Annual Review My 2020 Annual Review In a year that challenged us more than most, here's what went well, what didn't, and everything I learned.
Book Notes The Great Mental Models Vol. 2 by Shane Parrish If you want to make better decisions, it starts with understanding the core ideas that govern how the world really works.
Learning The Best Books and Articles I Read in 2020 This year I read 26 books and countless articles. These were the five best books and five best articles I read.
Challenges What I Learned From Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor for 28 Days What a 28-day weight-loss challenge partnered with Levels Health taught me about how my diet and lifestyle affect my overall health.
Reading How to Choose What to Read One of the most important skills you can develop as a reader is knowing how to choose what book to read.
Book Notes Getting Things Done by David Allen Read more on AmazonShort SummaryGetting Things Done (GTD) is a framework for organizing and tracking your tasks and projects so you don't have to keep them in your head. Favorite Quote"You can’t organize what’s incoming—you can only capture it and
Tools How to Take Better Notes With Roam Research How Roam Research makes connecting ideas easy so you can become a better thinker and writer.
Book Notes How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren If you want to keep learning and discovering, you must know how to make books teach you. There is no limit to the growth and development your mind can sustain once you master the art of reading.
Productivity How to Track Your Habits Using Notion Building better habits starts with tracking your progress. Here's how you can do it using Notion.
Book Notes The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman Good design is invisible. It's goal is to guide users effortlessly to the right action at the right time. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.
Challenges Learning How to Code in 30 Days How I went from being a complete beginner who didn't know what a programming language was to a budding developer who was getting comfortable with building landing pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Book Notes How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens Instead of wasting your time searching for notes, quotes, or references, the Smart Notes method lets you focus on what counts: thinking, understanding, and developing new ideas.
How Big is Your Circle of Influence? By deliberately limiting the irrelevant things in your life, you will automatically become much better at focusing your energy on the things you can influence.
Writing The Benefits of Journaling Journaling is simply one of the most accessible tools at your disposal for accelerating your personal growth.
Challenges The Power of A 30-Day Challenge One of the more powerful personal growth tools I’ve discovered is the 30-day challenge.
Challenges 30-Day Self-Portrait Challenge I set out to answer a simple question: In just 30 days, could I master the self-portrait using only pencil and paper? Now it's time to decide.
Book Notes Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone We are driven, consciously or unconsciously, by our desire to achieve a particular level of status relative to those around us.
Annual Review My 2019 Annual Review What went well, what went poorly, and the lessons I learned in 2019.
Productivity How to Remember What You Read with Readwise If you want to optimize for understanding, you need to see reading for what it really is: the first step in a larger process.
Learning The Best Books and Articles I Read in 2019 This year I read around 30 books and countless articles. These were my favorite 10 that I'd highly recommend anyone read next year.
Book Notes Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin The best way to learn what, how, and why things work is to master the best of what other people have already figured out. Achieving wisdom is best achieved by learning the big ideas that underlie reality.
Book Notes The Great Mental Models Vol. 1 by Shane Parrish We can improve our understanding of how the world works by using mental models to shape how we think, how we understand, and how we form beliefs.
Book Notes The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber Most small businesses fail because they make a fatal assumption: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does technical work.
Health 3 Days With No Food: My Water Fasting Results Why I went three days without food and what actually happened.
Habits How to Break A Bad Habit Your bad habits are what separate who you are from who you wish to be. They stand in your way, keeping you from living a more healthy, more fulfilling, and purposeful life.
