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Evan Travers
@evantravers.bsky.social
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I make tools and tell stories. In love with the grace I have found, and finding myself currently in Bham, AL.
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Been recently laid off, and looking for the next opportunity. Want to work together?

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Looking For New Opportunities
I've been affected by a layoff at my previous employer, and I'm looking for new opportunities. I'm still processing the suddent deletion of half my brain, but I am confident that it's the right mom...
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June 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I want to be Sherlock, but I often find myself playing the role of Inspector Lestrade. If your work straddles definition and execution… you could be too.

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The Lestrade Effect
Just as Sherlock concludes his insightful first analysis of the crime scene, the hapless Inspector Lestrade comes puffing up, right on schedule, but too late. Sherlock turns away disdainfully, moving ...
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April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Dad pro tip: if you ask for napkins, you'll get three. If you say "I need a toddler amount of napkins" they'll take the lid off the dispenser. 😂
March 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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What if I could take my standing desk with me to the park or airbnb?

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Portable Standing Desk
I've wanted to use my keyboards outside for a little bit. The seed of the idea was struggling to work with my mobile office in a
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March 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The formwork and the concrete pour both require skills and craft. Both are connected to the final bridge.

But we have to spend our time and attention on the right part… otherwise we spend our life on expensive artisanal plywood forms and build no bridges.

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Formwork and Minimum Viable Artifact
The permanent foundations for a bridge are molded by impermanent forms. Plywood and other flexible formwork creates shapes in which the concrete hardens. No wise worker over-optimizes their forms: For...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Raycast Focus is a great tool for defeating distraction and getting your best work done.

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Raycast Focus
Last month Jesse texted me: Jesse Have you tried Raycast Focus yet? Pretty neat. Me I have not yet Sheesh That's my headspace idea, only maybe better After invoking ...
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February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I wanted a calm device to reduce my screentime. A "calm device" for me means minimal notifications, no hyper stimulant applications, and even no browser. Simply reading and writing.

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Boox Palma Review
I wanted a calm device to reduce my screentime. A
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February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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In which I attempt to segue between tricks of modern thieves, and assurance of salvation.
Beware and Be Encouraged
While researching a trip, I came across a devious strategy: Thieves sometimes put up a sign in english that reads
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January 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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For the past month, and through the last quarterly review and planning of 2025, I've been using Obsidian Tasks instead of my trusty Things.app, and I am very happy.

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Setting Up Obsidian Tasks as a Things.app User
For the past month, and through the last quarterly review and planning of 2025, I've been using Obsidian Tasks instead of my trusty Things.app, and I am very happy. Obsidian Tasks lets me manage my...
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January 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The theme going into 2024 was "Own Up." In 2023 "Wake Up" was part of revealing some areas that needed improving, and Own Up represented taking ownership of that and being intentional. It's largely guided my headspace and has been helpful.

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2024
The theme going into 2024 was
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January 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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What should I do with a year's worth of sermon sketchnotes?
December 28, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Like a favorite jacket that no longer fits just right, I've realized that my current task management system no longer serves me well.

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Why I'm Changing My Task Manager
Like a favorite jacket that no longer fits just right, I've realized that my current task management system no longer serves me well. A personal system should change with you. While I sadly am not ...
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December 27, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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In which I use some git filter-repo magicks to try and push my creative input and creative output into the same repo.
Merging my Creativity System and Blog
I have been stuck for… years? I want to have a single git repository that's both where I think and emits content out to this blog. @kepano demoed his incredibly similar process just this week, and it ...
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December 20, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Raise your hand if you've ever hollered "Is anyone in the client folder right now?"

A brief jaunt into the time when FTP ruled the earth:

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September 27, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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I have always doodled in the margins… and one day my 4YO child whispered in the pew "Daddy, why did you draw that?" I saw that not only could #sketchnotes help me grow but encourage my children to pay attention and be engaged.
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Sketchnoting Sermons
I've experimented with sketchnotes on and off since 2016. I would attempt drawing some notes, be frustrate, and forget about it for months. In each effort I always could see that translating what I he...
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August 1, 2023 at 2:37 PM