By Cord Jefferson: “Sometimes people are mean, and sometimes things will be hard. One of your jobs is to try and make sure that that never makes you mean and hard, too.” Then later: If you’re ever interested in feeling as if you’re on the verge of losing your mind, you need complete only a two-step process: Find a way to give someone you love deeply a life-threatening disease, and While your loved one is at home battling death, stand in a restaurant line behind a person complaining loudly that their burrito came with sour cream, even though they asked for no sour cream, and they guess they’ll just eat it with the sour cream, even though the calories, but maybe they should get a discount now, or, like, a soda?

An interesting study in privacy awareness: A context-aware approach to privacy is something that seems to have eluded companies like Facebook, Google, Flickr, Instagram, Snapchat and others. They promise secrecy and control, but what they really should be doing is making sure that people know what they can expect—to let them actually understand the ways in which your data might get shared. I think for many people that’s a big gap.

This is just incredible. Let’s hope that $10,000 price tag works it’s way down to something in reach of more people. This looks so fun and the examples are unreal.

Little Snitch for the Mac is both great and terrible. It’s great because I know exactly what apps are doing with my network. It’s terrible because there are a lot of legitimate processes making calls home that freak me out. For example, the “apsd” process started showing traffic in Little Snitch. I decided to temporarily allow it while I investigated further. I could just block everything, but setting blanket rules in Little Snitch can cause frustratingly complex problems.

On episode 57 of Nerds on Draft Jeff and I discussed how we get news in the absence of our beloved Zite. We also drowned our sorrows with a delicious Bitches Brew from Dogfish Head.

This week’s update to 2Do for iOS is really clever. The new task email integration is exactly what I’d want if I were in the market for a new task manager (which I’m not). Routing emails to someone else’s servers to create tasks with them, 2Do for iOS connects directly to your own IMAP email and scans for messages to create tasks from. The “capturing” rules have a lot of options for parsing addresses, flags and subject lines.

This Omnigroup GTD intro is like a Cliffs Notes for Getting Things Done. While it describes GTD in the context of OmniFocus, it’s actually a pretty good intro to GTD concepts. I never even noticed the link at the top of their guest post series Inside OmniFocus.

Smartsheet is exactly what the name implies; It’s a smart spreadsheet that goes way beyond lists. As someone that makes a living as a project manager I think SmartSheet is just great. I also put my money where my mouth is and pay $16 per month to use it. This week’s update adds support for in-line images on rows. More than any other tool I use, SmartSheet is actually enjoyable and helps me solve real problems.

The Hit List has been around for ages but it looks like Karelia has been pushing it forward since acquiring it. The latest release adds support for all of the modern iOS 9 features like 3D Touch and iPad Multitasking. The Hit List isn’t the application I use but it looks to be a top competitor in the task manager arena.

If you have numbers to add, where do you go? If you’re like me you probably open a calculator app on your phone. Do you worry about what you need to do with the result? What about words? Where do you go if you have something to write? I’m sure a lot of people worry about where they want the words to go before they decide how to even start writing.