249: What if This Were Easy? with Ernie Svenson
David's personal Yoda is back to talk about curiosity, creativity, and the role of AI in focused work.
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Guest Starring:
Ernie Svenson
Links and Show Notes:
Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content.
Ernie the Attorney
Circle | The complete community platform
Creativity by John Cleese
Wispr Flow | Effortless Voice Dictation
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Day One Journal App | Your Journal For Life
OpenClaw
The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions by Joseph Nguyen
The Tools of Excellence by Nicholas Bate
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novick
115: Solving Interesting Problems, with Ernie Svenson
Ernie Svenson joins us to talk about how focus inspired his career change from lawyer to small firm consultant, the importance of getting help, and the value of journaling.
This episode of Focused is sponsored by:
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Guest Starring:
Ernie Svenson
Links and Show Notes:
Deep Focus: Extended episodes with bonus deep dive content.
The FOCUSED Calendar | NeuYear.net
Mac Power Users #230: The Power of PDFs
The Practice by Seth Godin | Amazon
This is Marketing by Seth Godin | Amazon
Focused #110: Focus with Michael Hyatt
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron | Amazon
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield | Amazon
Song Exploder: A Netflix Documentary Series
Ernie The Attorney
230: The Power of PDFs
David and Katie discuss the power of PDFs with Ernie Svenson (aka "Ernie the attorney).
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
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Guest Starring:
Ernie Svenson
Links and Show Notes:
Links for this episode:
Ernie the Attorney - Seeking Efficient Enlightenment
Ernest Svenson (@ernieattorney) | Twitter
PaperlessChase
Portable Document Format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TRON (1982) - IMDb
Tagged Image File Format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PDF/A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents.
PDFpenPro
Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
PDFpen for iPhone or iPad
PDF Expert 5 - Readdle
Readdle
GoodReader
Mac Basics: Preview
Paperless — MacSparky
Print to PDF, Revisited — MacSparky
PDFpen Scan+
Scanner Pro by Readdle
Optical character recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.
PDF password recovery tool
PDF Security & How to Bypass it - YouTube
DocuSign
Top-Rated Online Fax Service | HelloFax
Power PDF - Nuance
Take Control of PDFpen 6
Literature and Latte - Scrivener Writing Software | Mac OS X | Windows
Listener Survey | Mac Power Users
The Imitation Game - Official Trailer - YouTube
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