During the pandemic, I committed to exercising regularly. Here’s a simple snapshot of a year’s worth of data. The dropoffs happened after Thanksgiving and right before my dissertation defense. Need to work on maintaining the habit during the holidays and periods of stress.
I heard this on The Moth Radio Hour. A five-year-old named Nina wanted to see her cousin’s body. Andy was four when he died, and he was her best friend. The adults around her, the chaplain Kate Braestrup among them, spent real energy debating whether to allow it. The reasons against were sensible. She was…
I’ve been through every productivity system you’ve heard of and a few you probably haven’t. I’ve built Kanbans and Zettelkastens and cycled through Evernote, Obsidian, Roam Research, Notion. During my doctoral program I ran a paper planner alongside digital tools, alongside whatever else I was trying that year. Most of it worked. Which is what…
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the midst of the French Revolution the revolting citizens led a priest, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine. They ask the priest if he wants to face up or down when he meets his fate. The priest says he would like to face up so he will…
I did not add backlinks. That was supposed to be the next step. The May 9 post said so explicitly. I had Obsidian pointed at the folder, the graph view was open, and the Zettelkasten people would tell you this is where the system comes alive. You start linking notes to each other. The connections…
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