Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed
By Emma Young. But timing matters: students only benefited if the second viewing was immediately before a test.
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What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media? - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
A reader named Alexander recently pointed me toward an essay he wrote about his experiment avoiding social media for all of 2021. What caught my attention is the fact that Alexander runs an online business as a freelance copywriter. I frequently hear from people who are exhausted by the frenetic, anxiety-inducing churn of social media, […]
my personal note taking journey
quickly capture your thoughts, as a service
Don’t waste the good days
If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else.…
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# The "q" trick #
[**Download MP3 of "MPU 023: Workflows with Merlin Mann"**](http://media.libsyn.com/media/macpowerusers/MPU023.mp3 "MPU 023: Workflows with Merlin Mann") I mentioned this on the...
A quote a day - Austin Kleon
Quote collecting in a 5 year notebook.
Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?
The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination. Now writers are rebelling against their word processors.
Managing Music From Your Mac’s Menu Bar
As Club MacStories members know, I use my Mac’s menu bar sparingly. With Bartender, our MacStories Selects Mac app of the year, I limit my menu bar to a handful of frequently-used apps and system controls that take up as little space as possible. That cuts down on clutter and means everything will fit when
r/Entrepreneur - Most entrepreneurs have some tricks to keep their mind right from stress and worries . What’s yours?
385 votes and 342 comments so far on Reddit
The optimal desk setup: How to create a minimalist desk (and other office setups)
**I'm trying to optimize my home office, so I've been digging into desk setups. Hopefully, you can benefit from what I'm learning.** --- Thanks to a rec...
My productivity app is a single .txt file
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?”
The Key to Find Time for Learning - Scott H Young
How do you find time to learn in a busy schedule? Here are four strategies I use to find time between work and family life.
The Best Note-Taking Method is the One You Have with You – trms
A lesson from photography to the world of note-taking.
#101 One Thing At A Time
On productivity and visual storytelling
Keep A Log
One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for the more superficial knowledge, there are just too many layers in a professional codebase that it’s impossible to grok it immediately.
10 tools I rely on for deep work ✨
Sites and apps for a day in my life
10 Tips for Leading Great Live Teaching Sessions · 10 Tips for Teaching a Great Live Session
Coda doc by Jeremy Caplan
No notebook is perfect, but the reMarkable comes really close
The reMarkable is a premium e-ink notebook. Imagine a Kindle, but you can write on it. It has become my daily notebook. I take all my meeting notes on it, dump my ideas and designs, and carry it with me everywhere. As a bonus, it also has replaced
Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain
Here's how to easily move your passwords from 1Password to iCloud Keychain
Tools embody mediums
Personal website of Jess Martin.
The 16 best ways to sabotage your organization's productivity, from a CIA manual published in 1944
The United States distributed a manual to Allies sympathizers to help take down the Axis powers through crippled productivity.
Why Podcasts Are My New Wikipedia —the Perfect Informal Learning Resource
In this article, I explain why podcasts replaced a lot of my Wikipedia usage for informal learning. I also talk about how I listen to five-plus hours of podcas…
Shortcuts Tips: Copy as Embedded Tweet
A Complete Ulysses Writing Workflow – The Sweet Setup
This is how I’ve set up my Ulysses app to fit my various writing adventures. I’ve worked to keep it simple and dumbed-down. This ensures it doesn’t require a lot of mental overhead to keep organized, and it ensures my brain is on the writing rather than the meta.
23 Seldom-Used Ideas for How to Use Twitter Lists
A complete list of tips and techniques to get the most out of Twitter lists and never miss an important tweet again.
Turning Obsidian into My Perfect Writing App
When I first started using Obsidian, I expected it would help me make connections between my notes and inspire new ideas. But over the last 12 months I've been using the app, I have also fallen in love with it as a writing tool.
Drafts 29: Autocomplete
With Techtober coming to an end, all of the major OS releases from Apple are finally out there, however buggy they may be. And of course, Drafts 29 has been released to accommodate the features in …
11 Artists Share the Bedtime Rituals That Keep Them Creative | Skillshare Blog
“While I’m sleeping, it allows my brain to subconsciously work on something creative. Often, I wake up with up feeling good with ideas”
The Blanc Media 8-Week Work Cycle with Sabbaticals — The Focus Course
Living without regret in the age of distraction. The Focus Course is an online, guided course that will change your life.