How I Write (2019): My Favorite Tools and Apps for Writing
So, you want to write? And you’re looking for a few tools to make your writing easier, better organized or adapted for a new publishing format?
No YouTube: 30-Day Challenge
Over the last 6 months or so, I’ve been tracking my Youtube usage. I came to discover that I was spending on average about an hour a day watching YouTube videos. While there are a lot of things I love...
Can Meditation Improve Your Attention? Self-Experiment into Mindfulness and Cognitive Testing
The reported benefits of meditation are quite impressive: better physical health and happiness, less stress and anxiety, and even improved mental health and cognitive functions.
Scoring Your Weekly Goals
I leverage science, goals and goal-setting in a number a ways. But recently, I started something new. I started “scoring” them. This has proven a good way to periodically check my efforts over time and my organization in reaching the...
What am I meditating for? In Pursuit of A Definition of Meditation
Meditation is one of the most touted habits we are all supposed to do these days. Meditation and mindfulness are lauded for a range of associated benefits from physical and mental health to cognitive improvements and beyond. It’s believed to...
Data-Driven Health: Are you tracking a health indicator or healthy habit?
There is a lot of excitement around how technology can be applied to improve our health. It seems like every day there is some new technology, wearable, pill, test, service or app aiming to track, monitoring, improve or cure us...
Quantified Self and Self-Tracking Mind Map: Conceptualizing Tracking and Other Data-Driven Tech
With so many quantified self tools and ways to track a life, it can be a bit confusing. A mind map can help.
Goal Tracker for AirTable: A Flexible Tool for Goal Pursuit Tracking and Management
Science of Goals: Goals as a Multi-Stage Pursuit
When it comes to goals, we commonly conflate several different actions and phenomonon under this singular term of “goal.” But this one term hides an important range of dimensions and actions we undertake when we think about and endevour to...
Tracking Your Writings and Note-Taking
How to Track, Analyze and Understand A Life in Writing
The Plain Text Life: Note Taking, Writing and Life Organization Using Plain Text Files
“The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated. Without external aids, deep, sustained reasoning is difficult.” Don Norman, professor and author of The Design of Everyday Things
A Year in Data: 2018
What can one learn from a year in data? What lessons and observations can be drawn from tracking a life?
What should you be tracking in 2019?
Measuring a Life, Understanding Progress, and Checking Your Status Towards a Goal
My Year in Book Reading: 2018
I’m striving to be more conscious about what I read, how I learn from books and articles, and how I apply those lessons to my life, my work and my projects. So, in the spirit of that, I’m continuing a...
Learning to Learn: On the Science of Memory and Effective Learning
One of the most useful and interesting things I learned in the last year was not so much a specific subject or skill but a meta-skill. I learned how to learn.
Post-Evernote: How to Migrate Your Evernote Notes, Images and Tags into Plain Text Markdown
14,147. That’s the number of notes I had in Evernote.
The Power of Systematic Notes: A Book Review of How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Towards A Science of Goals: Goal Setting as a Key Influence on Performance
How to Create a Time Tracking Dashboard using RescueTime, IFTTT and Google Sheets
How to Export, Parse and Explore Your Apple Health Data with Python