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
I wrote about my starting a Knowledge Management System (KMS) 6 months ago. What changed so far? A Quick Recap A KMS is a way of collecting and organizing information that makes it easier to retrieve and access at any time. It’s not just notetaking; it’s curating the notes you’ve taken into a personal library … Read more
Clarity is what we desperately need in our to-do lists. There was a time I didn’t particularly appreciate looking at my to-do list. It was a mess, and trying to untangle it increased my stress. It’s ironic when the purpose of to-do lists is to put order into chaos. After a few years and a … Read more
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
As with building muscle, you need to be systematic and deliberate about it It is not easy to find ideas to write on the fly. I find when I’m put on the spot I freeze, similar to a deer-in-the-headlights situation. Even when writing a particular post, without the proper preparation I get writer’s block. Setting … Read more