In many buddhist traditions, its encouraged to think about death on a regular basis. I remember reading from a zen book: “make sure to treat each visit with your parents as your potential last time you will see them, because eventually it surely will be.” I do think about death to help me focus on… Continue reading Think about death everyday
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work reflections and quieting the mind – 22/2/19
The past 2 weeks of work have been busy at work and has caused me stress and bad sleep. So I wanted to write some notes on how to improve the situation. I do practice being present, but often times I get lazy and the practice fades away. It is supposed to be the core… Continue reading work reflections and quieting the mind – 22/2/19
Types of work I often see myself doing
Ideation – I have practiced growing my “idea muscle” for many years by taking any topic or idea I am interested in and listing out ways to expand, experiment, grow it, or any other way I want to explore that idea. This allows me to be able to make progress on any idea that I… Continue reading Types of work I often see myself doing
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day”
There are so many systems one can learn to study to improve yourself. For many years I spent a lot of my time reading self-help books to continuously improve myself. I found that I would quickly read about some new system and try it out and eventually forget about it or go find some other… Continue reading “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day”
Use a zettelkasten to amplify your thoughts
I remember when I ran across this blog post: https://blog.kewah.com/2021/write-more-but-shorter/ Then I read this blog post: https://critter.blog/2020/10/02/write-5x-more-but-write-5x-less/ Then I researched more and found this: https://writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125 And then my writing exploded. A zettelkasten is a simple writing method that amplifies your writing , memory, thoughts, research, note taking, or any non-fiction writing you may want to… Continue reading Use a zettelkasten to amplify your thoughts
Research template
Why X is important History of X Famous papers about X Top researchers in X Examples of X in real life how would you test X: test suite, unit tests, formal test, etc definition of X explain X to a child how past iterations of X has failed compare and contrast X with other related… Continue reading Research template
Work in airplane mode as often as you can
For me, I find the most productive time is when I work without any connection to the internet. It helps me focus my energy on thinking and planning, reduces my temptations to randomly check things online, not chat, and waste time. This only works if you are a knowledge or office worker. I go so… Continue reading Work in airplane mode as often as you can
“The EOS Life” book review
Gino Wickman has a book called “The EOS Life” that I just finished reading. I love his writing style and have devoured most of his books and processes. If you read any of his other EOS (Entrepreneur Operating System) books, a lot of the material will be familiar to you. He basically takes the EOS… Continue reading “The EOS Life” book review
Dealing with politics at work
I finally can write about a colleague I dealt with a few years ago. I’ll call him Billy. I wanted to write about it because it was the first time I had to deal with politics and it impacted some of my work. So here are my lessons and things I learned from working with… Continue reading Dealing with politics at work