Reading Time: 2 minYou may have noticed that I’ve once again picked up the daily blogging habit on here. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m writing every day, but I’m making sure to publish at least one post per day. Some days I’ll write 3-4 posts and save them up, and then some days I’ll write none and […]
Learning
Handwriting isn’t necessarily better
Reading Time: 3 minAs I’ve experimented with tools like the Full Focus Planner and the reMarkable tablet, I’ve seen a number of reasons for why “handwriting is better then digital”. The reasons are fairly solid, but I’ve found ways to bring most of the benefits of handwriting to digital. From what I’ve seen, it’s not the act of […]
Getting started with Roam Research
Reading Time: 9 minYou may have heard about Roam Research as the hot new note-taking app, which it certainly is right now. I’m using it and I love it — but why? Let’s dive in. Structured organization vs fluid information At its core, Roam is yet another note taking app. You type stuff in and it saves it. […]
Some tweaks to my daily learning
Reading Time: 3 minThis is an interesting time we’re in right now. While I certainly miss much of the weekly chaos of dance practice and soccer games, a bit of a break is kind of nice too. While I’ve been using the time to do a lot of reading (in the past month I’ve read Marketing Made Simple, […]
Highlights from “How to Take Smart Notes” by Sonke Ahrens
Reading Time: 4 minI just finished reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens. It interested me because over the past month or so I’ve really begun to focus better on my note-taking. This applies to books I’ve read, sermons at church, meetings with clients, videos I watch — any situation where I want to gain knowledge, […]
Weekly previews are intentionally inefficient
Reading Time: 4 minWhen I started using the Full Focus Planner back in May, by far the best thing I liked about it was the “Weekly Preview”. While I sort of tried to do one each week, with varying levels of success, this forced to take about 30-60 minutes each week to look back on what happened in […]
A different look at 86,400
Reading Time: 3 minThere are 86,400 seconds each day, and we’ve all heard the motivational phrases like “If you had $86,400 and someone took $10 from you, would you throw away the rest of it?“. It’s a good way to see things, but I recently heard a slightly different take on this that got me thinking. It was […]
Go Ahead, Pick My Brain
Reading Time: 8 minIn late 2009, I got an email from an acquaintance from church named Barry. It was your typical “can I pick your brain” email, which I was happy to respond to. Here’s what he asked: “I would like to meet for coffee sometime to ask some advice on internet marketing. I am looking into a […]
My new morning routine
Reading Time: 4 minA few weeks ago I was inspired by an episode of the Contactually podcast to work on setting a more focused morning routine. As I began working on building a good routine, Adam Walker talked about a great app during this episode of the Tech Talk Y’all podcast called “Morning Routine”. That app is only […]
Anki vs Brainscape
Reading Time: 4 minI’ve been a heavy user of Anki for a few years now, and it’s changed my life quite a bit. This post from late 2016 explains it quite well, and you should probably read that first if you’re not familiar with Anki and these kinds of learning systems. Earlier this year I dug into Tinycards, […]