And soon…shortly after that, ads

Just do it! I would suggest just start writing. Editors and technology can help you cover some of your issues. What sort of books are we talking about? 200+ page nonfiction? IMO writing a book is an endeavor.

Find a platform somewhere and write short stories, whether it be your family and friends or somewhere on the Internet. Check out https://lemmy.world/c/writingprompts (even bigger on Reddit). Write blog posts. Write write write. Maybe exploring those partial ideas. Collect all your writing in one area so that you can look back at it and see progress.

Whenever I get a new computer I install these right away.

Used everyday:

• Alfred: customizable productivity tool. It’s a launcher, file searcher, web searcher, clipboard manager, snippet manager, script runner, etc with a robust community making scripts.

• Textpander: a text replacer I’ve been using before Apple’s and Alfred’s solutions.

• Bettertouchtool: customize keyboard and trackpad shortcuts

• Notational Velocity/nVALT + Obsidian: note taking synced across my devices. NValt for quick notes while Obsidian is for long form and personal knowledge management. Just plain text files in a communal vault somewhere.

• Dropbox: mainly used to sync settings for apps and notes across devices.

• 1Password: password generation and management for me and my girlfriend. A little pricey, but I love it. been researching alternatives.

Also handy:

• Better Rename 9: rename files. Replace characters or strings, add in number sequencing, convert casing, etc. I have a lot of photos and work with a lot of images so this comes in handy

• Copyqueue: file copy. Enables a queue for file copy.

• Hidden Bar: menu bar management

For my watch:

• App in the Air: is a nice airport companion that visually shows the airplane phases (boarding, flight duration) with accompanying info (like gates and delays)

Google and Facebook were both built on ad-based internet. So…until privacy is respected, cookies go away, and more importantly, people did not buy things based on ads, yeah ad-based internet stands a chance. I did a quick search on how big the digital advertising market is and there are various numbers being reported m. I’ll give you the lowest one—$~200 billion

Yeah sorry, luck of the draw—be born into a family that has money. Else, make that money, retire early, and let your kids have a better life.

I’m just reposting local news stories to my local community. It ain’t much, but it’s something.

On-screen kissing doesn’t bother me, just don’t like the ones that seemed forced or are cheesy.

Racked my mind for good examples, and came up with Tobey Spider-Man kissing Mary Jane upside down in the rain and Jack and Rose’s first kiss on the deck of the Titanic.

I’ve watched and can recommend X-Files, Fringe, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Mrs. Smith, and Station Eleven.

These are some that people have recommended that seem interesting, but have not watched yet: Orphan Black, Killjoys, Humans, The 100, Dark Matter.

Jealousy is a huge motivator. Having to do something for a purpose is even better. What do you want to do? Because the endeavors you mentioned don’t happen overnight. When your sitting at your desk solving some problem that you didn’t even anticipate and you’re not even doing that thing you set out to do, it’s hard to stay motivated. So, what is it about those endeavors that you mentioned piques your interest?

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Can you move a community once it’s created?

I too am weary…

It won’t be the same, but I like the idea of it a lot more than Reddit right now. Some questions for everyone…

**5-10 years down the road, what’s to stop another Digg-Reddit-exodus from happening? As users, what can we do to keep this community prosperous, useful, and “good”? **