Effectively Manage Your Downtime to Prevent Doomscrolling

Doomscrolling shouldn’t be your day’s bookend (start and end). Catch yourself and do something that your future self will thank you for. We are indeed living in the age of screens. As I write this post on my laptop, my wife is watching something on her phone while my two children are playing games on … Read more

Reverse Thinking vs Inverse Thinking

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One is for reverting to the past, and the other is for brainstorming the future. First things first. Reversion is the action of returning to a previous state or condition. Inversion is a reversal of position, order, form, or relationship. There is a certain nuance between reversion and inversion. Reversion typically looks back, while inversion looks from within. It’s … Read more

The Blue LED That Changed the World

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You are most likely reading this from a screen that has one. We are currently living in the age of the light-emitting diode (LED). Virtually all of our lighting and screens are powered by some form of LED. A few decades ago, we were still using incandescent and fluorescent lighting. What made us switch to … Read more

What Tools I Use for My Personal KMS

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Feel free to steal my secret sauce, or in this case, tools I previously talked about creating a Knowledge Management System or a KMS which is about creating a system that manages all of the knowledge we consume every day in an orderly way. To recap, a KMS has three modes — Data Capture, Data Workspace, and Reference. Data Capture … Read more