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Rene Schaefer

Rene Schaefer

Rene is from Aberdeen, UK. You can find Rene’s tweets at and website at reneschaefer.com.

Barista, writer, coffee, Apple, music, and photography lover

Rene Schaefer
When I should have focussed on why I'd lost interest in engineering, instead I obsessed over learning to use an engineering calculator. As a young lawyer, I spent days generating forms that I'd never use. My life is a long series of fool's errands all in the name of productivity. Productivity gave me a perfect out when I didn't want to pay attention to the direction my ship was heading.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Das Web sammelt Wissen und dokumentiert Menschheitskultur. Es ist für jeden zugänglich, der einen Internet-Anschluss hat. Wenn dieses Wissen und diese Dokumentation jedoch immer mehr hinter verschlossenen Türen in Räumen stattfindet, die von wenigen kontrolliert werden, die nur diejenigen eintreten lassen, die zunächst ihre Daten hinterlassen und ihre Rechte abgeben, dann wird das Web verkümmern, zu einem obskuren Nerd-Spielplatz werden oder ganz sterben.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
Recited from Florian Albrecht
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Merry Christmas!  You are now the proud owner of an iPhone.  Hot Damn!  You are a good & responsible 13 year old boy and you deserve this gift.  But with the acceptance of this present comes rules and regulations.  Please read through the following contract.  I hope that you understand it is my job to raise you into a well rounded, healthy young man that can function in the world and coexist with technology, not be ruled by it.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Recited from Marcel Wichmann
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    Rene Schaefer This is a really great idea and some of those 'rules' should be followed by a lot more of us. But at the same time, it makes the iPhone a bit pointless. At least for that 13 year old boy.

    December 31, 2012
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let’s start with four things you can always leave off of it
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Rene Schaefer Some good tips

    December 31, 2012
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It’s not 100% identical to iTunes — sometimes it’s better! Sometimes just different — but it works pretty well overall.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Rene Schaefer Panic analyses and explains how iTunes 11 calculates the colours for the album artwork backgrounds.

    December 11, 2012
Rene Schaefer
This year, I’m practicing a digital jubilee by archiving my inbox, deleting my RSS subscriptions, and unfollowing most everyone on Twitter. These, of course, will fill back up as time passes, but now I have a recurring way to purge. Practices like these have been coined “declaring bankruptcy” by the digital lifestyle blogs, but I think the phrase misrepresents the practice. Cleaning the digital slate is not a practice of giving up. It is one of self-forgiveness.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
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    Rene Schaefer Very, very interesting idea.

    December 11, 2012
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Using the iPad slowed me down and got me to think about what I was writing in a way that using my trusty MacBook Air never would.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Rene Schaefer Interesting point. I've not thought about it like that at all. Will have to sit down and see how, and if, this works and feels like that for me.

    December 10, 2012
Rene Schaefer
While some may consider the vague multi-tasking a fallback of the iPad, I would easily consider it the strength of being used for a note-taking device.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Rene Schaefer Sums up exactly why I got a new iPad instead of a new MacBook for going back to university.

    September 12, 2012
Rene Schaefer
By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!
Estimated reading time: 1 min
Recited from Erik
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I wanted to let everyone know that the world isn’t ending, Tweetbot for Mac is coming out soon, Tweetbot for iOS isn’t going anywhere. So sit down, grab a towel and let’s go over some of these API changes.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Rene Schaefer Paul Haddad, one of the tweetbot developers, on Twitter's recent API changes that could possibly cause the end of Twitter as we know it, but probably won't. Don't panic, it'll be fine.

    August 17, 2012
Rene Schaefer
Most people assume that the position is easy and freelancing is a tranquil breeze or stroll through the park. They automatically assume that I can do whatever I want when I want, yet the miss the challenge: having freedom is itself my arch-enemy.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Rene Schaefer Jacob Penderworth on being a freelance writer

    August 17, 2012
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Twitter’s main features were usually built by its main users, and now Twitter bitch-slapped those users that got the company off the ground.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Rene Schaefer Brooks on Twitter's recent API changes. It's going to be interesting to see where all this is going.

    August 17, 2012
Rene Schaefer
But the main thing is the display. That display. This display. Oh my.
Estimated reading time: 9 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
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    Rene Schaefer That's why I like reading Gruber. He tells a story to connect you to what he has to say, make you understand why this is so important to him, rather than just jotting down some technical specs you could also find on the Apple website.

    August 14, 2012 | 2
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    Martin Wolf Exactly.

    August 14, 2012
Rene Schaefer
I hate to be the spoil-sport. The cynic. The asshole. But I prefer to think of myself as the realist. While it’s great that we’re all going gooey over the altruistic underpinnings of the message here, I think honesty is just as important. Actually, it’s more important. App.net is not going to succeed because we don’t really want it to succeed.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
Rene Schaefer
We’re breaking down the stranglehold of formality everywhere. No more personal secretaries, memos on official letterhead, meetings that must happen in person. There’s never been less mental mask switching between work and play. We wear the same clothes, use the same technology. It’s a liberation of the mind and it’s the new world order.
Estimated reading time: 18 min
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