A Wanderer
Not all who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I am a recently retired accountant/finance professional looking to explore all of the interests I have had over the years, promising myself that I would pursue them “when I had the time”. Maybe you are on a similar journey.
LATEST POSTS
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Cal Newton – Working Memory .txt
I was listening to a Deep Questions podcast and Cal did a segment on what he calls WorkingMemory.txt, a text file with thoughts that pop up that you jot down to free working memory. Here is a link to the blog post Cal wrote on the subject – https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/10/27/deep-habits-workingmemory-txt-the-most-important-productivity-tool-youve-never-heard-of/. In the comments to the blog
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Subtract
From a blog post from Derek Silvers: “No amount of adding will get me to where I want to be. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to remove. The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to
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Comfort Zone
I had a free morning today, with the family not arriving until lunch. I decided to take the kayak out for the first time. I was anxious about it, as I had been whenever I thought I should take it out. It is out of my comfort zone. I did take it out and it
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Aging
Ryan North, in his book “How to Take Over the World”, on page 225 says “‘Old age’ is not what kills you; it’s cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer’s or pneumonia or one of the hundreds of other ailments, diseases, and infections we’ve identified and named …”. David Sinclair, in his book Lifespan: “Why We
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Why Obsidian?
Two concepts from my initial investigation of Obsidian that resonated are “A second brain, for you, forever” and “Notes for you grandchildren”. I am a very linear thinker, but often feel the limitations of just linear thinking. Years ago, I started studying Chinese, having read from Alan Watts that the language is less linear than
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Zettelkasten Method
As I continue to write and improve my writing, I am on the lookout for tools that can improve my writing, organization and thinking. I have come across the Zettelkasten Method in a YouTube video “The FUN and EFFICIENT note-taking system I use in my PhD“. The YouTuber used the system with the software Obsidian. Like
Please note that I use AI in my projects, including my blogs.
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