Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s this week’s list of things to check out:

1. Crumbl Cookies: I got six of these while hitting up the Hallmark Store near my office on Friday. I don’t think they went over well here… they weren’t housed that night, and there are some pieces left in the box as I type this. They are cakey cookies, not crispy or chewy or thin, and there’s a lot of icing going on. Still worth a try.
2. Wintoys for Windows: This is a cool hack utility for Windows that offers to optimize your system for you. I’m not inclined to try most of the features on a machine I use frequently, but I do like the battery report and God Mode toggles. Even if you aren’t inclined to hack your system, this is a cool app for seeing background processes and installed apps.
3. Moms: TikTok and Insta will have you plumbing your psyche for childhood wounds and trauma, pointing out all the ways your parents wronged you. It’s comforting to know that there are really great moms out there, like my mom and Rhonda. And lest you find yourself criticizing your own parenting, this is worth a read.

I have to rise a bit earlier to stick to my am rowing routine. This pretty much how it’s going:

How do you know you’re misusing due dates in your task management app? You’re setting due dates that are I wan to do by dates but that have no externally corresponding due date. In English: you’re assigning due dates to tasks that aren’t actually hard deadlines.

And a good sign that you’re doing that is you find yourself looking over your "Today" list and moving the date to the next day. Again. And again.

What’s wrong with this?

Nothing, really. But ultimately, due dates are when something is actually due. It’s a deadline.

"But I set a deadline for myself!" you might object.

Don’t do that.

Simpler task managers don’t offer many ways to bubble a task up to your awareness outside of due dates. But apps with more robust metadata, like Todoist and OmniFocus, to name a couple, can help you focus your attention on urgent and important tasks, while not tricking yourself with due dates.

My current example: I wrote about applying the Eisenhower Matrix to Todoist here on Uncorrected a while back. My particular system is a mashup of GTD and this method. Besides organizing tasks into projects with corresponding tags (context, in GTD parlance), I apply a P1 tag to things that are urgent and important (things I should do as soon as possible), P2 to things that are urgent but not important (things i have to plan), and important but not urgent (P3, not important but urgent), and can be delegated.

That organization scheme adds another processing step when getting things out of your inbox, so there’s some friction there. But it helps you focus when you find your "Today" perspective full of things you can keep pushing off to tomorrow. Working out of your P1 or Important/Urgent perspective keeps you moving forward, while things that are actually due today can appear in Today.

More here.

How do you know you’re misusing due dates in your task management app? You’re setting due dates that are I wan to do by dates but that have no externally corresponding due date. In English: you’re assigning due dates to tasks that aren’t actually hard deadlines.

And a good sign that you’re doing that is you find yourself looking over your "Today" list and moving the date to the next day. Again. And again.

What’s wrong with this?

Nothing, really. But ultimately, due dates are when something is actually due. It’s a deadline.

"But I set a deadline for myself!" you might object.

Don’t do that.

Simpler task managers don’t offer many ways to bubble a task up to your awareness outside of due dates. But apps with more robust metadata, like Todoist and OmniFocus, to name a couple, can help you focus your attention on urgent and important tasks, while not tricking yourself with due dates.

My current example: I wrote about applying the Eisenhower Matrix to Todoist here on Uncorrected a while back. My particular system is a mashup of GTD and this method. Besides organizing tasks into projects with corresponding tags (context, in GTD parlance), I apply a P1 tag to things that are urgent and important (things I should do as soon as possible), P2 to things that are urgent but not important (things i have to plan), and important but not urgent (P3, not important but urgent), and can be delegated.

That organization scheme adds another processing step when getting things out of your inbox, so there’s some friction there. But it helps you focus when you find your "Today" perspective full of things you can keep pushing off to tomorrow. Working out of your P1 or Important/Urgent perspective keeps you moving forward, while things that are actually due today can appear in Today.

More here.

Here’s this week’s list of things to check out:

1. Endgrain Coffee Brewed in a Chemex coffee brewer: I wrote about purchasing a Chemex recently after eight years of prevarication. I took it into the office after using it at home last weekend. I’m missing having it at home and might get another one, or swap the two pourover setups. It makes a nice cup of coffee indeed. But I brewed some coffee (a gift) from Endgrain in nearby Pitman, NJ, and it was a perfect match.
2. The Aperol Spritz: This isn’t a new drink for us and I’ve surely written about it before here on Uncorrected, but we revived the Aperol Spritz this weekend, as we stayed home. Makes me excited about the imminent pool season, and having Fridays off.
3. Winget for Windows apps: The Microsoft Store is a joke next to Apple’s App Store on the Mac, but you can easily use PowerShell to search for apps instead of firing up the Store proper. This has the added benefit of exposing you to Git Hub apps you wouldn’t otherwise find in the Store.

Sous vide ribeyes and some chicken for Joe.

How much should we shield ourselves or others from the challenges of life? Are we nurturing resilience or inadvertently fostering fragility? Maybe it’s about finding that sweet spot where we’re supported enough to thrive but still exposed enough to grow strong and resilient. Sometimes, the very things that make us feel safe can hold us back from developing the strength we truly need.

A Bit Of Resistance Does Wonders