Productivity
I have used XLOOKUP formula in Excel at my old job a lot. It does a good job…let’s ditch VLOOKUP. 😋
Why every Excel user should replace VLOOKUP with XLOOKUP today
Spreadsheet formulas used to feel fragile. One wrong column number could throw off an entire report. But when I finally replaced VLOOKUP with XLOOKUP, Excel started feeling predictable,…
Three browsers on Mac. One on Android. Each has a specific job and I like it that way.
Brave is my daily driver on both platforms. It handles pretty much everything — general browsing, research, shopping, social media. Privacy-focused out of the box, fast, and I never have to think too hard about it. On Android, it’s the only browser I use. Simple.
Arc on Mac has one very specific role: it’s what opens when an external app fires a link. My email client, Talanoa, sends links straight to Arc — and it opens in Little Arc, a small floating window just for that quick look. No full browser, no tab clutter. Read it, close it, done.
Learned something new today. Napoleon had his secretary leave all non-urgent mail unopened for three weeks — and most of it resolved itself without him ever touching it.
There’s a productivity concept named after this called the Napoleon Technique, and honestly it just makes sense. Sometimes the best move is to leave something alone and let it sort itself out.
At the end of that time it was unnecessary to reply to four-fifths of these communications. — Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte