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Techie Tips:
Force-click to investigate, not just to click harder
If you have a trackpad, you already know force click as the thing that happens when you press a little too firmly. What I didn’t understand for an embarrassingly long time is that it’sa proper tool for looking things up without leaving what you’re doing.
If you force-click a link in Safari or Mail, and you get a live preview of that page in a small floating window, and unlike on the iPhone, you can actually scroll inside it. When you force-7/9click an address, it opens in Maps, and when you force-click a date, you can drop it into Calendar, and force-clicking a word will show its definition, or a file’s name in Finder to rename it. Even force-clicking an app in the Dock brings up App Exposé, which spreads out every open window for that app.
Treat the menu bar like a room you actually live in
This is the smallest one, and it’s the kind of thing people install a whole separate app to fix before realising it’s built in. You can hold Command and drag any icon in your menu bar to reorder them into whatever arrangement makes sense to you. You can even use this to drag one of Apple’s own status icons clean off the bar. However, you can’t move or remove a few of them, like Control Centre and the clock. This trick doesn’t work on some third-party app icons, where you’ll need to dig into the app’s own settings instead. But for tidying up the standard clutter, you don’t need anything extra; just use the Command key to turn the menu bar from a fixed strip into something you can rearrange.
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I wanted to share not just a short tribute to Jane Goodall, but also a tribute to Jane’s mother. Parents, after all, play a part in remarkable children.
Here Jane shares a lesson from her mother that she clearly took to heart:
If there’s something you really want, you’re going to have to work really hard, take advantage of opportunity and, above all, never give up.
— Jane Goodall's mother, Vanne Goodall, (as recounted by Jane)
It’s simple advice, but Jane embodied it. To her last days, she never gave up fighting for all of us. As she said, “I went to Africa as a scientist. I left the jungle as an activist.”
One of her key realisations was that if we want to protect animals and the natural world, we have to help people out of extreme poverty. When you’re struggling to survive, the environment isn't your main concern, and animals can look like food.
That’s why, perhaps counterintuitively, I've read that some of the most effective ways to help the planet and its wildlife are to help people out of poverty, and particularly by providing education and opportunities for women.
Maybe your kids will hear what you tell them after all.
A Little About Jane Goodall:
If you don't know much about Jane, she left England to study chimpanzees in Africa. She made many new discoveries about their behaviour, such as tool use, hunting and eating meat. She also saw the threat to their habitat and safety and resolved to do something about it.
She founded Roots & Shoots (global, USA ), a program with the mission:
"To foster respect and compassion for all living things, to promote understanding of all cultures and beliefs and to inspire each individual to take action to make the world a better place for animals, people, and the environment." It particularly focuses on young people.
The program continues today through the Jane Goodall Institute.
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.”
— Dr Jane Goodall
Article:
Of your 80-ish years alive, only 15 are truly yours.
Sleeping — 27 years
Working — 11 years
Cooking and eating — 6 years
Commuting or stuck in traffic — 5 years
Running errands and doing administrative stuff — 4 years
Personal care and household chores — 3 years
Being an infant or toddler — 3 years
School — 3 years
Sick in bed — ~1 year
On the toilet — 1 year
That’s 64 years gone.
So how do you make sure the 15 years you control are spent on what actually matters?
By running everything you do through The Immortality Test.
The Immortality Test is a concept drawn from the work of philosopher Ernest Becker.
It asks:
“Will what I’m doing matter when I’m gone?”
If the answer is yes, it’s purposeful. If it’s a no, then it’s probably not.
The Immortality Test reveals that the most meaningful things we do are rarely about us—they’re actually about the things that outlive us.
Meanwhile, things like status, materialism, or refreshing your Instagram For You page fail The Immortality Project Test. They won’t matter one iota when you’re feeding the worms.
As Pablo Picasso once said:
“The purpose of life is to find your gift, but the meaning of life is to give it away.”
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