This article was originally published in The Simplifier #4.7. — You’ve Got to Clear Your Throat if You Want to Sing Your Song by Shawn Tuttle "Why don’t you believe you’re ready? Don’t you hear all the great things coming out of your mouth?!" This was the question I wanted to ask my good friend [...]

This is the process I went through to do the Big Switch, i.e. get the data out of Entourage and into the Mac app suite (iCal, Mail, Address Book) and onto my phone. It turned into, more or less, an all weekend adventure. Tech specs: Entourage 2004 Mac OS X 10.4.11 Palm Treo 755p iSync [...]

The big switch has been made. I am completely out of Entourage (Microsoft’s version of Outlook for Mac) and now on Mac’s Mail, Address Book, and iCal. [** see end note to follow up on previous post The Big Switch] I’m soooo glad I allowed lots o’time to troubleshoot and complete the process because it [...]

This interview was originally published in The Simplifier #4.5. — Interview: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix by Shawn Tuttle I greatly admire the fluidity with which my interview subject Colleen Wainwright’s voice shines through her writing. Even though I’ve been writing for my own blog and newsletters for several years now, I still feel like I am [...]

My yoga teacher, Mandy Lucchese, is an artist. She makes elegant female figures that stand about three or four feet tall. In yoga class on Tuesday, she wove a lovely weave between molding the clay and creating our experience from the inside out. The following was inspired by that class and those thoughts: The way [...]

The ninety-second issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier, titled “Consistency Soothes the Digital Beast” is now archived on our newsletter archives page. (There is also an audio version of this newsletter, available here.) Here is a brief summary of the contents: 1. A Note From Shawn Happy Birthweek To Me 2. Upcoming/Current Events [...]

Here is the audio edition of our newsletter The Simplifier Issue #4.10 – “Consistency Soothes the Digital Beast”. Note: The links that are mentioned throughout this recording can be found in the web version of this newsletter. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (If you don’t see an audio player or link above, you [...]