I've been reading and talking to people a lot lately about becoming more self-reliant: cooking from scratch (which I'm generally pretty good about) making my own when I can or buying used when I can't, and making plans for starting an indoor garden (I have no green space where I live - woe is me!). Yesterday I took my car in to get some things tuned up so I could pass emissions and found out that the expected repairs came to around $2k. This totally sunk me, as you can imagine. I bought the car used a few years ago - a 2003 Toyota Corolla.
I've been trying to speed up my macbookpro because it seems to have slowed down lately. I talked to Matt Gauger and he suggested turning off my dashboard if I wasn't using it.
How to disable your dashboard in OSX
Open terminal and paste this command in.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
Attempt to launch dashboard. If it doesn't, you win!
A couple weeks ago I drove up to UW-Madison to see Merlin Mann talk about Time & Attention. He was an amazing, really passionate speaker and you could tell that what he was talking about (the way you spend your time and attention) was important to him and that the conclusions he drew from his life were hard won. You can find a video of his talk (not the one I saw, but the same topic) below.
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