Finished reading: Grit by Angela Duckworth 📚
My main takeaway here is that difficult tasks require consistent effort. No level of planning and organization is going to help here. You simply must put in the hours. I definitely recognized this whilst working on research projects during my PhD.
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Currently reading: My Days by R K Narayan 📚
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GTD promotes quickly capturing stuff and then processing later. I struggled a lot with gate keeping trash with this approach. Keeping the capturing system low tech (plaintext file) and restricted to the laptop so that its time bound to business hours helped a lot.
The OSAASY license is an excellent initiative that will support empirical software research in the long run.
Paying for search has been the best quality of life improvement this year.
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Note to self: always put the next expensive subscription renewal date in the f*cking calendar.
Been using omarchy on my old T2 chip Intel MBP for my daily computing needs for a week. The screensavers are crazy good.
The extent to which people (including myself) will go to get colored output in their terminal is insanity.
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Exploring Fizzy and the level of product thinking is extremely polished (as one would expect from 37Signals and all their other products). I really admire that Fizzy automatically moves cards into the Not Now pile after a specified number of days automatically. This is so crucial, because otherwise we end up hoarding things to do without actually taking action to get things done.
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