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At the risk of a second post mentioning Tim Ferriss, and sounding like a productivity cult member, I’ve been reading some stuff about selective ignorance In short, it’s the simple idea that one recognises things that you can safely ignore and ignores them. The tendency with RSS,Email,Twitter,Facebook et al is to feel that one can stay on top of everything, but personally I’m finding that is exhausting and with unclear tangible benefits.

It hit home to me whilst perusing my many illustration based feeds. I was enjoying looking at some of the marvelous work produced and discovered and I had what I believe is called a moment of clarity. All the time spent looking, is time spent not doing.

Discovered that the Fontcase and Dropbox solution that i thought was working so well has hit a bump. Apparently there is a known problem with the resource fork in the files and the way that they are saved in Dropbox. There’s a really nice place provided by Dropbox where one can go and vote for features to be added/supported. If you’re a Dropbox user and you’d like this you can swing on by and vote.

Writing Tests.

I wrote in the last roundup about how I created an app with some tests ready to be picked up and made real. Well, I was reminded by our testing guru that the tests I had written were not clear enough and I needed to go back and clarify. Far from being chastened by this I was encouraged. I found it a good thing to be able to refer to what I’d written previously and see where I needed to clarify. I’ve found that many times as a group, we’ve discussed the way a feature or system should work and not captured that discusssion. When we then revisit it we have to start at square one again. I’m sure I’ve still got a way to go to get the stories to comprehensive and concise, but I’d much rather begin the job with clarity rather than sort out any confusion later.