey there,
So, I upgraded to the iOS 15 public beta this week, and I quite like the experience so far.
Although the beta has its glitches here and there, I'm finding some of the new features helpful.
The highlight for me has been Notification Summaries:
I've set up a couple of slots for receiving notifications, and iOS delivers notifications from non-urgent apps batched together at my specified time slots.
If you were wondering which apps are treated as urgent and non-urgent, well, you can set that yourself.
But, to start with, iOS automatically categorises apps like Phone and FaceTime as urgent apps. And you can customise from there onwards.
This feature helps me get rid of the constant buzz of notifications pouring in all the time.
I'll be exploring iOS 15 more in the coming weeks and publish a stream of articles based on the highlights of this new update.
Now, grab a coffee, sit tight, and enjoy this week's issue:
Book to Read
Financial Freedom
Grant Sabatier busts all the myths around traditional retirement calculations and will guide you to early retirement or a year of care-free travelling in this book. The math is incredibly detailed and helpful.
Get it from Amazon
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Apps & Services
If you use multiple monitors with your Mac, it can be tedious to adjust the brightness and colour options on each monitor on the fly. DisplayBuddy is a macOS app that lets you control the picture settings of each of your connected monitors through a handy
menu bar app. You can even create presets to switch brightness and contrasts based on your mood. It's available only for macOS for a $4.99 one-time purchase.
Typedream ➔
Create websites as if you're writing a document
If Notion and Webflow had a baby, that would be Typedream. With this app, you can create websites in the same manner you write documents in Notion, using slash commands. Typedream has a wide variety of page elements available as slash commands, so you
can construct your page as you wish by inserting blocks of beautiful buttons, hero sections, headings, text and more. You can publish one page for free and then upgrade to unlimited pages for $15/month.
Burner Mail is a Chrome/Firefox extension and web app that lets you generate temporary email addresses on the fly. You can use these emails to sign up for a service or download a free eBook without having to give up your real email address. All emails
sent to these addresses will be forwarded to your real email. When you're done with the service or the company starts spamming you, remove the burner email from your dashboard and cut off any marketing spam. I love how the Burner Mail
browser extension automatically shows a button over any email field on any website to generate and autofill a temporary email instantly. Very handy.
When you have multiple windows open on top of each other, it can get hard to focus on a single window. Blurred solves this problem by dimming the area outside your active window. You can choose how much you would like to dim the surroundings through the
Blurred app. It's free to use and works flawlessly every time. Only for macOS.
Taking the Shortcut
Create a new folder at the current location in Google Drive.
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Interesting Reads
This is a fantastic read on why confirmation bias leads to poor decision making. We often buy into an idea so much that we tend to look for facts that support our claims. And we fail to look at the other side of the coin. Netflix had such a facepalm moment
that the CEO dubbed as the biggest mistake in the company's history. Read this post to learn more about why you should always explore more than one side of an idea.
The Bucky Method teaches us to treat failure as feedback, not as the end of our dreams or purpose. I can attest to this approach because I've tried my hands on many side-projects for the last ten years. Some of them worked, but most of them didn't. However,
even the projects that failed weren't a waste of my time. On the contrary, I learned something new every time. As a result, the time taken to build another app or website in the future reduced drastically. As I hopped from project to project,
I reduced my exploratory and learning time and increased my efficiency armed with the experience of my past projects.
We can have all the money in the world, but at the same time, we can be the poorest person in the world in terms of having time for things that give us joy. Society conditions us to work hard and idolises busy people. Here's a cracking thought: money
is unlimited in this world; time isn't. So, while you might spend your entire day finding ways to make more money, you're skipping on the things that matter — time for family, time for hobbies, time for living a meaningful life. This article
highlights six of the most common time traps around us to help you check which ones make you time-poor.
James Clear, in the book Atomic Habits, tells us that if we want to get rid of a bad habit, we need to make it harder to access or make it less attractive. But that's like applying a band-aid on burning skin. First, you have to identify the root cause
of the problem and then treat the wound. In this post, Khe highlights some practical examples of why identifying the underlying issue that leads to a bad habit is essential. And once you solve the hidden problem, your bad habits go away
automatically.
When it comes to investing money, advice float around us like a swarm of jellyfish in the deep blue sea. But, what works for others might not work for you. You have different requirements, different goals and different ambitions in life. So, instead of
mindlessly copying someone else's investment approach and praying that it works for you, take the path that's built for your lifestyle. Play your own game. Make an assessment of your current financial situation, figure out what you want
to achieve and then craft a strategy that suits your requirements.
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