Themes for Study and Learning in March
So, first a recap for February: Future of Work. This is robots, guaranteed annual income, future of labor, AI, etc. Did almost no reading in this area in February. I could give a lot of excuses,...
View ArticleMediating between two worlds may be a good career strategy
As a software engineer in Silicon Valley in the ’80’s and ’90’s, when our skills were deeply in demand (and the Flat World hadn’t happened yet), my salary crept up from job to job. Not nothing, but...
View ArticleHack of the Week: 5-day Sprints
What I want to do on Friday is kick back a little from the intensity of the Deep Work by finding some cool hack that I think would be of interest to my fellow life- and work- hackers. I figured we...
View ArticleHack of the Week: SawStop saw
I saw this one in a Family Handyman email blast and it was a no-brainer for Hack of the Week. Nice saw, and all that. Kind of pricey. But it’ll stop within five milliseconds of contacting human skin....
View ArticleThree Things I’ve Learned About Writing
I’ve learned three basic things about writing over the last forty-five years that are worth passing on. Real Writers Write, Would-Be Writers Moan About Not Being Able to Write I learned this lesson...
View ArticleHack of the Week: Evernote to Scrivener
I’ve seen all kinds of allusions to hacks that allow integration between Evernote and Scrivener. Kind of a specialized hack in some sense, but enough people seem to want the capability that it’s worth...
View ArticleCabinet of Curiosities: David Graeber, Trans-national Treasure?
David Graeber is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, which I’m reading with great interest. But he is a man of many parts. In the first place, he is described as an “anarchist activist”. He...
View Article“How to Skip to the Good S**t in a Long YouTube Tutorial”
I dug this up in Lifehacker. On the off chance you don’t regularly read it, you should! https://lifehacker.com/how-to-skip-to-the-good-shit-in-a-long-youtube-tutorial-1830466952. I’m always vexed by...
View ArticleCabinet of Curiosities: Tim Ferriss’ Hack for Learning Anything Quickly
Do you know Tim Ferriss? No? A pity. You should. As Han Solo said about Lando Calrissian: “He’s a scoundrel. You’d like him.” I’m not sure how he describes what he does nowadays, but at some point...
View ArticleLast Week and This Week: ZettelKasten, Income Inequality, and I-Corps
I’ve had a pretty good run for January on Deep Work. But February will not be so kind. This upcoming week I’m going to be training some new I-Corps instructors at GW, so I’ll be working most of the...
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