The Life-Changing Magic of “Knolling”
Before purging your belongings to tidy up à la Marie Kondo, consider this organizational tactic championed by two artists with ties to the American furniture manufacturing company.
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Recommend Apps & Workflow 2023
The apps my two newsletters use every week
Your secret recipe
Perhaps it’s a proprietary manufacturing technique, or the fact that you add a little chickpea flour to your dosa batter. Professionals often develop secret approaches and recipes that they u…
An event or a journey?
They’re easy to confuse. An event happens at date certain, then it’s over, nothing more to be done. A journey might include an event, but it’s bigger than that, and ongoing. A wed…
No Finish Line
Exercise has been a central part of my life since at least the age of 17. Nearly three decades’ worth of hiking, running, lifting, and more have taught me conclusively that physical activity, combi…
The New Arc Browser Can Integrate With Obsidian, and Streamline Your Workflow
Keep links to any app, Shortcut, or file in your vault, right next to your bookmarks
Three more questions
Pronouncements are more common than ever. It might be an insurgent announcing a way to change the government, a CEO with a bold new plan or an entrepreneur seeking funds. Or perhaps it’s a pu…
SEEN, READ 2022
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And also convenient
If you want a breakthrough, or something at the top of the rankings, or a skill that few have, or the chance to build something you’re proud of… It doesn’t pay to also require tha…
The Indiscipline of Overworking
The slow death of trying to overwork your problems
The first J.D system
A system to organise projects.
Multiple projects | Johnny•Decimal
Challenging Beliefs Signup
Don't Follow the Crowd, Learn to Think for Yourself Discover how to challenge your own beliefs and become a lifelong super Learner Sign Up Now Or read on below to learn more. Until you learn to change your mind, you will never change your life Right now, in this very moment, there are beliefs swirling around your mind that you picked up in some unknown time and place—beliefs that undergird your identity, how you see the world. You have beliefs about relationships, money, time, religion, the universe, and whether or not it's okay to put pineapple on pizza (it's not okay). You have beliefs about yourself—probably way more than you realize and probably way more fucked up than you can imagine. You have beliefs about others—most of which are probably wrong. You have beliefs about the world, which are definitely wrong. Ready to Challenge Your Own Beliefs? Signup takes just 60 seconds Sign Up Now Do You Know What You’re Doing? Are You Sure? Even if you can clearly explain your beliefs, you almost never know where these beliefs …
The myth of luxury goods
Luxury goods are items that are worth more (to some) because they cost more. The cost itself is the benefit that is being sold. There used to be a correlation between superior performance and price…
Podcast #862: Using Extended Fasting to Heal the Body
In the last several years, intermittent fasting — only eating for a short window each day — has gotten a lot of attention, particularly for the way it can facilitate weight loss. But as my guest will explain, going longer than a few hours or even a full day without eating also has some striking, potentially even life-changing benefits […]
The Benefits of Uninterrupted Focus Time
How Onfido implemented focus time across our tech organization
Sunday Firesides: Give the Gift of No
85% of the users of dating apps say they would like the folks they go out with to tell them directly if they’re not interested. But two-thirds of these same people have ghosted someone before. A strange dynamic exists around telling people no — whether in personal or professional contexts. We know that we ourselves […]
Is No Plan the Best Plan?
Oblique: “having a sloping direction, angle, or position. e.g. Through the window came the last few oblique rays of evening sunshine. He gave her an
Just in time
You may have noticed that when you eventually find something, it’s in the last place you looked. Mostly because after that, you stop looking. And when a long-awaited moment finally arrives, t…
Introducing Odds & Ends
One of my favorite things that some of my fellow bloggers/newsletter authors do is offer a weekly roundup of links to books, stories, podcasts, gear, etc. that they’ve discovered and recommend. This year I thought I’d try doing that myself. There are often books I read that aren’t a good fit for the podcast (because, for […]
Build a new one
Entrenched cultural organizations and icons feel more permanent than they are. Network effects, brand power and the status quo can seduce us into believing that we’re stuck with what we have,…
Tinkering with tools is not necessarily procrastination
You have to practice to become better. And trying out tools – be it features you are not using in your current one or exploring something completely new – is a way to practice.
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Obsidian and Johnny Decimal Index Searches
I have been using Obsidian as my personal knowledge management app of choice now for a few years, and recently I have been modifying one of my note vaults to a new indexing system. However, I stumbled across an interesting search issue with the indexing that required a bit of investigation to resolve.
On this date
Something extraordinary happened. A record became a hit, a new technology was proven to work, someone raised their hand and asked an important question… On this date, someone took a chance, c…
Reading List - Lex Fridman
What: I set the goal of reading or re-reading (on average) a book a week in 2023. Classics, sci-fi, nonfiction, or anything people highly recommend. Some are short stories, some are long books. I try to alternate very short books with long ones. Suggestions: The following list is not final until the week of the book. I’ll keep adjusting the list based on suggestions and discussions. Here are direct links to posts about this on social media: Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook. I think Reddit and Twitter is probably the best place to make suggestions and do discussions. Schedule
My reading program for the half-year to come - Marginal REVOLUTION
To be clear, I very much like Lex Fridman’s proposed reading list, and I hope to reread many of those books. Most of them are much deeper than their sometimes reputations, I might add. (For all the stupid whining about the list, odd that no one is asking why he doesn’t read more in Russian.) […]
Pareto optimality
It’s easier to understand than it is to say. The baker and the blacksmith should trade. The baker can make a loaf of bread more easily and efficiently than the blacksmith, and the blacksmith …