Cue

Building a simple product can be a surprisingly good way to practice complex skills.

Once you’ve built up a habit of daily planning, you’ll start to see areas where your execution is off.

Factorio I recently picked up Factorio for a third go around.

New Weekly Email This is the very first Cue News.

What you do is who you are.

Everyone has an identity.

So I’m thinking about habit tracking lately.

Cue has a new landing page.

For today’s Cue tip, I present “pinning tasks”.

Sometimes, you’re super productive.

I started adding weekly ticklers to Cue this week, and immediately ran into some complicated design problems.

Don’t quit while you’re ahead, that’s the worst time to quit.

Listen to your body.

The French use the term “little death” to mean “the brief loss or weakening of consciousness” and in modern usage refers specifically to “the sensation of orgasm as likened to death.”

Cue has had drag and drop between lists for a while now.

Confidence comes from character and competence.

One reason I have a journal writing habit is because writing can be magical.

On Christmas day, I reset.

I posted the following to my Minecraft blog today.

Yesterday, my son and I put the Christmas lights up on the house.

Jocko Willink likes to say that “Discipline Equals Freedom“.

Discipline in the smallest acts has the largest consequences.

One of the biggest problems I see with todo apps is that they automatically carry tasks from day to day.

Journaling has you verbalizing honestly gratitude hopes what has happened to you your weaknesses and strengths your relationships Done right, it can put you in touch with the divine.

I recently heard about Sorted³, a pretty nifty little iOS app for scheduling your day.

A planning system should help you pay attention in the present.

A planning system should help you plan the future by the period.

I recently shared my thoughts about a social media fast that I tried out.

A planning system should help you process the past.

I have a lot of stupid tasks in my daily plan.

Bugs in Software I’m using Cue every day to plan now.

For the last two weeks I cut out all of the social media I use: twitter, facebook, and reddit, as well as a few other distracting websites.

Entry Number 2531 in the list of all the ways we get stuck: not knowing how to move forward.

Focus Some will tell you that you must be singularly focused on one thing.

Whatever you think of Jordan Peterson, his 12 Rules For Life is a good example of someone taking the time to lay out the principles by which they believe a good life is lived.

School season is almost upon us.

Part two is here.

That’s what a friend told me recently.

This email is not about you.

It’s Sunday.

Nathan Barry, a fellow Boise resident and founder of ConvertKit, has a few mantras that really resonate with me.

As you know, I’m gone camping.

I’m going camping.

A Minimum Viable Product, or MVP, is the idea that for any product there is a minimal version of it that is viable, or sellable, as a product.

The Past Before talking about where Cue is, let’s do a quick review of where Cue came from.

The Long Haul If you’re not in it for the long haul, you’re not in it.

If you build a daily habit of exercise, you’ll be able to look in the mirror in a few years and smile.

The Marvelous Mrs.

Is Cue Right For You?

It’s time for bed.