David Eisinger

Dispatch #4 (June 2023) (2023-06-01)

We spent Memorial Day weekend at Lake Norman, but it was like 55° and rainy the whole time. I’ve been loving the mild weather for the most part, but I was definitely looking forward to some kayaking and dock jumping.

Dispatch #3 (May 2023) (2023-04-30)

Another month in the books. Man, year’s flying by. We filled it up though: went down to the lake for Easter weekend, took the kayaks out on the Catawba. Claire went out to California to visit a friend, so I got to spend a lot of one-on-one time with Nev and made a big dent in the closet project. The first unit is done and installed. Claire seems really happy with it. The second unit should go a lot quicker since most of the thought work is done.

Dispatch #2 (April 2023) (2023-04-03)

March was great – took a two night/one day work retreat, spent a weekend out in the woods with the family, had my annual trip to Las Vegas, and participated in Viget’s Pointless Week. Also got to spend some quality time with Nevie; she’s a great kid and it’s amazing to see her personality come out.

Dispatch #1 (March 2023) (2023-03-02)

With the warm winter we’ve been having in NC, I’ve gotten to take Nev to and from daycare on the e-bike a whole bunch, which has been just fantastic. I’m wary of becoming too much of an evangelist, but it really does feel like they can replace cars for a lot of folks, and they’re fun as hell.

From 2006 to 2016, I wanted to be the kind of person who carried a paper notebook around. I bought nice notebooks and consistently got halfway through each one before abandoning it and giving up again. In 2016, everything changed all at once. Every month since I’ve finished a paper journal. Here’s what I changed and the flaws that I discovered in my previous attempts.

A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post.

I was thinking about how recently (other than the weeknotes), my blog posts have been mostly reviews of stuff I've been watching/playing/reading/etc and I haven't made any posts about blogging or tech stuff or that sort of thing that I used to write about a decent amount. I was wondering if this was a problem, but then realized this was silly. It's my site and my blog and I can publish any kind of content that I want!

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is right around the corner, and if you’re looking for a great tool to help you hit your writing goals, there are lots of great options available. In this article, I want to make the case for using Obsidian by showing you how to turn it into a powerful writing environment using a few essential plugins.

I use it part for planning, and part for setting goals on different levels. Yearly, monthly, weekly and daily. I find it very useful process to do in order to see how busy things will be and setting realistic goals.

Sharing a talk I gave last week, as one of the presenters at micro.blog’s annual Micro Camp.

I have always known that people struggle, but never fully realized it. They struggle to get out of bed, to get their kids to do the same, to face that stupid commute, to suppress that yawn in a boring meeting room, to keep on writing even if there’s no energy left, to come up with a meal later that day, to somehow do the dishes while entertaining the kids, to keep up with the ever-growing list of TODOs and appointments, … But none of that is visible.

The way we typically think of workbenches is the proper way to think of workspaces — few distractions, deep work, and clear boundaries.

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