What I’m Doing Now

Updated December 14, 2024, from Endor Studios.

Projects

There are always more. Please don’t ask me for release dates or details. I’m still figuring all that out myself.

  • I’m just days away from the release of the all new Shortcuts for iPhone & iPad Field Guide. Now I’m planning and outlining the webinar series.
  • I redid my “proper recording rig” for the updated Productivity Field Guide. Test footage is done and recording’s started on about 20 new videos for the new edition. I’ve learned so much in the last year, and I’m pouring all that back into the update. This is a focus for me now. I explained why it’s so important to me here.
  • The Podcasts (Mac Power Users and Focused) are humming along. Moving production into Notion worked out way better than I expected it would.
  • I’m putting out lots of great content for MacSparky Labs.
  • In the woodshop, I’m working on a Japanese-inspired bookcase made of interlocking Walnut boards. They’re milled flat and square. The big pieces are marked. I’ll be taking saws and chisels to them once I get past this push with the new Field Guide. Here’s an image of some of the early rough joinery on one of the vertical members. Cut by hand, not machine … of course. I’ve also decided to build a bench-top jig to join the shelves with my shooting plane.
  • I’m trying a new thing where I send my Newsletter on Saturdays. I’m told by a lot of people that’s a bad idea but it kinda makes sense to me. Hopefully it works.
  • I want to make more content for YouTube. I’ve released hundreds of private videos to the MacSparky Labs members. It’s time I put some of that experience to work on public videos.

On the Holidays

I know a lot of folks look at Thanksgiving as the great firewall to keep holliday decorations and music at bay. Not me. Left to my own devices, I’d put them up in October. Just sayin’. Related: I’m playing lots of holiday music on my sax these days.

The Last Media That Brought Me Joy

Star Wars Skeleton Crew

I know. Made for kids, right? Well, I’m just two episodes in and the kid inside me loves it. Very much Goonies and E.T. vibes.

Current Book(s)

Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals. As the author recommends, I’m reading slowly, a chapter a day. It’s got some excellent ideas.

I also just got the audio book for Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth. The conclusion of the the Stormlight Archive. At 62 hours, this one will take me awhile to finish.

Hat tip to Derek Sivers for the idea of this “Now” page. I’m terrible at social media, but this page gives me a place to check in with the world and update you, as Derek recommends, like I would when catching up with an old friend.