I miss using em dashes. Thanks a lot AI
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Alex Standiford
The biggest benefit of Dinnerly is proving to be the recipe cards they ship along with their subscriptions. We three-hole punch those things and put them in a binder so we can re-make the hits.
It’s made it easy for the kids to participate in meal planning because they can look at the nice big pictures of the food and pick what they want.
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My Rules of Productivity
Bootstrapped founders can’t rely on cleared runways. Here are the rules I use to earn deep work.
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Alex Standiford
Watching Nightmare Before Christmas with the family. I love this movie so much.
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Alex Standiford
One of my favorite AI prompts to leverage ChatGPT to help me edit:
You’re an editor and you’re going to help me fine tune this post so I can get it published.
Let’s start with a chainsaw, then an axe, then a knife.
Hack away, move, and organize paragraphs with the chainsaw, Then cut at the individual paragraph level with an axe.
Then fine tune sentences with a knife.
Start with chainsaw.
Do not rewrite. Only make suggestions on things you think could be done better.[Insert blog content]
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Alex Standiford
Me: *Tired AF*
Devin (6yo son): “Dad, can I cook dinner with you?”
Me: *ENERGIZED*
Love this kid! I’ll remember his willingness to cook with me for the rest of my life.
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That Time Ben Ate a Vegetable
Ben chose an inopportune time to decide vegetables smell good.
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Alex Standiford
Well I just lost a day going down a rabbit hole of improving my personal website. I’m glad it’s done because it’s much better now, but I’m disappointed in myself for losing focus on the work I was supposed to be doing today.
That’s alright, I think I can just swap my plans for Friday with today. Seems a worthy sacrifice. Especially considering the updates I made on my site really sharpens the myriad calls to action that I have spread out all over the interwebs.
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Alex Standiford
Making some minor updates and upgrades to my site, and it just makes me so happy. When I made this site originally, I was on a mission to make it something I use regularly, and is something that reflects my personality online. Something that 13 year old me would have looked at and said wow this is so cool! my very own website!
And I think this site has accomplished that. 😄
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Alex Standiford
The Friends WordPress plugin, Mastodon Apps, and ActivityPub plugins have come a LONG way in the last few years. With some setup, and a few tightly-coupled plugins, you can make your blog a fully-functioning WordPress-based private Mastodon instance. It’s amazing!
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