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Amor fati
One of our neighbors here in Vermont passed away this past weekend. I had only known him about a year. He was a very nice person and seemed to be in good shape only a week ago. Very involved in the community. He was younger than I am. Amor Fati – a love of fate.…
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Nature Observations
Yesterday and today I spent time taking pictures of plants, identifying them (initially with Google Lens and then with the National Audubon Field Guide to Trees and the iNaturalist site), and then posting the ones I could identify to the iNaturalist site. A good advance on my naturalist skills. I listened to a Tim Ferriss…
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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…
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Wendell Berry
I had heard the name Wendell Berry before, but really did not know much about him. I then read a Study Hacks Blog post by Cal Newport, “On Wendell Berry’s Move from NYU to a Riverside Cabin“. This led me to The New Yorker article “Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age“, by Dorothy Wickenden.…
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Intro to Blogging Course
I am working through the “Understanding your why” section of the course. I think it boils down to wanting to organize and sharpen my thinking around my interests and attract readers interested in the same areas. The writing alone would improve my thinking, with comments bringing further improvements. I currently use Joplin as my note-taking,…
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