I am a gardener cum librarian. Confused? These are two of the four archetypes of note-takers. Before deciding which note-taking app you should choose, you need to know what is your note-taking style. Anne-Laure Le coffee, the founder of Ness Lab, gave […]
In December 2008, Juergen Schmidhuber, a German computer scientist, published a paper titled Driven by Compression Progress. This very influential paper, in the study of cross-disciplinary creativity, argued that the simple principle of compression is at the heart of everything. Schmidhuber and his team point […]
Since building my “second brain,” my whole approach to writing has changed. I no longer do the “heavy lifting,” where I would pick a task and stay on it until it’s finished. I used to write articles on a single stretch, spending […]
I am building my second brain. Not because my primary brain is not functioning well, or it is not smart enough to handle all the tasks I undertake. But because I want to free it from doing things it was not designed […]
I have been wondering, there are so many paths to reach the top of the mountain, but we insist on taking the most difficult one. Why is it so? Does anyone have a theory?
Sprints are great to build a habit and to bring momentum, but real achievements happen when you are consistent. The American Navy Seal has a saying — Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Long-distance marathon runners know that. They learn to pace themselves. […]