Garden
- 🌿 A debate is a dance not a war
- 🌿 All habits are based on a four-step pattern, which consists of cue, craving, response, and reward.
- 🌿 Block your time in order to spend it intentionally
- 🌿 Bringing too many arguments to the table can lead to Argument Dilution
- 🌿 Brown is just dark orange
- 🌿 Commonplace books were the predecessors to PKM or the concept of a „Second Brain“
- 🌿 Design matters most when technology becomes generalized and least when technology is new
- 🌿 Diminishing returns mean that there is a point where further optimization does not make sense anymore
- 🌿 Enable your future self to learn from your past self - because your future self will forget everything
- 🌿 Every object, even an apple, is essentially a colorless object
- 🌿 Growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest required resource (limiting factor)
- 🌿 HMW statements reframe a problem into a challenge, which is way more engaging than thinking about a problem
- 🌿 How to choose a daily highlight
- 🌿 Humans love being the cause
- 🌿 In order to form a habit, one should assign that habit with an identity
- 🌿 It is important to write in your own words
- 🌿 Knowing how to think of the world computationally is a core modern skill
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🌿 Learning Astro Content Collections
Notes on how Astro 6 content collections work with the glob loader, Zod schemas, and the content store.
- 🌿 LLMs do not have mental models and therefore lack real understanding of concepts and ideas
- 🌿 Low Relationship Conflict leads to better decisions and more original ideas
- 🌿 Mental illness is a sign that who we are does not fit with our circumstances
- 🌿 Moloch is a race that’ll probably kill us, but that we can’t help but run
- 🌿 Most people undervalue their freely available time
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🌱 On Digital Minimalism
Thoughts on building digital systems that serve you, not the other way around.
- 🌿 Only 20% of the content on a website is being read on average
- 🌿 People are building "sandcastles" over and over again
- 🌿 Planning fallacy describes how we generally underestimate the time needed to complete a task
- 🌿 Reframing is a very simple yet powerful tool to turn negative concepts into something positive
- 🌿 Small decisions can have big impacts
- 🌿 The amount of time spent on content declines rapidly after two screenfuls of content
- 🌿 The average attention span is shrinking as more topics are competing for finite attention spans
- 🌿 The experience of kindergarten teachers correlates with the income of their students in adulthood
- 🌿 The McGurk effect describes how our vision influences our hearing
- 🌿 We have a natural built-in function to forget
- 🌿 We should consume information the same way, we consume and select food
- 🌿 With systems and automated processes you gain compounding interest in your investment of time
- 🌿 You should always be thinking like a scientist