Shawn Blanc

Shortly after my first son was born, I realized that I did not like the camera in my phone. And so, in the fall of 2012, I bought my first “real” camera. Which means it’s been eight years since I began photography as a hobby. And to be honest, I still…

When I sit down to plan my week, I always write down the two or three most important projects I’m going to focus on. Sometimes those projects are easy and obvious: fix this; build that; finish the thing. But sometimes a project’s outcome is not obvious.…

If you feel that your productivity has been hitting a slump, I highly recommend planning out your week ahead of time. Getting clear about what you’ll be doing during the upcoming week will help you stay focused on those things that are most important to you.…

Tommorrow (Wednesday 15 July) I’m hosting a webinar to talk about all the ways I use Ulysses to keep my ideas (mostly) organized. I’ll be sharing some easy ways you can make the writing process easier and more productive on yourself. And I’ll be sharing…

Something a lot of folks ask me about with Ulysses if it can be used for collaborating. While Ulysses doesn’t support “native” collaborative features (such as what you get in Google Docs or (kinda) Pages in iWork), you can sync external documents, which…

Remember that period shortly after 2010 all the way up until about 2018 where everyone thought the iPad was a product Apple didn’t really care much about, didn’t take seriously, and was just a “bigger iPhone”? Yeah. Well, that’s definitely over.…

Speaking of the WWDC Keynote, yesterday the TSS team and I hosted a live webinar to share our initial Keynote reactions with the TSS community. Mike, Josh, Rose, and I discussed our overall thoughts and impressions from the Keynote as well as which new…

Mike Schmitz put together a fantastic summary for The Sweet Setup, covering all the highlights from Apple’s keynote yesterday. I thought this was one of the most polished and entertaining Apple keynote events of the past decade. Obviously there are some…

Update: You can read our Keynote Summary here and watch the replay of our reaction webstream event here. WWDC 2020 is in a few days, and it’s fixing to be a doozy. Will Apple be announcing new iMacs? What updates will there be to iPadOS now that it’s been…

“Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.” — Stanley Kubrick I rented a Fuji x100V for the next couple of weeks. And it arrived yesterday. I am wanting to shoot with it and compre it to my Leica Q that I’ve […]

How goes your quarantine life? Does the outside beckon? What new hobbies have you begun? Me? In the past week I ordered a Costco-sized container of artisanal pickling spice and have begun to research kitchen knives. Let the reader understand. Today I have for…

As has become my new norm over these past few weeks, I am sitting at my kitchen countertop spending the first hour of my day writing. The coffee this morning is from Yes Plz. My soundtrack is an early morning rain coming down outside. It’s heavy enough that…

This April 2020 was our best April ever, and it was our 7th best month of all time in terms of net business revenue. Thank you! In these uncertain times, my team and I are incredibly grateful to have such amazing readers and customers like you who show up,…

Over the past few weeks as I’ve been working in my garage, I’ve had this (new-to-me) self-titled album from The Olympians on repeat. It’s like an instrumental California vacation. Perfect for working in the garage, grilling food, or just chillaxing with…