Collar stay punch

By rickColosimo / March 2, 2020 / Comments Off on Collar stay punch

I saw this guitar pick tool in the Uncommon Goods website some time ago. Around that time, I had the idea (since I don’t play guitar) of a similar tool that would punch out collar stays for dress shirts. However, between not wearing as many formal dress shirts at work and life, I never really…

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Occam’s Safety Razor

By rickColosimo / February 27, 2020 / Comments Off on Occam’s Safety Razor

Occam’s Safety Razor Occam’s Safety Razor: when you don’t know what the answer is, start with something that almost certainly can’t hurt. Everyone talks about Occam’s Razor, usually getting it wrong in the process. I generally prefer the Karl Popper interpretation that it’s just about ease of testing and not an actual “law” because sometimes…

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Library v Amazon

By rickColosimo / February 24, 2020 / Comments Off on Library v Amazon

At some point I looked over my Amazon wish list and saw a lot of books that I wanted to read but wasn’t sure I really wanted to keep for a long time. So I wondered if there was a tool that would track my wishlist and then pop up and tell me if the…

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Personalized amusement park video

By rickColosimo / February 16, 2020 / Comments Off on Personalized amusement park video

This idea falls into my “Orphans” category: projects or ideas that I find interesting but that I know are really low on my priority list. I figure it’s more fun and helpful to write about them and release them into the wild. If nothing else, I can put a David-Allen approved “DONE” label on these…

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