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
Why People Self-Track: Research on the Motivations Behind the Quantified Self and Self-Trackers
How to Track Your YouTube Watching (And Understand It)
How I Write (2018): My Favorite Tools and Apps for Writing
A Matter of Fecal Matter: A 31-Day Scatological Self-Tracking Experiment
Know Thy Blood: Common Questions and Answers about Blood and Blood Testing
How to Track Your Money and Finances: Where Your Money Goes is Where It Grows
Heart Rate Variability: Science and Advanced Concepts for Understanding a Key Health Indicator
Common Sense Money Management: What are Your First Principles of Personal Finance?
An Experiment in Mood Tracking: How I Tracked My Mood and What I Learned
How to Track Your Workouts: Become Data-Driven in Your Physical Fitness, Health and Performance
Biomarkers: What are they? Why they matter? And how to use them to improve our health?