Reading Time: 2 minI’ve recently started listening to David Senra’s “Founders” podcast, and it’s fantastic! Every week he reads a biography of someone interesting and then shares his insights from the book in a ~60 minute podcast. While I’m enjoying listening to it, and I’ll continue to do so, I can’t help think one thing — David is […]
Learning
Visit your notes more often, not less
Reading Time: < 1 minThere are a lot of tools out there to help automate your note-taking. For example, a recent episode of Tech Talk Y’all shared the Omnivore app, which can automatically move highlights from your Kindle into Obsidian. It’s really slick, but I think it takes things the wrong direction for me. My notes are intended to […]
A little Readwise every day
Reading Time: 2 minReadwise has a lot of great tools to help manage the content you’re reading. I’ve mentioned their RSS reader before, and they do a nice job of pulling over highlights from Kindle and other places. Ever since I started using it, they’ve been sending these emails called “Your daily Readwise” that I’ve been ignoring. I […]
Produce more, because so much of it should be trashed
Reading Time: < 1 minIt’s difficult to create high-quality content. Whether we’re talking about words, art, video or any other medium, there is a lot of scrap that needs to be created before you get to the good stuff. In “Excellent Advice for Living“, author Kevin Kelly shares it like this: The main reason to produce something every day […]
Five years of Anki
Reading Time: 3 minA little over two years ago I hit a streak of 1,000 days in a row of reviewing some flashcards in Anki. Most days I studied a few hundred cards, but all you need to review is one card to continue the streak and there were a few days with low numbers. I first started […]
Experience isn’t practice
Reading Time: < 1 minIf you do something often enough you’re likely to get pretty good at it, but simply doing something over and over isn’t the same as practicing it. In his book “Outsmart Your Brain“, author Daniel Willingham shares his thoughts on this: Aristotle was right in saying that the doing is vital—a lyre player must play […]
What am I missing?
Reading Time: < 1 minI’m constantly on the lookout for what I might be missing. I shared some of these fears a few years ago and how it related to game shows, but I think it’s largely part of being an Enneagram 5 — I feel the need to know all of the answers to all of things, and […]
Be willing to miss your exit
Reading Time: < 1 minThere’s a saying out there that says “bad drivers never miss their exit”, meaning a good driver will take the safe route if they are about to miss their exit, but a bad driver will make poor decisions in order to make their exit at all costs. Here’s a great example, where the white car […]
The truth versus your beliefs
Reading Time: < 1 minStrong beliefs are great things to have, but when they contradict with the truth it can be troublesome. You might change your mind and be glad you’re now less wrong that you were before, but some people will hold their beliefs above the truth. In her book “I Never Thought of It That Way“, author […]
When you shove away the hostile, you push away the curious
Reading Time: 2 minI talk about this a lot, largely because I struggle with it myself — if someone has beliefs that are completely counter to mine, pushing them away is likely a bad idea for a large number of reasons. A few months ago I shared the idea of not “unfollowing if you disagree”, which can be […]