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Sanebox Spammed Me A few days ago I signed up for a Sanebox account after having my curiosity piqued from hearing David Sparks talk about it. I really enjoyed the service in the first few days. It learns from your email habits and moves unimportant messages into a folder called +sanelater. At 4pm each day I would receive an email listing eveything in the +sanelater folder in my inbox.This was great, the mail showing up in my inbox was email from people that I actually wanted to read. Everything else I could review in one swoop at the end of the day without it distracting me… ...

natgeofound: A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Virginia.Photograph by Paul L. Pryor, National Geographic > >

Redid the homescreen for the first time in a long time. – View on Path.

It’s long, but you have to read it. Sarah Stillman: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture

Children explore. Adults follow paths. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

This is ironic. I use Instapaper 95% of the time and hardly open Pocket.

#vscocam

Taking the first step into our fears Watching my children continues to teach me valuable lessons. The big decisions in life are tough and we often put off making a decision as long as possible due to fear and anxiety. This leads to procrastination and can be crippling at times. I started thinking about this while interacting with my oldest daughter at the waterpark a few weekends ago. In the kids pool area there were 3 waterslides. She would happily slide down the smaller two but steadfastly refuse the slightly larger slide. My one and a half year old twins even rode the larger slide but that did little to sway the strong willed 3 year old. In her mind it was a gargantuan waterfall. On the second day there I continued to plead with her to take plunge. It would be so much fun I assured her but she couldn’t look past her fear. As a last ditch effort I offered a treat in return for trying the slide. Her expression immediately perked up at the sound of that magical word and she ran straight to the top of the slide. ...

This morning I discovered my jacket pocket will not hold my phone while I run around with the kids. The apple case didn’t help at all.

The Goodreads iOS 7 update has to be the laziest one I’ve seen yet. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodreads/id355833469?mt=8