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05.02 - Digital Garden

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11 Notes

11.01 Workflows

Overview of tools for personal management and productivity

11.02 Quotes

A book is a machine to think with - I A RIchards

A good traveler - Lao Tzu

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety - Jim Loehr

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety - Jim Loehr

A little learning is a dangerous thing - Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring - There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again - Alexander pope

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself - Georges Clemenceau

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly - Eleanor Roosevelt

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing - Bill Crawford

A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones - for life is short - Arthur Schopenhauer

A shared joy is a double joy - a shared sorrow is a half sorrow.

A simple life, Im beginning to understand, is not one that requires lots of money, but one that is not dictated by debt - Kate Humble

A small daily task will beat a spasmodic Hercules - Anthony Trollope

Achieving success is so simple - Charlie Munger

All advice is autobiographical

All machines have their friction - Henry David Thoreau

All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone - Blaise Pascal

All warfare is based on deception - Sun Tzu

Always be rooting for people you know - James Clear

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality - Albert Einstein

As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance - John Wheeler

Asking for help is a superpower anyone can have but only some people use - Alexi Pappas

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity - Simone Weil

Be guided by beauty...It's a beautiful thing to do something right - Jim Simmons

Be impeccable with your word. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love - Miguel Angel Ruiz

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas - Marie Curie

Behind mountains there are other mountains - Haitian proverb

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom - Viktor Frankl

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations - Henry David Thoreau

Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house, The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness - Albert Einstein

Bring me a beaker of wine that I may wet my mind - Aritophanes

build capacity in many instead of perpetuating dependence on the few - Sabina NawaB

Chinese kind rejection letter

DNA is like a computer program but far more advanced than any software ever created - Bill Gates

Do not develop an attachment to any one weapon or any one school of fighting - Miyamoto Musash

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Dont be concerned about whether people are watching you - Eleanor Roosevelt

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem - Thomas Szasz

Every intellectual endeavour starts with a note - Sonke Ahrens

Experience is not what happens to a man - it is what a man does with what happens to him - Aldous Huxley

Fall in love with some activity, and do it. Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter - Richard Feynman

Find meaning in life - Viktor Frankl

Find the highest leverage version of your role - Elliot Starr

Food, I find, has a unique ability to facilitate conversation - Keith Ferrazzi

For who is there who, shooting all day, will not sometimes hit the mark - Marcus Tullius Cicero

For, like a mass in Newton’s first law of motion, once our minds are set in a direction, they tend to continue in that direction unless acted on by some outside force - Leonard Mlodinow

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts - Elbert Hubbard

George Orwell six rules for writing

Going to a meeting without Googling someone is unacceptable - Keith Ferrazzi

Guilt is in the past, worry is in the future. The only thing you can change is right here in the present - Dr Edith Eger

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product - Eleanor Roosevelt

Have maximum financial flexibility to face both hazards and opportunities - Charlie Munger

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how - Friedrich Nietzsche

How to produce exceptional art - Endless curiosity, observation, and a great amount of joy in the thing - George Grosz

How you do anything is how you do everything

How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools - Alexi Pappas

Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on - Wynton Marsalis

Humor is a way to show you’re smart without bragging - Mark Twain

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it - Vincent Van Gogh

I believe the way toward mastery of any endeavor is to work toward simplicity- replace complex technology with knowledge - Yvon Chouinard

I hate advice unless i am giving it - Jack Nicholson

I have an uncompromising sense of detail which permeates everything I do...everything must be treated with infinite respect and care - Estee Lauder

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious - Albert Einstein

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life, because I learned early that if you don't, you get disappointed a lot. If you do, you might be pleasantly surprised quite often - Dolly Parton

I think of beauty as an absolute necessity - Toni Morrison

I wanted freedom, then I wanted order. Then I realized order is freedom - Winston Churchill

I write when the spirit moves me - William Faulkner

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays - Ezra Pound

If fifty million people say something foolish it is still foolish - Somerset Maugham

If the path is crowded, differentiate.If the path is empty, validate - James Clear

If you are busy showing off your brains you are probably not listening closely enough - Strauss Zelnick

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will - Steve Jobs

If you feel safe in the area you are working in you are not working in the right area - David Bowie

if you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft. And in that moment, you should act as well as you can - Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person - Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art you discipline yourself - Bernard Malamud

If you know something's going to work, it's not worth working on - Eliot Peper

If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult - Montesquieu

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home - James A Michener

If you wish to improve be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters - Epictetus

If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason - Ben Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

In many cases, you'll find the only thing preventing you from learning is your ego - James Clear

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock - Thomas Jefferson

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race - Tobias Danzig

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity - Sun Tzu

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists - Eric Hoffer

Information technologies … modify how we act in the world; they also profoundly affect how we understand the world - Luciano Floridi

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death - Albert Einstein

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive - James Baldwin

Life is harder when you expect a lot of the world and little of yourself - James Clear

Listen to others opinions even if you dont agree - Nelson Mandela

Look for pockets of low competition - James Clear

Manners is a social lubricant, curiosity is the Tabasco that spices it up - Brian Grazer

No matter what your goal or project, never allow yourself to miss two days in a row - Leo Babauta

Nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation - Seneca

On what friends bring out in each other - C.S. Lewis

Once were above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude - Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants - Omar Bradley

People work better when feedback is fast, direct and honest - Anna Wintour

Saints always have a past and sinners always have a future - Oscar Wilde

Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist. Plan like a pessimist and dream like an optimist - Morgan Housel

Share with someone who wants to listen or listen to someone who wants to share - James Clear

Some people have a way with words, and other people, uh . . . oh, not have a way

Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential - start giving the world something positive - James Clear

Style is doing things in a distinctive way without trying to. Trying to is affectation - Paul Graham

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

Systems trump goals - James Clear

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. Some of the best talkers are, on this account, the worst company - William Hazlitt

The continued existence of complex interactive systems depends upon preventing the maximisation of any variable - Bateson

11.03 Ideas

3 ways to gain flow

4 Stages of learning

9 strategies for stress relief

10 years to get good at anything

Analysis Paralysis

Any obstacle or set back should always be viewed as an opportunity

Anything that expands our view of the universe is pleasurable to our mind

Anything that is done more than once could be automated or documented

Appreciate people like how you appreciate a sunset

Appreciate the technology in the items you own

Appreciate unexpected blessings and accept unexpected costs

Around 1000CE the greatest city in the world was Cordoba

Art is about collaboration not competition or comparison

Artificial intelligence not as smart as a five year old

ASAP principle vs ALAP principle - when to make decisions fast and when to make them slow

Ask 'what did I miss' to engage people

Ask an expert to share their knowlege

Ask for advice instead of feedback

Ask people what they are working on that most excites them

Ask what is the next action on this project

Asking questions is an opportunity to be visible

Athletic performance improved by just telling yourself motivational sayings

Athletic performance is improved by our belief about whether we are athletic or not

Avoid oversleeping

Avoid phubbing - phone snubbing to have better conversations

Bacteria are on us, in us and around us in number we cannot imagine

Barbell Method of reading

Be a coach not a critic

Be a high volume reader

Be both reflective and reactive

Be comfortable giving compliments

Be distracted, but only temporarily

Be hard to compete with

Be inspired by other writers

Be known as someone who can get things done

Be lingerable - good company

Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods

Before blaming others, change the things within our control

Being busy doesnt mean we are productive

Being egotistical prevents us from seeing others

Being financially unbreakable is more important than big returns

Being good at self-control not necessarily because of effort made

Being paid destroyed the art of apes

Being prolific is underrated for producing good ideas

Belief has power - How George Dantzig solved two unsolvable math problems

Benefit from failure

Best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour

Better to assume I am below average than above average

Better to have someone hate your idea than be apathetic about it

Call attention to the idea rather than to yourself

Carefully curate the quality of what you let into your mind

Cherish the friend who tells you that you messed up

Chindogu - the Japanese art of eccentric invention

Chronic stress has a negative impact on our brains

Create a system for keeping in touch with people

Create a wiki or knowlege base for your organization

Create conditions that will get people what they want in order to persuade them to join you

Creativity comes from combining previously unconnected things

Cultivate the art of imparting new information to listeners

Culture shapes us but does not define us

Curiosity is the basis of open-mindedness

Disparity in energy consumption between countries

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not - Epicurus

Domain dependence

Don't be afraid to unlearn

Don't feed your mind mental junk food

Dont read the news

Drawing a vital skill like reading

Even Einstein had a hard time getting a job

Even in adversity, find beauty in nature

Exercise willpower by going on a 30-day vice fast

Experts vs Imitators

Extensive planning only works for achievements that can be described in advance

Fading-effect Bias

Failure is a positive sign that you are trying to stretch and do something beyond your current abilities

Fallacy of the single cause

Fast pace of technology requires perpetual learning

Find out what your boss hates doing and do it

Find ways to make others more successful

Fluid and precise gestures improve comprehension by 60 percent

Focus on what is important

Getting comfortable with not being sure helps us make better decisions

Getting stuck when we are trying something new is just part of the process

Give a stranger a compliment every single day

Give compliments that match to peoples competency or warmth

Give generously in our relationships

Give rough drafts to your boss if they are a control freak

Give your mind time to wander to improve productivity

Give your time and resources to your community

Give yourself space for thinking

Giving advice is an effective way to improve ourselves

Go to the ant - hard work without motivation

Good conversations lead to higher feelings of happiness

Good design focuses on the needs of the user

Good design is simple

Good design is suggestive

Good design looks easy, but takes work

Good design may seem strange

Good design requires hard work

Good relationships make us more productivity

Happiness comes when we are otherwise engaged

Have a networking strategy

Have a personal board of directors as role models and decision makers

Have a personal code of conduct

Have a short story ready for serendipitous meetings with people of influence

Have an efficiency consultant on a regular basis

Have multiple mental models

Have quicker feedback loops

Have the ability to accept things that are less than perfect

Having a purpose in life is superior to will power

Having a reservoir of ideas allows you to develop ideas over a long period of time

More stuff is inefficient

Hedonic adaptation - We quickly become accustomed to any new source of pleasure

Hedonic Treadmill

Help others even as you gracefully ask and accept others helping you

Hide your phone and take your watch off to show full interest in a person

How chocolate melts

How did the expert reach his conclusion

How much time do you spend daily at a screen

How to acknowlege new work

How you deal with bad days is more important than what you do on good days.

Human connection makes your brain work better

Hyperbolic Discounting

Identify limiting factors and bottlenecks in a system and focus on removing them

If you always agree with a collaborator one of you is unnecessary

If you are in a position of prominence, you need to show more warmth

If you are smart, its dangerous not to be productive

If you cant keep track of your stuff, you have too much

If you have nothing to say say nothing

If you look down on the users you design for, your design is unlikely to be good design

If you want to get better at something, do it for 30 min for 30 days

Ignore sunk costs - decisions made yesterday are not relevant to the future

Ignore the CNN effect - availability to too much information

Illusion of attention

Illusion of control

Illusion of skill

Immersion learning

Implementation intentions - how to create habits

Improve patience by doing things that take long to accomplish

In architecture, imagination is more important than wealth

In life, it pays to forgive

In order to evaluate AI output, we need subject matter expertise

In the moment emotions can lead us to make illogical decisions

Inattentional blindness - the gorilla in the room

Inbox Zero is different from unread zero

Income, health, good marriage and lack of trauma only account for 8 - 15 percent of variance in happiness

Infants are not discouraged by failure

Listen to music with your entire body

Listen to people intently without any electronic devices

London coffeehouses eventually become institutions

Long term thinking is a powerful tool

Long-distance colloboration not as effective as in person collaborations

Longer hours doesnt automatically create better performance

Looking at someones eyes increases trust and warmth

Looking at something repetitively does not guarantee remembering it

Louis XV changed houses from mere display to be comfortable and homely

Love does not mean that we will not face negative things

Love is based on knowlege

Love of music does not support theory of evolution

Love requires honesty

Magic is about controlling attention and focus

Maintain a to-learn list

Maintain your tools

Maintaining control cannot exist with love

Money is just a tool. Don't view it in an emotional way.

Monitoring makes change more likely

More is not always better

Organized religion espouses the values of a secular society

Most university graduates go on to jobs unrelated to their degree

Motivation starts when you start moving

Move to learn something new

Moving is a good way to reset what we need in our lives

Multiply impact by including others in what you do

Multitasking reduces our creativity

Must be a thinker as well as a doer

Napoleon would wait 3 weeks before opening any mail

Naptime makes you smarter

Networking is not a mass numbers game

Neuron pathways design in our brain are redundant for backup

Neuroplasticity allows us to design our brain

Never let more than 2 days pass when trying to establish a habit

Never say yes to anything important without thinking it over for a day

Nobel laureates more likely to dabble in other interests

Notes should be for jogging memory not substituting memory

Nothing is permanent, but maintenance can keep something going forever

Novelty penalty - people prefer to hear about familiar ideas and experiences

Official CIA advice on how to ruin an organization

One for me, one for you method of time blocking

Optimize for speed of retrieval rather than speed of saving

Organization is needed when there are many things. Minimalism may be a better option.

Original ideas come from trying to work on something slightly too difficult

Our brains occasionally prune back cells

Our cells are wondrous

Our unconscious can make correct decisions

Our worst experiences can be our best teachers

Out well being is based on relationships, purpose and service

Outcome over ego.

Palm up vs Palm down gestures

Paradox of choice

Pause while speaking

Peak experiences

People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their work

People do business with people they know and like

People who document their processes and make themselves replaceable are valuable and should be given greater responsibility

People with high openness are more open to experiences love art and music

Periods of quiet are part of the creative process

Permanent information is buried in books instead of headlines

Personal change requires some space to happen

Peter Principle - One rises to ones level of incompetence

Physical activity on a vacation makes for a happier vacation

Plan ahead for all spending

Planning fallacy

Practical usage of knowlege is superior to theory

Practice failure

Preserve optionality even if it makes you look stupid in the short term

Prethink situations and write down the steps to do

Primacy and Recency effects

Priming helps lay the groundwork for persuasion

Principle of affordable loss

Principle of reciprocity

Principle of reciprocity in general

Process information deeply by having a structured note system

Processing more important than motivation for remembering information

Productivity systems need a course-correction method

Professionals always seek to improve their craft

Programming principles that work in real life - Code for humans

Programming principles that work in real life - Slow down to speed up

Programming principles that work in real life - Use consistent standards

Progress is rarely linear

Proximal goals more effective than long-term goals

Questions are the best way to hold a great conversation

Questions to ask people for feedback on your writing

Real life is not like chess where all the information is visible and nothing is hidden

Receive wisdom skillfully

Record everything

Reflect someones words back to them to attract them

Replace dysfunctional habits with healthy ones

Replacing parts in a system helps prevent breakdown

Replicate with enough flexibility to change the copy to meet your needs

Rereading and underlining is useless

Rubbish is only what you treat as rubbish

Sea sponges can live up to 2000 years and are extremely adaptable

Search out activities, hobbies and knowledge that challenge you

Self-control is not a learned skill

Self-control leads to greater happiness

Self-doubt is the counterpoint of creativity

Self-expression is a vital human need

Self-serving bias

Serve the smallest viable audience with something they love

Sharing data and knowledge helps us become experts

Shift as much time as possible from consuming to creating

Shift from being angry to planning

Show up in person when its important

Single most important factor in success is not intelligence

Single-loop learning vs. double-loop learning

SLANT method of listening

Sleep is good for you

Sleep is vital for memory consolidation

Slow growth leads to high quality

Small changes pay compound interest in the long run

Smiling shows we are engaged

Social comparison bias

Social engagement results in better cognitive performance in old age

Social facilitation - we learn better with company

Social media gives the illusion of community without the practical benefits

Some decisions are better of made with reality in view rather than optimization

Some things cannot be speeded up beyond a natural limit

Spiders on caffeine make weird webs

Spotlight consciousness vs lantern consciousness

Stability sows the seeds for instability, and vice versa

Start small and create successive versions

Starting something is hard, but so is stopping something

Steve Jobs course in typography informed later design for the mac

Stuff I use vs stuff that I imagine I should be using

Subjective well being metric

Business is about working with people not against people

Sunk cost fallacy

Surprise and delight others with whom you contact

Switching trades or specialities has a clear benefit

Systems are optimized to slow things down, not to prevent them once they start

Take care what technologies you use, they will shape your mind and thoughts

Take your time to make your mind up or make a decision

Taking breaks is good for us on many levels

Taking shortcuts shrinks our worldview

Team sports are good for self-control

Technologies have biases

Tell others about the work that you do that is what you want to be known for

Test and learn is preferable to plan and implement strategy

The 11th Century Muslim World had the Best Libraries

The bad outcome principle

The basic building block of everything we do is information

The benefits of walking

The chances of life starting spontanously are infinitesimally tiny

The clustering illusion - seeing patterns where none exist

The conjunction fallacy

The difference between medicine and poison is the dose

The evil of to do lists

The exotic idea of drinking hot beverages reduced disease

The first law of ecology - we can never do just one thing

The forecast illusion

The fox knows many things the hedgehog only one thing

The Generation Effect - Even a wrong answer helps you learn better than no answer

The goal of art is to share who we are

The Golden Thirteen - The first black American officers

The human voice is an amazing instrument

The most valuable community is the one you already have

The natural world is always changing

The neocortex is the center of intelligence in our brains

The only failure is to avoid creating in the first place

The only way to stand out when doing undifferentiated work is to work harder

The principle of reciprocity applies in human interactions

The pyramids were marvels of construction engineering

The quality of your decisions depends on the quality of your thinking

The relation between energy costs and food production

The ruthless edit

The superman illusion

The testing effect - Revising with practise tests is the most effective

The time you wake up does not matter

The value of keeping a journal

The word Alcohol from Arabic alkohl

The world believes that love is only needed when it is filling our needs

The world is always changing and so are we

There is no competitive advantage from consuming what everyone else is consuming

There is no point in reading if you are not learning something

Think of things every day that we are grateful for

Thinking is hard work

Thinking uses energy

Thomas Edison factory burns down and his positive reaction

Tilt your head and nod to show interest in what someone is saying

To be a leader you must be ready to give it your all

To be extraordinary is to be a deviant

To make a connection be yourself and share information is better than secrecy and witholding

Try and consider why a person thinks differently from us rather than why he doesnt think like us

Try to design elegant solutions

Try to optimize for time instead of for money

Trying to control information often backfires

Trying to feel safe does not bring happiness

Trying to win at social media is like working for free for youtube, tiktok or instagram

Turning our head or bodies towards someone shows they have our full attention

Ultimate optimization is impossible

Ulysses contract - make plans to prevent your future self making stupid decisions

Unethical behaviour does not lead to happiness

Universe was created perfectly for existence

Use AI as a tool or co-editor

Use an autopilot schedule to work steadily over a long period of time

Use belief calibration instead of right or wrong

Use boundary phrases to define limits in your relationships

Use every opportunity to revisit great content

Use follow up questions to keep a conversation going

Use gestures, touch or being level with someone to be closer to people

Use gratitude instead of apology

Use multiple sources to learn and to bolster retention

Use pre-reading questions to enhance memory

Use presuasion to lay the groundwork for change

Use scenario planning to plan for future possibilities

Use short term games to build long term assets

Variable practise helps learn better

Warmth and competence signal different people

Watching someone else accomplish something encourages us

Water is the ultimate cleaning tool

We are more likely to believe things which are simpler

We are wired to think negatively

We have a tendency to alter interpretation of information to confirm our existing beliefs

We need other people to survive

We overestimate the impact of external factors on life happiness

We tend to think that other people are not as deep as us

Weak connections to people have enormous value

Welcome people with warmth and enthusiasm

When an experience goes wrong it can be just as worthwhile as when all goes right

When guessing, consider a range of plausible alternatives to increase accuracy

Your circle of people and time should always be expanding

Zettelkasten Method

11.05 Persons

Anthony Trollope

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)

Henry Singleton

11.06 Structure Notes

Trent Hamms 14 money principles

Zettelkasten Principles

11.07 Poetry

A little learning - Alexander Pope

Clearing - Martha Postlethwaite

Dust If You Must - Rose Milligan

Each man kills the thing he loves - Oscar Wilde

Eternity - Valerie Carol Holland

I pray the Lord my works all right - Jack London

I watch people in the world - Ryokan Taigu

If Only I Could Write A Beautiful Poem - Douglas Carter

Sleep and poetry - John Keats

Song of the Open Road - Walt Whitmans

The chief benefits of the house - Gaston Bachelard

The road not taken - Robert Frost

The thief left it behind - Ryokan Taigu

The wonders of ordinary life - William Martin

There is a place where the sidewalk ends - Shel Silverstein

There is nothing more than this - Ryokan Taigu

Woman Oh Woman - Bill Simmons

Yes im truly a dunce - Ryokan Taigu

You do not need many things - Ryokan Taigu

11.11 Technical References

Install Watchtower Library on MacOS

11.12 Scientific Information

A brief history of the diesel engine

A brief history of the petrol engine

Human beings are designed to be social

Our sense of touch is made up of multiple sensor types

REM sleep is important for emotional regulation

The human retina is incredibly sensitive to light

The processing of visual signals by our brain is ridiculously complex

4x - Reading and Learning

41 Books

41.01 Book Notes

Love in Africa - Jeffrey Gettleman

41.02 Book reviews

7 Must-Know Strategies to Learn Anything Faster by Scott Young

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing - Proven Professional Techniques for Writing With Style and PowerGary Provost

101 essays that will change your life - Brianna Wiest

365 Days with Self-Discipline - Martin Meadows

List of all book reviews

A Curious Mind - The Secret to a Bigger Life - Brian Grazer

A history of the world in 6 glasses - Tom Standage

A Monk's Guide to A Clean House & Mind - Shoukei Matsumoto

A Place of My Own - Michael Pollan

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

A thousand brains - A new theory of intelligence - Jeff Hawkins

A Year of Living Simply - The joys of a life less complicated - Kate Humble

All About Love - New Visions - bell hooks

Architecture 101 - Nicole Bridge

How to Know a Person - The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen - David Brooks

How to Organize Your Life, Mind and Home - 9 Organizing Principles To Help You Simplify Your Life, Increase Efficiency And Maximize Productivity -Paul Morrisey

How to Take Smart Notes - One Simple Technique to Boost Writing Learning and Thinking - Sonke Ahrens

This is your mind on plants - Michael Pollen

43 Blog Reading

43.02 Blog Notes

How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham

5x - Arts

57 Misc

57.02 Cooking Projects

7x - Financial

75 Financial Education

75.01 Financial Notes

Become an expert materialist to judge product quality and save money

Build good relationships and real friends

Dont worry about what you are investing in - just invest in something

Find and work toward what you are passionate about

Joe Dominguez rules for investment

Learn how to do things for yourself

Save money by reducing the quantities of cleaning products used

Spend less than you earn

Stop worrying about what other people think of your finances

Talk honestly about money

Use the minimum possible to get the job done

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