I’ve been using this feature (along with the Alfred app for Mac for complex shortcuts and snippets) every day for at least a decade, and frankly, at this point idk how people live without it
https://colonelroyce.com/messaging-shortcuts/
https://colonelroyce.com/messaging-shortcuts/
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How to save time on messaging on iPhone, Mac, and iPad
Type up to 90% faster with this simple yet extremely powerful way to save time on messaging on any Apple device.
By the way, I’m currently rebuilding my curated tool collections on my website from the ground up, and would love to hear from you!
If you have cool must-know, must-have web services & MacOS apps you’d like to share with the world, let me know. Even if you’re sure everyone knows about it — that’s an expert bias. I bet there are people who’ll find it useful.
The categories are:
• Project & Product management
• Web & Software development
• Design, Brand identity & Creative direction
• Content and Marketing
I only add tools that I love, so I’ll test your suggestions, and then add them to the collection.
I’m not a fan of comment sections on Telegram, and keep my channel neat and clean, but for this purpose, I’ll create a temporary chat — welcome. If you wanna share anonymously, you can use the form.
If you have cool must-know, must-have web services & MacOS apps you’d like to share with the world, let me know. Even if you’re sure everyone knows about it — that’s an expert bias. I bet there are people who’ll find it useful.
The categories are:
• Project & Product management
• Web & Software development
• Design, Brand identity & Creative direction
• Content and Marketing
I only add tools that I love, so I’ll test your suggestions, and then add them to the collection.
I’m not a fan of comment sections on Telegram, and keep my channel neat and clean, but for this purpose, I’ll create a temporary chat — welcome. If you wanna share anonymously, you can use the form.
I once stumbled across Patreon's Creator Mindset Map. It's long since been deleted from their blog for some reason, but my thoughts on it are still up & running.
https://colonelroyce.com/four-stages/
https://colonelroyce.com/four-stages/
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Four stages that follow us everywhere: In business, careers, projects, and product launches
These stages are universal to anyone launching a project, product, or business. They don't necessarily occur in order — one may follow another repeatedly, or some stages may be skipped altogether.
Saturday is the perfect time to stop the never-ending creative conveyor: colonelroyce.com/stop-the-conveyor/
Give it a try tomorrow ;)
Give it a try tomorrow ;)
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Stop the conveyor
What fills your weekdays? If you're like me — or most digital professionals — you spend them pushing your mental gears to the limit: brainstorming, structuring, tweaking, optimizing, jotting notes, drafting, editing, sketching. Every day feels like a crazy…
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I’m convinced (and I guess you share this idea) that understanding high-level processes and frameworks in any field you’re involved in is crucial. It’s also true of the modern world itself: how it works, where it’s heading, why it works the way it does. It…
Oh, and a bonus: David Graeber’s ‘Bullshit Jobs’ is also a cool choice. A philosophical framework for analyzing the nature of the industrial and post-industrial job market, the bloated overstaffing in some industries and underpayment in others.
For some reason, since the beginning of the year, I keep referring to 2025 as ‘2005’. It drives me crazy, but I can’t deny there’s a certain charm to it
Like, yo yo yo stylus dvd hellomoto
Like, yo yo yo stylus dvd hellomoto
I recently developed a website for a really cool designer: https://thekotek.com
Hire her if you need something outstanding, bold and consistent. Or just check out the site and spread the word!
Hire her if you need something outstanding, bold and consistent. Or just check out the site and spread the word!
Thekotek
Miriam Melnikova — branding & graphic design
A brand designer with a knack for detail (and a bit of a perfectionist streak). I create designs that breathe easily but still pack a punch for brands that want to stand out and achieve their business goals.
If you're a business owner, a marketer, or a project manager, there's an easy way to collect, visualize, and view the data that matters in one place — oh, and it's free. Here's my beginner's guide: https://colonelroyce.com/looker-studio-guide/
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Google Looker Studio (ex-Data Studio) Guide. How to build useful dashboards
How to use Looker Studio to build useful dashboards to visualize and track data. An overview of basic functions and tips.
One 16 Gb phone, a punch card with 256 Mb RAM sauce, and a hand-crafted organic bio book juice, please. To go. No, sorry, no tips!
https://colonelroyce.com/post-industrial-two-sides/
https://colonelroyce.com/post-industrial-two-sides/
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The two sides of post-industrial progress
Sometimes, we forget the pace of progress over the last couple of decades — and over the last ~60 years as well
After months of working side by side with ChatGPT, I've made my decision. I'm not going to fire her... more like keep her on as an unpaid intern
https://colonelroyce.com/20-bucks-isnt-20-bucks/
https://colonelroyce.com/20-bucks-isnt-20-bucks/
Gatti on stage | Francesco Gatti aka Vasily Krouglov
Is ChatGPT Plus worth it? I stopped paying $20 for it (and maybe you should, too). Here's why
Isn't it ridiculous?
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Old but gold: 10+ years of management taught me this https://colonelroyce.com/get-it-all-done/
I don’t normally do clickbait, but sometimes it’s necessary for drama and fun. And yes, jokes about ‘you may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like’ aside (or not!)
Welp, I had to use genAI to create the most uncanny, disgusting, and disturbing image snippet for this article:
https://colonelroyce.com/genai-dont-care/
https://colonelroyce.com/genai-dont-care/
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GenAI: top choice for people who don’t care
In many cases, using genAI is just another way of saying 'I don't really care about you. Not that much'.
Now that we have whopping two apps to exclusively host meaningless AI slop — built by utterly deranged people for other insanely stupid and batshit crazy people — can we finally ban it everywhere else?
I can’t imagine a single sane person (minors and elderly, who by definition have less control over what they watch/read/share/etc, excluded) who’ll ever use it. The idea of such an app is pure, concentrated antagonism toward technology, progress, humanity, society, and life itself. Yet, in just a couple of days, two independent parties released fucking two apps. That’s already two more than anyone would ever need.
If you've ever wondered what's wrong with the current state of the tech industry, this is it.
I can’t imagine a single sane person (minors and elderly, who by definition have less control over what they watch/read/share/etc, excluded) who’ll ever use it. The idea of such an app is pure, concentrated antagonism toward technology, progress, humanity, society, and life itself. Yet, in just a couple of days, two independent parties released fucking two apps. That’s already two more than anyone would ever need.
If you've ever wondered what's wrong with the current state of the tech industry, this is it.