it’s a surprise idea that will help us later


Not much of excitement has happened over the past week in my life. I’ve been preparing for a presentation at WordCamp Montclair in two weeks, where I’ll be talking about Monetization with your WordPress site.

In the meantime, I’ve also been taking on this long list of tasks that I put together for my business site and personal site and getting them done. This is one of the reasons that I like keeping a running task list, even if I put it away somewhere. I put down ideas so that I don’t forget them, and so they don’t weigh down my mind.

The key for this tactic to me is out of sight, out of mind. I keep my timed task list, showing recurring tasks and things to do today or tomorrow. But then in a separate folder I put the tasks that I know that I’ll want to get to someday, but have no specific deadline.

screenshot of david's Todoist sidebar showing daily tasks, recurring tasks, home management, and longer tasks

It’s nothing revolutionary, but something that I don’t see enough people doing when it comes to recording ideas for the future.

That’s my task for you for the week: when you have ideas that excite you and that you don’t have a timeline for, write them down somewhere! Somewhere semi-organized! It doesn’t matter where or how, just get it out of your mind and have solace in the idea that it will be awaiting you when the time is right.


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I’m thankful that Orlando is one of the cities trying out the novel and revolutionary approach of solving houselessness by giving people housing. Seriously, I hope that this program expands.

A community of artists with decades of infighting, who can agree on one thing: stop trying to replace human artists.


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Miami really doesn’t feel like it should be growing at this point. I guess let them live through one real hurricane season and see how it goes?

One of the most powerful videos from Abigail Thorn in a long while.

I was shocked that this is a new story, not a throwback clip from a decade ago or something.

The comments on this long, fawning interview, are kinda sad in how they’re praising a hard-right libertarian troll becuase he’s also a weeb. But that’s not unexpected, unfortunately.


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Episode three of six is out on the terrorist chemical attack at MFF 2014 that has gone woefully under reported, and under cared for.

New Childish Gambino yet again makes me uncomfortable in its gaze, while being a banger.


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