The more I see of fintech product offerings, the more convinced I am the gap they are exploiting is a lack of basic financial education together with an unwillingness to forego immediate consumer gratification. That’s not technological advantage, it’s social manipulation.
Fun game of 🏀 between Australia and USA tonight. Good sportsmanship all around. But where has Joe Ingles' jump shot gone?
I have bought a license for MailMate - a mail application for the Mac. This cost me AU$84. Why pay that kind of money for a mail app, when Apple provide Mail for free, and I have access to a good web app for Fastmail and Outlook for work email?
I was happy to pay the money because MailMate is excellent artisanal software that offers unparalleled features and power. That money also goes straight to the single developer who has committed to this app for years.
If you are looking for beautiful software, MailMate is not for you. If you are looking for simple software, MailMate is not for you. If you are looking for a Markdown-aware, IMAP-compatible, smart rule-centric email powerhouse, MailMate is for you.
Functional - not pretty.
If you’re buying MailMate, you’re spending hard-earned dollars to get a mail app that does things that other mail apps do not. From my perspective, these are the features that I got for my money:
waiting for (🔃) and action (❗) tags that I apply to particular emails. Combining these with MailMate’s superpower - Smart Folders - unlocks further abilities.
Filter to your heart’s content.
If you have a Gmail account and generally use the web app or your phone to deal with email, no, you shouldn’t buy MailMate.
If you have multiple email accounts1, and you want to centralise your email world into a single location and benefit from the features I outlined above, then yes, you should buy MailMate.
There are two brilliant reviews out there that provide alternative impressions of MailMate:
So, now you have three differing insights into MailMate, which may assist your decision-making process.
To use Exchange/Office 365 email, you need to be able to access it via IMAP. Check that your administrator hasn’t disabled it.↩︎
Inhaling the beautiful aroma of this giant lemon-scented eucalyptus before it is cut down in the name of “development”.
WeWork’s IPO: The Triumph Of Hype Over Fundamentals:
“We Dedicate This To The Energy Of We – Greater Than Any One Of Us But Inside Each Of Us,” says the banner page of WeWork’s IPO document. I mentally added another “e” to We, and hastily moved on before I cracked up.
Sometimes it is perfectly appropriate to use toilet humour.
Work just provided me with an iPhone XR. Which means I’m on the Animoji bandwagon now. Watch out!
There’s a sense of spring in the air. Birds are chirping and we have a blue sky and a gentle breeze.
My wife’s iPhone XR was lost/stolen. Somehow Find My iPhone was disabled. How was this done with FaceID and passcode required for access? Carrier has blocked IMEI so it’s essentially a brick at this point, as best I can tell.
The Economist: America’s social-media addiction is getting worse:
FACEBOOK users in America spend about 42 minutes a day on the social-media platform.
I’m so happy not to be an active user of the Facebook platform anymore. Ditching it and Twitter has salvaged much time.
The Boys on Prime Video is worth watching. Funny, gruesome and thought-provoking all in one.
It seems I can’t spend any time on the Internet at the moment without coming across insights, thoughts and video on the philosophy of stoicism.
While this could be a product of frequency bias, I claim some modicum of defence because I learned about stoicism in detail in 2011 during my time studying at the Cranlana Colloquium.
I have enjoyed rediscovering and reminding myself of the stoic philosophy. It’s a mental model that makes sense to me and can help ward off the feeling of helplessness in a complex and not entirely well-functioning or well-governed world.
Stoics attempt to be guided by logic and reason rather than fleeting worldly gratification. The practice of Stoicism supposedly allowed people to lead more peaceful, rational lives.
A Stoic and a… Romantic?
I appreciate the stoic’s view of the world, as long as it doesn’t veer too far into fatalism1. I’ve always favoured the concept of logical thought (i.e. Doctor Spock) ahead of irrational behaviour (i.e. Captain Kirk). Yet because I’m not Vulcan, I often fail to live up to the ideals of stoicism. Let’s call it a work in progress. When I prevail in taking the stoic approach I find myself less riddled with stress and anxiety, and am generally happier about my lot in life.
The easy 1, 2, 3 of stoicism may be presented as:
I don’t like the idea of stoicism being used as a argument in favour of ‘do nothing’ for monumental challenges, such as climate change. I can’t change the heating climate directly, but I can make active changes such as shopping smarter, flying less, and being generally responsible. Other individuals can do more, dependent on their position in society. It’s not a free pass to do nothing.↩︎
The Alfred E. Neuman approach: “What, me worry?”↩︎
My thanks to the flu which has enabled me to sleep night and day for the past three days. 😷
OmniGroup Adopting Apple’s Standard iOS Document Browser
And the people rejoiced!
I’ve just bought and installed Better on macOS and iOS. I’ve used 1BlockerX until now, but I’m interested to see if this other app is, indeed, Better.
I’m nearing the end of my MailMate trial, and I think it’s going to be a case of “take my money”. It’s really good.
I’m experimenting with disabling Fastmail spam filtering, and instead using SpamSieve on my Mac.
This game was a lot of fun.
There are a few things I don’t like about MailMate but there are many things I do. I imagine I will end up buying a license at the end of my trial period.
Day One has embedded itself into my life. I’ve been writing in it since November 2011 and have over 1,500 entries. That must be the longest contiguous piece of work I’ve created.
Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott:
Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it.
I stumbled across this article, and I liked it. It outlines why the IndieWeb should really just be the web.
As a result of finding this article on this website, I’ve subscribed to its RSS feed, so I’ll automatically get future content delivered to me. This is what makes the open web so great.