I love playing board games and am a big fan of everything Pokemon.
I spend my days typing at a keyboard at Reaktor and my evenings building @turkufrontend and @archipylago.
✏️ I blog at hamatti.org
(he/him)
| Website & Blog | https://hamatti.org |
| Digital Garden | https://notes.hamatti.org |
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I'm a big fan of notebooks but I've never cared about pens. I thought I'd never fall in to the Cult of Pen.
But it happened today.
I was in a company training and we were given the most wonderful pens. I have never enjoyed a pen more than I did today.
Mitsubishi Pencil Co's Uniball Eye Micro.
Oh my world what a pen. My mind was blown.
@shimst3r I agree and there's many levels to that.
To a small extend, these tools can help polish the presentation of a message (fixing typos, improving structure etc).
But if you're generating the message with them or relying on too much on them, you'll lack on the understanding on the topic and understanding is the key building block of good communication.
Artificial Unintelligence
A great essay by @vhbelvadi on why we write notes and why AI tools are a hinderance to our thinking process when mixed with note-taking.
> "In sum, AI can summarise for you, it can simplify for you (hopefully correctly), but it can never understand for you."
Communication is a vital skill in our industry. The higher up you climb the corporate ladder or more seniority you gain, the more you'll spend time communicating.
But it also works the other way around: the better you become at communicating, the better career opportunities you get.
Blogging is a great way to improve your communication skills so why not start a blog now if you don't have one already.
https://hamatti.org/posts/better-communication-skills-can-lead-to-better-career-opportunities/
The higher up or more senior your career goes, the more you’ll need to communicate efficiently. It also works in inverse: the better you become at communicating, the better your career opportunities become.
After a week of trialing @wallabag, I decided to give it a proper go and purchased a one year subscription to the hosted version.
So far, I've been really satisfied and it's been a seamless switch in terms of workflow from Pocket to wallabag.
For May IndieWeb Carnival, Chris invited people to write about small web communities and it resulted in a wonderful list of articles worth reading.
You can find them all at Chris' blog
https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/may-2025-indieweb-carnival-roundup/
@hacknorris I get that, I also don't like most of those services.
I grew up as a gaming kid, been playing ever since the original NES was released in Finland.
