Notion is both praised and criticized for its immense versatility and configurability. These things are both gifts and curses – the ability to tinker endlessly with systems often comes at the cost of countless hours spent NOT doing the tasks you’re trying to manage, and it’s easy to over-complicate the system or make the managing […]
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The humble journal is a valuable tool. The journal, and its pragmatic cousin the ‘Commonplace Book’, have been used for millennia – the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote his now famous ‘Meditations’ as a personal journal, rather than a treatise to be published, and inside it is buried countless insights he had collected over his
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“I could do that.” It’s a short phrase that has been spoken by many a naive novice, looking at something that seems terribly simple, not yet wise enough to understand the menacing, underlying complexity. A fetching but simple looking oil painting seems so easy to emulate. It’s a misty blue ocean at sunset, blue and
Picking up a new hobby is always an interesting experience. It’s not usually very fun being bad at something, and most worthwhile pursuits have an investment of time and effort required to get the hang of them. Around a year ago I made the spontaneous decision to buy a few hundred bucks worth of leather-working
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In our modern, secular society, the word ‘ritual’ can at times come across as antiquated. Many of us are divorced from religion in our daily lives, and ritual certainly smacks of a certain religiosity. In fact, a google search on the definition of ritual returns this: “Ritual – noun – a religious or solemn ceremony
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It’s easy to take for granted that we have a time machine in our brain. We humans, as a species, are uniquely capable of looking forward into the future and predicting potential outcomes, as well as reflecting on the past and extrapolating it. The world is chaotic, of course, and our powers of prediction are
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There’s something I really love about stealing words from other languages. Of course there’s nothing new about that – much of the English language consists of pilfered Greek, Latin, French and German, with a dash of the more exotic for occasional flavour. Some words, however, aren’t in the common parlance but really should be, as
I just recently finished reading Tiago Forte’s “Building a Second Brain”, and it inspired me to revisit my somewhat gunky Notion system and revitalize it. Buckle up, this one’s a doozie. If you want to skip ahead to the specifics you can start at the ‘Setting up your databases’ section, but I’ll be talking first
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