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This might be important for cutting through the noise, especially if a reference is mentioned frequently." + - should be + - reference specific + - brief + - separated from the rest of the system + - "typically a lightweight synthesis of observations collected while reading" + - definition comes from How to Take Smart Notes + - You need to take some form of literature note that captures your understanding of the text, so you have something in front of your eyes while you are making the slip-box note. But don’t turn it into a project in itself. Literature notes are short and meant to help with writing slip-box notes. Everything else either helps to get to this point or is a distraction. + + Fleeting literature notes can make sense if you need an extra step to understand or grasp an idea, but they will not help you in the later stages of the writing process, as no underlined sentence will ever present itself when you need it in the development of an argument. + - Processing reading notes into evergreen + - input: marked passages & notes about your thoughts + - how to decide what to write + - "evergreen notes should be concept-oriented", so choose the key concepts + - take a step back and get a look at the overall picture + - cluster scraps into piles and see what emerges + - or mind map/visual outline + - once you have a sense of the concepts, you write the notes + - from https://zettelkasten.de/posts/create-zettel-from-reading-notes/ + - 1. write a broad note to capture the big idea + - 2. write smaller notes that capture the "nuanced atomic ideas" + - 3. connect to past notes : link, merge, revise + - 4. revise the broad note and improve it based on what you've connected + - make sure to have a method to capture notes on the go, ex. andy uses an A7 notepad and pen. + - writing inbox + - you want to be able to capture one off ideas effortlessly and develop them into evergreen notes eventually + - 1. should be quick to capture & separate from evergreen notes + - 2. should reliably be drained + - reduce inputs + - increase processing, ex create a routine + - many notes here end up as evergreen notes + - if after a few passes it doesn't look interesting, then archive or delete it + - reading inbox + - have one spot to capture things + - don't auto import + - processing + - trash it, doesn't look valuable + - read it seriously + - read it lightly and file in a reference library + - file in other list (like recipes to try) + - important feautres + - easy capture + - easy reading + - easy "listing across item type"(?) + - obvious when something has been passed over multiple times + - no app really does this + + +- thinking and note-writing + - evergreen notes can help: + - leaps of insight + - develop wild ideas + - increase conversational bandwidth + - how to use spaced repetition + - maybe I could add a "last reviewed" date to notes + +- writing and note-writing + - "executable strategy for writing" + - focus is to create evergreen notes that allow you to "publish things" more of an editing job than a writing job + - two main ways of writing + - bottom up + - write evergreen notes while reading and thinking + - when you create a new note, add it to an outline for a piece (or add a new one) + - eventually, you'll want to write from one of those outlines + - write new notes to fill in the missing parts + - put all of those together for a first draft + - rewrite + - top down + - review your notes on a topic + - write an outline + - attach notes to each part of the outline and write new notes where needed + - put all of those together for a first draft + - rewrite + - + +- structure of the notes + - evergreen notes should be written for yourself, not for anyone else +- associative structure + +## Rabbit holes +- The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading + - [Link](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6GNVv6RyFDewy11ZgXzce8agWxSLwJ6Ub5Rw) + - "It’s not that they’ve so deeply internalized and automatized those practices that they seem invisible: they’re just not doing those things." + - "They read for a purpose" + - ["Many eminent thinkers need a writing surface to think"](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z5WDNZizsbAzE1p2BLwr339fV4TCpzNvaztP2) + - Cal Newport talks about this too + - So then whats the solve? + - Should the process naturally evolve? Instead of using someone else's process? + - Is there some sort of simple baseline that people use that is a common thread between them all? + - It's possible that we just need more effective engagement with the material. More time and space to actually think. It comes down to a balance of not being system-obsessed, rather content-obsessed. + - The truth is it doesn't matter what sort of system you have. The more time you spend concerned on the system is the less time you can focus on the content. + - The technology and system stack is there to serve you. It's there to personalize the workflow to the way that works best with you. + - The big thinkers who have messy desks with papers notes and books strewn about, that's their personal system. + - Its about adapting the personal side of it to you + + +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z28QkpK3vRKQTacjFDfGYBhCXHqHuVWJzny9 +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zVFGpprS64TzmKGNzGxq9FiCDnAnCPwRU5T +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2iRjpFUtRxLXcRfxWAV8ikS17G1y6KAT1q6 +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6GNVv6RyFDewy11ZgXzce8agWxSLwJ6Ub5Rw +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6e3AFda6oSsusEmf8vWevMaNLggQ9bCEgFkf +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z3ruCqbkUjU7U8MD5gaMjzmJV4GuENJ3ie1LP +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z432siNjuY9G8bTsnSugyHPB1YoZWgup6eMB3 +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z3PBVkZ2SvsAgFXkjHsycBeyS6Cw1QXf7kcD8 +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2Gt5rAmfX +- what is an executable strategy https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z53fk5XwrsnueNDDCq6WNe2VbPhrDGQmmVgNS + +## Further Reading +- https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/notes-against-note-taking-systems +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/%C2%A7Taking_knowledge_work_seriously_(Stripe_convergence_talk%2C_2019-12-12) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/.trash/Conditional Happiness.md b/content/.trash/Conditional Happiness.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e69de29b diff --git a/content/.trash/Cool Analogies & Writing Ideas.md b/content/.trash/Cool Analogies & Writing Ideas.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..030ab8b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/.trash/Cool Analogies & Writing Ideas.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +- x has had the price tag ripped off, what's it worth \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/.trash/Idea for App.md b/content/.trash/Idea for App.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e69de29b diff --git a/content/.trash/Pursuing pleasure leads to a lack thereof.md b/content/.trash/Pursuing pleasure leads to a lack thereof.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6405ec80 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/.trash/Pursuing pleasure leads to a lack thereof.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ + +source: [[Dopamine Nation - Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence]] +date: May 03 2022 + +--- + +# Pursuing pleasure leads to a lack thereof + + + +--- + +## Related + +1. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/.trash/The War of Art.md b/content/.trash/The War of Art.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9419a7d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/.trash/The War of Art.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +tags: #ToProcess +author: [[Pressfield, Steven]] +url: +date: 2023-03-29 +Readwise Highlights from clippings_html + +--- + +- The following is a list, in no particular order, of those activities that most commonly elicit Resistance: 1)The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional. 2)The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise. 3)Any diet or health regimen. 4)Any program of spiritual advancement. (Location 111) + - Note: *Testing the notes functionality of the kindle highlights app on ipad* diff --git a/content/.trash/The effect of expectations on our brains.md b/content/.trash/The effect of expectations on our brains.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..006e0731 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/.trash/The effect of expectations on our brains.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +tags: #Atomic #EA [[Expectations]] [[Neuroscience]] + +--- + + +In one study, researchers gave 65 college students either a placebo, or 200mg of caffeine. However, they told them that they were either getting caffeine, or adderall. + +Those who recieved caffeine felt "more high, simuated, anxious, and motivated" over subjects recieving the placebo. (Makes sense) + +However, those expecting adderall reported stronger amphetamine effects, and performed better on a working memory test, than those expecting caffeine + +--- + +Source +1. 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I’m just going to fail anyway + +# finite work vs infinite work + +[[finite work vs infinite work]] + +# aim for regretlessness, not satisfaction + +# finite vs. infinite goals & gamification + +[[finite vs. infinite goals & gamification]] + +# how to build a business while working full time + +[[how to build a business while working full time]] + +# overcoming the wall + +[[overcoming the wall]] + +# letting go of wanting & expectaitons + +[[letting go of wanting & expectaitons]] + +# What video games can teach us about ourselves + +# What’s my niche? + +[[What’s my niche]] + +# Does clarity bring consistency? + +# What’s the freedom for? + +[[What’s the freedom for]] + +# do you have to work hard? + +[[do you have to work hard]] + +# how to learn from others + +[[how to learn from others]] + +# can you trust yourself? do you love yourself? + +[[can you trust yourself do you love yourself]] + - what does it look like outside of yourself? what do you value, whats your love language? + - ex trust commitemtn honesty kindness compassion + - whatdo those look like, and how can we build those in ourselves? +- what have you done to prove it? +- can you tell by your intentions? +- how does this influence our decision making + +# the path to freedom + +[[the path to freedom]] + +# Whats the money for? + +[[Whats the money for]] + +# how to be financially free + +# cashflow vs assets + +[[cashflow vs assets]] + +# learning to listen to yourself + +[[learning to listen to yourself]] + +# a fear of commitment + +[[a fear of commitment]] + +# turning your precieved negatives into positives + +# the work we do + +[[the work we do]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Adding Friction to the Writing Process.md b/content/inbox/Adding Friction to the Writing Process.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b04e800c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Adding Friction to the Writing Process.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +From "How John McPhee's Slow Writing Process Produced Deep Articles" by Cal Newport + + +John McPhee would take tons of notes and tapes that he took, transcribed and tuped them into a tupewriter, scenned and copied them, then cut out each separate note and organized them. Then, he'd make overall index card summaries and sort and mess around with the structure. + +The friction, the slowness, marinating with the ideas, is what makes the work great. Ryan Holiday and Robert Greene use notecards in a similar way. + +We've had this cult of productivity and efficiency that has given rise to wanting ro remove this friction + +I can't say with confidence that I know of many accomplished writerrs who have a frictionless process where they're obsessed with Reaadwise integrations and obsidian graphs. Most of those poeple are hobbyist and meta creators. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Cal Newport - Time Management.md b/content/inbox/Cal Newport - Time Management.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..660d79be --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Cal Newport - Time Management.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +- systems you use to figure out what to work on now +- capture + - trusted place for ideas, tasks, etc to live + - bothcommitments and plans +- configure + - where does it go, how is it organized? + - also includes all relevant info +- controle + - plan for your time in advanced, not reactivity + - miltiscale - quarterly, weekly, daily +- cal's system + - tasks in trello, plans in gdocs + - time block planner _ text file for campture + - show down - migrate to stable systems +- configure + - separate boards for separate roles + - statuses + - to process + - watiing on + - this week + - initiatives + - these all get updated/cleaned during weekly plans + - multi scale planning -> daily time block +- constrain + - 4th principle decciding how/what stuff is put on your plate + - automated processes + - how you can redue time/effort on non-essentials \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Commitment vs Optionality.md b/content/inbox/Commitment vs Optionality.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c361e3c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Commitment vs Optionality.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +One of the things that has plagued me recently is balancing meeting yourself where you're at, in terms of enjoying optionality, following your natural curiosities, and sticking one thing that you want to specialize in and really pursue in your life, one true north star. + +Nat eliason may be a good example of the former + +The start of this article talks about it a bit [A Simple, Yet Thorough Quarterly Business Review Template](https://taylorpearson.me/planning/) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Deep Questions - Episode 312 Productivity Basics.pdf b/content/inbox/Deep Questions - Episode 312 Productivity Basics.pdf new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a5a71426 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/inbox/Deep Questions - Episode 312 Productivity Basics.pdf differ diff --git a/content/inbox/Discipline is an emotion.md b/content/inbox/Discipline is an emotion.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..de4000e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Discipline is an emotion.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +When people normally takl about discipline, then usually reach for either "willpower" or "habit." However, DR K posits that discipline is actaully an emoition. Take addictions, for example. Soemoen who is an addict needs discipline. But for them, they need emotional help through psychoterapy, not just more willpower. That's what gets them through it. + + +Negative emotinos are location based, aka anatomical. However, positive emotions are circuit based, with no main center + + +Opposite things are in the same category +- light and heavy are weights +- dark and bright is light +- hot and cold are temperature +so this also applies to discipline: + +doubt, or a wavering mind is the opposite of discipline. Think marriage or pifcking a college major + +So whats the opposite of doubt? _resolve_ + +You don't need discipline, you need resolve. Internal resolve presents as external discipline. This resolve is actually an emotion + +Positive emotionss, including resolve, come from circuits in the brain. You want to cultivate resolve on a daily basis (neurons that fire together wire together) not just habit and willpower. But we're not good at activating those curcuits. + +1. notice when you feel resolved + - close your eyes and take a snapshot of it + - whats the experienve? + - fuels your willpower + - there's a core that lets you dismiss distractions +2. sankalpa + - pick one thing you want to be resolved for + - make sure its medium difficulty, not super important + - every day within the first 60-90 minutes, think about the resolve for 5-10 mins, feel the emotion of it, stoke the fire +3. also try this with more global resolve + - instead of just project or activity based + - can be derived from values like "i deserve to be whole" + - maybe try this after a month of step 2 + +this practce is about cultivating the positive emotional circuits + +lack of self discipline = emotionally numb \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Dr K Talks with Ali Abdaal.md b/content/inbox/Dr K Talks with Ali Abdaal.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e7b00ef --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Dr K Talks with Ali Abdaal.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Original PDF Notes: [[Dr K Talks with Ali AbdaaI.pdf]] + + + +"get a good compass, get a good playbook, and don't worry so much about where you end up, focus on 'whats your strategy' and the world will give you supportive information or unsupportive information that you have to incorporate" + +If you want to be in control of your life, you have to learn how to do something for no reason. If you require a reason to do something, you're beholden to the outside world. We've been conditioned to act because of something, a reason. + +"I don't have motivation" - we think we need to have motivation, but what if you didn't need motivation to take action? + +We don't know what the consequences of our actions are, we need to act first, then learn about the consequences. We're afraid to lose, so we're afraid to act. + +Day to day burn out -> avoidance via technology -> can't move forward in life -> burnout, etc. + +Stuck in a cycle of burnout -> avoidance -> inaction -> burnout...etc + +fueled by an inability to sit with negativity. + +Making a positive life is about moving towards the negative. When you try to avoid, or move away from the negative, your life gets worse. If you move towards it, your life will get better, (specificially discomfort + difficulty) +- neuroscience might back this too, with pushing on the pain lever from dopamine nation + +Q:"what do you do if what makes you happy is not achievable?" + +happiness wont come from an external achievement. "What percent of your happiness and enjoyment of life is controlled by your external circumstances?" \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/DrK Why Video Games are so Hard to Put Down.md b/content/inbox/DrK Why Video Games are so Hard to Put Down.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..382d542a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/DrK Why Video Games are so Hard to Put Down.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- + +--- +DrK breaks down the process into feedback loops, or reinforcement. Video games provide that instant dopamine, sense of progress, clear objectives, etc. Whereas when we take action on our goals, we end up having self doubt, feeling like we should gave done more, etc. + +So it comes down to: + +1. Capture our waves of inspiration +2. Reflecting on them often +3. 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He said that once he understood his personality type, and started to align his work, and sense of worth, things drastically changed. + +Brandon Sanderson also talks about this, in the sense of figuring out what gets you to do the thing that you want to have done. For him, he really loves watching the progress bar of the book he's working on move up. For others, they need a reward, others need to avoid punishment diff --git a/content/inbox/How did we shift from art to money.md b/content/inbox/How did we shift from art to money.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c18eebeb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/How did we shift from art to money.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- + +--- +# How did we shift from art to money? +I'm curious as to the cultural shifts where the renaissance saw art as wealth, rather than just pure capital number, or having a fancy house or possession from a certain thing. + +Like at the highest levels I'm sure there's still a lot of that "exclusive art" thing going on, but at the end of the day its just speculative investments + +I wonder if memetic desire plays a roll in any of this + + +This whole thread: +https://twitter.com/jakingly/status/1705170194849472705 + +https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94q0q1gq \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/How to get the most out of a book.md b/content/inbox/How to get the most out of a book.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f0d3d9a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/How to get the most out of a book.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +RC Waldun +1. markup your book to have a conversation with the autho +2. sign posting - look for the main propositions or claims the author is making, the key arguments. unerline or tab the main points the author is making +3. summarize the main points from your signposts after you read a chapter - in your own words +4. archive notes to a central place + +Part 2: + +1. use a notebook instead of the margins of the book +2. take notes as you're reading the chaper - jot down your revelations + 1. make sure to do a broad inspectional reading first, then dive in with your notebook the second, full timne +3. note taking mehtod + - find an authors proposition/argument and write it down with 1.0 - that's your heading for your first chunk of notes + - bullets below this are example and reasons + - *this reminds me of another framework - I think from cal newport - talking about pulling out the main claim, and then the examples the author uses to support it* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/On Content - The Map vs Territory.md b/content/inbox/On Content - The Map vs Territory.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9667113b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/On Content - The Map vs Territory.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ + +The map isn't the territory, and the maps that others give you don't account for the individuality of the traveler (you) and the terarain (the goal, process, obstacles, et) What can we rely on? A compass, an idea of a destination and you vehicle. The vehicle is your feet when you're starting out. The destinatoin, you may not actually enjoy, and you should be cognizant of that on your journey. The copass is a reflection of where you are on your journey and if you're moving in the right direction. There are skills, tips, and best practices that people can give you on your journey, but you have differen struggles. all you can do is try to undersand the key concepts and see if you can apply it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/On overconsumption.md b/content/inbox/On overconsumption.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1c185d4f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/On overconsumption.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- + +--- +morbid obesity of the mind, lethargic, constantly consuming, not exerting energy + +https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zL7p6gaECTXdiirrFVSUTAW + diff --git a/content/inbox/Procrastination.md b/content/inbox/Procrastination.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5fdcd25d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Procrastination.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- + +--- + +Tiago forte on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1713677630115848363) +"Procrastination is a silent message from our brains that: 1. We don't have enough clarity to complete a task 2. It just doesn't serve a deep enough purpose" + +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qriNOmeSrmI + +- Get clarity on the exact environment, triggers, etc that cause you to procrastinate +- slow down your brain \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Redefining Productivity.md b/content/inbox/Redefining Productivity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..23bf65fd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Redefining Productivity.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +- Focus on effectiveness, leverage, and enjoyment of work, instead of just getting more done +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zKAXykV6vxcnSNEpT2LfyWG +- I really like Cal newport's definitions in episode 240 deep dive \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Show don't tell.md b/content/inbox/Show don't tell.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..286c7e6a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Show don't tell.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +- When movies over explain the plot, they're *so* boring. But, when you as the viewer get to figure it out for yourself, you feel like a genius. + - How can we apply the same thing to the content we create? How can we let readers come to conclusions for themselves, while still giving just enough for it to be non-obvious + - this whole non-obivous thing is interesting. Non-obvious-ness works best when it comes to metaphors and analogies, when you go deep into something and avoid cliches +- i wonder if the ikea effect also has a part here \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Stop taking so much action.md b/content/inbox/Stop taking so much action.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d668cb6d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Stop taking so much action.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +inspired by: https://youtu.be/cdg4ga4rpqa +also research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJDcB5M9ds +Study showing that people would prefer to shock themselves rather than doing nothing: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1250830, which Andy Matushack summarized as "People prefer doing to thinking" + +https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zJknUfCo51gKFth8XWAzqhg +https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zMmH3GBLKotdP4t1sdSvEQJ + + +- An ode to thinking more +- How can we incorporate more thinking into our life? How can we wrestle with ideas, and output less, but better? +- Instead of contributing to an endless grind of outputting whatever is top of mind, and calling it golden, what if we took less action and thought through things more +- Not trying to predict and making assumptions, but more reflection, talking to ourselves, rather than blind action +- How do we make sure that we're taking *enough* action? That we aren't using thinking as a way to procrastinate making progress on our dreams? +- What does it look like to get paid for thinking? + - transforming knowledge into value +- How can we become better thinkers? + +What does thinking *as* action look like? I think it looks like writing, in an effortful way. Working on good questions. Not over analyzing, but + +# **Why a bias for action is killing your productivity** +I was raised in the whole "take massive action" section of self development YouTube. When you’re focused on taking action for actions sake, you end up pulling in the thing closest to you. Or if you have an idea you just start working on it.  + +What if you’re not motivated to do anything though? For me, that manifested in a “wanting to take action” but proceeding to just procrastinate it. I have an idea that I want to build a product used service but I’m procrastinating it because I should just do it.  + +Instead what if we spent more time thinking?  + +Thinking about the scope of the problem, really engaging with it intellectually. Not just tweaking a management system but legitimately planning out the steps, considerations, actions, and reasons behind it all? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Tension of hard work.md b/content/inbox/Tension of hard work.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fafb7e9c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Tension of hard work.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +I have a lot of tension in my head around this idea of hard work + +people like joe abercrombie, super sucecssful author, says that he'd rather take a grater to his eyes than write. So why does he do it? How does he do it? + +Shouldn't we just be working on things that we enjoy, that we're naturally motivated to do? Or would that natural motivation just lead to a paht of hedonism? + +So we should do some hard things, but how do we know the difference between hard things that are bad to work on and those that are good to work on? is it a percentage thing, like 70% of the time I enjoy writing, but only 50% of doing web desingn, so I should pursue writing? + +Or is it more of a use of leverage thing? This whole rabbit hole feels like it's going towards cal's SGTCIY, which I think is pretty decent but just feel s off to me for some reason. + +Dr.K talks about how its about how you feel after you've done something. Do you feel guilty for being hedonistic afterwards? That means you should probably avoid it. Is something difficult, and afterwards you don't feel good about it? Probably avoid. Feels bad in the moment, but you feel great about yourself after? Do more of that. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Tiago Forte - Personal Productivity.md b/content/inbox/Tiago Forte - Personal Productivity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bf8cd751 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Tiago Forte - Personal Productivity.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Personal productivity is simple: + +1. Write down everything on your mind +2. Identify the things that are active right now +3. Choose which ones need to be done today +4. Complete the thing before moving on to another +5. Rinse and repeat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Tiago Forte - Weekly Reviews.md b/content/inbox/Tiago Forte - Weekly Reviews.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d1b019ef --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Tiago Forte - Weekly Reviews.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Source: Youtube Community post + +Life hack: Every Sunday dedicate just 10-30 minutes to review the past week. + +Reflect on wins, revisit lessons learned, and set intentions for the next 7 days. + +A Weekly Review doesn't need to be complicated to be effective. + +In fact, keeping it short and simple will mean you do it consistently. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Tim Ferris 3,3,3 plan from instagram.md b/content/inbox/Tim Ferris 3,3,3 plan from instagram.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f8d41cf --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Tim Ferris 3,3,3 plan from instagram.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Write down your 3:3:3 plan: 3 hours on your most important project, 3 shorter tasks, 3 maintenance activities. Defining a "productive day" is crucial. Or else you'll never be at peace. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Trusting yourself + Authenticity.md b/content/inbox/Trusting yourself + Authenticity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d307165 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Trusting yourself + Authenticity.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +There are a couple of issues with the advice around "just be yourself" or "be authentic." Who are we? What is our authentic self? + +1. WE don't know. We don't know what our true unadulterated self is. +2. Can we trust it all? Our neurochemistry and our environment make it easy to become addicted to things. Does my authentic self just want to play video games all day? +3. We're memetic creatures. Our idols, the people we like, celebrities, they all impart on us certain things. We take the things we like. +Rc waldum ("Be Yourself" is Bad Advice) argues that we should throw away comparisons and hierarchy. Instead of comparisons, we should amek room for our own tastes, strategies, values, etc. + +I belive DR k might have some content on this topic, in the mental health guide, I think the meditation is "Neti, Neti" meaning "not this, not this" Where you go through and analyze the things that you aren't + +Further reading" "wanting" by luker burgis + +I'd like to do some more digging on this, its all interweaved between ideentity, values, beliefs. there's also this theory that true motivation comes when we're in alignement with our true selves. + +Maybe we can take inspiration from art here, where you replicate others' work, and then the friction you feel is wherre you find your style. Maybe there's something to mark manson's method of trying on values. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/When does anti productivity go to far.md b/content/inbox/When does anti productivity go to far.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..158c6de1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/When does anti productivity go to far.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- + +--- + +When it’s something you enjoy. Ex. If it gives you joy to organize your productivity system, if it energizes you  + +Can kind of apply what Oliver burkman talks about in 4000 weeks + +Treat productivity like a hobby, it shouldn't be a replacement for actually doing work, but if it's something you enjoy tinkering with, have protected time to actually do it! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/Why You Feel Lost in Your 20s- Drk.pdf b/content/inbox/Why You Feel Lost in Your 20s- Drk.pdf new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b8f9ddfe Binary files /dev/null and b/content/inbox/Why You Feel Lost in Your 20s- Drk.pdf differ diff --git a/content/inbox/Why you shouldn't use readwise.md b/content/inbox/Why you shouldn't use readwise.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..736bc654 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/Why you shouldn't use readwise.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: How readwise ruined my life (and took the kids) (Save your $7.99) + + +## Resources +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWomVta4DU +https://readwise.io/pricing +https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/ +https://omnivore.app/joegoodman/https-www-frontiersin-org-journals-psychology-articles-10-3389-f-18db9aaf766 +## Outline +- brief overview of readwise but make it fun + - "I was once like you" +- breaking down tiago's video? +- collectors fallacy + - zettlekasten.de link above? + - +- Andy matuschak's inbox flow +- how i do it now + - Consume content -> hand written in Apple Notes -> linearly typed in obsidian -> non-linear sense-making & connections using canvas -> reforming into connected notes in Obsidian + - "but omg that is so inefficient!!" + - if the content you're consuming isn't worth this level of interaction, then is that content really worth any interaction at all? + - the science of learning via making connections + - developing brain gluten through working with the material + + +## Script +Well, not really. That was click bait, but you knew that. + +I was once like you, \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/anti-creator.md b/content/inbox/anti-creator.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..34a3bfe0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/anti-creator.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +- intro +- the problem + - "look at my stripe account, you can have this too if you just buy my course" + - the incentives of creators + - people in the creator economy are incentivized to get your attention, your clicks, and your money, in order to keep sustaining their business + - it leads to best practices, tactics, hacks, and unfulfilled promises of a better life + - keep you on that drip supply of content - "maybe the next one will be the one that finally helps me" +- the solution + - two types of anti-creators + - 1. the people who care about the craft of creating + - 2. the people who care about the selfish benefits of creating + - builders, writers, artisans, craftspeople. or, just being selfish + - is art inherently selfish + - being an anti-creator isn't about not making things, but rather going against the common content creator perception +- taking action + - website + - discord + + + +- there's been a disconnect in my head around content publishing. + - a world of publishing content because you said you were going to publish content, vs + +Anti-creators +- Dedicated to creating content, mostly for themselves +- only publishing high quality, but not restrictive on perfectionism - not focused on monetization through courses, Monetization is an after thought, +- focused on creating content for two main reasons + - Clarify your own thoughts-becoming a better thinker + - Seneca said "Qui docet discit" - he who teaches learns + - positively contributing to your field/the internet through content +- inherently anti-niche and more self-focused - making it the ultimate niche of one +- anti growth, leading to growth - focus on quality and not attention +- focus on content around reflection. not roadmaps & cheap clickbait + - "how I" not "how to" +- intrinsically motivated content creation +- "the people we learn from best are often the ones who are just a step ahead of us in the journey" + - "You don't need to be a guru. You can just be a guide." + - "Seeing people similar to oneself succeed by sustained effort raises observers' beliefs that they too possess the capabilities to master comparable activities to succeed." + Seeing others perform +threatening activities without adverse con- +sequences can generate expectations in ob- +servers that they too will improve if they +intensify and persist in their efforts. + +- Bandura + - This is why you should be + +How to monetize? +- taking money from businesses, not consumers + - ads & affiliates +- non content products + - no courses +- Direct contribution + - is pay walled content okay? + - maybe matuschak model + - increased access +- 1000 true fans + - $100 of products each year = 100k yearly revenue + +Anticreators.com and r/anticreators are available + +So sick of the cringe webinars that don't give you any information, but end up telling you that the real Stuff is in the course + +A rejection of best practices and a focus on what's necessitated out of the problem + +Anti tips - no more of the "5 tips to succeeding in your career" + +Examples: +- Julian Shapiro +- Derek Savers "slow Content" +- https://accordingtoandrea.com - just sharing her own tips on her blog +- Sol Orwell + +Inspirations: +https://youtu.be/jYNzBwLZNes?t=1722 +https://youtu.be/x8OKnG2l980 +[River Kenna on X: "Does anyone have a feasible model lying around where writers and artists and such can profit from their work and live well, And also where information can be free and the written word is free to go where it wishes?" / X](https://twitter.com/the_wilderless/status/1705158602242097190) +https://youtu.be/WzsPAmeDykw +https://youtu.be/ZmixszMNFgM?si=GV_4fLqjHctr0JG2 +https://blog.nateliason.com/p/get-rich-creator-economy + + + + +How serious should the discord be? Could make it paid, but would that be counter to the main point of the community? Or could get inspiration from Alcoholics Anonymous + +- anti-creator guidelines + - don't follow the guidelines (if you don't want to ) + - of the anti-creator definition, or of any definition for that matter + - the niche is you + - no publishing cadence, only publishing when you have something today + - instead, replace this with a creation habit. ex. writing every day instead of publishing everyday + - anti-perfectionist + - put something out there regardless if you think it's perfect. you can adapt later + +What to share? +- The things that excite you + +# Community Ideas +- Discord server for engagement with the community: + - Can use [https://statbot.net](https://statbot.net) +- Search engine across all anti-creator's posts + - Maybe this could be a paid feature? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/cal newport's planning system.md b/content/inbox/cal newport's planning system.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e9b9d33a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/cal newport's planning system.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + +- Core documents + - values + - career + personal strategic plans + - current thoughts, systems, and plans on living true to values + - maintenance + - review values and create value plan + - review strategic plans + - review ideas note book for actions + - productivity + - build a weekly plan, weekly, based of values, calendar, etc + - Build a daily plan, daily, based on weekly plan, values, etc + - sometimes time block the day + - work shutdown + - full capture of tasks + - discipline + - list of core disciplines (behaviours, habits, activities) that are strictly followed + - sometimes tracked by metrics \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/cal newport's weekly plan.md b/content/inbox/cal newport's weekly plan.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cee66d2c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/cal newport's weekly plan.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +from: Ep. 285 Deep Questions with Cal Newport + +- built every week +- reference your strategic (quarterly) plan + - what are the big projects? +- look at calendar + - where's there time to make progress on the big objectives + - block off time you find +- look at tasks + - whats important? - anything important need to be done? + - cleanup systems, move things around \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/give up on your big dreams.md b/content/inbox/give up on your big dreams.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5cd037a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/give up on your big dreams.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +intrinsic motivation = enjoying the process +focusing on your big dreams, externalizes and extrinsifies your motivation +it creates a gap between where you are today and where you want to be + +so you have a big dream, why do you want that? try doing the "5 whys" exercise to dive deeper into the actual reason + +but what about big hairy audatious goals? what about 10x mindset? diff --git a/content/inbox/how do you find your style.md b/content/inbox/how do you find your style.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66adb557 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/how do you find your style.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +in art, writing, your personal aesthetic/wardrobe, etc + +i'm most interested in photography and personal style + +philosophy of aesthetics? + +https://vimeo.com/100946762 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/is note taking even worth it.md b/content/inbox/is note taking even worth it.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..81f83d38 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/is note taking even worth it.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +"The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading" [Matuschak](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6GNVv6RyFDewy11ZgXzce8agWxSLwJ6Ub5Rw) + - "It’s not that they’ve so deeply internalized and automatized those practices that they seem invisible: they’re just not doing those things." + - "They read for a purpose" + - ["Many eminent thinkers need a writing surface to think"](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z5WDNZizsbAzE1p2BLwr339fV4TCpzNvaztP2) + +Cal Newport talks about this too +- So then whats the solve? + - Should the process naturally evolve? Instead of using someone else's process? + - Is there some sort of simple baseline that people use that is a common thread between them all? + - It's possible that we just need more effective engagement with the material. More time and space to actually think. It comes down to a balance of not being system-obsessed, rather content-obsessed. + - The truth is it doesn't matter what sort of system you have. The more time you spend concerned on the system is the less time you can focus on the content. + - The technology and system stack is there to serve you. It's there to personalize the workflow to the way that works best with you. + - The big thinkers who have messy desks with papers notes and books strewn about, that's their personal system. + - Its about adapting the personal side of it to you diff --git a/content/inbox/is rewarding yourself killing your motivation.md b/content/inbox/is rewarding yourself killing your motivation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e2c4d442 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/is rewarding yourself killing your motivation.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +--- + +--- +is extrinsic motivation killing your capacity for intrinsic motivation? + +you're not building the muscle of intrinsic motivation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/on documentation.md b/content/inbox/on documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db8b8c66 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/on documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ + +- concert recordings + - seeing sungazer and recording bits + - gf's mom asked for us to record a little bit + - love watching back through those and re-living through those little snippets + - even without those snippets, listening to their music brings me back. When "All These People" moves into half-ish time I remember the feeling of headbanging - whipping my hair around, and just getting lost in the music. I so wish I could expereince that again, but I absolutley loved being there and ffeeleing it, and luckily I get tiny smidgens of that feeling still comeback when i listen to the song + - or in threshold when the bass drops and i could remember Yee screeeaaaming into the sax + - so we went to go see my favorite band + - recording a couple of almost full songs that were my favorites + - except during this, it was taking up a thread + - "am i getting the framing right, am i covering up the microphone, etc." +- apple vision pro + - as technology improves, being able to live in past experiences (or even experiences of others, another topic for another day) will get even more real. + - if you had a spatial camera (like the iphone 15 pro quite a few people already have in their pockets), and the a recorded feed, not through the speakers, but what is sent to the speakers, then all you need is a vision pro and a really good set of speakers, and you can really re-live that concert. + - i'm sure it'll still feel remarkably different for the near future, but I could imagine us getting 80-90% there in not too long + - so, what'll make experiencing these things IRL any different + - will musicians turn into weekly live streamers once apple, meta, and google makes sure that each home is stocked with a virtual reality? + - will the marginal experience gain make traveling a couple hours and spending a couple hundred dollars not so worth it anymore, will live music get spotified the way buying albums did? +- on youtube - "how documenting my life changed my life" + +- sacrificing presence for reliving + - even just thinking "i'd like to record a little bit of this" takes up some of your brains processing power + - could you more efficiently use it to enjoy the experience? + - whats the ROI of using that to fully experience it vs having clips that can let you re-live it? + - is your brain even able to full experience it, or would that "thread" frequently go off on other rabbit holes? +- our memories are fragile + - they quickly decay, and even if they don't, can easily be rewritten. + - I hardly remember the first time i saw a7x, couldn't even tell you what year it was. + +other media +- live music aside, we end up having a quantity vs quality problem +- i recent got rid of almost 700 videos i was hoarding in my watch later playlist, and just about 600 emails i had let pile up in my inbox. + - when i confronted them, there were two main questions i asked myself + - how long will it take me to get through these? + - what would happen if these just dissapeared + - when it came to both, the answers were + - way too long + - probably nothing + - there were probably a few nuggets in there that i could have added to my PKM or some optimizations or things that I could try that i'm missing out on + - but i think being okay with missing out on these things, and instead trusting that, if i spend some alone time with my brain, we can work out something as good as, if not better, than what i would've gotten out of that content + - it's a leap of faith though, watching content is like playing the lottery for me. i was glued to the screen, pulling the lever on each video i clicked on, hoping that this was the one that would give me the jackpot - the nugget of content that would fix my problems. + - except, because of the quantity i was consuming, any jackpots that i would get would just be eaten up through more spins + + +> “The very activity of taking pictures is soothing, and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. +> +> The method especially appeals to people handicapped by a ruthless work ethic—Germans, Japanese, and Americans. Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun.” +> Susan Sontag, On Photography (h/t [Robin Waldun](https://amugofinsights.substack.com/p/why-i-refuse-to-track-how-many-books)) + +we see capturing these things as productive, because if we didn't, what do we have to show for? + +one day, the memory of the events we hold dearest will disappear, but we have the ability to capture them. but when we capture them, our presence is split. its a beautifully horrific balance that captures the human condition. + +the quantity of your camera roll is far less important than the quality. + +- engaging more deeply with fewer pieces of media + - I think the reason i so enjoyed the sungazer and avenged concerts were because they were few and far between. + + + diff --git a/content/inbox/the path to action is through inaction.md b/content/inbox/the path to action is through inaction.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f0a89594 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/the path to action is through inaction.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +If you need to do something painful, or anything for that matter, then do nothing and get bored. Humans will literally rather [cause physical pain to themselves rather than be bored](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1250830). So to do hard work, you first have to do nothing. I'm sure clarity on what exactly you have to do and why is helpful too. + +But the path to action is through inaction. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/turning my ipad into a remarkable2.md b/content/inbox/turning my ipad into a remarkable2.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..168e814c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/turning my ipad into a remarkable2.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- + +--- +# turning my ipad into a remarkable2 +kinda want to make a kind mockery of these two videos +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLKWQOl1FX4 +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67Xkqh8uEo +[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tEsZKgQrZtA](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tEsZKgQrZtA) +https://youtu.be/i1y6vi3zaqA +https://youtu.be/GxleoylSKQs \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/inbox/your purpose isn't your career.md b/content/inbox/your purpose isn't your career.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7cfb1d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inbox/your purpose isn't your career.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +[[Rediscovering Ikigai- What We Got Wrong & How to Find Meaning in Life]] + +also my research on finding your passion + +How do you enjoy your career if it isn't your passion? + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/Start a 5 year journal.md b/content/posts/Start a 5 year journal.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1d06d278 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/Start a 5 year journal.md @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +--- +url: https://joesmusings.substack.com/p/start-a-5-year-journal +--- +Over the years, I’ve tried many different kinds of journaling and ways of documenting my life. Everything from daily habit tracking in Notion to Obsidian's daily pages. Bullet journal planning, morning pages, daily logging -- oh my, indeed. But without fail, they always ended up abandoned within a month or two (on a good run). + +I would find a trove of people on YouTube who had made a hobby, sometimes a career, out of showcasing their long term commitments to documenting their life, be it through daily vlogging or bullet journaling. Their portfolios were impressive, inspiring, and would lead me to pick up their medium of choice. Though time after time, I would abandon it shortly after. + +This lack of follow through has made itself known in plenty of areas of my life: abandoned business plans, untouched domains renewing year after year, a dozen different productivity tools left half setup, and an electric guitar slowly detuning in the spare bedroom. (Just to name a few.) + +When I turned 25 this year, I was ready to change that. + +Looking at the graveyard of journals and apps, seeing this quarter-life number, I was inspired to start looking over the long-term. It probably doesn't help that I was reading Cal Newport's Slow Productivity at the time, a book that focuses on doing meaningful things over a longer time horizon. + +So I wanted to see if I could commit to a daily practice for 5 years. A 5 year daily journal. + +I decided to go analog, since I wanted this to be something I could physically hold, flip through, and look at on the shelf as a time capsule of years 25 through 30. I wanted to create a present for myself on my 30th birthday. + +## **How to do it** + +There are plenty of options you can choose for the pre-made route, including Leuchtturm's _Some Lines A Day_, Midori _5 Year Diary_, and the Hobonichi _5-Year Techo_. But personally, I wanted more control over the layout, so I opted for a dot grid 400 page Moleskine - the _Classic Notebook Expanded (Hardcover)_. + +It's readily available, pretty cheap ($20 on Amazon at time of writing), a good balance between paper thickness and journal bulkiness, and you get to choose how to lay it out.  + +What’s this layout, you ask? + +I split it into two sections: 35 pages at the front, and 365 pages at the back. + +### **5 Year Planning & Review** + +For the 35 page section in the front, that gives me 7 pages per year for planning, reviewing, setting goals, or having some traditional bullet journal collections. For me, I opted to use these in the following way: + +1. 5 year plan + + 1. I have one of these each year, since I'm pretty sure that this is going to change from year to year + + +2. Yearly Plan + +3. Yearly review + +4. (through 7) 1 page per quarter + + 1. Option 1: Split the top half and bottom half for planning and review + + 2. Option 2: Split into 3 sections to have one for each month (could also split each these in half [grid of 6] for planning and review) + + +### **Daily Pages** + +For the 365 page section, you get one page for each day of the year. The Moleskine expanded has 40 vertical spaces, so divided by 5, you get 8 lines per day, per year. (It’s almost like it was made for this.) + +This makes it a pretty small daily commitment, taking just a few minutes most days. + +I most often do my daily entry the next morning, while I’m sipping on my morning coffee, but it can also be a great end of day shut down ritual. Sometimes I’ll go a weekend without doing the pages, and backfill them on Monday.  + +## **What to write about** + +### **Planning** + +So far, I'm almost 3 months in, and I've been scared to fill out the planning section. For the 5 year plan, I do have a draft ready, I just need to put the pen to paper. Here are a couple of frameworks I've been thinking around: + +From Cal Newport:  + +- Craft & Career (Lifestyle Centric Career Planning) + +- Community (Relationships) + +- Contemplation (Spirituality, Religion, Philosophy, Mental Space) + +- Constitution (Health) + + +Wheel of Life: (h/t Ali Abdaal)  + +- Health: Body, Mind, Soul (spirituality/life purpose) + +- Relationships: Romance, Family, Friends + +- Work: Mission(Fulfillment/Purpose), Money, Growth + + +Other Considerations: + +- Travel plan & goals + +- Life Upgrades (Where you live, What you own, etc.) + +- Identity (The kind of person you want to be) + + +### **Daily entries** + +Here’s how I set up each daily page: + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5cfbf04-0186-45ad-959a-59aa46a30673_4032x3024.jpeg) + + + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5cfbf04-0186-45ad-959a-59aa46a30673_4032x3024.jpeg) + +Next year, I’ll append “ - Thu - “ to “2025“ and just rely on the date at the top. (And probably underline 2025 too.) + +Within the 7.5 lines remaining, I’ll usually journal about some combination of: + +- What did you do today? + + - Content you’ve consumed (books, media, games, etc.), places you've went, projects you’re working on, meetings you’ve had, etc + +- How are you feeling?  + + - Generally? About work? About life direction? + +- What's been on your mind? + + +## **How it's been** + +I haven't done too much reflection on my entries yet, but seeing the bookmark progress downwards through the journal is a stark reminder that time is going to continue on moving, regardless of what I do on a daily basis, and has helped push me towards trying to make the most of the little time we have. Not to mention, it's provided a steady, daily check in to see how I'm feeling, and reflection on what actions are contributing to that. + +# **Your turn** + +If you're reading this shortly after this has been published, July 1st is a wonderful day to start. If not, the monday after you read this is great too. The start date doesn't matter, what matters is the practice. If you're truly concerned about the aesthetics (I get it, I had to wait a bit too) then January 1st, 2025 is 6 months away, and is a wonderful time to start a 5 year journal. If you do wait for that, then in the meantime, pick up a cheap notebook to start today and practice over the next 6 months. + +It doesn’t matter when you start it, just that you start it. The purpose here isn’t aesthetic, it’s to start considering the long term, the bigger picture, and to start building the habit of follow-through. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/coming back to content creation.md b/content/posts/coming back to content creation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..01ac1c06 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/coming back to content creation.md @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +--- +url: https://joesmusings.substack.com/p/what-most-people-get-wrong-about +--- + +## I.  + +--- + +Just over a year ago, I joined the [Small Bets Community](https://smallbets.com/). The Small Bets team will bring in speakers on different topics, which are then recorded and uploaded. This past week, a workshop titled "Growing on Substack" by  + +[Elle Griffin](https://open.substack.com/users/19831053-elle-griffin?utm_source=mentions) + + lay waiting for me in the recordings directory. So, I clicked. + +Now writing has been a part of my life that I can't exactly wean myself off of. As most things go, a burst of initial motivation and inspiration fuels me along far enough to stay consistent for a few weeks, maybe a few months, but once the self-accountability wears out and the passion wanes, the project falls into the graveyard of experiments. + +Except writing. + +Despite 3 years of playing _Red Light, Green Light_ with writing, it continues to stick with me. My other projects, I can forget about – relegate them to years past as fun experiments that didn't quite catch on. + +But writing, the bastard, just won't seem to die. + +## II. + +--- + +Elle's workshop had caught my eye since I had previously written on Substack, when I had titled my newsletter "Effortless Action" with a bigger focus on motivation and taking action. Though after spending a few weeks on Substack, I had become more interested in ownership, customization, and control. So I migrated everything to self-hosted Ghost. + +But hearing from Elle how Substack is nowadays – and with a bigger personal interest in community, interacting with other writers, and attempting to ship writing that’s useful to others – awakened the need to write once more. + +So this week, I migrated everything back to Substack. + +(This isn't a post about where to host your newsletter, I promise.) + +As I was migrating posts over, the dates, the gaps between publishing mocked me. + +- A month of daily posts in March of 2021 +- A sprint of 12 at the end of 2021 +- A whole 2 posts in May of 2022 +- A sprint of 10 in the summer of 2023 + +And it felt bad. This thing that I claim to care about – dropping digital messages in bottles into the sea of the internet, in an attempt to help others live lives they enjoy – I was falling flat. I felt like a failure. + +But where does that feeling come from? Why wasn't I proud of the work that I _had_ done? + +## III. + +--- + +Content creation advice touts consistency as one of the pillars of growth. How can you improve your content if you don't get your reps in? You can't close the gap between your taste and your work without a portfolio of attempts. + +We see the greatest writers and their immovable writing routines, while we look at our own crafts and hobbies with a longing for the ability to dedicate that much time to it, and maybe one day replace our day jobs with the work we love. The greats like Seth Godin and Steven Pressfield preach professionalism - showing up - above all else, and shipping when the work needs to be shipped. Deadlines give us eustress, the pressure to show up, lest we be at odds with our promise to ourselves and others. + +But on the other side of the coin, shouldn't we let this come naturally? A more eastern approach might tell us that effortless action, Wu Wei, going with the flow, is a more sustainable, enjoyable route. Effortless action asks, "why try to swim upstream?" If it's not right, if there is too much friction or tension, then something is wrong, and it’s time to step back and reevaluate. + +So how do we balance these? Can the principle of “going with the flow” live alongside the consistency of showing up and shipping work? + +## IV. + +--- + +Luckily, when searching through my digital library for anything I had saved on consistency, a [Twitter thread](https://x.com/ungatedlife/status/1651024299011215360) by the great  + +[rob hardy 🦌](https://open.substack.com/users/2538781-rob-hardy?utm_source=mentions) + + surfaced. + +The also-wonderful Jay Acunzo had posted about shipping work because it's the day when you ship: + +> Creators need to take a Mean Girls approach to their practice: +> +> "On Wednesdays, we wear pink." Why? bc it's Wednesday. +> +> On Friday, you ship. Why? Because it's Friday. +> +> Not bc you're inspired or things are perfect or this is brilliant. +> +> be it's Friday, and on Fridays, YOU SHIP. +> +> - Jay Acunzo + +But Rob talks about only shipping when you have something worth being shipped: + +> most of my favorite writers and creators are the ones who only ship when they have something real to say, even if that's once every other month +> +> consistency can be important, especially in the beginning +> +> but sticking to some posting schedule can also become a prison for you, and cause people tune you out because they can tell you're forcing yourself to fulfill an arbitrary obligation rather than give a genuine gift +> +> -Rob Hardy + +These two points of view were exactly what I was stuck on. It was a quantity vs. quality problem, and analysis paralysis had trapped me right in the middle. + +Luckily for me, the lightbulb finally when off when  + +[Sam Sager](https://open.substack.com/users/94030848-sam-sager?utm_source=mentions) + + joins the party, and talks about self-renewing systems, using a gardening metaphor: + +> "if we try to push the harvest (publishing) more aggressively than we've built up the fertility (practice) we can't sustain it as a self-renewing system." +> +> -Sam Sager + +My problem wasn't that my publishing was too infrequent, it was a signal that something wasn't right with the system. Brute force publishing content for content's sake means there's something wrong with the system supporting it – it wasn't just a character flaw that I'm not good with follow through. + +It's persistence, a commitment to improving the system no matter how many times you “fail,” that will then allow consistent shipping to happen naturally. + +## VI. + +--- + +To make sense of all of this, you have to know the reason behind your consistency. Does the cadence, the time between shipped work, matter if you have a harvest that's in-line with your goals? + +Do you want to optimize for a discoverability algorithm? Are you a brand that needs to stay top of mind for consumers? Does the content or product require speed and timeliness? + +Then the consistency of shipping matters. (output) + +Do you care more about the quality of your product? Is there a specific craft you're trying to hone? + +Then the consistency of practice matters. (input) + +Are you sitting on too many ideas? Not honing the craft of writing, but instead, the craft of idea generation? Is that okay with you? Or are you spending too much time "searching for inspiration" on social media, and not commiting to the craft that you're really trying to hone? + +For entrepreneurs-to-be, are you sitting on your perfect business idea, or scrolling "Top 10 Business Ideas" Youtube videos, instead of honing the skills you need to actualize them? + +Focusing on consistency of product helps us cut away the BS of what's necessary to ship. But once you understand that writers need to write, painters need to paint, and entrepreneurs need to entre-_ahem_… build, do you need that consistency of product? Or are you able to reflect on your practice and guide yourself back on the right track when need be? + +Tell an audience you'll publish weekly, and that's what they'll expect. Some producers need that deadline, and are able to ship a pretty good product week in and out. + +Tell them that you'll show up with a product when you have something to share with them, and that's what they'll expect. + +If it's not something you're being paid to show up for, then why not put your head down for a while and hone your craft? + +Just beware - if you don't show the product of your practice, it'll have internal benefits, but won't have a direct impact on the outside world. Understand that shipping still matters. Committing to a consistency of practice lets the product happen naturally, but you have to be aware of the pipeline. + +Sure, engage with the community you want to be a part of, stay top of mind, share what you're working on. But consider harvesting only when the fruit is ripe. + +## VII. + +--- + +In the Twitter thread above, Jay adds some context around who his advice is for: + +> People struggling with forward momentum need to hear that you need to keep putting in the work. + +Do you want to ship work, but haven't yet? Start with commiting to a product every week for 12 weeks. No tutorials, no optimization, [you have the info you need](https://joesmusings.substack.com/p/following-our-intuition). + +Have you shipped in the past, but have fallen off because you're not happy with the product? Commit to a consistency of practice, with an eye on how much you're shipping. By all means, have an output goal that you can judge against, but don't sacrifice your craft for an arbitrary deadline. + +Join me on this journey to build a practice. Not because of an arbitrary deadline, but because you have a craft to work on.  + +Avoid getting trapped by perfectionism - ship when it's an accurate reflection of where you are right now, regardless of how "good" you think it is, or how it compares to others' products. + +The past is in the past, there's nothing we can do to publish yesterday.  + +All we can do is start again. + +--- + +## Cut + +For me, writing feels so good. But it's so difficult to convince myself that it's the case. When I finally make sense of the scramble inside of my head, find the perfect sentence to describe it, and chisel at the structure of the piece to create something new, it fills my cup. + +Though it seems like every time I step away, my memories are wiped. I forget the feeling that it brings, and it's so difficult to get back into the motions again. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU.md b/content/references/2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b36e5923 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +author: Brandon Sanderson +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ&index=2 +status: Reading +type: Video +dateCreated: 2024-03-24 +layout: reference +--- +# 2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU + +## Lecture #1 Introduction +Come to Jesus Moment + +What is the thing that, even if you failed, you'd still do no matter what? +- Sanderson had written 12 novels, but none had sold. +- People were worried, would ask him how he's going to make money, discouraging him from pursuing this career as a writer. +- So, the key question here is "how do you know to keep going when people are telling you to stop" + - "What is my success look like? What am I willing to accept?" + - "If I died in my 100s with 150 unpublished manuscripts, was I okay with this?" + - And the answer was yes, maybe slowed down rate, get a real job, but he'd keep on writing + - When he answered this, it took a big weight off of his shoulders + - Inspo for anti-creator here, the mindset shift turns into - you win by publishing, not by going full time. Each piece that you put out into the world is a win, regardless of how it's accepted + - "Writing is good for you." + + +42min diff --git a/content/references/3-2-1- How to do hard things, being resourceful, and the value of simplicity.md b/content/references/3-2-1- How to do hard things, being resourceful, and the value of simplicity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..92e907d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/3-2-1- How to do hard things, being resourceful, and the value of simplicity.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-09-14 13:15:16 +id: 2969feb0-b11f-45f3-9417-0b8fece22be1 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/3-2-1-how-to-do-hard-things-being-resourceful-and-the-value-of-s-18a94b098c3 +url: https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/september-14-2023 +author: James Clear +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> “Arguably the most important skill is controlling your attention. This goes beyond merely avoiding distractions. The deeper skill is finding the highest and best use for your time, given what is important to you. More than anything else, controlling your attention is about being able to figure out what you should be working on and identifying what truly moves the needle.” + + +> “When you’re doing something hard, focus on the fun part. +> +> Many people make a subtle mistake, which is they emphasize how difficult it is to do something. They tell themselves writing is hard or running is hard or math is hard. And so on. The dominant thought in their mind is that this is hard to do. +> +> And it is true these things (and many others in life) can be challenging. +> +> Meanwhile, people who thrive in a given area are often emphasizing a completely different aspect of the experience. They are thinking about how it feels good to move their body rather than telling themselves exercise is hard. Or, perhaps, they aren’t really thinking much at all. They may slip into a trance during their run, a meditative rhythm. +> +> But what they are almost certainly not doing is repeating a mental story about how hard it is to do the thing. Their dominant thought is about some element of the experience they enjoy. They are working hard, but with the fun part in mind.” + + diff --git a/content/references/5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job.md b/content/references/5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1b19af26 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-01-11 08:10:59 +id: b790f2b9-ee79-43d6-970e-659518be7f8e +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/5-ways-to-pursue-a-passion-project-while-working-a-full-time-job-18cf8a5b958 +url: https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/passion-project/ +author: Danielle Sinay +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> ### Create a morning routine +> for an example: Hendrick spends 30 minutes reading then another half hour working on a single step in business, like registering a domain name or starting a website. + + +> ### Work in increments +> “Work on your passion project in 15-minute increments,” says Debra Eckerling, a productivity coach and author of [_Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning, and Achieving Your Goals_](http://yourgoalguidebook.com/). “While sometimes you need to carve out an entire afternoon to work on big-picture tasks, consistently working in small pockets of time adds up.” + + +> ### Practice the 5 of 7 rule +> Eckerling’s “5 of 7 rule,” which provides the flexibility to decide how many days you can realistically work on your project per week. Most opt for five of seven days, but it can be fewer, too. + + +> ### Track your progress +> “After you complete whatever task during each designated passion project time, make a note about your progress within the appointment,” she says. That way, “at the end of the week or month, if you are frustrated that you didn’t get more done, you can look at your calendar and be proud of your accomplishments and dedication.” + + +> ### Get enough sleep +> “If you’re chronically sleep deprived, you won’t have the energy or the creativity you will need to pick up that side gig at the end of a long day,” + + diff --git a/content/references/An ode to slowness- the benefits of slowing down - Ness Labs.md b/content/references/An ode to slowness- the benefits of slowing down - Ness Labs.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..77291913 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/An ode to slowness- the benefits of slowing down - Ness Labs.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-06-27 08:36:13 +id: b07700e2-b859-44fe-8c07-82c04a29248a +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/an-ode-to-slowness-the-benefits-of-slowing-down-ness-labs-188fcdabd7c +url: https://nesslabs.com/the-benefits-of-slowing-down?ref=refind +author: Anne-Laure Le Cunff +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> **Intentionality.** When we focus on speed, we may blindly follow a path that may not be the most efficient one to reach our goals + +This was the case for me and choosing to pursue freelance + diff --git a/content/references/Andys Note Taking.md b/content/references/Andys Note Taking.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e6f9963 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Andys Note Taking.md @@ -0,0 +1,223 @@ +--- +status: To Read +--- + +Source: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/%C2%A7Note-writing_systems + +- Principles + - You should track how many evergreen notes you write - that should be the key metric you strive for as a thinker + - The problem with note taking + - the majority of content focuses around the surface level apps and tools you should use + - "People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use" + - the goal isn't to take better notes, it's to think better + - most systems have little to no interaction with your notes over time, letting sub-par note taking slide and never letting you give yourself feedback + - The work you do should build on itself, one-off note taking and writings should become a part of a process that lets knowlesge build + - "We should strive to design practices systems which yield compounding returns on our efforts as they accumulate over time." + - writing evergreen notes does this - requiring dissection, connections, etc +- Reading and note writing + - write about what you read + - understanding requires engagement, and writing forces sharper understanding + - you should write evergreen notes as you read - synthesize, connect, dive deep + - How? + - Collect passages of interest & your own thoughts + - Process clusters into lasting notes + - not just collecting material + - "having a text at hand does nothing to increase our knowledge" - [Tietze](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/) + - collecting material is easy, it hides important materials in a moshpit of random articles + - alternatively, you could try using a spaced repetition system for a few key details that you don't want to lose + - ==I also wonder if there's some sort of separate system for other frameworks that people provide. That they're not necessarily something I want to add to my PKM, but could be useful. Is there a separate system for managing ideas, vs the things to actually take action on?== + - Do your own thinking while reading, don't let the writer do it for you + - "How to collect observations while reading" + - you'll want an easy way to collect insights while reading ex. a writing inbox + - annotations and inline notes don't have much value, the don't relate or add up + - they're just a reminder + - annotations aren't for long term storage, they're just there to help you remember context while reading + - "When processing these observations, you’ll want to be able to see the big picture and see clusters of ideas, so it’s helpful to collect annotations in a manipulable fashion." + - ==mind mapping? obsidian canvas connection here?== + - Here's what Andy is trying: + - Physical books + - write thoughts on a slip of paper + - Mark interesting passages + - Articles + - copy & paste interesting excerpts into a single working note in writing inbox + - Digital books/pdfs + - In app highlighter + - export highlights into a working note in inbox to cluster + - also see: + - https://zettelkasten.de/posts/making-proper-marks-in-books/ + - https://zettelkasten.de/posts/create-zettel-from-reading-notes/ + - + - Literature notes + - purpose: "help you write durable notes" + - there for later look up + - links to evergreen notes + - "create an opportunity to explicitly curate key durable notes associated with a note. This might be important for cutting through the noise, especially if a reference is mentioned frequently." + - should be + - reference specific + - brief + - separated from the rest of the system + - "typically a lightweight synthesis of observations collected while reading" + - definition comes from How to Take Smart Notes + - You need to take some form of literature note that captures your understanding of the text, so you have something in front of your eyes while you are making the slip-box note. But don’t turn it into a project in itself. Literature notes are short and meant to help with writing slip-box notes. Everything else either helps to get to this point or is a distraction. + + Fleeting literature notes can make sense if you need an extra step to understand or grasp an idea, but they will not help you in the later stages of the writing process, as no underlined sentence will ever present itself when you need it in the development of an argument. + - "The archive of lasting notes is the place where you [Do your own thinking](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zLdprTyt7Ca2z2LUGLtFMSs): you’ve interpreted others’ ideas into your own structure of knowledge. Direct quotes are fairly rare; durable notes are intentionally expressed in your own words. By contrast, literature notes are often mostly the author’s thoughts. They tend to lean on direct quotes, and even when our interpretation is offered, it’s in the context of the author’s ontology and claim system. [It’s hard to hear yourself think](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zWzVw2VM4TPjpKXnHUfLaso), so we should clearly separate the space where we do our own thinking from these more direct representations of others’ thoughts." + + - Processing reading notes into evergreen + - input: marked passages & notes about your thoughts + - how to decide what to write + - "evergreen notes should be concept-oriented", so choose the key concepts + - take a step back and get a look at the overall picture + - cluster scraps into piles and see what emerges + - or mind map/visual outline + - Andy recommends you "create speculative outlines while you write" + - "When you write a new note, add it to one or more **outlines** you’re maintaining, creating a new one if necessary. Substantially-complete writing projects will naturally emerge." + - once you have a sense of the concepts, you write the notes + - from https://zettelkasten.de/posts/create-zettel-from-reading-notes/ + - 1. write a broad note to capture the big idea + - 2. write smaller notes that capture the "nuanced atomic ideas" + - 3. connect to past notes : link, merge, revise + - 4. revise the broad note and improve it based on what you've connected + - make sure to have a method to capture notes on the go, ex. andy uses an A7 notepad and pen. + - writing inbox + - you want to be able to capture one off ideas effortlessly and develop them into evergreen notes eventually + - 1. should be quick to capture & separate from evergreen notes + - 2. should reliably be drained + - reduce inputs + - increase processing, ex create a routine + - many notes here end up as evergreen notes + - if after a few passes it doesn't look interesting, then archive or delete it + - reading inbox + - have one spot to capture things + - don't auto import + - processing + - trash it, doesn't look valuable + - read it seriously + - read it lightly and file in a reference library + - file in other list (like recipes to try) + - important feautres + - easy capture + - easy reading + - easy "listing across item type"(?) + - obvious when something has been passed over multiple times + - no app really does this + + +- thinking and note-writing + - evergreen notes can help: + - leaps of insight + - develop wild ideas + - increase conversational bandwidth + - how to use spaced repetition + - maybe I could add a "last reviewed" date to notes + +- writing and note-writing + - "executable strategy for writing" + - focus is to create evergreen notes that allow you to "publish things" more of an editing job than a writing job + - two main ways of writing + - bottom up + - write evergreen notes while reading and thinking + - when you create a new note, add it to an outline for a piece (or add a new one) + - eventually, you'll want to write from one of those outlines + - write new notes to fill in the missing parts + - put all of those together for a first draft + - rewrite + - top down + - review your notes on a topic + - write an outline + - attach notes to each part of the outline and write new notes where needed + - put all of those together for a first draft + - rewrite + - + +- structure of the notes + - evergreen notes should be written for yourself, not for anyone else +- associative structure + +## Rabbit holes +- The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading + - [Link](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6GNVv6RyFDewy11ZgXzce8agWxSLwJ6Ub5Rw) + - "It’s not that they’ve so deeply internalized and automatized those practices that they seem invisible: they’re just not doing those things." + - "They read for a purpose" + - ["Many eminent thinkers need a writing surface to think"](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z5WDNZizsbAzE1p2BLwr339fV4TCpzNvaztP2) + - Cal Newport talks about this too + - So then whats the solve? + - Should the process naturally evolve? Instead of using someone else's process? + - Is there some sort of simple baseline that people use that is a common thread between them all? + - It's possible that we just need more effective engagement with the material. More time and space to actually think. It comes down to a balance of not being system-obsessed, rather content-obsessed. + - The truth is it doesn't matter what sort of system you have. The more time you spend concerned on the system is the less time you can focus on the content. + - The technology and system stack is there to serve you. It's there to personalize the workflow to the way that works best with you. + - The big thinkers who have messy desks with papers notes and books strewn about, that's their personal system. + - Its about adapting the personal side of it to you + - This is a rabbit hole that I'd like to further think and write about + + +- [Daily Working Log](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z28QkpK3vRKQTacjFDfGYBhCXHqHuVWJzny9) + - Andy keeps a daily working log to gather thoughts reflections and scrratch work throughout the day. + - Keys: + - 1. Zero friction capture zone + - 2. Natural pressure to "outlive the day" and move into the evergreen system + - If any thoughts look like they "have legs" Andy will move them up the note taxonomy, ex. into his writing inbox or into an evergreen note + - The daily log can also be used as a way to create touch points on other notes via contextual backlinks. +- [Andy's morning writing practice](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zVFGpprS64TzmKGNzGxq9FiCDnAnCPwRU5T) + - Mornings are spent working on evergreen notes, either writing or revising + - Not for note taking, but for developing ideas + - Starts with opening up his writing inbox + - If any strike his fancy, he drafts up an evergreen note about it + - If his writing inbox is low, Andy pulls in his notepad (on the go capture tool) and fills it with those notes, archiving those which are boring + - Then thinks through his key creative projects + - using prompts like + - "what are the most important unknowns for this project?" + - "what new ideas am I excited about?" + - "what are the most interesting things I know about this project?" + - the responses go in his daily working log + - If nothing else is sparking interest, he uses the time to write about what he has recently read, things that he hasn't created evergreen notes on + - 5 minute breaks every 25 mins, no longer than 2-3 hours working + +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2iRjpFUtRxLXcRfxWAV8ikS17G1y6KAT1q6 + - You don't have to write evergreen notes about everything you read +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6GNVv6RyFDewy11ZgXzce8agWxSLwJ6Ub5Rw + - +- [Andy's Strategies to hear himself think](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z3ruCqbkUjU7U8MD5gaMjzmJV4GuENJ3ie1LP) + - Wifi off in the morning + - Daily routine consistency + - Reminder that https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2q7U5ZvXeDxXD6vXAbZb9a + - Meditaition + - Simple background music + - Long walks without input + - His notes are in his own words + - Regular reflection & planning + - Forest app on phone + - No mail or twitter on phone + - Focus.app blocks mail twitter and distracting sites from 7 to 5 + - Answering email in batches + - Only one meeting per day + +- [Taxonomy of Note Types](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2Gt5rAmfX) + - Daily notes - "ephemeral scratchings" + - Writing inbox - prompts and incomplete notes to turn into evergreen + - Evergreen notes + - Outline Notes + - Other + - Literature notes - like outline notes but for others' thinking + - Person notes + - Topic log, taking small topic-relevant bits from a daily log and chronoligically ordering them [example](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zDuBTrCGDkf2J2TbtQwKDed) + + + +- [Do your own thinking](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zLdprTyt7Ca2z2LUGLtFMSs) + - When you're reading something, bu default you let the author do the thinking for you + - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/schopenhauer-parerga-and-paralipomena/4A6C077B1B797BDDE7FF75D75E531C21 + - > When we read someone else thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. … Accordingly in reading we are for the most part absolved of the work of thinking. … It stems from this that whoever reads very much and almost the whole day, but in between recovers by thoughtless pastime, gradually loses the ability to think on his own – as someone who always rides forgets in the end how to walk. But such is the case of many scholars: they have read themselves stupid. For constant reading immediately taken up again in every free moment is even more mentally paralysing than constant manual labour, since in the latter we can still muse about our own thoughts. But just as a coiled spring finally loses its elasticity through the sustained pressure of a foreign body, so too the mind through the constant force of other people’s thoughts. + - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/practical-philosophy/an-answer-to-the-question-what-is-enlightenment-1784/B371F3835575A98E5FB7D3F156B18DBF + +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7YL32DPACvqsSZrMpt88X5 + - weekly menu to choose activities from + - use weekly planning for big picture analysis of projects + - identify higher order bits to keep whats most important at the top +## Further Reading +- https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/notes-against-note-taking-systems +- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/%C2%A7Taking_knowledge_work_seriously_(Stripe_convergence_talk%2C_2019-12-12) + +# My action items +- separate writing inbox from reference inbox \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Are You Effective or Just Busy- Calculate Your Churn Rate to Find Out - Cal Newport.md b/content/references/Are You Effective or Just Busy- Calculate Your Churn Rate to Find Out - Cal Newport.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..12af513d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Are You Effective or Just Busy- Calculate Your Churn Rate to Find Out - Cal Newport.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-02-23 18:55:03 +id: 5b1fc0f0-f5ec-4610-867d-75df26a90e90 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-calnewport-com-are-you-effective-or-just-busy-calculate-yo-18dd8649a1a +url: https://calnewport.com/are-you-effective-or-just-busy-calculate-your-churn-rate-to-find-out/ +author: Study Hacks +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> It focused on a new numerical metric called the **churn rate**. The idea: list out the major projects on your short-term horizon. Then return, 3 -6 weeks later, to find out how many projects were completed. Divide the complicated projects by the days elapsed, multiply by 100, and you have a handy score capturing how effectively you complete things. + + diff --git a/content/references/David Perell's Writing One-Sheet.md b/content/references/David Perell's Writing One-Sheet.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd0bf348 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/David Perell's Writing One-Sheet.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +author: David Perell +status: To Read +--- + +![[Writing One Sheet.pdf]] +- **Writing One Sheet** +- **Rules for Writing** + - Use short sentences. Clarity is key. Make your sentences simpler than you think you should. + - Use simple words. If you wouldn’t use it in a bar, don’t write it. + - No cliches. They diminish the weight of your ideas and the power of your prose. + - Delete all extra words. Make your point and get out of the way. + - Be precise. Use statistics and examples instead of generalizations. + - Surprise the reader. It proves you’re entertaining them or teaching them something. +- **How to Find Ideas** + - Talk to friends. Conversations are inherently random, which sparks serendipity. You’re also forced to structure ideas on-the-spot, which makes it easier to write about those ideas. + - There are no original ideas. Everything is a remix. Great ideas occur when you make connections between existing ideas, and build upon them. +- **Planning to Write** + - Don’t try to write for an audience. Pick one person to write for instead. Then, imagine the questions they’d ask and the rebuttals they’d make. + - Before you start writing, put three things at the top of the page: (1) set the context, (2) outline the questions you’re going to answer, and (3) share your one-sentence answer to the question. Then, make sure every sentence relates to what you’ve written at the top of the page. +- **Organization** + - Spend more time on organization than you think you should. It will save you time. + - If you have writer’s block, stop writing. Say the ideas out-loud and transcribe what you say + - instead. + - If you’re struggling with organization, draw out the ideas to see how they connect. +- **Editing** + - Before editing, change the color and size of the font. It helps you see your writing differently, which makes editing easier. + - Edit in a different place from where you usually write. + - Read your writing out-loud. + - When asking friends for feedback, remember the CRIBS acronym. Ask them to tell you what’s (1)confusing, (2) repeated, (3) insightful, (4) boring, and (5) surprising. +- Notes: diff --git a/content/references/David Perell's Writing Syllabus.md b/content/references/David Perell's Writing Syllabus.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0012d280 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/David Perell's Writing Syllabus.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +author: David Perell +tags: + - ToProcess +status: To Read +--- + + +Howdy, + +If you’re ready to start writing, but don’t know where to begin, this email is for you. + +It’s a list of the best things I’ve written about online writing. I’ve separated the page into multiple sections and will add to it as I find future writing articles. + +Through my online writing course called [Write of Passage](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/dpheh0hkqz4878sm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS93cml0ZS1vZi1wYXNzYWdl), I’ve taught hundreds of people to write, and most of the challenges come down to the same core issues. The biggest problem with writing education is that we focus too much on grammar. + +Teachers focus on syntax and punctuation because it’s easy to grade. But your writing will never be good if you can’t identify and refine interesting ideas. Beyond that, my students are plagued by psychological hurdles. Writer’s block, imposter syndrome, and fear of judgment limit aspiring writers more than grammatical errors ever will. +Anyways, here are my go-to resources on writing well. It's split into five sections: + +- The basics +- Finding great ideas +- Building the writing habit +- The craft of writing +- Recommended articles by other people + +Enjoy! + +### **THE BASICS** +- [__The Ultimate Guide to Online Writing__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/e0hph7hek9pqn4s8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3RoZS11bHRpbWF0ZS1ndWlkZS10by13cml0aW5nLW9ubGluZQ==)__: In this post, I outline my entire philosophy of writing online. __Writing online is the fastest way to accelerate your career. It’s the best way to learn faster, build your resume, and find peers and collaborators who can create job and business opportunities for you. +- [__Why You Should Write__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/7qh7h8h80vkw43hz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3doeS15b3Utc2hvdWxkLXdyaXRl)__: __Writing online is a guaranteed way to shrink the world. A well-written article can change your life because the internet rewards people who think well. Everything you write is an advertisement for the kinds of people and opportunities you want to attract, and if you have a voice, you can build a platform. As Derek Sivers once wrote: “The coolest people I meet are the ones who find me through something I’ve written.” +- [__How to Maximize Serendipity__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/owhkhqhn43kg8xsv/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3NlcmVuZGlwaXR5)__:__ Writing online is the fastest way to increase serendipity. If you can maximize your surface area for luck, you’ll accelerate your progress and create opportunities for yourself. + +### **FINDING GREAT IDEAS** +- [__How I Choose What to Read__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/z2hghnh7o94pdnsp/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL2Nob29zZS1yZWFkaW5n)__:__ Information is like food. Any chef will tell you it’s impossible to cook a world-class meal without world-class ingredients. Writing is the same. The quality of your output depends on the quality of your input. +- [__How to Learn on the Internet__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/p8heh9hd9k3g76iq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3N3aW1taW5n)__: __Tell me what you pay attention to, and I’ll tell you who you are. In this post, I outline my strategy for learning for the internet. +- [__Where the Wild Things Are__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/x0hph6hzn8r970t5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3doZXJlLXRoZS13aWxkLXRoaW5ncy1hcmU=)__:__ It’s a law of the universe: Creativity always starts at the edge. If you want to find interesting ideas, you have to escape the mainstream spotlight. +- [__How to Maximize Creativity__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/dpheh0hkqz487gtm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL21heGltaXplLWNyZWF0aXZpdHk=)__: __Creativity can’t be created directly, but it can be cultivated. Turns out, there are a simple set of tricks you can use to maximize your creativity. +### BUILDING THE WRITING HABIT +- [__The Magic Moment__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/e0hph7hek9pqn3t8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3RoZS1tYWdpYy1tb21lbnQ=)__:__ This post answers the question: “When should you start writing?” In it, I argue that you should start writing right when you have an epiphany because the moment right after an epiphany is the only moment in the creative process where the rush of enthusiasm trumps the fear of judgment. +- [How to Cure Writer’s Block:](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/7qh7h8h80vkw4raz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL2hvdy10by1jdXJlLXdyaXRlcnMtYmxvY2s=)__ By the time you finish this article, you’ll be done with writer’s block forever. In it, I focus on three strategies for ending writer’s block: (1) gather supplies, (2) talk it out, and (3) start with abundance. +### **THE CRAFT OF WRITING** +- [__My Writing System__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/owhkhqhn43kg8qtv/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3dyaXRpbmc=)__:__ In this post, I outline the system I use to generate articles, organize them, and prepare them for publishing. I share my basic rules for writing and editing, such as switching context and adding a list of banned words. +- [__Robert Caro’s Writing Secrets__](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/z2hghnh7o94pdmtp/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGVyZWxsLmNvbS9ibG9nL3JvYmVydC1jYXJvLXdyaXRpbmctc2VjcmV0cw==)__: __Robert Caro’s is the world’s greatest biographer. Never, never, never in a million years did I think I would read a 1,200 page — 700,000-word — window into the politics of New York. But first-rate writing is seductive, no matter the topic. Facts alone aren’t enough. They’re too black-and-white. Readers yearn for images and anecdotes that make the information pop. For facts to stick in the reader’s mind, they must be enriched by colorful stories. Aided by subtle visuals and roller coaster narratives, Caro brings his biographies to life. That’s Robert Caro’s secret: he unlocks the electricity of sight. +### RECOMMENDED ARTICLES BY OTHER PEOPLE +- Nat Eliason: [21 Tactics to Help You Become a Better Writer](https://click.convertkit-mail.com/xmuzz77p8di3undlqwu5/p8heh9hd9k3g7ecq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0ZWxpYXNvbi5jb20vYmV0dGVyLXdyaXRlci8=) (Highly recommend) +- Jordan Peterson: [Jordan B. 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Dissociation/apathy +2. Desires & our relationship to the universe + 1. Grasping +3. ego +4. karma +5. perception +6. tools + 1. meta cognition +7. jnana yoga + +advanced detachment isn't about doing more or special things, it's about doing them more & more consistently +- "how do you get into shape?" + - you can be taught on each method of exercise, and little tweaks that can help you be more efficient/effective, but it's the consistency that will really get you in shape + + +## jnana yoga + +yoga = union/liberations +- 4 paths for yoga to lead you to enlightment + - one of those paths is of knowledge + - in the path of knowledge, we contemplate + - we don't do much/see many people practice this + - the path of contemplation is difficult + - because our mind is not pure/is flawed + +what detachment is not? +- lot of people think it means apathy, being "unplugged" + - what is apathy? it is a very powerful attachment + - usually these people have a core attachment or emotion that is walled off and is calloused + - underneath the "not caring" there is a lot of caring that leads them to wall themself off + - ex. people who have given up on dating + - they're not detached, they're so resentful and burned, they just wall it off + - wall off -> stop feeling -> apathy + +detachment is about going all in +- living life without worrying about the ego, consequences, etx +- ex. casino + - the odds are not in your favor. you can calculate the odds + - but the way you play depends on your attachments + - the way you approach the gambling can be very different + - if you're excited, passionate, "I can do it!" + - you can play the game dispassionately, calculated, or get caught up in it +- vairagya - sanskrit word for detachment + - vai - without + - ragya - passion, interest, color + - living dispassionately is our goal + - we don't just ignore the world around us, we just don't want to get caught up in it + - you can feel emotions, have passion, but it's about not letting it be all consuming and entirely sweeping you up + - people who are attached in life go towards what they're attracted to, and away from the things that repulse them + - so they lose control, your emotions dictate your actions + - casino ex. "i'm on a hot streak" and become more passionate about winning more, but the odds are still against you + - neurosci + - chasing our attachments is biologically impossible to get happiness + - nucleus accumbens - you get a trigger of dopamine + - 1st it creates pleasure + - 2nd creates craving/anticipation + - 3rd creates tolerance + - do an activity + - 5 units of pleasure, 1 unit of tolerance, 5 units anticipation + - "i wan't 5 units again" + - if you win a second time + - 4 units of pleasure, 1 unit tolerance, 5 units anticipation + - 3rd + - 3 units pleasure, 1 unit tolerance, 5 units anticipation + - there's no way to win this, as you engage in the behavior more, your pleasure goes down due to your tolerance, but you still have the same craving + - so we want to cultivate dispassion towards our life + - you want to be like a gambler who understands there are consequences, what the odds are, but then can act appropriately + - but when we act through our passions, we don't accurately judge the world around us, we get caught up in stuff + +avoid living in the future +- don't cling to the present, don't focus on the future +- our brain has the capability to project out into the future + - don't stop thinking about it, just stop living in it + - ex. have a crush + - you can act with an expectation of the future + - or no expectation of the future + - ex. if you buy them flowers + - you give the gift with an expectation of something in return - not a real gift, it's a trade that you didn't know about, and you don't know what I'm expecting in return + - if the expectation isn't met, then you suffer +- karma far + - you're entitled to your actions, not the consequences of your actions + - you can give someone flowers + - you can understand the facts around it, that it'll show them you like them, that you are interested, positive emotions for the receiver + - when you live dispassionately, removed from expectations, you're more likely to be successful + - your mind serves a function + - what gets us into trouble is that the mind controls us instead of us controlling the mind + - ex. senses + - you should enjoy tasty things, but if you let your tongue run your life, you'll end up in a world of hurt + - it's not that you can't engage with it, just don't let it run the show + - the future focus is the same thing + - calculate out the future + - but don't expect a certain result when you take that action, let go of it + - do the best that you can, then realize that the world outside of you might have different plans + - your suffering will come from the expectation + - look at things in your life that you've enjoyed, + - look at what the expectation was, and what was the influence those expectations had on your enjoyment of the outcome + - ex. someone telling you "this is the best movie!" + - then you're expecting a good movie + - otherwise, you would've been pleasantly surprised that it was good + - living with detachment is a consistent state of pleasant surprise +- focus on the actions, don't expect a response, calculate the odds of the response you want, but recognize that its just chance + +avoiding living in the past +- clinging to your glory days +- notice if your mind wanders, dwells, regret, resentment, etc +- + +what is the atomic make up of these two things? +- patterns of the mind + - ex. if you're resentful for the past "tell me in a 5 min exp. in your life, how you're resentful for the past" + - think about the past, emotions from the past, you don't think about the present + - or when you look at the present, your present is colored by the experiences of the past + - the past comes in and influence the experience of the present + - it's not living in totality, it's the opposite +- if you look at your cognition + - there's a slice of your mind on the present, and a slice on the past + - any time you have fractured attention, you will not be happy + - ex. if you're dancing + - you can be dancing with you're entire self (totality, joy) + - or you could be thinking about what other people think (fractured, embarrassed, reserved) + + +## nature of desire + +the way we get caught up in the future and the past, they tie themselves to our desires +- it's sort of like an expectation, any time you have a desire, you want to engage in something, then there's an expected result +- ex. advert for cookie, want the cookie, eat the cookie. + - you buy the cookie because of the expectation of fulfilment + +how do we undo this? +- if we can conquer our desires, we can be detached + +jnana yoga perspective +- where do your desires come from? + - born from our indrias, or sense organs + - when you want to do something - ex. torn between playing video games and doing homework + - have the desire to play video game + - but if you're activing 'dispassionately' you know that doing homework is the logically correct thing to do + - but we have difficulty doing that, why? + - because of our desire, we feel like we can't control it + - we'll discover that there's some sort of craving or grasping for something like a sensory experience + - a past exp. that you want to emulate, but you honestly don't know if you'll get that same level of enjoyment + - all tracks back to your sensory organs + +grasping +- any time you engage with a positive thing, an attachment will form + - your brain will always want more, more, more, regardless of how good the experience was. ex. wanting more food, better matches in a game, etc +- you need to look at what happens immediately after the experience + - there's a grasping there for more +- buddhist mythology/metaphysics + - realm between present existence and hell, there's a realm of hungry ghosts + - souls who have desires but no satisfaction + - ex. skeletons that are hungry but the food falls right through their bones + +why not just conquer it? +- conquering it is in itself a form of attachment + - "i don't want to feel this anymore," "if i conquer it today, i'll be a better person in the future" + - all you're doing is replacing one desire for another + - a lot of self help people fall into this trap + - teaching people how to replace one desire/attachment with a healthier one +- process of detachment doesn't come from conquering + - ex. yogis trying to attain enlightenment, but are still attached to enlightenment + - it is one of sublimation + - right from solid to gas + +you sublimate your desires through observation +- look at the moments when you want to binge on your desires + - there's a thoughtlessness to it, want to go *hard* + - binge, lose yourself, game binges, drinking binges + - savoring your food vs scarfing down your food + - "idk what it tasted like, i just lost myself in it" +- losing yourself in desire is a joy of the mind + - awareness and the mind don't go hand in hand + - the mind loves it when you're not aware + - releasing a dog outside vs keeping it on a lead +- the more awareness you cultivate, the less you'll get lost in your desires + + +## actions & expectations + +advanced technique: difficult +- what is the relationship between you and the outside world? +- stage 1 detachment: "i have no control over the outside world" + - devote to action, not the consequences, do the best you can +- stage 2: recognizing the opposite is true + - the outside world is no different from you + - when you try to control the outside world, you're leaning into a vidya + - for you to control something else, it requires a subject and an object - the thing that is acting and the thing that is being acted upon + - you are no different from the outside world, you are in control of all of it + - "so why doesn't everyone just bend to my will" + - the you that you are, isn't the right you, that's misidentification with ego + - your ego isn't your true self, it doesn't control the world, you do + - the awareness that you have is your true self, and that controls the world, it's one and the same that's all connected at its root + - when the world does something bad to you, that isn't the case, that's misidentification with the ego + - it's the world doing what it needs to do + - it's not bad for you, it's you doing this to you + - advanced practice: maha vhakya + - "tat tvam asi" - 'i am that' + - sit & chant it, or focus on the concept of it repeat it physically/think about it + - or, as you go through life, recognize that you are that + - not blieve, convince, logic, just recognize + - it's all part of one system + - your ego is just one slice of it, a sock puppet that is being controlled by a hand. + - the sock puppet isn't a separate organism, different faces + - 1st - transcendant compassion + - so compassionate, it isn't even compassion + - traditionally: wanting something good for you + - but now, putting on a glove so you don't burn your hand + - this is compassionate because we all are aparat of a system + - requires practice + - then once you see that the whole system is connected and controlled by you, why do you have to worry? + - you easily become detached + - like a child going on a trip with mom & dad who are taking care of everything + - how do you know that you're not in the matrix + - a delusion constructed by a part of you + - the only thing we have experience of is our own self + - everyone else is a hallucination, you're a hallucination too + +## sphere of influence + +what sphere of influence do you truly have? +- the sphere of influence that we have over our lives is very limited, you can only control you +- and on the flipside, there's so much you can do in the outside world + - you have an immense amount of power +- ex. HG + - the team at HG can't control the world, but they can have a huge impact on the world +- our lethargy & lack of responsibility comes from how powerful we truly are + - this comes from attachment & a sense of ego + - "i can't do x,y,z" + - we might think it's facts, but its not + - anyone can start studying like crazy, get a phd, become cancer biologist, and cure cancer + - or at the very least try + - "but cancer cant be cured!!" + - this is an expectation + - this pattern is a cycle happens over and over + - don't understand who we are + - don't understand relationship with the world + - caught up in desires + - think happiness comes from the outside + - keep on chasing and chasing things + - it never works + + +## summary +- suffering comes form avidya + - avidya = ignorance of the situaiton +- the manner of this suffering is usually through attachment +- so we want to cultivate viragya + - doesn't mean dissociated or apathetic + - instead, dispassionate, or detached + - which is actually living fully + - our attachments keep us from living fully + - our fear of the consequences +- tools: + - observation + - notice how you expect from the future, what happens when you expect, when you cling to the past + - the more time the mind spends doing those things, the more attached you'll be + - notice that you're fucked no matter what you do + - you can't control the outcomes, only devote to your actions + - completely devoting yourself to your actions feels great, it makes you impervious to the world around you +- it's about reps + - the more you sublimate, the more calm your mind will be + - ex. why monks are in monasteries + - remove themselves from the bombardment of the outside world + - cultivate a certain kind of mind + - what dictates what you experience in your mind? + - sensory impressions & attachments + - the more time you spend meditating, time outside your attachments, etc. + - its about the reps + +## q&a +- relationship between + - these + - ego + - outcomes + - fracutred awareness + - unsatisfied grasping + - being done with something (free from karma) + - ego & fractured awareness + - ego results in fractured awareness 100% of the time + - ego is the directors cut + - activity of the brain that isn't focused on the task + - neuroscience + - default mode network + - where the sense of self comes from + - housing for the ego + - hyperactivity of the DFN leads to depression + - the fastest acting treatment for depression is ketamine, which is a dissociative agent, shuts off the DFN + - we sing freely in the shower because no one is watching + - but if you realize someone is watching or filming you, your ego comes into the picture and your attention is fractured + - you're not just singing, you're thinking about what people will think about your singing + - binging a show or playing a video game allows us to put our full attention into something, and our ego goes away + - ego, fractured awareness, and outcomes + - fractured awareness -> outcomes + - fractured awareness leads to bad outcomes + - it's the opposite of the flow state + - ego -> outcomes + - bad + - narcissim generally leads to unhappiness and those people not doing very well + - + unsatisfied grasping, being done with something + - uunsatisfied grasping + - when you have a grasping and you fulfill it, you sew the seeds for future grasping + - unsatisfied grasping is the goal + - people advocate for desirelessness, asceticism + - you can't be hardcore about it, you need to be chill about it + - "everything has to be as hard as possible!!!" + - awareness will lead to detachment + - if you have a grasping, and engage in it with awareness, that will be better than not engaging in it without awareness + - I feel like X, I'm going to indulge in it, and see what my reaction is + - is it enjoyable? how do i feel? was it worth it? + - if you do it with enough awareness, the desire will dissipate over time + - being done with something/free from karma + - if you indulge in a desire, it doesn't free you from karma, it does the opposite + - activating the Nucleus Accumbens, signing up for craving and tolerance + - more and mopre action, less and less pleasure + - as you give into grasping, your sewing more karma + - how to be karmically free + - about awareness, what goes on in the inside + - flowers example + - give the flowers, not expect a result + - the action is the end + - when you expect somethings, then there's a mental karma + - the perspective of thoughts + - give flowers - "i'm glad i improved someones life a little, time to go take my dog for a walk" + - vs. atttachment - "i left a note, are they going to text me, why havne't they texted me yet, why are peoople like this, why am i like this" + - vs. ego attachment "look at how detached i am, i gave them flowers and didn't expect anything, i'm doing so great." + - the difference is in your perception - what you're able to detect + - the more you're able to detect, the more you will be able to be done with karma + - karma is about what you attach to it + +are hopes & dreams also just attachments that we should abandon? +- no +- are they attachments? + - not necessarily + - hopes & dreams could be echos in the mind + - you can have a goal, something you're striving for + - notice the tense, striving for vs want to accomplish + - one is in the present, one is in the future + - it's perfectly normal to have hopes and dreams- to strive for, but not to want to accomplish + - good to have a direction, something you're striving fore + - but wanting to accomplish something is a trap + - present focus, action, etc + - even from an outcome perspective, this is good + - when we try to accomplish something and it doesn't work out, we see that as failure + - when we strive for something and it doesn't work out, we see it as a setback + - it depends on where you are, what's the next step forward vs missing your shot + - gg vs lets go again +- abandon? + - this sort of has emotional energy + - we should sublimate, yes + - abandon, no + - abandon means to forsake, give up + - that's not the attitude of detachment + - detachment is about observation and sublimation + + +actions to take now +- watch the expectation that comes from an action + - watch the birth of it + - removing expectations is hard + - how do you remove a tree + - prevent the planting - a seed is easy to remove, a tree is dificult + - start by obeserving the seeds you're planting + - what are you expecting to get + - notice how the more expectations you have, the more upset oyu're going to be +- when you suffer + - ask 'when was this born' + - you may think it was born from an action, but it wasnt + - it was born from an expectation + - the consequence could be born from an action + - when you experience suffering, go back to where the expectation was born + - if you had changed your attitude toward it, what'd youre life be like + - living where you are now, rather than trying to recreate experiences of the past + - get wrecked by a hero - "i wanna do that with that OP hero" + - "anyone can win with that hero, its so frustrating" + - so you choose that one next time + - and then you do awful, its not that easy + - then you feel even more frustrated + + +# part 2 +https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJnydEngE_dzPLumdUTvOQzdaZlc7sQkxFD8uRdetrk/edit#heading=h.tfhc179ywcig +https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XTFMa0dmr9SVLjtrlHHOX5m7hwTboNKowp-1gDu8EPM/edit \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Discipline Members Livestream.md b/content/references/Discipline Members Livestream.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72ba8286 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Discipline Members Livestream.md @@ -0,0 +1,477 @@ +--- +author: HealthyGamerGG +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUA6xYRYcdw +status: To Process +type: Video +dateCreated: 2024-03-26 +--- + +- there's no sanskrit word for discipline + - there's a word for persistent effort, but not for discipline? + - what does disciplined even mean? + - the things that we think make us disciplined, require discipline to do + - so how do you even start? its a catch 22 + +- What discipline really means + - when we look at another person, we can make a judgement call if they're disciplined or not + - eating healthy, working out, working on their career, etc. + - because they do those things consistently, we call them disciplined + - these have to be in a "positive" direction + - ex, if you were to do the same thing with gaming, watching youtube, etc. you wouldn't call that discipline + - imagine removing the "values" from it, a gamer would be next level discipline 'sacrificing their social life, sleep, etc. all for their great purpose of advancing in this video game. look at how disciplined they are.' + - appears to be consistent behavior that we *like* + - when we look at behavior, there's a big difference between what you see, and what you have to do on the inside + +- Intrinsic vs perceived discipline + - ex. "green thumb" + - beautiful garden, big yields. while yours sucks. + - what is green thumb? + - an ignorant person's observation of external things, then attribution to something abstracted + - you can look at whats going on on the outside, but we can't see what's going on inside that person + - so what goes on on the inside? read on. + +- example: new years resolution + - this year, I'm gonna do this! committing to exercising! + - internally + - we have excitement + - our mind goes in a direction, so we make a commitment to that + - what's the goal of the commitment? + - keep our mind focused in that way + - duplicate that state of mind in the future + +1. yogic perspective + - hold the same thought in their mind for an extended period of time + - degen gamer as disciplined + - they're constantly thinking about something + - turning thinking into actions + - the struggle with gaming/addictions starts with a thought: "man i wish I could X right now" + - then, you struggle to prevent the action + - **the more focused your mind is, the more discipline you'll be** + - "wow look at that person, they're so disciplined, they've been studying for four hours" + - this is all about focus for a long period of time + - what about the inverse, undisciplined? + - ex. going to the gym - jan 2nd "I'm gonna go to the gym" + - then, jan 5th comes around and its "I should go to the gym" + - but then the mind gets clouded with other things that you have to do, being tired, excuses around why you should take a break, etc. + - discipline begins to decay when the mind becomes unfocused + - looking at the mind - it has a lot of energy + - those that aren't productive have thoughts that are pulling in all different directions - mind is scattered + - ex. ADHD and Discipline at other ends of the spectrum + - vs. someone who has a single thought - that's discipline + - discipline is a focused mind + - as long as your mind is focused on that thing - the behavior will follow + - the more thoughts you have, the less disciplined you are + +principle number 1: a focused mind will result in disciplined action over time + +the neuroscience of focus -> discipline +- when you're struggling with discipline + - you have a thought - go to the gym, but you also have a thought to play FF7 + - if you want to be practically disciplined, + - a yogi would say to understand the conflict between those two thoughts - if you understand and dominate the conflict, you'll win 100% of the time + - what about willpower? + - your desire is to play FF7, but you have to use willpower to counter your desire and go to the gym instead + - the neuroscience + - anterior cingulate cortex and frontal lobes are where our willpower comes from + - its an exhaustible resource + - the part of our brain that monitors conflict is the same as willpower, its the same part of the brain + - we think that we just run out of willpower, but that's not what happens + - look at the subjective experience - when you have an internal conflict - theres a battle between should & want + - the problem is that you throw in the towel + - you know what you should do, but you feel yourself giving up a little bit + - "yeah, not today" + - then, you have the justification, excuses, etc. + - but you lost the battle internally + - the battle keeps going as long as there's no resolution + - the battle ends the moment there's resolution between the two parts that are fighting, one part wins + - we think we lose the battle, and then we let go of monitoring the conflict, but it's flipped. + - as long as you monitor the conflict, that's what keeps the battle going + - the monitoring of conflict is the same as exerting willpower + - technique 1: monitor the conflict - don't stop paying attention + - as long as you sit down and monitor the conflict, not take any action, but just sit there, exerting willpower on monitoring, discipline will be growing + - when you throw in the towel, that's when things are done + - you don't have to win, just wait it out + - giving up is synonyms with not paying attention + - in order for this conflict to happen, there's also the "desire" that we have to fight against + - gym vs. FF7 + - the amount of willpower needed to go to the gym needs to be greater than the desire to play FF7, so the greater the desire to play FF7, the greater the willpower you'll need in order to get yourself to go to the gym + - discipline is easy when you don't really care + - it's easy to be disciplined when you don't really care, when desire is very low + - it's hard to be disciplined when you care a lot about the alternative + - discipline is a versus game between willpower and desire, you can affect both variables + - you can reduce desire + - variable 2: reducing your desires + - indrias - sensory organ + - desires are born from the sense organs + - why do people advertise? create thoughts. + - ex. wanting to date someone depends on who you can see + - you can only want to date someone who you can see on instagram, only people you can talk to + - with sensory inputs come desires + - so we need to control our indrias, our inputs + - 1. reduce negative inputs + - notifications, silence messages, etc. do the opposite of what the tech industry is doing + - no face ID + - manual login for negative things + - add as many barriers as possible for us to access the negative thing. the easier that people want to make things for us, the harder we have to make it for ourselves + - even somewhat benign inputs reduce willpower + - relationship between eye, thalamus, and attention + - your eye sees all kinds of things in your vision, lots of input. ex. 100 things you can see at any time and point + - your thalamus presents only one thing to your attention. your brain is processing the other 99 things in the background, using a lot of processing power + - when you reduce the clutter in your room, it makes it easier to focus + - the load on your thalamus is reduced + - the more you can clean up, the stronger your brain will be + - when in your life have you been disciplined? what what the sensory input? + - ex. easier to study at the library + - 2. some amount of sensory input is necessary for some people to maintain focus + - ex. people who have ADHD - music or white noise can help them + - ex. some meditations have a half gaze + - if you deprive the brain of sensory input, it will create its own sensory input + - some people need a little bit of input in order to slightly stimulate their brain + - indrias create thoughts, leading to desires + - so, we can use this to our advantage to push us in the way that we want to go + - ex. listening to "eye of the tiger" to get you pumped to go to the gym + - what causes our mind to waver? + - not just sensory input, also the thoughts themselves + - whats the right level of indria input to engage your mind so your not distracted by thought + - sense of smell is powerful for memories and experiences - ex. lighting the right incense + - sangha - community - is a good source of positive indiras + - HIIT is done in groups, community helps us stay discipline + - if you give your mind the right kind of inputs, the right kind of actions will be easy + - + +- currently have two thoughts - FF7 & gym + - but if we're able to create one thought - only going to the gym, then its easy + + +- what about habits? + - one way we form action is through thinking + - this is what advertising focuses on "if i control your thought, i control your actions" + - with habits, there is automatic behavior + - behavior without thought + + +vairygya - detachment +- care less about the thing that makes you undisciplined + - personally this is what I did about video games +- if we control the attachment to the desire, then we make discipline way easier + - less willpower needed because you just don't care +- what deviates you from discilpine? + - a desire to do something else + - the more you want to do the desire, the harder discipline is + - neuroscience + - ex. an alcoholic's pre-disposition for alcohol + - nearly impossible for this person to be disciplined vs. a non-alcoholic's ability to say no + - nucleus accumbens + - when dopamine gets released here, we get a feeling of pleasure + - from that, we get behavioral reinforcement + - and that will increase anticipation + - the behavioral reinforcement and increased anticipation are the craving and desire to do something + - cool trick (brain hack!) + - when we engage in an activity that requires discipline, we don't savor the rewards + - ex. engage in fun activities after you do something hard + - you engage in something difficult, ex. studying, then when you're done, go to the joyful thing of relaxing, partying, etc. + - this is separating out the joy from the work + - what happens when the next test comes around? + - you reinforced the behavior of feeling good - of doing the joyful things, not actually doing the studying + - you associated the studyin gwith pain + - so, savor the thing that you're disciplined + - when there's something that you want to reinforce, sit down for 15 mins and appreciate it + - not just "Oh thank god I'm done" and go to the next thing + - give yourself internal rewards for doing the hard work, appreciate the work that you put in + - instead, we normally just grab out phones after doing something hard, we're enforcing the joyful thing of being on our phones, and not of putting the work in + - what are you feeling? what are you grateful for that you did? + - this will start to even out your desires between the thing that you want to be disciplined for, and the original thing you're trying to avoid + - the playing field starts to even out and you don't need as much willpower to push you in the "right" direction + - people who are disciplined, every day is not a struggle + - its a struggle if you're undisciplined + + +- as you detatch from the desire, it'll be easier to be disciplined + - when you have no desire, action is very easy + - if no one cares, there's no argument + - simple way: analyze your desire + - FMRI studies look at blood flow to areas of the brain + - blood flow to the brain alters/changes + - all parts of the brain are not equally subfused with blood + - the part of your brain that enjoys something, the nuccleus accumbens is different from the part that analyzes something + - ex. a joke is funny until you disect it + - ex. enjoying a movie vs analyzing a movie + - we love strong indira objects because we're able to lose ourselves in them, like a great video game + - if you want to kill a desire, analyze it. you can't enjoy it and analyze it at the same time + - there are of course some caveats here + - "where does the joy from this come from? what do I enjoy about this?" + - play the tape through "if i engage in ff7, how will i feel about myself tomorrow, an hour from now, etc." + - the gratification of most desires don't resolve in long term satisfaction + - "if i play this game today, what will my life be like tomorrow?" + - your mind tries very hard to avoid this, forget about analyzing the conflict, because it wants the tasty neurochemicals from the desire + - any time you engage in a desire, it isn't going to satisfy you + - tomorrow you're going to want to play again, and the next day. until you finish the game + - do you think after finishing the game, you'll just be able to go out and do all of the productive things you should be doing? + - nope. to the next game. + - our brain is always shooting for homeostasis + - desires are temporary, they come and go + - you just have to ride it out, play the waiting game + - like a seige, your desire will run out of food before you 100% + - it'll be really strong for a short amount of time to get you to cave, but they can't play the long game +- +### practices +- maintaining one pointedness in the mind + - trataka - fixed point gazing + - in order to see things, there's a pigment that exhausted in our eyes + - if we stare at something for a long period of time, the pigment in our eyes gets exhausted and we cant see it anymore + - looking at different things regenerates those pigment + - when we close our eyes... + - antur trataka + - we see a negative image of the thing we were looking at + - it's great because it requires the right level of focus to maintain + - you need relaxed focus - just enough focus, but not too much, perfect level of focus + - yantra trataka + - the whole point of yantras + - when we look at the colors of a yantra, then we close our eyes, we see a reverse of it + - ishta devata - your god + - if you want to cultivate a particular energy, you can choose one and do the accompanying yantra + - any kind of dharana will do though +- how to analyze a desire and develop detachment + - observe what it'd be like before, during, and after doing the thing + - what is it like if you were to engage with the desire? + - you'll notice that as you observe, each part gets weakened, recruiting different parts of the brain +- appreciate the things that we've done + - sit there after doing something hard and let it soak in +- mandala + - helps you sublimate desire + - we have desires due to outcomes + - action: eat a cookie + - outcome: feel good, tastes good + - in order to train ourselves to get rid of the need for the outcome is to train ourselves to do useless things + - make something beautiful + - ex. rungoli - colored rice arangements + - ex. sand garden + - then destroy it + - we want to do stuff for the sake of getting something + - so instead, we need to practice doing something with no benefit + - more hardcore + - write a book, then delete it - one of Dr.K's patients came up with this + - deleting the first book made writing the next books became so much easier + - "why tho" + - exactly the point + - what stops you from doing it? + - an attachment to the thing + - "its a waste" + - yes + - what keeps us from being disciplined? + - we don't want to be wasteful + - your mind always tries to tell you to avoid being wasteful + - you have to study for a test, but, you can do that tomorrow. you can have fun today. I don't want to be wasteful, might as well get some pleasure today + - no waste. optimize. productivity. no useless actions. don't take a year off + - optimizing for productivity will lead to procrastination + - society has such a large emphasis on productivity, but the world is full of procrastination + - acceptance - there's a loss to be had + - there's no loss of efficiency + - "i don't think i can get into college so I'll take a gap year and study this and that so i don't waste my time" + - what's the point of taking a test if you're going to fail and have to take it again + - as we optimize for efficiency and productivity then we open the door to procrastination + - instead of slaving away for 10 hours, might as well wait for the right time where it'd only take me four hours + - this decays discipline + - discipline is about waking up and doing the thing + - mandala's are a great way to + + +--- + +gym vs ff7 +- there's desire on both side, how do we increase desire for the gym? +- 4 different things that create motivation in us +- loss vs gain, internal vs external quadrant + - internal & gain - desire + - internal benefit, and a gain, not a loss + - internal & loss - duty/dharma + - internal benefit, done for oneself, feel good about yourself, but it costs you + - external & loss - shoulds + - cost - have to sacrifice something + - external - done for someone else or society "forces" you + - external & gain - values + - things that will benefit you - money, freedom, etc. + - but its more about interaction with the external world? +- when it comes to discipline, you want duty and values + - where within you is the "want" to go to the gym? + - from people saying you should do it, or today i feel like working out? + - these are fleeting + - or is it duty to take care of your body, or valuing/caring about fitness + - these will providing lasting discipline +- how do we move between the quadrants? + - "i should work out everyday" + - where does that come from - maybe social media + - so what do you care about? + - if you can dig into why + - ex. "i feel embarrased by my body so I don't join my friends on things like X & Y and I feel lonely and left out" or crushing on someone who goes to the gym + - on a given day, what's the pro and whats the con + - "next time your friends ask, do you want to go to the beach? do you want to go hang out with your crush" + - you're understanding the cost of your inaction here + - the more you lean into duty & values, the better off you'll be + - rather than shoulds and wants (those will never make you disciplined) + - how do people become disciplined? + - they made it about themselves + - they find a good enough reason + - have an important "why" + + +Habits & habit Formation +- discipline is usually about consistent action, but not necessarily consistent struggle + - the way to act without effort is habit + - take between 2-4 weeks to form + - we want to create a situation where it is easy to stick to for 2-4 weeks + - 25% rule + - imagine the habit you want, then cut it in half twice + - goal: 20min meditation daily = 5min meditation daily + - for first 2 weeks, you do it no matter what + - "i don't want to do this forever" - you trick yourself into a large timescale + - so, just focus on the 2-4 weeks, then you can give up + - anchor it to an existing habit + - ex. tkaing pills after brushing teeht, picking up mail after you get home + - smooth the path + - look at the things that will make the habit difficult, and remove them + - 3 pill bottles is more difficult to open everyday than filling a daily pill box once a week + - set yourself up for success, make it easy + - study the habit + - any time you fail, do an autopsy + - where did you screw up, what happened, what could you do better + - habit circuity is formed in the endo canabanoid system + - no mary jane + - people who regularly use marijuana have a hard time forming habits + + +accountability +- ex. when someone is held accountable for their actions, fines they have to pay or whatever +- only applies when someone doesn't want to be held accountable + - one party wants it and the other doesn't +- "i want to hold myself accountable" + - what does it mean? + - today's version of you wants to hold tomorrow you accountable to do something +- its your attempt to control yourself +- it means there's a part of you that doesn't want it + - a house divided among itself cannot stand +- "holding accountable" + - not "inviting" but "holding", forceful etc. +- never been a yogic text about holding accountability + +--- + + +if you really want to be disciplined, you have to recreate the person who you are today +- recreate the person who creates the commitment +- why is life hard? why's the world difficult? + - present you doesn't care about future you + - why we procrastinate - the person who has to do 8 hours of studying isn't the same person as today +- why do we need accountability? + - because we wake up as different people every day + - accountability is attachment to present self + - "i want to be this person for the rest of the year, month, whatever" + - the whole point is that the present changes, life flows, all that exists is the pressent + - holding onto a desire from the past doesn't work. + - how do you act in the same way every day? + - time to talk about karma and emotional kindling + +Recreate the person that you are today +- the person you are today is born from your past karma + - ex. why are you upset? + - I got a D and have to retake the class, wish i could hold myself accountabile + - its born of frustration + - if you want to recreate this person, what do you need to do? + - when you get frustrated with yourself, what led up to that frustration that you wanted to hold youself accountable for? + - if you had to recreate it, get another D. that's how you got here + - but it doesn't work, because you're not that person tomorrow +- if you did something good today, you want to continue doing it, what are the factors that went into it? + - who we are in the current moment is a consequence of your karma + - the actions & choice you make today will create the person you are tomorrow + - if you want to be disciplined + - if today you don't want to play ff7 and instead work on your resume + - simple question: how do you want to wake up tomorrow? + - do you want to wake up having completed your resume, or be looming ahead of you + - you have the choice in this moment to fuck yourself over or to give yourself a gift + - we never think like this + - it knows it can make excuses and win, to conserve energy, to get the dopamine, to be lazy + - then you wake up the next day angry with yourself, needing to "hold yourself accountable" + - you only hold yourself accountable for doing the wrong thing, how is it that you get yourself to just do the right thing instead? +- every day you are sewing a karma + - whatever you feed in your mind will grow + - neurons that fire together wire together + - automatic thoughts + - people that behave like bots + - mental karma + - how did you sleep the day before, how did you eat? +- indria drains - people + - the wrong kind of person can weigh you down + +emotional kindling +- peoplpe who are highly disciplined kindle the right emotions +- emotions go to homeostasis + - when we make a big commitment, we feel good about it, so we make a huge promise + - then we want to hold ourself accountable, and we force ourself to go to the gym + - you can't force yourself + - but you can kindle the right emotions +- look at your life and see what creates the right emotions + - how can you cultivate the person you are today for a better tomorrow +- connects back to sitting down and appreciating what you do +- obesitiy & adhd + - intense craving, but dopamine release is lower than normal + - hunger is twice as strong, but dopamine is half as good + - so: learn to savor + - don't eat while watching tv +- what can you do today to kindle positive emotions tomorrow +- playing video games today + - what will happen to you tomorrow? or the end of the day? + - guilty, frustrated, then you want justice + - hold accountable! + - but where's your mind? remember dharna, single focus. Is your mind focused at the task on hand? no! + - you're not doing the task, you're focused on being accountable + +cultivate the state of your environment +- you can wake up today and be disciplined +- discipline is the flower, not the stem or the leaf or the root + - its what we see at the end +- but the flower is born from beneath the soil + - kindle the right emotions + - people who make you feel the right way +- 2 ways to wake up + - "why didn't i do more yesterday" + - "i'm already halfway done" + - which life do you want to inherit tomorrow? +- the person who is disciplined is passing on a good inheritance for tomorrow + - undisciplned - fuck it, they can fend for themselves + +Anushtanam +- meditative commitment - 40 day practice +- ex. 108 malas total + + + + + + + + + + +## Dr.K's outline: + + +- What discipline really means +- Intrinsic vs perceived discipline + - Internal action + - Trying to act disciplined by copying others doesn’t work because discipline comes from your own thoughts and feelings  +- Practical aspects of discipline, understanding the underlying practices that can help foster this skills +- Various points of view on discipline +- What is discipline?  +- Focus, Dharana, the practice of holding one’s mind in a one-pointed manner, is crucial to discipline  + - See this kind of focus in “undisciplined” behaviors like video game addiction +- Neuroscience of discipline + - Involves brain’s monitoring systems (PCC/ACC) that manage internal conflict and will power -> parts that help us deal with wanting to give up or continue +- The right environment and control over sensory input (indriyas) are essential to maintaining focus and reducing distractions.  + - Take care of the things around you and what you take in +- Detaching from distractions involves understanding and reducing the attachment to things that compete with our goals + - Sometimes you have to lessen the importance of other things that might get in the way -> reducing attachment to video game to focus on something else +- True discipline aligns with our deepest values and requires honest introspection to move beyond “shoulds” to what truly matters to us.  + - Need to truly care about something, it’s about what matters most to you, not just what you think “should” matter to you.  +- Habit formation +- Emotional Kindling +- Anushtanam \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Dr. K explains Willpower.md b/content/references/Dr. K explains Willpower.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2347ac6b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Dr. K explains Willpower.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +layout: reference +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSrymhSn6I8 +status: To Read +author: HealthyGamerGG +type: Video +--- +# Dr. K explains Willpower +First half, Dr.K deep dives into willpower \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Dr.K Tantra Meditation Lecture.md b/content/references/Dr.K Tantra Meditation Lecture.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fea8dd24 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Dr.K Tantra Meditation Lecture.md @@ -0,0 +1,319 @@ +--- +layout: reference +author: HealthyGamerGG +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9a5KWpgA-I +status: To Process +type: Video +dateCreated: 2024-03-14 +--- +# Dr.K Tantra Meditation Lecture + +## History +- the rishis developed tantras + - rishi - means seer + +- we have the material world + - what we can feel, etc. with our senses + - we developed technology - ex. microscopes and telescopes to see things we normaly cant + - then, we were able to see through the human body + - we developed x-rays + - then, IV contrast +- and we have the non-material world + - ex. a thought + - science can't dig in deeper here yet, so... + - the rshis did the same thing as above, they developed technology to see further into the non-material world + - developed the telescope, microscope, etc. for the human mind + +the rshis discovered that there's 3 things reality is made up of +1. conciousness + - (shiva or brahman) + - cosmic conciousness + - when a small amount of conciousness coalesces, it creates a large amount of energy (C=Ep^2) +2. energy + - (shakti or prana) + - potential, kinetic energy, etc. + - when a small amount of conciousness energy, it creates a large amount of matter (E=mc^2) + - when you work at the level of energy, you can affect a lot of matter + - look at breaking chemical bonds, or nuclear devices +1. matter + - (anu) + - things like atoms + - this is where we normally operate + +example: 2 people have a goal to get an A in the class +- if they have the same IQ, same goal, etc +- when it comes to manifestation, one person could get an A and the other will not + - you can say physical resources - access to textbook, time, etc, but that might not explain everything +- there's some variable on the layer of conciousness that separates the two + - the rshis found that there's a "source code" to the universe + - by editing the things at this level, we can create energetic and physical manifestations +- Dr.K was given a mantra, chanted it for 5 years, and became a statistical outlier, getting into med school and practicing at harvard + - he attributes this to chanting the mantra + - everything else was the same. the only thing that changed was this + +if you act at the level of conciousness, it will cascade down to the material world +- tantra is the process of understanding what in the material world correlates with what in the true nature of reality +- and then harnessing those + +ex. +- with technology, there's some place you can go, type a couple keystrokes, and wipe out an entire city with a nuclear bomb + - unless you understand the tech involved, this seems like utter magic/craziness +- dealing with waterborne illnesses in Africa + - a professor went over, and realized their water well was being infected by the nearby latrine + - "sometimes people just get sick" + - guy went over and said you need to put a cemented well in and not let ground water go in + - Why? You won't get sick. + - Why? Because of micro-organisms + - Cool, show me. I can't + - How do you know? There's an instrument called a microscope + - this is where we are with tantra + +the rishis found the right formulas, peices, etc. to put together in order to create certain effects + +there are two things that are necessary +- + + +## Core Principles + +### 1.for anything to exist in the universe, it must have shiva and shakti +- shakti = energy and shiva = conciousness +- any time you struggle, there will be a defecit in one of those things + - what is struggle? + - trying to manifest something - ex. getting more fit, getting a grade, making money + - failure to manifest is one of two things + - lack of conciousness, will or intent + - ex. serial failed entreprenuers, tons of energy, but hopping from project to projext + - lack of energy + - ex. people who have lots of ideas, but no energy or action behind it +- any tantric practice you do will improve your relationship to these two + - your energy and your will will become bound as a side effect to tantra practice + - you're connecting to the two, and there will be manifestation +- there must be a concept, and energy or material in order to manifest something + + +## Tools +- tantra comes from the root words + - tanoti - expansion + - trayati - liberation + - also means "technique" +- these are spiritual techniques to harness energies of existence and manifest + - yoga/buddhism is very different, focused on absolving our desires, breaking the cycle of birth and death + - whereas tantra is about harness energies to create what you want + - wealth, power, spirtual strength + +basic tools +- mantra + - a chant, vibration, or syllables that are stringed together + - ex. a magic spell + - there are 12 beej mantras + - fundamental building blocks of the universe + - there are some transcendant qualities or essences to existence + - this is something you have to experience, isn't the most logical to explain + - 1st quality of existence - it exists + - there's a unit of "is"-ness of being, existence + - when its manifested in sound, its ohm + - the fundamental oscillation of the universe + - ex. love is an essence, but is manifested in various ways + - "love" the letters + - a family relationship + - a romantic relationship + - when my animal sits on my lap + - a poem + - the transcendant concept of existance as a quality, is ohm + - fundemental oscillation + - there's this unmanifest thing called conciousness that vibrates at certain frequencies + - ohm manifests existence + - another ex. + - duality of things + - pay attention to breath - the sound of breath + - can go to an ocean and you'll hear the same sound in your breath + - as you look at other things, you'll hear it in the wind, etc. + - discovered duality - fundemental attribute of the universe, + - inhale, exhale, + - up, down + - hot cold + - positive, negative + - 12 fundemental qualities that make up the universe + - fusion, transformation, etc. + - as you put together these mantras in certain ways, you will activate energies of the universe and make a particular manifestation + - mantra is on the level of sound and vibration + - ex. mantra/vibration is a form, like a guitar + - music requires a certain amount of form, but also requires a certain amount of energy to put into it + - +- yantra + - this is the "form", physical manifestation of an abstract "essence" + - arrangement of materials, depth, etc. +- tantra/yagna + - complex rituals + - fires, deities, rituals, etc. + +they developed these tools for us to use, they designed the technology +- its hard for us to make a cell phone + - but if someone makes it and give it to us, we just use it! + +## Practice +[link](https://youtu.be/S9a5KWpgA-I?t=2513) + +when you do a mantra or yantra, it has to be perfectly precise +- if you're putting together a building, if there is a very minor angle change, the stability of the building will be compromised + - ex. 1 degree angle difference over a long distance +- most common reason for not seeing results is not being precise enough +- chant mantra out loud to create physical vibration + - then start to go into whisper + - turn from physical dimension to energetic + - attain state of conciousness where mind & body is inactive + - then, operating at a high leve, the mantra will manifest +- in order for something to go into your mind, you can't be distracted + - the flow state is when your brain isn't focused on anything else, it's moves us out of the physical to a certain level of the mental, then manifestation becomes easier + +how do you get to that point? +- kundalini shati + - spiritual energy seated at the base of the spine, coiled serpent + - as the energy rises through the spine and reaches the top of your head, you attain moksha, or liberation + - as it rises, it raises through the chakras + - these centers of energies, not physical + - muladhara - base - governs pleasure & materialism + - swadisana - relationships + - manipura - metabolism (things that aren't me -> me) + - anahat - heart - love + - vishuda - external power - create change + - agna - intuition & knowledge + - sahastara - transcendant + - as energy travels through them, you'll get certain kinds of manifestations + - any sadhana you do, if you don't take care of your spine, it won't work well + - won't see any advantage + - tantra helps you prepare your vessel + - mantras don't work for most people because they just do it in their bedroom, conciously, slumped over, etc. + - you must do very potent asana, especially around the spine, the channel has to be physically + - ​​Bhujanga Asana Parvat Asanao Marjaryasanao Bitilasanao Ardha Matsyendrasnao Utrasanao Utkatasanao Verkasana + - some days, the meditation sucks + - other days, you just get lost in it + - this is dhyan - achieved through total concentration, just melding with the object, focus without distraction + - then you get to shamadi - transcendance + - this is the beginning of tantric shadana + - be sahtvic - proper vessel + - psychoactive substances affect the mind + - but it's actually every substance you ingest + - air you breath, water you drink + - ex. + - plant aerosols reduce fear and anxiety + - certain foods cultivate microbiomes that produce certain neuro transmitters + - diet + - no meat + - minimal preservatives + - not a lot of fried food + - no garlic onion or potato + - certain spices + - no sex/masturbation + - proper asana + - proper pranayama + - tranquil mind + - resolve anxiety and depression + - months and years of doing this, then you'll have the right state of mind for good tantric manifestation +- activation of sushumna + - getting the kundalini to rise + - 2 nadis - + - channels for energy flow + - surya nadi & chandra nadi + - sun and moon - yang and yin + - right & left nostrils, sympathetic & parasympathetic + - normally switch between the two + - 3rd - sushumna + - when both of them are open + - kundalini will rise + - mostly open at dawn and dusk + - any time both of your nostirls are equlaly open + - few moments of time where your nose is switching from one nostril to the other + - they will both be open - this is when you should do your mantra + - have your closed nostril opposite the side you're laying down + - your other nostril will open between 5 and 15 minutes + - there's a brief amount of time both will be open during the transition - susuhumna + - as you do yogasana - suryanamaskara or nadi vibajahan + - made for opening sushumna + - meditate/yantra while sushumna is open +- legacy of the community + - dr k does 3rd eye sadhana + - charging the laser beam + - first step to opening the bramanadi + - except, put your attention & intention into the sensation of charging it + - try to put your conciousness into the straw that comes out of your third eye + - push into it + - also, can chant your mantra, mentally is best but you can do physically + - as you have chill states of mind, weird states of mind, and odd spiritual experiences, the more you want to do your mantra + +laying out a practice +[link](https://youtu.be/S9a5KWpgA-I?t=4158) +you can do la 40 day practice where you adhere to these things +- prepare the instrument + - satvic diet (no sex, masturbation, psychoactive substances) +- spinal asana + - 6/8-30 minutes of this before meditation + - (you can do less time as you get better at it) +- pranayama + - open sushumna + - nadi shuddhi + - kapal bhati +- tantric sadhana + - jappa - chanting a mantra + - have to use rudraks mala + - rudraks = tear of shiva + - 9 rounds - 9 malas of ohm + - 108 x 9 + - slow ohms for 15 minutes + - not suuuuper important what you do starting out +- sit in sidhasana or ardhapadmasana or padmasana +- chin mudra +- mala of ohm chanting +- as you do ohm, you'll notice rising energy + - don't focus on the vibration, eventually you'll want to notice upward energy from your naval to the top of your head + - and, if you want to do a 3rd eye practice, end the ohm at the third eye +- even out the ohm - 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3 at each stage +- then, turn down the volume + - then you'll start to notice things + - be able to feel sushumna the quieter + - less distraction in the physical dimension, more attention in the spiritual dimension + +- pure place, done in secret + - eventually you can feel the spirtual energy of a place +- meditating once a day is good for physiology, but doing it twice a day is immportant for spirtual growth + + +kundalini sadana +- kundalini shakti - 7 chakras +- goal: kundalini to rise +- in order to activate the kundalini shakti we can use mantra or yantra +- each chakra has a mantra and a yantra +- 40 day commitment of being sahtvic + - do your normal routine + - then meditate on the yantra (stare at it) and mantra (pay attention to the vibration/energy rising) + +- practice + - spinal + - pranayama + - chanting ohm while focusing on third eye space, kind of pushing through it + +deities +- these are not deities to have faith in, they're people you can call on to help you or f- up your life +- these are beings in the cosmic conciousness - operating on the time scales of the existence and non-existence of the universe +- ishtedeveta - personal god + - you may be drawn to a manifestation to supernatural thing + - first there is the unformed brahman + - then the first manifestation of brahman is a deity + - some essences thats a little different, some shape to it + - ex. kali + - goddess of time and space + - kal = time + - universe has these fundamental qualities, this deity is just the anthropomorphized version + - "to set and hold in motion" + - and has a certain mantra - string of bij mantras + - krim, hum, hrim + - and a certain yantra + - but, don't just go doing this, get a guru + - what kind of manifestation do you want? + - material? lakshmi, devi sadhana, tara sadhana + + + + + diff --git a/content/references/Flow vs Wanting - Rumi.md b/content/references/Flow vs Wanting - Rumi.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..29cb06c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Flow vs Wanting - Rumi.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +author: Rumi +url: +status: +type: +dateCreated: 2024-05-07 +--- +>"When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it." +> +> - Rumi + + diff --git a/content/references/Follow Curiosity - by Jakob Greenfeld - Play Permissionless.md b/content/references/Follow Curiosity - by Jakob Greenfeld - Play Permissionless.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae946c79 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Follow Curiosity - by Jakob Greenfeld - Play Permissionless.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-04-19 10:04:01 +id: 5c58d2a5-7adf-47c3-b51e-8b26737e7190 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/follow-curiosity-by-jakob-greenfeld-play-permissionless-18ef6abd8bf +url: https://playpermissionless.substack.com/p/follow-curiosity?isFreemail=true&post_id=143738222&publication_id=1308259&r=50n4x&triedRedirect=true +author: Jakob Greenfeld +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Paul Graham wrote a [12,000-word mega essay](https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html) on how to do great work but the essence of it is a small paragraph near the end: +> +> > _Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what’s worth paying attention to._ + + +> Shaan Puri confirms: +> +> > _If you don’t know which path to choose, just choose the one that’s most exciting. Just keep following that, and that will lead you to the right place._ + + +> As Steve Jobs noted: +> +> > _“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”_ + + +> “To yell at your creativity, saying, ‘You must earn money for me!’ is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you’re talking about, and all you’re doing is scaring it away.” — Liz Gilbert + + + +> Instead, excitement is simply information. +> +> It’s your body telling you that you’re on the right track. +> +> That you should keep going. + +How do you tell the difference between 5is and shiny object syndrome? + diff --git a/content/references/How To Reinvent Your Life In 4 Months.md b/content/references/How To Reinvent Your Life In 4 Months.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ccdb29da --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How To Reinvent Your Life In 4 Months.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +--- +status: To Read +author: Cal Newport +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G7Wu4DnDaw +type: Video +dateCreated: +--- + + +1. Discipline - first 2 weeks (mid sept) + - Set up Core place where you document everything, a single place for your commitments + - Start 3 keystone habits + - non-trivial, requiring a little effort, but still do-able for everything + - Cal recommends having one for work, one for health, and one for yourself +2. Values - 4 weeks (mid oct) + - "reconnect" with your moral intuition + - reread something that really spoke to you, something that made you say "wow this is whats important in life" + - write a first draft of your code + - roadmap for how you approach your life, during both the good and bad times + - Rituals + - regularly connect you to your moral intuition + - ex. meditiation, weekly hike, volunteering, +3. Control - 4 weeks (mid nov) + - Multiscale planning - professional + - Quarterly plan that you look at every week to create a weekly plan + - Weekly plan looks at calendar and quarterly plan + - Every day, Look at the weekly plan and create a timeblock plan + - see: time menagement video + - household planning + - maintenance of the things outside of work + - full capture + - be able to reference this when you're doing your weekly plan, of the adult stuff that you just need to get done + - automate & eliminate + - goal is to reduce time spent on things, get info about how long things take, how we spend our time and we can use this information to make our life less busy + - what things can you get off your mind? scheduling things? getting automated inputs of certain things? + - eliminate: what things can you just get rid of? + - ex. "being on this comittee is killing me because of them scheduling these meetings...." +4. Vision - 6 weeks (till end of Dec) + - designing for remarkability + - 1 small + - one part of your personal life that you totally overhaul for more remarkability + - ex. a hobby that you want to really get into + - mix of concrete steps you complete plus new habits & systems, that lead you to a vision that's more remarkable + - ex. cinophile + - steps + - invest some money into a new basement setup + - take a cinophile course or get a couple of books + - habit/system: + - twice a week scheduled to watch a movie + - return movies to library + - find 3 articles ahead of time to prime you + - longterm goal + - if i do this for 3 months i'll go join a film club, i'll be ready for that + - plan 1 large + - one larger aspect, ex. professional, that you plan for a total overhaul in + - lifestyle plan, scheme to see whats involved \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/How to Be More Productive by Working Less.md b/content/references/How to Be More Productive by Working Less.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..26591f66 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How to Be More Productive by Working Less.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-05-18 12:57:31 +id: 6149c8cd-4971-486d-b60a-f5cd5d67f0a1 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-markmanson-net-how-to-be-more-productive-1882fc52c4e +url: https://markmanson.net/how-to-be-more-productive +author: Mark Manson +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have [different brains](https://markmanson.net/10-cool-things-about-the-brain) and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and [situations where we feel most effective](https://markmanson.net/self-discipline) + + +> For example, [procrastination](https://markmanson.net/how-to-stop-procrastinating) is deeply tied to anxiety—so it’s important to develop an understanding of your own neuroses and fears. + + +> Action [has a momentum to it](https://markmanson.net/how-to-get-motivated), and so developing personal rituals to get your own snowball rolling downhill is likely far more important than what yerba mate supplements to take, or what fucking yoga mat to sit and scratch your ass on in the morning. + + +> Most of us, for most of our lives, conceptualize work as a linear function. What I mean by “linear” is that the amount of [productive output you create](https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/productivity/) is directly proportional to the number of hours you input. + + +> The only work that is linear is really basic, repetitive stuff. Like hauling bales of hay. Or packing boxes. Or really obnoxious data entry on gigantic spreadsheets. Or operating the fryer at McDonald’s. + + +> Sadly, the “work as a linear function” is where all the religion of “Bro, you’ve just gotta hustle” comes from in the startup world. Since, in their minds, 16 hours of work is twice as productive as eight, the logical conclusion is that you’re all just a bunch of lazy sacks of shit, and you should be putting butter in your coffee at 4 AM and coding until your eyeballs bleed. Hustle, hustle, hustle. + + +> like a muscle, your brain tires out. And if you’re exercising your brain by doing any sort of problem-solving, or important decision-making, then you’re limited in how much you can effectively accomplish in a day. + +Cal Newport talks about this in deep work + +> Every business, job, or project has what I call a leverage point that instantly makes everything else you do more effective. + + +> See, solving problems is like food for your mind. It makes your mind happy. It makes it feel important and worthy and capable—all things [directly linked to happiness](https://markmanson.net/how-to-be-happy). +> +> But solving problems is to your mind as food is to your stomach. It needs a variety of stimulation and too much of one kind will cause it to get sick and tired. +> +> But + + diff --git a/content/references/How to Build Digital Leverage - Justin Welsh.md b/content/references/How to Build Digital Leverage - Justin Welsh.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5d18b29a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How to Build Digital Leverage - Justin Welsh.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-06-10 18:56:41 +id: 42c00826-42de-40b3-8c37-8dd1209419fe +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/how-to-build-digital-leverage-justin-welsh-188a786acbb +url: https://www.justinwelsh.me/blog/how-to-build-digital-leverage +author: +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Want to build a lean, profitable one-person business? +> +> One of the most powerful concepts you should know about is something I call “Digital Leverage.” + + +> ## **3 Components of Digital Leverage** +> +> +> There are 3 simple parts to this formula. +> +> * **Content:** Ideate 1x, Distribute 10x +> * **Selling:** Distribute 10x, Sell 100x +> * **Compounding Revenue:** Sell 100x, Incentivize 1,000x + + +> ### **Part 1: Ideate 1x, Distribute 10x** + + +> With my audience in mind, I research trending topics, read industry insights, and engage on social media for an hour every day. And these activities help me identify interesting ideas to write about. +> +> After I choose a topic to write about, I create one robust, long-form piece of content— sometimes it’s a newsletter issue (like this), an article, or a [**Twitter thread**](https://www.justinwelsh.me/blog/03192022). + + +> I break up my big, long-form content piece into smaller, more digestible pieces of content — like tweets, LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, and Instagram posts. + + +> ### **Phase 2: Distribute 10x, Sell 100x** +> +> +> After I create 10 small pieces of content from one big idea, it’s time for distribution. + + +> So I publish my smaller snippets in all the different places that make sense for each piece of content (Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, etc) + + +> Every time you repurpose one strong piece of content into bite-sized posts for different platforms, you reach a wider audience with minimal effort. +> +> Use these bite-sized social media posts as a “trojan horse” to promote your products and services. + + +> ### **Phase 3: Sell 100x, Incentivize 1,000x** +> +> +> Selling 100 units of your product may just seem like a milestone. But it's also an opportunity to compound those sales with effective incentives. + + +> Offer an **[enticing affiliate program](https://www.justinwelsh.me/affiliate%5Fusers/sign%5Fup)**, where your customers earn a commission for every new customer they refer to you. I made the decision to pay 35% rather than the standard 20% simply because I want people to feel empowered to earn. + + +> But remember, you need 3 things for a win-win-win affiliate program: +> +> 1. **A high-quality product or service:** People will only refer their friends if they truly got value from your offering. +> 2. **A good enough incentive:** You can’t pay out pennies if you expect people to keep your affiliate program top-of-mind. +> 3. **Transparency:** How does the program work? When do people get paid? What are some helpful tips for promoting or talking about your products? + + diff --git a/content/references/How to Feel Good About Going Slow.md b/content/references/How to Feel Good About Going Slow.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..21425369 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How to Feel Good About Going Slow.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-05-18 12:50:11 +id: 121ea709-8235-4c3b-8247-5f6e08796f04 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/how-to-feel-good-about-going-slow-1882fc4e134 +url: https://explorewhatworks.com/letting-go-of-urgency?ref=refind +author: Tara McMullin +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> The [philosopher Kieran Setiya](https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-a-philosophical-guide-kieran-setiya/16645041?ean=9780691183282) divides our activities into two categories: _telic_ and _atelic_. Telic activities are those that we do for their end product. The purpose of telic activities is to get to the end. But atelic activities are those we do to do them. The purpose of atelic activities is that the _process_ of doing them has value. + + +> I give these two types of activities a bit more conventional names: [practice and achievement](https://explorewhatworks.com/the-satisfaction-of-practice-in-an-achievement-oriented-world/). Telic activities are focused on achievement—be it mundane, utilitarian, or extraordinary. + + +> the purpose of practice is awareness and groundedness, not improvement—and certainly not perfection. + +Practice is about presence, not growth. Growth is future focused and creates an expectation, a gap which we need to fill and do better than last time, leading to disappointment and using our dopamine systems. But we want to move towards more flatline, stable dopamine, avoid stimulating it too much. So presence and practice engage serotonin? + +> There are plenty of ways that a loaf of bread can go wrong. And most of them are preventable if I’m paying attention. And, as Selassie points out, not only do I need to pay attention, but I need to be _kind_. If I get ticked off or frustrated by my dough because it’s not doing what I think it’s _supposed to_ be doing, it doesn’t do any good. Nor does it help if I start unkindly blaming myself. The kind way to respond is with curiosity. Why is this happening? What could I try to fix it? + + +> Or as [L. M. Sacasas put it](https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-human-built-world-is-not-built?utm%5Fsource=pocket%5Fmylist), “In innumerable ways we bend ourselves to fit the pattern of a techno-economic order that exists for its own sake and not for ours.” We created clocks to use as tools—and now the tool uses us. +> +> The urgency of clock time shapes our societies. It complicates our creativity. It disconnects us from our most precious values and relationships. + + +> Many of us face legitimate urgency—bills need to be paid, deadlines need to be met, kids need to be cared for. But maybe, just maybe, there’s a way for you to _practice_ letting go of urgency. Maybe there’s a way for you to practice experiencing time in a way that doesn’t have to be packed with value, usefulness, or even meaning. + +What would it look like, or mean if you didn'tspend every singleminute totally optimized? + +> ### What happens if we start to let go of presuppositions about time altogether? +> +> Could we measure progress, growth, and experience with alternative metrics? What happens if we let go of measuring altogether? How does measuring or not measuring the use of our time transform what we believe to be valuable? +> +> Ben Franklin said, “[Time is money](https://explorewhatworks.com/money-shared-delusion-why-how-we-think-about-money-matters/).” But what else could time be? What if time were practice? Connection? Care? Love? How does redefining time outside of a financial equation change our perception of it? How does it change the way we plan or our expectations of how time is spent? + + +> ### We create so much heartache with how we expect our projects or goals to unfold in time. +> +> We might even feel shame when we don’t accomplish everything others accomplish in the same timeframe. Our expectations create urgency. + +connection to expectations, time, Maybe even dopamine? + +> ### Urgency robs me of both the pleasure of the process _and_ the result of my diligence. +> +> Urgency might _feel_ like the natural state of things. But it’s not. We’ve learned to cram as much as we can into shorter and shorter periods of time—the whole productivity industry is based on this capitalism-inspired desire. [To break the habit](https://advice.theshineapp.com/articles/5-questions-to-help-you-break-free-from-the-urgency-spiral/), we not only have to practice doing things differently but reexamine the stories and assumptions that have formed the habit. + +How do we balance this with wanting to live a comfortable life with nice things + +> ### Could we start to recognize that plans, projects, ideas, opportunities, and problems unfold on their own time? +> +> Could we learn that slow and indeterminate—rather than urgent—is the natural state of things? And what expectations would we need to let go of as we do? + + diff --git a/content/references/How to Have a More Productive Year - The New Yorker.md b/content/references/How to Have a More Productive Year - The New Yorker.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..867e280d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How to Have a More Productive Year - The New Yorker.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-01-29 18:58:34 +id: 6a051247-6b34-43bb-a0c3-ef0973b70000 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/how-to-have-a-more-productive-year-the-new-yorker-18d57a8d3a6 +url: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/how-to-have-a-more-productive-year +author: Cal Newport +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> An ordinary to-do list will quickly grow too crowded to serve as a useful planning tool. A more structured organizational scheme is required—one that reflects the actual complexity of work. +> +> Creating such a system requires a kind of structural analysis: you have to start by recognizing that your job involves juggling multiple roles and competing priorities, and then make space for those in your system. + + +> A professor, for instance, might divide her responsibilities by role into “Teaching,” “Research,” and “Service”; an office manager might identify “Personnel Requests,” “Supplies,” and “Maintenance Issues.” In addition to recognizing your roles, you need to grapple with the fact that not all obligations are the same. You can categorize them by status. There might be generic status categories, such as “Back Burner” (for work you need to eventually accomplish), “To Clarify” (for vague commitments that still need to be fleshed out), “This Week” (for top priorities), or “Waiting to Hear Back.” But there might also be statuses specific to your job. A professor’s Service role, for example, might include a “Student Requests to Process” status, or an office manager’s Supplies role might include a collection of items “To Order.” + + +> instead of asking yourself “What’s next?” before consulting a huge to-do list, you can choose a specific role, and then survey the various tasks associated with that role, organized by status. In this way, you can achieve a quick gestalt understanding of what’s on your plate at the moment, allowing you to make a smart decision about your next activity without feeling overwhelmed by all that you have to do. + + +> Structured task systems can help tame the chaos of your commitments, but they can’t address the sense of meaningless busyness that haunts so many knowledge workers in our current moment. Ideally, we want to prevent our days from devolving into nihilistic walkabouts from one random task to another. But this requires intention—and that, in turn, requires planning. + + +> One unconventional way to improve your plans is to create them on different timescales simultaneously. You can start with a seasonal plan, which describes your main objectives for the next three or four months. + + +> You can then refer to your seasonal plan each Monday, when you outline a weekly plan for the days ahead. This weekly planning process is more tactical than its seasonal counterpart; the idea is to survey your calendar for the week, see what you’ve already scheduled, and then figure out how you can make progress on the goals in your seasonal plan with the time that remains. In many cases, you’ll want to add the efforts identified in your weekly plan directly onto your calendar so that they’ll be protected like any other appointment. + + +> When you make your weekly plan, you can also review your structured collection of obligations, using your roles and statuses to identify a strategic set of tasks that will actually fit into your available time. +> +> Finally, there’s the daily plan. Each morning, you can consult your weekly plan to quickly configure a plan for the current workday. Don’t simply write an abstract list of things you hope to accomplish. Instead, directly confront the time that’s actually available to you, assigning specific work to specific hours. This time-blocking approach forces you to be more realistic about how much time you really have. It’s hard to perfectly predict how long everything will take, so it’s likely that your efforts will deviate from your plan. That’s O.K. Every so often, you can step back and fix the plan for the remaining hours in your day. The goal isn’t to be prescient about your time but to be intentional with it. + + +> The challenge in cultivating a sustainable approach to modern knowledge work is to locate the space between productivity fetishism and the knee-jerk rejection of productivity thinking as toxic or unnecessary. + + diff --git a/content/references/How to know what you really want.md b/content/references/How to know what you really want.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e96bdf79 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How to know what you really want.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-05-18 12:55:59 +id: 25be2ef1-f98a-4116-947e-41245384a79e +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-psyche-co-guides-how-to-know-what-you-really-want-and-be-f-1882fc48cb0 +url: https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-know-what-you-really-want-and-be-free-from-mimetic-desire +author: Luke Burgis +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Someone with strong underlying values – whether they be religious or philosophical or have another basis – is usually less susceptible to the winds of unhealthy or temporary mimetic desires that lack substance. + + +> Perhaps the most anti-mimetic attitude of all is an openness to wonder and a desire to let reality surprise you. + + +> It’s likely that if you can’t be happy right where you’re at, right now, then you probably won’t be happy anywhere. Your happiness will always be something ‘out there’, beyond the horizon, and mimetic desire will continue to exert an unhealthy control over you. + + +> It’s likely that if you can’t be happy right where you’re at, right now, then you probably won’t be happy anywhere. Your happiness will always be something ‘out there’, beyond the horizon, and mimetic desire will continue to exert an unhealthy control over you. +> +> On the other hand, there are some enduring values – such as health, creativity or the opportunity to share meals with other people – that never go out of style, and there are as many ways to pursue them as there are people on this planet. Lifestyle is something that emerges from one’s values and discipline, not something you find at a particular zip code or via the keys to a different house or van. + + +> There is no perfect model out there for the life you want to lead because you’re a unique and unrepeatable person, and the stamp you leave on this world will be your own. Those who come after you might be inspired to model parts of their life or their desires on yours, but they too will need to embark on the same adventure of being a transcendent leader in a mimetic world. Seeing the patterns that exist in the lives and desires of others, and then making something new and beautiful out of them: that is your opportunity and your legacy. + + diff --git a/content/references/How to succeed in a post-career world.md b/content/references/How to succeed in a post-career world.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a3a6f0c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/How to succeed in a post-career world.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-11-09 06:15:08 +id: 2afc86e6-ef9e-41c0-bd9c-32a96b0a2e72 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-refind-com-r-149626929-context-2-fs-2-ptid-69845866-s-emai-18bb3caecae +url: https://refind.com/r/149626929?context=2&fs=2&ptid=69845866&s=email-2402&t=4IEIuDUtOF1-ZJkF-RKp-Q +author: Kevin Dickinson +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> I grew up watching Johnny Carson on _The Tonight Show_, and for 30 years, he would always walk out from behind a curtain and stand in one place. How did he know where to stand? There was a star on the ground. +> +> When you tell someone to follow their passion, it not only implies but clearly states that they have a passion. It’s their star on the floor, the pathway of their life. If they can only get on that star, all good things will follow. +> +> But your passion is not a star; it’s a Milky Way. That difference is what we fail to understand. The advice should be to follow your passions while acknowledging that your passions will change over time. + + +> The essence of a meaning audit is to help people stitch their meaning together. It’s a series of questions to ask yourself to try to figure out what you want to do now — not six months ago but today — and then look forward. The simplest way to think about it is to pick three questions: one from the past, one from the present, and one from the future. +> +> So, let’s just take one question from the past: Who was your role model as a child, and what did you admire about them? Now, what matters isn’t who they are; it’s what you value about them. What are the values you’ll learn from your role models as a child? + + +> Now, let’s go to the present. A great question for the present is, “I’m in a moment in my life when \_\_\_\_.” Then fill in the blank. I’m in a moment in my life when I need to [make money](https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/can-money-buy-happiness/) to pay off student loans. I need to prepare my two children for college. I spent the last five years caring for an aging relative and want to do something for myself now. I need more self-expression. I want to give back. I want to run for office. Whatever it might be. +> +> Finally, I think my favorite question for the future is, “The best advice I have for myself right now is \_\_\_\_.” Ask yourself: What’s the best advice? + + diff --git a/content/references/If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These - by Ryan Holiday - Medium.md b/content/references/If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These - by Ryan Holiday - Medium.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c5fe984 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These - by Ryan Holiday - Medium.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-05-18 11:08:33 +id: 6283efc4-057b-43b9-a240-9d9f8fe0613d +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/if-you-only-read-a-few-books-in-2023-read-these-by-ryan-holiday--1882f67d25c +url: https://ryanholiday.medium.com/if-you-only-read-a-few-books-in-2023-read-these-960064707d6e +author: Ryan Holiday +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> ​[**_Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be_**](https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu0k793rzimh0ze596t6/9qhzhnhg867onpu9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9wdXQteW91ci1hc3Mtd2hlcmUteW91ci1oZWFydC13YW50cy10by1iZT9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1iYTViYTdiNzAmX3NzPXI=) **by Steven Pressfield** + + +> ​[**_Range_**](https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu0k793rzimh0ze596t6/reh8hohqp38gnkb2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9zZWxmaGVscDE3P19wb3M9MSZfc2lkPTJiYmQyZTVhOSZfc3M9cg==) **by David Epstein** + + +> ​[**_Meditations_**](https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu0k793rzimh0ze596t6/m2h7h5hoxqrdw6sm/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==) **_by Marcus Aurelius_** + + +> ​[**_The Choice: Embrace the Possible_**](https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu0k793rzimh0ze596t6/7qh7h8h0e6gr3xsz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9jaG9pY2UtZW1icmFjZS10aGUtcG9zc2libGU%5FX3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9MDUzMjNmMDk4Jl9zcz1y) **by Dr. Edith Eva Eger** + + diff --git a/content/references/Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive-.md b/content/references/Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive-.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9d22e2a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive-.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-06-20 08:08:55 +id: b0020529-7b72-4dcb-b18c-cea74c5d3ae8 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/is-it-even-possible-to-become-more-productive-190358c9336 +url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240326091444/https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a60268078/productivity-journey-review/ +author: Kelly Stout +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> _Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock_. + + diff --git a/content/references/Joe Abercrombie and Brandon Sanderson Live Chat!.md b/content/references/Joe Abercrombie and Brandon Sanderson Live Chat!.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d6bd349a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Joe Abercrombie and Brandon Sanderson Live Chat!.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +author: Daniel Greene +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD-mtBq0pM +status: To Process +type: Video +--- +- in order for a book to be good, you have to break all its bones and rebuild it + +- Sanderson loves the first draft process, thats why he's able to write so much. Its a slow and steady part, which keeps it enjoyable. But it can't be forces. With revisions, he's able to stick himself in a room for 10 hours stuck up to a deadline, using "the stick" Its a bright, fast burn with revision, but the process of writing the first draft can't be treated that way. it needs to be more flow like for him + - there was something related to this that i read recently, about how rewarding yourself for reading a chapter is bad, it's not enough. you need to enjoy doing the work for the work's sake + +- Abercrombie sets out to write the kind of book he'd want to read. + - someone else said this recently too, but I can't remember. Something about creating the art you wish you could see - or creating the music you wish you could listen to + +- A chef may have a love of food, and loves all different cuisines, but it behoves him to open a restautant of just one type, then bring in those inspirations to his creations, but still give his customers somethign they expect. reliability, but novelty. a baseline expectation, but novelty and delight on top of that. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Julian Writing Workshop.md b/content/references/Julian Writing Workshop.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..239c9129 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Julian Writing Workshop.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +status: To Process +author: Julian Shapiro +url: https://youtu.be/88O7Dv62pu8 +type: Video +--- +## Youtube Workshop +![](https://youtu.be/88O7Dv62pu8) + +## My Notes (v1) +![[Writing Notes from Julian 3a46792c3eab40708f99ee8964c98457.pdf]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Nat Eliason Productivity.canvas b/content/references/Nat Eliason Productivity.canvas new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1348cafd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Nat Eliason Productivity.canvas @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +{ + "nodes":[ + {"id":"107ad7f452383416","type":"group","x":40,"y":-640,"width":1080,"height":730,"label":"Sources"}, + {"id":"d22bdcbff531fa51","type":"text","text":"# How to Be Really, Really, Ridiculously Productive\nhttps://www.nateliason.com/blog/productive\n\n\"If you’re trying to optimize around working less, find better work.\"\n\nPlanning\n- area of focus\n\t- set annual goals/targets\n![[2 GOALS.png]]\n\n- each link goes to project details\n\t- green - complete\n\t- red - delete\n\t- white - in progress\n- then has next milestone\n\nevery month, choose three goals to focus on\n\nfor monthly goals, break them down to 2 sets of weekly goals\n1. the goals to do every single week\n2. the week X goals, specific to that week, usually based on monthly goals \n\n![[5b89985f31b559f90356dfb1_pasted20image20020(2).png]]\nlimiting everything to 3\n\nCalendar \n- kept mostly empty. not time blocking, just prioritizing\n- try to frontload weekly goals M-W to leave Thu-Fri to get ahead\n\nOrganizing the day\n- 2 lists\n\t- top priority\n\t\t- daily goals, have to be completed before good to do is touched\n\t- good to do\n\nFixed routines\n- 1hr reading after waking up, gym @4pm\n\n> \"1700 words later, this is the part that most “productivity” articles focus on. 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Overarching goals + - take 1-3 months +2. weekly review + 1. time each week to decide on goals for the week + 2. smaller chunks from the overarching goals +3. Daily review + 1. each evening create 3-5 actions for the next day based on weekly goals + +### How its organized - trello board columns: +- Goal backlog - possible future goals, not in progress +- Overarching goals - in progress goals that take 1-3 months +- Weekly goals +- Daily goals +- Daily other tasks - misc, less important than big goals +- Today's Accomplishments - can see how much you're accomplishing +- Weekly accomplishments - everything completed in a week to be reviewed during weekly review +Apps +- note taking +- Habit tracking +- Time tracking + - rescuetime + +# How to Be Really, Really, Ridiculously Productive +https://www.nateliason.com/blog/productive + +"If you’re trying to optimize around working less, find better work." + +Planning +- area of focus + - set annual goals/targets +![[2 GOALS.png]] + +- each link goes to project details + - green - complete + - red - delete + - white - in progress +- then has next milestone + +every month, choose three goals to focus on + +for monthly goals, break them down to 2 sets of weekly goals +1. the goals to do every single week +2. the week X goals, specific to that week, usually based on monthly goals + +![[5b89985f31b559f90356dfb1_pasted20image20020(2).png]] +limiting everything to 3 + +Calendar +- kept mostly empty. not time blocking, just prioritizing +- try to frontload weekly goals M-W to leave Thu-Fri to get ahead + +Organizing the day +- 2 lists + - top priority + - daily goals, have to be completed before good to do is touched + - good to do + +Fixed routines +- 1hr reading after waking up, gym @4pm + +> "1700 words later, this is the part that most “productivity” articles focus on. But, the more I’ve refined the process, the less and less important I think most of this is. If you have well organized goals you care about, you’ll get them done. You won’t need to do silly things like the pomodoro technique, you’ll just do the work. But there are a few habits I’ve developed that I think are really helpful." + + +Set hours for communicaition - 12-4 in order to get at least a few hours of deep work in every morning + +Inbox Zero +- Turn email replies into tasks +- at the end of the day, inbox is cleaned, so it can wait till afternoon the next day + - with a quick peak to see if there are any fires + +Info processing +- find article -> read it later +- when you feel like reading, scroll through the archive +- prefers books to articles, however + +Procrastination +- what you do when you're not sure what to do next +- keep procrastination small and quick + +Minimize distractions + +Daily review +- Goals + - Asses + - mark what you did + - see if you need to make any adjustments + - clear + - closing tabs + - capture work in process + - clear task inbox, notes inbox, and email inbox + - plan + - set goals for the next day + - from weekly goals and work in progress, check for biggest impact if done tomorrow, set those as top 3 goals, add them as top priority + +Weekly review +- reflect, clear, and plan again +- ask what the biggest constrain on output is +- finances review + - categorize, split bills, cancel things +- clear folders + - downloads, docs, drive + +Monthly review +- weekly review, but on the 1st of the month +- review annual goals & projects + +# Quantitative Life Goals: How to Plan and Finish What You Start +https://www.nateliason.com/blog/quantitative-life-goals + + + +1. set a time frame + 1. tends to be 1-3 mo +2. Pick 1-3 goals + 1. **“If I achieved nothing else in three months, what would I be most (satisfied with, proud of, relieved by, excited about)?”** +3. Make sure they're smart goals + 1. How easy is it to know if you've achieved it? +4. Build spreadsheet/tracking + 1. Put your goals on page 1 + 2. create a separate tab for each goal + 3. Create a column for each month with intermediate goals + ![[Subscribers.png]] + *changing the growth rate updates the monthly numbers, until the "End" cell turns green* + 4. Pull all of the tabs into the first page, to see overview of goals along with ideas & todos + 5. ![[Pasted image 20231130080633.png]] +5. Monitor & adjust + 1. nat adds monthly goals into trello + 1. ![[5b2bdba1921bc7bf6ac31f5b_goals-10-Trello.png]] + 2. then chunks them down into weekly tasks + 3. and do a end of month checkin + +# How to Set, Track, and Reach Your Goals Using Airtable +Airtable example: https://airtable.com/appSoQQDbjmKFSb8S/tblp1PF33Py6oTG4x/viwUPeWVAgglCPtY0?blocks=hide + +- Annual goals + - aggresive - personal, physical, financial, influence, business +- Quarterly goals + - breakdown from annual +- monthly goals +- weekly & daily goals + - not a task list, but does go in there as "most important" + +- reflecting & setting + - don't set next period's goals until the end of the current period + + +https://www.nateliason.com/blog/tarnished-bullets +"If you're not doing anything worthwhile that you're excited about to begin with, one of those small changes will matter. And if you are, then your passion will drive the productivity on its own." + + +# The Goal Setting Template for a High-Output Life +https://www.nateliason.com/blog/goal-setting + +- Vision (10y) +- Guiding Goals (tomorrow - 3months) +- Action steps (today) + +Goal setting in 3 tiers - Create 3 goals at each level +- Quarterly +- Weekly +- Daily + + + + +# How to Be More Productive with a Daily System for High Output +https://www.nateliason.com/blog/productivity-daily-system + +Evening Planning +- know what you need to work on tomorrow + - always have clarity on what you need to work on +1. collect + 1. everything turns into tasks in Things + 1. trello, slack, emails, etc + 2. use GTD principles + 1. less than 2 mins? - Do now + 2. Read? reading list + 3. Reference? Store + 4. Task? Things + 5. None? delete + 3. these all come from calendars, project management tools, slack/comms, email, physical desk, digital desktop +2. Process + 1. Notes inbox (PARA) + 2. Things inbox + 1. rank on importance (High, med, low TOP) + 2. set time estimate (15,30,60) + 3. move to correspoinding project or area +3. Review + 1. go through all tasks to clean & update + 1. is in the correct area or project? + 2. has time estimate? + 3. has clear outcome? +4. Plan + 1. Decide what you want to focus on tomorrow + 1. start with top 3 + 1. if you accomplish these, the day will be a success + 2. priority -> top + 3. date -> tomorrow + 4. Add in high task till total is 6 hours + 5. add 1-2 hours of medium/low tasks + +Morning routine +- 1 hour to chill + - no email, no news, no info junk + - doing something you feel good about + - ex. journal, reading, meditation + +Daily Execution +- Time block + - color coded based on priority + - adjust for how long things actually took retrospectively + +![[60 minutes.png]] +- flow through tasks in the above order +- no email from 9-12 +- afternoon review to do a midday clear + +Reverse Pomodoro +- start a 25 min stop watch, no alarm + +Batching Days - daily themes + +Clean & organize your digital space if you feel overwhelmed + +Daily System Implementation Guide +1. evening review to plan tasks for tomorrow based on long term goals +2. tag tasks based on time and priority - clear on flow of tasks +3. plan your calendar, then adjust as the day goes on +4. design a simple morning routine, <30mins, 2-3 habits to start your day with +5. segment calendar based on different activities, don't let activities slip into the wrong spot \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Neil Gaiman - Do the thing or do nothing.md b/content/references/Neil Gaiman - Do the thing or do nothing.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..46e9832c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Neil Gaiman - Do the thing or do nothing.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +author: Tim Ferris +url: https://tim.blog/2019/03/30/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-neil-gaiman-366/ +status: Completed +type: Article +dateCreated: +--- + +**Tim Ferriss:** It seems to me, and you can’t believe everything you read on the internet, so I want you to certainly fact check me as needed. But you also have or have had some internal rules, so you can use your external environment to assist, but I read that, and again, feel free to correct, but making rules, the importance of making rules like, you can sit here and write or you can sit here and do nothing, but you can’t sit here and do anything else. + +**Neil Gaiman:** That was always, and still is when I go off to write, that’s my biggest rule. + +**Tim Ferriss:** Could you speak to that? + +**Neil Gaiman:** Yeah, ’cause I would go down to my lovely little gazebo at the bottom of the garden, sit down, and I’m absolutely allowed not to do anything. I’m allowed to sit at my desk, I’m allowed to stare out at the world, I’m allowed to do anything I like, as long as it isn’t anything. Not allowed to do a crossword, not allowed to read a book, not allowed to phone a friend, not allowed to make a clay model of something. All I’m allowed to do is absolutely nothing, or write. + +What I love about that is I’m giving myself permission to write or not write, but writing is actually more interesting than doing nothing after a while. You sit there and you’ve been staring out the window now for five minutes, and it kind of loses its charm. You’re going, “Well, actually, let’s all write something.” It’s hard. As a writer, I’m more easily — I’m distractable. I have a three-year-old son. He is the epitome of cuteness and charm. It’s more fun playing with him than it is writing, which means if I’m going to be writing, I need to do it somewhere where I don’t have a three-year-old son singing to me, asking me to read to him, demanding my attention. + +I think it’s really just a solid rule for writers. You don’t have to write. You have permission to not write, but you don’t have permission to do anything else. + +**Tim Ferriss:** That reminds me of another one of my favorite writers, you being the one who’s sitting in front of me, John McPhee, a nonfiction writer who has spent much of his life in Princeton, New Jersey, but has written some incredible Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction, and I was lucky enough to take a class with him a thousand years ago. His rule was very similar, although he didn’t state it explicitly. He would sit in front of his first, as a young man, typewriter. He could sit in front of the blank page and from eight a.m. to six p.m., and with the exception of a break for lunch and swimming, it was the blank page or writing. He was disallowed from doing anything else. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/Productivity Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy.md b/content/references/Productivity Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3ced04f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Productivity Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-01-04 09:34:01 +id: 5b5a93e7-14e8-455e-afe6-745f237bb32c +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-tim-blog-2013-11-03-productivity-hacks-18cd4e52829 +url: https://tim.blog/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/ +author: Tim Ferriss +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Most “superheroes” are nothing of the sort. They’re weird, neurotic creatures who do big things DESPITE lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk. +> +> Personally, I suck at efficiency (doing things quickly). Here’s my coping mechanism and 8-step process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): +> +> 1) Wake up at least 1 hour before you have to be at a computer screen. E-mail is the mind killer. +> +> 2) Make a cup of tea (I like pu-erh) and sit down with a pen/pencil and paper. +> +> 3) Write down the 3-5 things — and no more — that are making you most anxious or uncomfortable. They’re often things that have been punted from one day’s to-do list to the next, to the next, to the next, and so on. Most important usually = most uncomfortable, with some chance of rejection or conflict. +> +> 4) For each item, ask yourself: +> +> **– “If this were the only thing I accomplished today, would I be satisfied with my day?”** +> +> **– “Will moving this forward make all the other to-do’s unimportant or easier to knock off later?”** +> +> 5) Look only at the items you’ve answered “yes” to for at least one of these questions. +> +> 6) Block out at least 2-3 hours to focus on ONE of them for today. Let the rest of the urgent but less important stuff slide. It will still be there tomorrow. +> +> 7) TO BE CLEAR: Block out at least 2-3 HOURS to focus on ONE of them for today. This is ONE BLOCK OF TIME. Cobbling together 10 minutes here and there to add up to 120 minutes does not work. +> +> 8) If you get distracted or start procrastinating, don’t freak out and downward spiral; just gently come back to your ONE to-do. +> +> Congratulations! That’s it. +> +> This is the only way I can create big outcomes despite my never-ending impulse to procrastinate, nap, and otherwise fritter away my days with bullshit. If I have 10 important things to do in a day, it’s 100% certain _nothing important_ will get done that day. On the other hand, I can usually handle 1 must-do item and block out my lesser behaviors for 2-3 hours a day. + + +> And when — despite your best efforts — you feel like you’re losing at the game of life, remember: Even the best of the best feel this way sometimes. When I’m in the pit of despair, I recall what iconic writer Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” + + +> Don’t overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. +> +> And you are not alone. + + diff --git a/content/references/Quit Your Job.md b/content/references/Quit Your Job.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..14f4e78e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Quit Your Job.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-11-04 00:28:52 +id: acbf4685-4c69-412b-8e6f-9ab50dbe786c +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-click-convertkit-mail-com-8-ku-6688-qrnioh-0-knz-64-ckhznz-18b98972ebc +url: https://click.convertkit-mail.com/8ku6688qrnioh0knz64ckhznzo399/kkhmh6hl8gonvxck/aHR0cHM6Ly9wYWxsYWRpdW1tYWcuY29tLzIwMjIvMDEvMDYvcXVpdC15b3VyLWpvYi8= +author: Wolf Tivy +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> The best search strategies for complex problems like life generally don’t seek out particular homogeneous objectives, but interesting novelty. + + +> The key implication is that while you have not yet found the unique opportunity that will be the engine and purpose of your empire, you have to adjust your sense of value. Value is very legible within a clear plan to reach a clear objective. But you cannot pursue interesting novelty—things that no one else is doing or which you have never seen before, or the little threads of nagging curiosity or doubt—by chasing along known direct value gradients. But that’s where the treasure is. That’s how you will find the place where you need to build. To get the biggest and most interesting payoffs, you have to start by chasing merely interesting novelty in an open-ended way. + + +> Let us aim to be uplifted thereby as we take responsibility for more and more of the task we are given, until the student surpasses the master to receive their visions directly from God. +> +> You can do this before you quit your job. Transform your perspective thus: rather than seeing the job as carrying out someone else’s will in exchange for money, see it as itself your sacred cosmic duty. What important task do you do for the project you work for? How does that project fit into creating a more glorious future? How is that future pleasing to God, the proper order of things, and your own felt value instincts? Your wage is just a budget given to you to help you carry out this sacred duty; give your whole life to the task at hand, and take responsibility for its whole logic. If something in that entire chain of purpose back to the highest purposes isn’t right, fix it. You own the task and the task owns you. + + diff --git a/content/references/Rediscovering Ikigai- What We Got Wrong & How to Find Meaning in Life.md b/content/references/Rediscovering Ikigai- What We Got Wrong & How to Find Meaning in Life.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4553a254 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Rediscovering Ikigai- What We Got Wrong & How to Find Meaning in Life.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-03-21 09:17:01 +id: 10a62801-4b80-4cee-bee7-5428904aa0c4 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/rediscovering-ikigai-what-we-got-wrong-how-to-find-meaning-in-li-18e6128652a +url: https://nesslabs.com/ikigai +author: Anne-Laure Le Cunff +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> However, the concept of ikigai is not about finding the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for. It’s just about finding pleasure in life and being happy to get up in the morning. + + +> “Japanese people don’t view ikigai as a lofty goal, a destination, or something to achieve,” explains Nicholas Kemp, author of the book _Ikigai-Kan_. Similarly, in The Little Book of Ikigai, Ken Mogi wrote: “Japanese do not need grandiose motivational frameworks to keep going, but rely more on the little rituals in their daily routines.” + + +> Your ikigai can be found in small daily rituals, side projects, and deep conversations. It can be found in moments of silence and idleness, or in moments of creative flow. To find your ikigai, forget about the westernized version and instead follow these principles: +> +> 1. **Stop seeking your One True Passion.** Many of us think that finding our passion will magically give our life a purpose. Instead, find meaning in your daily experiences and interactions. Explore the world around and inside you. Learn something new everyday, including about yourself. Play with uncertainty instead of chasing the [next milestone](https://nesslabs.com/the-paradox-of-goals). +> 2. **Embrace lifelong learning.** The concept of ikigai never mentions being good at what you do. There is joy in being a beginner all over again, learning through mistakes, and growing outside of your comfort zone. Don’t try to be the expert in the room. Keep [asking questions](https://nesslabs.com/generative-questions). Never stop learning. +> 3. **Let go of lofty financial goals.** Ikigai also doesn’t have anything to do with money. Of course, we all need enough money to live a comfortable life, and money can help explore projects and ideas that bring you pleasure in life, but beyond the point of comfort, financial success should be seen as a potential byproduct of living a meaningful life. +> 4. **Don’t try to save the world.** Instead, focus on the positive impact you can have on your friends, family, colleagues, and community. Ask yourself how you can connect with people in meaningful ways and which changes you want to bring to life. This is how we save the world — when everyone contributes at their own human scale. + + +> As psychiatrist Mieko Kamiya [puts it](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%94%9F%E3%81%8D%E3%81%8C%E3%81%84%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6-%E7%A5%9E%E8%B0%B7%E7%BE%8E%E6%81%B5%E5%AD%90%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3-%E7%A5%9E%E8%B0%B7-%E7%BE%8E%E6%81%B5%E5%AD%90/dp/4622081814), ikigai is closer in Japanese to the “power necessary to live in this world” or the “happiness to be alive”, which unfortunately is often translated to “a life worth living” in English, when the original concept doesn’t ascribe measurable value to our lives. + + +> Instead of pursuing a grand life purpose, optimize for wanting to wake up in the morning. Live a life of curiosity and connection. Trust that success will be a byproduct of the meaning you find in daily experiences. + + diff --git a/content/references/Stop consuming so much content.md b/content/references/Stop consuming so much content.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..58e6e1f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Stop consuming so much content.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +type: Article +status: To Read +author: Andy Matuschak +--- + + +https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zWzVw2VM4TPjpKXnHUfLaso \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/The Imperfectionist- How to make writing less hard.md b/content/references/The Imperfectionist- How to make writing less hard.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09268fcc --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/The Imperfectionist- How to make writing less hard.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-08-01 12:57:07 +id: 0020e828-c5cd-41a1-9383-c28e03329fdc +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/the-imperfectionist-how-to-make-writing-less-hard-189b2082aa7 +url: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/so/c9NUIQ7U5?cid=af83b493-e5f1-4e6c-a288-751ff8e327a9&languageTag=en +author: +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Good writing is pointing out. + + +> Pinker suggests approaching writing as if you were pointing something in the environment out to another person – something that she would notice for herself, if only she knew where to look. + + +> It's not that they're stupid and you're enlightening them, but nor are they already inside your head. So you have to show them what you've noticed. Look, over there: can you see? +> +> Stopping is as crucial as starting. + + +> what really matters is stopping once you've met your word goal or completed your scheduled writing session. (And Boice suggests these should start very short indeed, like 10 or 15 minutes.) Don't keep going, even if you're on a roll. Make yourself get up, walk away, and do something else. + + +> The urge to push onwards "includes a big component of impatience about not being finished, about not being productive enough, about never again finding such an ideal time" for work. If you keep going, you'll reinforce your worst impulses, whereas walking away helps strengthen the muscle of patience that will permit you to return to your writing project, day after day. + +This is also what dr k says about being a slave to your motivation. How you shouldn’t go all out when you have the motivation, but quit and turn it into something consistent + +> If you're staring at a blank page, you're doing it wrong. + + +> consider shifting some of the energy you spend on writing away from the creation of finished products (articles, short stories, whatever) and onto the ongoing maintenance of some kind of system for storing and fleshing out your ideas. + + +> The hardcore way to do this is to create a "Zettelkasten" system + + diff --git a/content/references/The Self-Help Paradox - by Edward - Chop Wood, Carry Water.md b/content/references/The Self-Help Paradox - by Edward - Chop Wood, Carry Water.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e33d86f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/The Self-Help Paradox - by Edward - Chop Wood, Carry Water.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-05-28 13:25:56 +id: 3b03e581-b538-4144-989f-e5dd26190e1e +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-open-substack-com-pub-edwardsays-p-the-self-help-paradox-r-18fc03cb376 +url: https://edwardsays.substack.com/p/the-self-help-paradox?r=2efbto&triedRedirect=true +author: Edward +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> the essence of striving is dissatisfaction. If you decide that you will be happy when you get a promotion, bench two plates, or find a perfect partner, then you tacitly make an agreement with yourself to not be happy in the present. Stated otherwise: we stop accepting and liking ourselves for who we are in this moment, which is corrosive in itself. + +is this necessarily the case though? can't we both strive to be the bestv ersion of ourself while still enjoying the present moment? + +> Ask yourself: why is the self-help industry such a thriving one? Why are there so many self-help books and articles and videos? Because it’s big business and because we have become a society of voyeurs and dreamers: by reading about the day-to-day grind, we allow ourselves to imagine that we will become what we have dreamed of and, since these books spoon-feed us what these dreams should be, it then becomes unnecessary for us to expend precious energy sitting with ourselves and deciding what we really want. + + diff --git a/content/references/The Self-Motivation Toolkit- How to Stay Curious and Committed.md b/content/references/The Self-Motivation Toolkit- How to Stay Curious and Committed.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..971ec9f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/The Self-Motivation Toolkit- How to Stay Curious and Committed.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-04-18 10:17:58 +id: 8deac536-200c-4944-998c-eb6d7425937c +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/the-self-motivation-toolkit-how-to-stay-curious-and-committed-18ef19242b0 +url: https://nesslabs.com/self-motivation-toolkit +author: Anne-Laure Le Cunff +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> How do you build more intrinsic motivation into your life? Researchers have identified several ingredients you need three key ingredients to build intrinsic motivation. + + +> The first is **self-efficacy**, trusting that you have the choice and the freedom to act however you want to. Of course, you need to be aware of your current motivational state, but researchers [discovered](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691822003316) that equally important is how confident you feel in your ability to change it. + + +> The second one is **curiosity**. Neuroimaging studies [suggest](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5364176/) that intrinsic motivation and curiosity share the same dopaminergic systems. It’s much easier to feel motivated when you find a question interesting or when you notice an information gap you want to fill. + + +> neuroimaging studies have revealed that self-efficacy and curiosity are not only important ingredients for self-motivation but are also interconnected in the brain. A study [found](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304394019305452) that the strength of activation of the “curiosity brain network” mediates the relationship between self-efficacy and curiosity. + + +> Lastly, you [need](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167200269004?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.1) a feeling of increased **competence**—believing that the task will teach you something new and make you more knowledgeable and more efficient. This sense of growth and mastery keeps you motivated to continue pursuing the task even in the face of setbacks. + + +> A Toolkit for Self-Motivation + + +> By making small but meaningful changes, you’ll set the stage for your motivation to emerge. I call those simple strategies the 3 Ms of Self-Motivation. + + +> **Manage your mood.** It will be much harder to feel self-motivated if you are in a bad mood. Instead of brute-forcing your way to complete a task, take a little break to regulate your nervous system and cultivate a sense of calm. This could be through meditation, treating yourself to a nice, healthy meal, or having an interesting conversation break with a peer. + + +> **Measure your progress.** This can be as simple as starting a spreadsheet where you count the number of words you have written, the number of days you have coded, or the number of times you went to the gym. Creating a streak can be extremely self-motivating as you won’t want to break it. As a fun bonus, generating graphs can also make your progress easier to visualize—see the GitHub contribution graph as an example. + + +> **Make it public.** This is one of the most efficient ways to stay motivated over the long run. Working on a project with intrinsic motivation _and_ adding the extrinsic motivation of a public commitment is a powerful combo. But do not only announce your project: make a [pact](https://nesslabs.com/smart-goals-pact) to share regular updates, whether it’s with your colleagues or on social media. + +Is publicly sharing your goals good? What does dr k say about it? +- be careful who you share your goals with + - if people praise you for trying to do something, it'll just be a reward for not doing anything, just talking about it + - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UikFbVuS5c diff --git a/content/references/The Virtue of Slow Writers - The Millions.md b/content/references/The Virtue of Slow Writers - The Millions.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..12fe883f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/The Virtue of Slow Writers - The Millions.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-04-15 09:30:10 +id: 85b0bd71-eb26-4f77-a4ba-d51d12cea942 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/the-virtue-of-slow-writers-the-millions-18ee1f36b33 +url: https://themillions.com/2024/03/the-virtue-of-slow-writers.html?ref=refind +author: Lauren Alwan +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Books known for their protracted writing time—10, 20 years or more—span genre, length, and era. **Salinger**’s [_Catcher in the Rye_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316769177/ref=nosim/themillpw-20), 10 years. **Min Jin Lee**’s [_Pachinko_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1455563927/ref=nosim/themillpw-20), 28 years—and 11 for her debut, [_Free Food for Millionaires_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/153872202X/ref=nosim/themillpw-20). **Edward P. Jones** imagined [_The Known World_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061159174/ref=nosim/themillpw-20) in his head for over a decade before writing it out in seven months, and **John Steinbeck** made notes for [_East of Eden_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140186395/ref=nosim/themillpw-20) for 11 years before writing it in a year of continual work. + + +> there are those writers who seem to work best at a clip. **Anne Rice** wrote [_Interview with a Vampire_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345337662/ref=nosim/themillpw-20) in five weeks and **Muriel Spark** [_The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061711292/ref=nosim/themillpw-20) in less than four. **Kazuo Ishiguro** drafted [_The Remains of the Day_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679731725/ref=nosim/themillpw-20) in four weeks—achieved, he’s said, by implementing a process he calls The Crash: “do nothing but write from 9am to 10.30pm, Monday through Saturday. \[…\] One hour off for lunch and two for dinner. I’d not see, let alone answer, any mail, and would not go near the phone.” + + +> In [_The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1250051037/ref=nosim/themillpw-20), essayist **Louise DeSalvo** writes, “We’ve internalized the idea that that the only actions worth taking are those that can be accomplished quickly, \[…\] that if our writing takes so long, we might not be cut out for the writing life.” _The Art of Slow Writing_ is a manifesto for giving a book the time it needs, for cultivating patience and connection. + + diff --git a/content/references/What if you never sort your life out- - Oliver Burkeman.md b/content/references/What if you never sort your life out- - Oliver Burkeman.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..91bbdce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/What if you never sort your life out- - Oliver Burkeman.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-05-17 08:36:34 +id: fe37a9ea-536f-4920-a6c5-0cadf8c5f61f +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/what-if-you-never-sort-your-life-out-oliver-burkeman-18f868dd88e +url: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/never +author: +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> "Hold on," she said, or words to this effect. "Are you still under the illusion that you'll one day reach a point in your life where you no longer have any problems?" + + +> I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but that till then we're living what the great Swiss psychologist [Marie-Louise von Franz](https://www.oliverburkeman.com/so/c5NVPzItv/c?w=7nO8zOdeUE9-Zzcp60kXq9bZwJGP%5F-WLzot4C3nGRRc.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaWUtbG91aXNldm9uZnJhbnouY29tL2VuL2hvbWUiLCJyIjoiYTA4ZGE4YWQtOWQxOS00ZTJhLTY5N2EtMTg4MzBlY2EzYmQ4IiwibSI6ImxwIn0) called the "provisional life." ("There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that… \[but\] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about.") + + +> Most of our attempts to become better people, fitter and healthier, more moral/productive/organised, and so forth, make this problem worse – because it's basically impossible to pursue any program of personal change without the thought, somewhere in the back of your mind, that successfully completing the change will catapult you into a new and somehow realer kind of existence. + + +> This error of thought might be fine if it didn't detract from the quality of the life you're experiencing right now. But it does. + + +> One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really disciplined exerciser or healthy eater, never resolve the personal issue you feel defines your life's troubles. What if I'll always feel behind with my email? What if listening attentively to other people will always take the weird amount of effort it seems to take now? What if that annoying thing my partner does annoys me to the end of my days? +> +> Meditation provides a useful model here, because most meditation teachers acknowledge explicitly that "stopping thinking" isn't really the goal; instead, falling off the wagon (by getting distracted) then getting back on (by returning to your breath) is the whole game. One might reframe other things this way, too. Your goal as a runner needn't be to get to a place where it's effortless to set off at 630am, day after day. It could just be to get better and better, every time you skip a morning and stay in bed, at starting again the next day. + + +> When I let myself be permeated by this thought – that I might be stuck with certain inner disturbances forever – I definitely feel a bit of peevishness in response: "Wait, I'm never going to get to the problem-free phase? That's not what I signed up for!" But then comes the sense of a heavy burden having been lifted. The pressure's off. I get to unclench, relax, and fall back into the life I'm living. Far from this being dispiriting, I find myself much more motivated to get stuck in. It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems, when the truth is that there's no escaping the mucky, malodorous compost-heap of this reality. Which is OK, actually. Compost is the stuff that helps things grow. + + diff --git a/content/references/What if you never sort your life out.md b/content/references/What if you never sort your life out.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b12fcf10 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/What if you never sort your life out.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-05-17 08:36:34 +id: fe37a9ea-536f-4920-a6c5-0cadf8c5f61f +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/what-if-you-never-sort-your-life-out-oliver-burkeman-18f868dd88e +url: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/never +author: Oliver Burkeman +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> "Hold on," she said, or words to this effect. "Are you still under the illusion that you'll one day reach a point in your life where you no longer have any problems?" + + +> I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but that till then we're living what the great Swiss psychologist [Marie-Louise von Franz](https://www.oliverburkeman.com/so/c5NVPzItv/c?w=7nO8zOdeUE9-Zzcp60kXq9bZwJGP%5F-WLzot4C3nGRRc.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaWUtbG91aXNldm9uZnJhbnouY29tL2VuL2hvbWUiLCJyIjoiYTA4ZGE4YWQtOWQxOS00ZTJhLTY5N2EtMTg4MzBlY2EzYmQ4IiwibSI6ImxwIn0) called the "provisional life." ("There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that… \[but\] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about.") + + +> Most of our attempts to become better people, fitter and healthier, more moral/productive/organised, and so forth, make this problem worse – because it's basically impossible to pursue any program of personal change without the thought, somewhere in the back of your mind, that successfully completing the change will catapult you into a new and somehow realer kind of existence. + + +> This error of thought might be fine if it didn't detract from the quality of the life you're experiencing right now. But it does. + + +> One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really disciplined exerciser or healthy eater, never resolve the personal issue you feel defines your life's troubles. What if I'll always feel behind with my email? What if listening attentively to other people will always take the weird amount of effort it seems to take now? What if that annoying thing my partner does annoys me to the end of my days? +> +> Meditation provides a useful model here, because most meditation teachers acknowledge explicitly that "stopping thinking" isn't really the goal; instead, falling off the wagon (by getting distracted) then getting back on (by returning to your breath) is the whole game. One might reframe other things this way, too. Your goal as a runner needn't be to get to a place where it's effortless to set off at 630am, day after day. It could just be to get better and better, every time you skip a morning and stay in bed, at starting again the next day. + + +> When I let myself be permeated by this thought – that I might be stuck with certain inner disturbances forever – I definitely feel a bit of peevishness in response: "Wait, I'm never going to get to the problem-free phase? That's not what I signed up for!" But then comes the sense of a heavy burden having been lifted. The pressure's off. I get to unclench, relax, and fall back into the life I'm living. Far from this being dispiriting, I find myself much more motivated to get stuck in. It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems, when the truth is that there's no escaping the mucky, malodorous compost-heap of this reality. Which is OK, actually. Compost is the stuff that helps things grow. + + diff --git a/content/references/Why I Refuse To Track How Many Books I've Read.md b/content/references/Why I Refuse To Track How Many Books I've Read.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0eb3b509 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Why I Refuse To Track How Many Books I've Read.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-09-13 14:18:42 +id: c243ae62-279d-49dc-a950-f6cc49173d06 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/why-i-refuse-to-track-how-many-books-i-ve-read-18a8fc4514e +url: https://amugofinsights.substack.com/p/why-i-refuse-to-track-how-many-books +author: Robin Waldun +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> Susan Sontag, in her book _On Photography_ + + +> In the context of travel, documentation takes the form of photography. In our downtime outside of work, documentation urges us to track our sleep, diet, exercise routine and mood. We turned life-enriching habits into another form of work out of the guilt of not working, which certainly applies to reading. + + +> Sometimes, reading a few life-changing books _really, really well_ is enough for living an enriched life, and there’s always space to read more without the burden of hitting a goal. + + diff --git a/content/references/Why I created my alignment philosophy - John's Idea Galaxy.md b/content/references/Why I created my alignment philosophy - John's Idea Galaxy.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0b691250 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Why I created my alignment philosophy - John's Idea Galaxy.md @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-02-12 09:36:44 +id: 2682baea-f02f-4e20-b50f-431925dcc7bc +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/why-i-created-my-alignment-philosophy-john-s-idea-galaxy-obsidia-18d9dbfb8d0 +url: https://publish.obsidian.md/johnmavrick/My+Outputs/My+Brainstorms/%F0%9F%92%A1+Why+I+created+my+alignment+philosophy +author: John Mavrick +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> What if we used Obsidian for more than just organizing knowledge? + + +> workflows to **turn Obsidian into my life operating system.** +> +> It guides my life by: +> +> * Seeing how my daily tasks are connected with my higher-order goals and values through my [vision board](https://youtu.be/sj8oJeYHTDQ?si=fB4aTTDND6lWsvAE&t=73) +> * Encouraging consistent reflection and planning through [daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reviews](https://youtu.be/sj8oJeYHTDQ?si=zOfmv%5FnWY3uxNuYy&t=146) +> * Clarifying my goals through meaningful objectives through [goal notes](https://youtu.be/sj8oJeYHTDQ?si=kLaD5d0MH3tAQfWd&t=166), which are then made actionable through project notes +> * Establishing trackers to visualize your progress on relevant [habits and key metrics](https://youtu.be/sj8oJeYHTDQ?si=1N1QIM5VZc6Delqt&t=227) + + +> On my deathbed, I want to have lived a meaningful life where I worked towards my long term goals and full potential. + + +> I realized two obstacles + + +> I didn't always feel driven to work on my daily tasks + + +> It's possible to work towards my goals not in a state of frictionful survival, but one of play and growth towards the ideal life I want to strive towards. + + +> I had trouble remembering and reviewing long-term goals and values + + +> I can’t focus if I’m not sure whether what I’m working on aligns with my vision for the future. + + +> And so, these two obstacles from last year stemmed from my disconnect between my long-term goals and my short-term actions. +> +> Thankfully, I plan on solving this through my alignment philosophy. + + +> My Alignment Philosophy + + +> An alignment philosophy is a system that connects your long-term visions into smaller timeframes like quarterly, monthly, and weekly, all the way until your tangible daily life. + + +> Instead of the traditional view on productivity where you emphasize accomplishments and output, attention-centered productivity emphasizes prioritization and focus. + + +> It's not about doing more at all costs, but doing less of the things that suck your energy and time. + + +> How can we implement this system in Obsidian? Let’s imagine your Alignment Philosophy as the solar system of your life. +> +> Your values acts as the sun—the central, life-giving source that everything else revolves around. +> +> It offers warmth (fulfillment), light (guidance), and gravitational pull (focus) to keep all other elements in their proper place and aligned with your core values and visions. +> +> The orbits around the sun represent different timeframes for planning and reflection through daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reviews. +> +> Each orbit has its unique distance from the sun, which is the frequency and scope of the planning and reflection activities. +> +> The daily and weekly orbits are closest to the sun, focusing on immediate tasks and short-term actions. +> +> Their orbit paths are shorter, emphasizing rapid cycles of action and adjustment. +> +> Larger orbits like monthly, quarterly, and yearly only make one rotation after multiple rotations of the smaller orbit timeframes. +> +> Planets are the main focuses in each orbit that have their own gravitation pull (focus): +> +> * The planets in your daily orbit would be your highlight of the day or top 3 priorities +> * The planets in your weekly orbit would be your actionable projects +> * The planets in your monthly, quarterly, and yearly orbit would be your longer-term goals +> +> Each planet has moons that represent specific tasks or habits related to the planet's gravitational pull. These moons are influenced by the gravitational pull of the planet (your projects and goals), ensuring they also remain aligned with the focus of your timeframe. + + +> ) +> +> ## Potential + + diff --git "a/content/references/Why a solid \342\200\230life operating system\342\200\231 is key to success and happiness.md" "b/content/references/Why a solid \342\200\230life operating system\342\200\231 is key to success and happiness.md" new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9c528886 --- /dev/null +++ "b/content/references/Why a solid \342\200\230life operating system\342\200\231 is key to success and happiness.md" @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-06-16 16:29:57 +id: 17fe5d3f-1103-43e5-9617-27726e92acfc +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/why-a-solid-life-operating-system-is-key-to-success-and-happines-188c5e68123 +url: https://www.fastcompany.com/90876927/why-a-solid-life-operating-system-is-your-key-to-success-and-happiness?ref=refind +author: John Oswald +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> very little time and effort is spent individually or in organizations to examine how we go about doing what we do. + + diff --git a/content/references/Write plain text files.md b/content/references/Write plain text files.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8ba80a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/Write plain text files.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2024-05-10 21:23:10 +id: e82d0538-e722-42a3-a045-7a7e739763e3 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/write-plain-text-files-derek-sivers-18f653f2d03 +url: https://sive.rs/plaintext +author: Derek Sivers +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> I write almost everything important in my life: thoughts, plans, notes, diaries, correspondence, code, articles, and entire books. +> +> They are my extended memory — my noted self — my organized thoughts. I refer to them often. I search them, update them, and learn from them. I convert them into HTML to make websites, or LaTeX to make books. +> +> My written words are my most precious asset. They are also a history of my life. **That’s why I only use plain text files.** + + +> PORTABLE +> Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text. + + +> UN-COMMERCIAL +> When you store your writing in one company’s unique format, then you need that program to access it. Then the economy takes a turn, they go out of business, and your work is trapped in an unusable format. +> **You will outlive these companies.** Your writing should outlive you. Depending on companies is not an option. + + +> OFFLINE +> There are places and times when you can’t get online. Don’t depend on any tool that needs an internet connection. +> +> **There are great benefits to being intentionally offline and unreachable, to focus.** + + +> NO DEPENDENCIES +> If you rely on Word, Evernote or Notion, for example, then you can’t work unless you have Word, Evernote, or Notion. **You are helpless without them.** You are dependent. +> +> **Plain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.** + + +> EASIEST TO CONVERT +> Plain text can be converted into anything else. +> +> HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text. + + +> You can make your own personal formats in your plain text files. Maybe in each diary entry, the first two lines are like: +> +> date: 2022-02-28 +> tags: where-to-live, kids, dog, anxious + + +> NEED HIERARCHY? +> +> Use directories — also known as folders. These are also good for keeping your text together with other files like images and audio. +> +> Documents/ +> Documents/Diary/ +> Documents/Diary/2022/ +> Documents/Diary/2022/2022-02-28.txt +> Documents/Thoughts/ +> Documents/Thoughts/WhereToLive/ +> Documents/Thoughts/WhereToLive/2019-06-30.txt +> Documents/Thoughts/WhereToLive/2020-01-18.txt +> Documents/Ideas/ +> Documents/Ideas/MusicalChairs.txt +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/ +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/Design/ +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/Design/entryway.jpg +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/Design/roof.jpg +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/Architect/ +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/Architect/JM_Lim.txt +> Documents/Ideas/NewHouse/Architect/TPS_Inc.txt + + + +> I especially enjoy the tranquility of their offline, non-commercial nature. They’re quiet. They’re focused. (As I aim to be.) + +- tools that reflect your values? something about shaping your digital environment to mirror the life you want to actually build? If your environment shapes your actions, or something like that, then an offline first, simple way of interacting with your computer will put you in that mind space. You are the average of your environment + diff --git a/content/references/books/Dopamine Nation.md b/content/references/books/Dopamine Nation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e48890e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/Dopamine Nation.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +title: Dopamine Nation +author: Dr. Anna Lembke +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y5GKEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: +status: Completed +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: +--- diff --git a/content/references/books/Feel-Good Productivity.md b/content/references/books/Feel-Good Productivity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7137ac8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/Feel-Good Productivity.md @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +--- +layout: reference + +title: Feel-Good Productivity +author: Ali Abdaal +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=es2iEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: + - Physical +status: Reading +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: 2024-02-19 + +--- +# Feel-Good Productivity + +## Play + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | +| Create an adventure | Choose your character | Embrace your curiosity | +| Find the fun | "What would this look like if it were fun?" | Enjoy the process | +| Lower the stakes | Reframe your failure | Don't be serious, be sincere | +Choose your character: +- "identifying the type of play that most resonates with who you are, so you can choose a type of player to embody" +- Dr. Stuart Brown's research came up with the following play personalities + - The Collector + - The Competitor + - The Explorer + - The Creator + - The Storyteller + - The Joker + - The Director + - The Kinesthete + +## Power + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Boost your confidence | The confidence switch (positive self talk) | Social Model Method (see others do it) | +| Level up your skills | Shoshin Approach(beginner's mind) | Protege Effect (teach others) | +| Take ownership | Own the process | Own your mindset | + +Social Model Method: +- Albert Bandura: "Seeing people similar to oneself succeed by sustained effort raises observers' beliefs that they too possess the capabilities to master comparable activities to succeed" + - This is why everyone should be sharing their story online, their process, the whole [[anti-creator]] thing +The Protege Effect: +- "Seneca said, *Qui docet discit* - 'He who teaches learns' +- "the people we learn from best are often the ones who are just a step ahead of us in the journey" +- "You don't need to be a guru. You can just be a guide." + +Take ownership: +- [ ] Look into psychologist Edward Deci & Richard Ryan + - he talks about what motivates people to do hard things +- "But what makes the concept of ownership so powerful is that you can integrate it into almost any situation." +Own the process: +- "When we can't take ownership of the situation, we can still take ownership of the process." +Own your mindset: +- "Simply switching their mindset from 'have to' to 'choose to' they boosted their sense of control, power and, in turn, what they were capable of. " +## People + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Find your scene | The comrade mindset (teamwork) | Find synchronicity (body double) | +| Feel the helpers high | Random acts of kindness | Ask for help | +| Overcommunicate | Over-communicate the good | Over-communicate the not-so-good | + +# Unblock + +## Clarity + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---------- | ------------------------- | ------------------- | +| Ask 'why' | Using commander's intent | The five whys | +| Ask 'what' | NICE goals | Crystal ball method | +| Ask 'when' | Implementation intentions | Time blocking | + +- "procrastination is caused by negative feelings" +- "uncertainty paralysis" + - "when we become overwhelmed by the unknowns or the complexity of a situation" + +Using commander's intent: +- "The military generals' detailed orders hadn't worked. The specific plans they'd laid out went awry. But because they'd communicated their commander's intent, everyone involved in the operation knew the *purpose*. The 'why' was clear, and that made it possible to work out an alternative 'how'." + +NICE goals: +- Near-term +- Input-based +- Controllable +- Energizing + +Crystal-ball method: +- prospective hindsight + - "the process of imagining that an even has already occurred - increases our ability to identify why things will go right (or wrong) by 30 per cent" + +## Courage + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Know your fear | The emotional label | The identity label | +| Reduce your fear | The 10/10/10 rule | The confidence equation | +| Overcome your fear | Stop spotlighting | The batman effect | +The emotional label: +- "When you're procrastinating, say to yourself, 'What am I afraid of?'" +- "Next... ask yourself, 'Where does this feat come from?" +## Get Started + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Reduce friction | Reduce environmental friction | Reduce emotional friction | +| Take action | Define the next action step | Track your progress | +| Support yourself | Find an accountability buddy | Forgive yourself | +Define the next action step: +- [ ] Tim Pychyl - Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University + +# Sustain + +## Conserve + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Do less | The energy investment portfolio | The power of no | +| Resist distraction | Add friction | Correct course | +| Break more | Schedule your breaks | Embrace energizing distractions | +The energy investment portfolio: +- "The idea of the 'energy investment portfolio' is simple. You simply come up with two lists. List A is a list of all your dreams, hopes, and ambitions. These are things you would like to do at some point, just probably not right now. List B is a list of your active investments. These are the projects you're actively investing energy into right now (or want to be). And by right now, I mean this week." +- "If you want to move a dream into your active investments list, you need to make sure you've got the time and energy to invest in it." + - Where is it on your calendar? +## Recharge + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Recharge creatively | CALM hobbies | CALM projects | +| Recharge naturally | Bring in nature | Take a walk | +| Recharge mindlessly | Let your mind wander | The Reitoff principle | +CALM +- Competence +- Autonomy +- Liberty +- Mellow +## Align + +| | Experiment #1 | Experiment #2 | +| ---- | ---- | ---- | +| Long term | The eulogy method | The odyssey plan | +| Medium term | The wheel of life | The 12 month celebration | +| Short term | Three alignment quests | Alignment experiments | +- 'relative autonomy continuum' - developed by Kennon Sheldon + - External Motivation - showing off + - Introjected Motivation - I'd feel guilty if i didn't + - (maybe conflict with identity?) + - Identified Motivation - this'll help me w/ goals + - Intrinsic Motivation - love the work +- "those who had higher levels of both introjected and identified motivation were far more likely to complete the trail" (when intrinsic motivation waned) +- "the only type of extrinsic motivation that corresponded with greater happiness was identified motivation" + +Medium-term: +- 'values affirmation interventions' + - "a scientific term for identifying your core personal values right now, and continually reflecting on them" + +Alignment experiments: +- How + - 1. "identify an area of your life where your actions feel particularly unfulfilling" + - 2. "come up with your hypothesis" (independent variable, and what it'll effect) + - 3. "execute. Make a change. And as you do so, what effect it has on your situation" +- "keep track of the effects. Try keeping a log or journal" \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/books/Four Thousand Weeks.md b/content/references/books/Four Thousand Weeks.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c92410a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/Four Thousand Weeks.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: Four Thousand Weeks +author: Oliver Burkeman +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WFP2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: + - Digital +status: To Read +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: +--- diff --git a/content/references/books/Getting Things Done.md b/content/references/books/Getting Things Done.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..418f29ce --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/Getting Things Done.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: Getting Things Done +author: David Allen +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WXcHwzaUd4MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: + - Physical +status: To Read +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: +--- diff --git a/content/references/books/How to Read a Book.md b/content/references/books/How to Read a Book.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b747a698 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/How to Read a Book.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: How to Read a Book +author: Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3QOZBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: + - Digital +status: Dropped +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: +--- diff --git a/content/references/books/How to Take Smart Notes.md b/content/references/books/How to Take Smart Notes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a2ce22a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/How to Take Smart Notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: How to Take Smart Notes +author: Sönke Ahrens +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QmBjEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: + - Digital +status: Next +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: +--- diff --git a/content/references/books/Slow Productivity.md b/content/references/books/Slow Productivity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e864ec3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/Slow Productivity.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: Slow Productivity +author: Cal Newport +owned: Physical +status: Read +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateStarted: +dateFinished: +--- +# Intro +- John Mcphee - staring ant branches for two weeks +- "I want to instead propose an entirely new way for you, your small business, or your large employer to think about what it means to get things done." + - Don't think he really achieves this, feels more like one off tips. No talk about conversations to have or even how to define productivity in a new way. No mentions of ROWE or setting KPIs, and having those be the north star. Or how to have a convo with your boss about implementing something like this. Or clients if you're a freelancer. + +# Foundations + +## The rise and fall of psuedo-productivity +- CBS - Leslie Moonves - half empty office at 330 friday + - Zuiker shows up with CSI + - Really confused as to how these might apply to the workplace. So far, these are about the people going all in on their one big idea, rather than all of the other workers at CBS managing their jobs & bosses. Zuiker wasn't employed by CBS, he had a dream. He couldn't get fired, just rejected. He's not a counter to psuedo-productivity, it feels like he's tangential. + +## A slower alternative +- Slow food movement + - "Petrini's two big ideas for developing reform movements -- focus on alternatives to what's wrong and draw these solutions from time-tested traditions -- are obviously not restricted to food in any fundamental sense. They can apply to any setting in which a haphazard modernism is conflicting with the human experience." +- Knowledge work definition + - "The economic activity in which knowledge is transformed into an artifact with market value through the application of cognitive effort." + - Does Cal lose usefulness or practicality, by using such a broad definition here? 'Artifact' is so general, I feel like it would've been more helpful to break it down for different types of people, or create categories of artifacts one might create. +- Core Thesis + - "By this definition, for example, writers are knowledge workers, as are philosophers, scientists, musicians, playwrights, and artists. These more traditional cognitive professions, of course, are often more rarefied than standard office jobs—professional musicians, or renaissance scientists supported by patrons, have way more flexibility and options in designing their work life than, say, an HR coordinator. It’s easy to therefore reject these case studies with a dismissive nod to privilege. (I can see the tweet now: “It must be nice to have Lorenzo de’ Medici paying your bills!”) Though satisfying, this isn’t a useful response, given our broader goals. It’s exactly these rarefied freedoms that make traditional knowledge workers interesting to our project, as it provides them the space and time needed to experiment and figure out what works best when it comes to sustainably creating valuable things using the human brain. Of course, most of us cannot directly replicate the specific details of, say, John McPhee’s workday. What we’re looking for, however, is not a blueprint to follow exactly, but general ideas that we can export from this exotic territory to the more pragmatic constraints of standard twenty-first-century knowledge sector jobs. I might not be able to spend two full weeks lying on a picnic table in my backyard, but there’s a key insight lurking in that story about the value of slowing down to prepare to tackle a hard project. If we can get over our frustration that these traditional knowledge workers enjoyed privileges that we don’t have access to, we might find in their experience the foundations for a conception of productivity that makes our harder jobs more manageable." +- Who the book is for + - "Though this book is about knowledge work productivity in general, it targets in particular anyone who has a reasonable degree of autonomy in their job. This obviously includes freelancers, solopreneurs, and those who run small businesses. Pseudo-productivity’s presence in these particular settings is not due to a boss’s demands but is instead largely self-imposed, which opens up vast potential for individual experimentation. My imagined audience, however, also includes those who might work for larger employers but still enjoy significant freedom in how they go about their work. As a professor, for example, I fall into this latter definition, as would, say, a product designer who is expected to effectively disappear until she’s ready to bring a new idea back to the team, or a fully remote worker whose output is tracked only at a rough granularity. + + Those who instead work in an office environment under close supervision might have a harder time fully instituting the strategies I suggest. As will those whose efforts are highly structured, such as a doctor moving through an inflexible patient schedule, or a first-year law associate evaluated primarily on their accumulation of billable hours." \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/books/Worry-Free Money.md b/content/references/books/Worry-Free Money.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9737a85b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/books/Worry-Free Money.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: Worry-Free Money +author: Shannon Lee Simmons +cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D5y7DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api +owned: + - Digital +status: Completed +type: Non-Fiction Book +dateFinished: 2023-09-06 +--- + diff --git a/content/references/cal newport's planning system.md b/content/references/cal newport's planning system.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8b332077 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/cal newport's planning system.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +status: To Read +--- +- Core documents + - values + - career + personal strategic plans + - current thoughts, systems, and plans on living true to values + - maintenance + - review values and create value plan + - review strategic plans + - review ideas note book for actions + - productivity + - build a weekly plan, weekly, based of values, calendar, etc + - Build a daily plan, daily, based on weekly plan, values, etc + - sometimes time block the day + - work shutdown + - full capture of tasks + - discipline + - list of core disciplines (behaviours, habits, activities) that are strictly followed + - sometimes tracked by metrics \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/references/most of my favorite writers and creators are the ones who only ship when they have something real to say.md b/content/references/most of my favorite writers and creators are the ones who only ship when they have something real to say.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..27dcd66c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/most of my favorite writers and creators are the ones who only ship when they have something real to say.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +dateCreated: 2023-05-18 12:49:06 +id: 1165df74-23e7-4171-a1d4-a1c231ecc814 +omnivore: https://omnivore.app/me/https-twitter-com-ungatedcreative-status-1651034360894861314-1882fc22baa +url: https://twitter.com/ungatedcreative/status/1651034360894861314 +author: rob hardy 🦌 +status: To Process +type: Article +--- + + +> counterpoint to these two wonderful dudes most of my favorite writers and creators are the ones who only ship when they have something real to say, even if that's once every other month [pic.twitter.com/utEAujztRq](https://twitter.com/ungatedcreative/status/1651024299011215360/photo/1) +> +> [ ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fumc-cXaIAMwXns.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fumc-cXaIAMwXns.jpg) +> +> consistency can be important, especially in the beginning but sticking to some posting schedule can also become a prison for you, and cause people tune you out because they can tell you're forcing yourself to fulfill an arbitrary obligation rather than give a genuine gift +> +> consistency's gonna matter way less in the AI world. the internet's already flooded with average nonsense, and it's about to get 100x worse. the only creative work that's gonna stand out will be shit that's exceptionally well crafted and unmistakably human. nobody will give a… [twitter.com/i/web/status/1…](https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1651027002567299073) +> +> ngl, at this point i basically tune out everybody with a weekly newsletter 😅 +> +> as someone who's about to go back to publishing daily, here's how i think about it[twitter.com/ungatedcreativ…](https://twitter.com/ungatedcreative/status/1651034360894861314?s=20) + + diff --git a/content/references/want to find out who you actually are in 2024- try this. (101 sustainable goal setting guide).md b/content/references/want to find out who you actually are in 2024- try this. (101 sustainable goal setting guide).md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ddee51c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/references/want to find out who you actually are in 2024- try this. (101 sustainable goal setting guide).md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +author: iCharly +url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8r2SgadUX0 +status: To Read +type: Video +dateCreated: +--- + + +- ideas + - who are you? who am i? words are shallow, and don't get the whole picture of who you are + - plus, we're always changing. so how do you have a base of things you can always come back to, while still being adaptable? + - from me: what if you reflected each day on how you acted in line with the values you held? both positively and negatively? +- actions + - find list of core values (like 200 of them) + - choose your top 20, narrow it to 10, then to 5 + - make sure its coming from the inside, not from other's notion of who you are + - \ No newline at end of file