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Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.
Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.
Digital hygiene
A guide to basic digital hygiene.
Twitter
50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →
Energy makes time | everything changes | Matter
Obsidian Vault Template
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal
How to reclaim your privacy in the surveillance age.
How to make your RSS feed pretty
Life is too short for ugly XML.
What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS)
Getting Started guide to web feeds/RSS
Taylor Sheridan's Extreme Productivity
The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The realest deadlines (a young family, a $350m ranch) have pushed him to grind at an unbelievable pace.
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
Using static websites for tiny archives
I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
My solar-powered and self-hosted website
How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.
Walker | Alter Ego (@wtfudad) 通过 Threads
The best habit I made in 2024...
I call it the “No Excuse Hour.” Sounds simple, but it changed everything.
Here’s how it works and why you need it
1/ The “No Excuse Hour” is the first hour of my day.
How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly - Learn How To Learn
Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so y
Structured Procrastination
A cool guide to saying "No" to an invite. How are your 'no's usually? : r/coolguides
3.9K votes, 286 comments. 5.4M subscribers in the coolguides community. Picture based reference guides for anything and everything. If it seems like…
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Implementing Elegant Timing
This morning I got stuck in the slow lane behind an old man when I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to a Zoom meeting at my neighbourhood coffee shop. Rather than speeding up and hurrying past him, thoughts on my meeting, I did the opposite: slowed down
My GTD Structure | Jamie Thingelstad
I suppose I’m a “list person”. Although I would …
The Productivity apps I use in 2024
Cassidy's current "stack" of task-tracking, calendar, and note-taking apps
Augmenting Long-term Memory
The Secret To Hosting A Party For The Ages, According To Jackie Kennedy & Wallis Simpson’s Preferred Party Planner Elsa Maxwell
“Guests should be selected with as much care as a new Reboux hat, and should be equally becoming, for a hostess should wear her guests at a party as she wears a hat – with an air!”
Public commitment pledge
Public commitment pledges are a surprisingly effective and free way to help you reach your goals. A public commitment pledge is simply writing what you will or won't do, perhaps something you know you find hard, signing it and displaying it publicly. In her excellent book, How to Change, Katy Milkman describes how the simple intervention of a public commitment pledge in doctors' offices significantly reduced prescriptions of unnecessary antibiotics—just through a poster on the wall. Commitment pledges are a form of what Katy calls a soft commitment device (of Odysseus fame). This strategy helps us stick to our commitments even when tempted to go astray. Pledges may work through our desire for consistency and create cognitive dissonance when considering going against the pledge. The benefits of what we desire to do, say "eat cookies," are pitted against the potential guilt or discomfort we'd feel by going against what we said we'd do, not "eat cookies." You don't want to let yourself down. The pledge gives us a greater chance of sticking to our actions and a defence against our present bias. Is there something you wish you'd do more of or less of? A simple public commitment pledge could help you on your way. Other free ways to help you achieve your goals: Temptation bundling, The Fresh Start Effect, commitment device, Nine-enders
On the Slow Productivity of John Wick - Cal Newport
I found myself recently, as one does, watching the mini-documentary featurettes included on the DVD for the popular 2014 Keanu Reeves movie, John Wick — ... Read more
Bright Spot Analysis [How to improve your life, fast] - Luca Dellanna
Which day have you been the most productive? Is there something you did that made it so productive? And is it something you can do every day?
Living in a Single Text File
I wrote the article below about working in a single text file back in July 2006. I stuck with this way of taking notes until the end of my employment with Nortel in 2009. By then, the text file I was...