Fewer apps, fewer sync layers, fewer notifications. My PKM got better when I stopped collecting tools.
One capture app, one wiki, one task list. Each new tool pays rent in sync and attention. When PKM felt heavy, the fix was subtraction, not another Notion template.
I figured RSS quietly died around 2010. A friend pointed out it never actually did - it just stopped being trendy. Two weeks of using it later, I was a convert.
I almost deleted Facebook a couple of years ago. Then I stumbled onto a built-in feature most people don't know exists - and it's the only reason I still open the app.
Most people right-click every link to open it in a new tab. There's a faster button right under their finger - same gesture on Windows, Mac, and Linux - and almost nobody uses it.
Every time I tell someone I run my own website, they ask why I don't just post on Facebook. After years of watching platforms die and rules change, here's why I keep my own corner of the internet.
Every couple of years, someone tells me they're going mobile-only. A few months later, they're sheepishly asking to borrow my laptop for taxes, video edits, or a PDF form. Here's why I keep mine around.
I lost my old PHP hosting (and a chunk of my work with it). A weekend of fumbling later, I landed on Hugo + GitHub + Cloudflare Pages - free, faster, and honestly better than what I was paying for.
Month one with AI on WordPress builds I was thrilled. Month three I finally got consistent output - helpers, reference examples, and a short rules doc that stop every feature from drifting.
After losing half a Saturday to theme-shopping, I picked HugoPlate - and a year and change later, I'm still on it. Here's what comes in the box, what I changed, and where it still bites.
Leading worship with just an acoustic guitar always felt thin in a big room - until someone slid a pad track underneath me during practice. The whole night changed.