Writer, Product Designer, and Software Engineer
How long would it you take to learn music production and produce your first music album? What are some of the stages and steps in such a journey? And what are some practical lessons and tips I uncovered as a...
For me, an annual review is an evaluative narrative reflection on the past year and year ahead. Basically an annual review is a way for me to take account on the broad outlines of the positive’s and negative’s from the...
What would it be like to have greater self-awareness about where our time goes? What would you learn about yourself if you saw how you spent your minutes and hours each and every day? How might you discover and notice...
I read a few more life’s worth of books in 2022. According to my reading logs, I read a total of 58 books spanning 17,365 pages. The average length of a book I read was about 299 pages. I had...
At the start of each new year, I pull together all of my data from a range of self-tracking services. I then use that data to calculate average numbers and generate charts and graphs about different aspects of my past...
“I just wish I had more time” Everyone
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” George R.R. Martin
Music to Take You Somewhere
Does mindfulness meditation make us less caring about the world? Less ethically and socially oriented? And more passive and self-centered?
How can we use technology to enable positive behavior change, as opposed to promoting distraction and negative behaviors?
Time management is all life is.
How can you start growing a business, startup or side hustle when you aren’t even sure who your customers are or even how to reach them?
My personal data analysis of my tasks reveals that I completed less tasks in 2020 compared to 2019. Even though I had a consistent weekly goal completion rate, I failed to reach several of my major goals. Most impacted when...
There are 8760 hours in a year. In 2020, I spent, 1313.2 hours on my computer and another 1235 hours on my phone or tablet. Put another way, 2547 hours out of the total possible in 2020 was spent on...
This blog is written in markdown, generated using Jekyll and hosted in plain old HTML. It’s all managed using Jekyll, a ruby-based static site generator, and it’s roughly the same setup I’ve had for nearly 7 years. I love it....
Several years ago I was exploring various self-tracking technologies and how I might integrate personal data into my own life. One of the first things I discovered was just how many ways you might track a life using wearables, apps...
Flow is a key mental state we experience when we become engrossed in an enjoyable challenge or activity. An athlete might feel flow in a competition or surmounting some obstacle, like climbing a mountain. A writer or painter might get...
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated? Behold, I teach you the overman: He is this lightning; he is this frenzy. – Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted in Rise...
This data was tracked and logged with a combination of tools (more on this below). The short of it is that my number of creative words typed was tracked with Wordcounter for Mac and my project and smart notes with...
This data was logged with Goodreads, Kindle and Instapaper. Data collection and visualization powered by QS Ledger. This post is part of my 2019 Year in Data project.