Any study of the authoritarian nightmares of the 20th century is usually enough to make anyone wary of governments – a glimpse into the excesses of both state power and incompetence, and the vast human toll it can collect. Certainly in the last few years I’ve become more and more wary of any bureaucratic institution […]
Moloch and the Mob Boss – The Balance Between Freedom and Order Read More »
It is the first of March, 1953, Moscow. A housekeeper cautiously enters the office of the most feared man on earth – lying on the ground, in urine soaked pyjamas, lays Joseph Stalin. It was soon determined that the Vozhd had suffered a stroke – regrettably for the Soviet ruler, he had suffered it while
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Today I want to talk about a little trick to add some extra functionality to Notion. Many of you might have already played with interesting web-hosted embeds – by typing “/embed”, you can embed web-pages into a Notion page, and this has lead to some pretty creative tools already. Things like embedding weather widgets into
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A year or two ago, I switched from Obsidian back into Notion. It wasn’t an easy decision – Obsidian is a phenomenal tool – Notion just worked better for me as a task manager and multi-purpose second brain. Since moving out, though, I’ve always felt a bit of a phantom limb sensation. Notion’s backlinks system
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