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PodNotes updates & The 12-Week Year
PodNotes updates & The 12-Week Year
Hey there.
I hope you've had a great week.
During the past few days, I've been working on a ton of new features & fixes for PodNotes!Here's what's new:
📥 add import & export saved podcasts to/from other apps
🔗 add command copy universal pod.link for episode to clipboard
✅ fixed episode not downloading due to CORS error
✨ added command to toggle playback
✨ added support in download & file path template
✨ added format to and in file names, e.g. to replace whitespace with underscores
✅ fixed some podcasts having "empty feeds" due to invalid episodes preventing indexing
✅ fixed stretched / distorted images
✨ added command to show player pane if it isn't visible
If you have something you'd love to see implemented for any of my Obsidian plugins, please do reply with the suggestion! Trying to prioritize what should be added—especially for QuickAdd.
Book notes—The 12-Week Year by Brian P. MoranThe framework seems very well thought out and effective.
But I didn't feel like the authors respected my time as they described the same concepts multiple times in different parts of the book. The first ~100 pages were an introduction that introduced every concept, which was then used in the latter half to denote more actionable steps.
The details added with every repetition was so minimal that it felt as if they were just dragging out the pages for the sake of hitting some target.
At the same time, this also drilled in the ideas—so most readers would probably 'get' the book.
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Yet, on reflection, there’s something very entitled about this attitude. Why assume that an infinite supply of time is the default, and mortality the outrageous violation? Or to put it another way, why treat four thousand weeks as a very small number, because it’s so tiny compared with infinity, rather than treating it as a huge number, because it’s so many more weeks than if you had never been born? Surely only somebody who’d failed to notice how remarkable it is that anything is, in the first place, would take their own being as such a given—as if it were something they had every right to have conferred upon them, and never to have taken away. So maybe it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all.
— Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
