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The Prosumer market is underrated

The Prosumer market is underrated Author: Justin Jackson This article helped me turn ColorBliss from a hobby into a business that supports…

Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong Author: James McBride Full Title: Deacon King Kong Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights “Why didn’t she lock it in the pastor’s…

How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were Author: Derek Thompson This is a really fascinating article to me. I don't…

Domain Rating vs. Domain Authority: Key Differences

Domain Rating vs. Domain Authority: Key Differences Author: Charles Floate I've been trying to learn more about fundamentals of link…

The Way of Perfection

The Way of Perfection Author: St. Teresa of Avila Full Title: The Way of Perfection Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights Worrying about getting…

The Inner Compass

The Inner Compass Author: Lawrence Yeo Full Title: The Inner Compass Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights Throughout most of my youth and early…

Dark Age

Dark Age Author: Pierce Brown Full Title: Dark Age Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights Every frayed nerve, every quaking cell, screams in horror…

Pardon and Peace

Pardon and Peace Author: Fr. Francis Randolph Full Title: Pardon and Peace Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights CHAPTER I Through the Narrow Door…

Frequent Confession

Frequent Confession Author: Benedict Baur Full Title: Frequent Confession Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights 1 The Meaning and Purpose of…

How to Create Irresistible Offers

How to Create Irresistible Offers Author: Robert W. Bly Full Title: How to Create Irresistible Offers Tags: #Inbox #books I decided to give…

Abandon

Abandon Author: Blake Crouch Full Title: Abandon Tags: #Inbox #books This book was hard to put down, but also hard to read. Hard in the…

Feasting on Hope

Feasting on Hope Author: Hannah Miller King and Esau McCaulley Full Title: Feasting on Hope Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights I assumed that…

Handy is a fast, open source, speech to text app

I really like the idea of using something like Super Whisper or another speech to text app, especially just for like getting my thoughts…

Using AI to configure your guitar amplifier

A few weeks ago I picked up a new amplifier for my guitar. Rather I should say a new to me amplifier. It's a Yamaha THR30ii wireless…

Reading books is an unfair advantage

What I love about books is that, even though the barrier to entry is getting lower, there is still a barrier to entry. It’s not everyone…

What is the Copywriting Rule of One?

This is a concept I got from the book Great Leads and has really helped my flow in writing marketing emails for ColorBliss. It's a simple…

There Is No Antimemetics Division

There Is No Antimemetics Division Author: qntm Full Title: There Is No Antimemetics Division Tags: #Inbox #books This book is incredible. A…

What is a jottle?

According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language: To busy oneself with trifles, to accomplish little although appearing to be industrious…

One thousand miles on the Radio Flyer

How many backlinks does it take to rank a coloring pages site in Google?

When the .ing TLD was first released, I bought a fun domain: ColorAnyth.ing. At first I redirected it all to ColorBliss, but sometime last…

Rest in peace, Bobby Weir

I'm heartbroken over the loss of Bobby Weir over the weekend. His music has been a part of my life ever since I was 16 or 17. I'm not sure…

What to aim for after enough

What to aim for after enough I'm realizing that I'm struggling a bit know what to do and focus on work-wise going into this new year. About…

How to Do Nothing

How to Do Nothing Author: Jenny Odell Full Title: How to Do Nothing Tags: #Inbox #books Review after finishing [[2026-02-04]] As the book…

Invest in experiments and systems.

Invest in experiments and systems. When I think about what to spend time on for my business, I try to think in terms of making an investment…

Total Prayer vs Total Work

Total Prayer vs Total Work Reading through Awakening to — And Escaping From — Total Work Through Non-Doing and starting on Chop Wood, Carry…

Chop Wood, Carry Water

Chop Wood, Carry Water Author: Andrew Taggart Full Title: Chop Wood, Carry Water Tags: #Inbox #books I would describe this as a devotional…

Awakening to — And Escaping From — Total Work Through Non-Doing

Awakening to — And Escaping From — Total Work Through Non-Doing This essay from Michael Ashcroftis a great short intro to the idea of Total…

The Appropriate Amount of Effort is Zero

The Appropriate Amount of Effort Is Zero This definition of effort is novel but interesting: Let me share my slightly unusual definition of…

Dark Matter

Dark Matter Author: Blake Crouch Full Title: Dark Matter Tags: #Inbox #books Really good quick read. I couldn’t put it down. Highlights I…

Husk

Husk Author: Nathaniel Eliason Full Title: Husk Tags: #Inbox #books I give this 2.5 stars out of 5. I didn't find the characters or the…

I appeared on the Made to Matter podcast

I appeared on the Made to Matter podcast I appeared on the Made to Matter podcast with my old mentor and former boss Adam Landrum. I really…

New Year, New Layout

New Year, New Layout Trying out a new layout to kick off the new year. Key updates are a new "Library" section to motivate to track my 202…

2026 Reading List

2026 Reading List I didn't hit my reading goal in 2025 (Read 24 books in 2025), but the goal was honestly just for me to keep track of, I…

The Book of M

The Book of M The premise of this book is so creative and I loved the ending. I highlighted this quote early on in the book: Everyone is so…

Great Leads

Great Leads Author: Michael Masterson, John Forde Full Title: Great Leads Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights the level of advertising, Pareto…

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz Author: Walter M. Miller Jr. Full Title: A Canticle for Leibowitz Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights Like any wise…

Tax Free Wealth

Tax-Free Wealth Author: Wheelwright Tom Full Title: Tax-Free Wealth Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights In many ways, utilizing the tax code to…

The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger Author: Sarah Waters Full Title: The Little Stranger Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights I put it into my mouth and felt it…

ColorBliss featured in the new AI Empires newsletter

ColorBliss featured in the new AI Empires newsletter I did an interview for There's An AI For That (TAAFT)'s new newsletter called AI…

How to add the Ahrefs MCP Server to Cursor

How to add the Ahrefs MCP Server to Cursor I've been testing out using the Ahrefs MCP server inside of the Claude desktop app, but honestly…

The Scandal of the Kingdom

The Scandal of the Kingdom Author: Dallas Willard and John Mark Comer Full Title: The Scandal of the Kingdom Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights…

The Persistent God

The Persistent God Author: Albert Haase OFM Full Title: The Persistent God Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights God is like the persistent widow…

Well Lord Liftin Jesus I have found it

"Well Lord Liftin Jesus I have found it" I found this blog post about ColorBliss the other day and I just love everything about it 🙂

Using Netlify's AI Agent Runner

Using Netlify's AI Agent Runner for ColorBliss The Netlify team reached out to me a few weeks ago to be a beta tester for their new AI Agent…

Waiting

Waiting Author: Ha Jin Full Title: Waiting Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights If they were so different, they might not be able to avoid…

You have to look for the good news

You have to look for the good news Something I've learned over the past couple years working on ColorBliss, and something I experienced also…

ColorBliss is two years old!

ColorBliss is two years old! The first commit to the ColorBliss repo was September 13, 2023: At that point, I really didn't think I'd still…

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Full Title: The Left Hand of Darkness Tags: #Inbox #books Highlights Strictly…

A perfect example of backlink spam

A perfect example of backlink spam I opened my email to a fun google news alert today (I have google alerts set up to send me mentions of…

Yesterday I made a candle with my daughters

Yesterday I made a candle with my daughters and today i am burning it in the office. the sweet sweet smell of apple cinammon :)