Spent 3 hours reading a couple of books, revisiting clipped notes on Evernotes, and going through the book summaries here. Written some notes, Just going to dump them below. Couple of themes: Eisenhower’s “plan vs planning” remember what General Eisenhower advised us: the planning is far more important than the plan. (https://sandymaguire.me/books/hunt-andy-pragmatic-thinking-and-learning.html) “In preparing for…
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(disclaimer: only relevant for anxious overachievers) the stakes are often not that high as you made up in your mind. all the urgent tickets. the projects, complicated, detailed architecting, estimation, request record feasibility checks, comprehensive SOWs. urgent PoCs. sample data bug, getting stuck on a flow, don’t know how to proceed the tasks the fires…
Does responsibility come from response-ability ? Haven’t checked the etymology but I like the idea. It shifts the sentiment of the word from a burden / being expected to do something / powerless, to control / being able to choose your actions and how to response / powerful. Quite a useful reframe. OK, all words…
Started asking myself these questions more and more lately: how many things can I get if I just ask? how many miscommunication can I avoid by asking? how many problems can I solve more easily if I just ask for help? what questions am I avoiding asking? what wants am I avoiding sharing? what needs…
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang Lying on bed this morning, resisted reaching for my phone. Letting my mind wander instead. Started thinking. Waking up at home vs waking up when travelling. I don’t know about…
I have seen a couple of tweets lately along the lines of “hey, we are bad listeners, and here’s how to get better”. The premise is that we generally have two intentions by the time we speak: Venting / just want to get things out of our chests Looking for advice And the argument is…
Listing the way my mind works in computing metaphors. Mind OS and apps (foreground and background). I also like to call it my MONQ mind. modus operandi narrative questions What this soft machine does Going from awareness / knowing -> understanding -> acceptance -> internalisation -> implementation -> practice -> mastery. It’s hard to capture…
I can sum up the past three years of my life into three core themes: The world makes a lot more sense. Gaining a more complete description of reality. I’ve come to understand myself a lot better. Noticing and disarming the unconscious mechanisms preventing me from experiencing and seeing reality as it is. Life is…
“Have some system going for producing content” That has been sitting on my todo list app since May 5th 2019. It has also been nagging at the back of my mind, constantly getting pushed down the priority list in favour of more urgent and reactionary tasks. The nice and easy low hanging fruits. So almost…
MacDown Hello there! I’m MacDown, the open source Markdown editor for OS X. Let me introduce myself. Markdown and I Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber, aiming to provide a easy-to-read and feasible markup. The original Markdown syntax specification can be found here. MacDown is created as a simple-to-use editor…