• How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode

    How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode

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    I use Org Mode to manage my tasks but Obsidian to manage my research notes and writing. That often means I have an Obsidian link embedded in a .org file and I need to open it. Out of the box Org Mode has no idea what a link beginning with obsidian: means but with the

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  • Can Scott Galloway Teach You To Be a Man

    Can Scott Galloway Teach You To Be a Man

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    Many words have been written about the male loneliness epidemic, as well as the rise of the manosphere with its myriad toxic personalities who pedal fixes for the lack of manly men, which often involves putting down women and lean into misogyny if they don’t outright support misogyny. Into this world Scott Galloway steps with

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  • When Power Defines Speech, Dissent Becomes Terrorism

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    Free Speech is an idea ingrained in much of the democratic world, or at least it should be. The problem with free speech is that it is defined by those in power. Those in power are almost always white men, who find reasons to define any activism that might threaten their power as terrorism. The

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  • Note Cards vs Obsidian – The Friction You’re Missing

    Note Cards vs Obsidian – The Friction You’re Missing

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    In response to my recent post on slow note taking Robert asked about the note card method supported by Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday and a number of other writers. If I think that friction is good in taking my notes on books, why isn’t greater friction in my notes better? Won’t touching the note cards

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  • Did Bezos say the quiet part out loud?

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    Not according to Matt who did take the time to listen to the whole interview (I haven’t) and form his own conclusions on what was said. I get it, I easily fall into the idea that Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and their ilk are asshats and they often are. But not everything they say is anti-consumer

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  • Org Mode Tags +Agenda: My Real Meeting Workflow

    Org Mode Tags +Agenda: My Real Meeting Workflow

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    In my productivity system post I talked about a custom view I use to track tasks than need to be talked about in my weekly meetings. I use two different tags to accomplish this: Today we’ll take a look at how this works by first showing the whole chunk of code, then working through it

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  • Cory – Blocking Countries because of scrapers

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    What the title says, Cory is blocking countries due to misbehaved scrapers. We do a bit of this at work, blocking misbehaving countries when they flood our sites with traffic. There is very little reason that anyone should be visiting the website of a city unless they live in the city, maybe the city next

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  • The iPad is Incredible, and I Still Don’t Use It

    The iPad is Incredible, and I Still Don’t Use It

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    While the iPad was my “go to” portable machine for a while, the more I’ve used robust tools like Org Mode, the less my iPad has been a tool that serves my needs. Yes, it’s a marvel of engineering, with my M1 iPad Pro still feeling fast, but it’s lacking a bunch of the tooling

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  • Social Media Trains Us to Do Nothing

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    Social media is one of the key ways we interact with each other. I get to talk to my friend Chris regularly about life and code. I never would have met him without the connections that Twitter let me make years ago. Twitter helped me build a business by allowing me to get my name

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  • The 6 Best Books I Read in 2025 (Nonfiction + Fiction that Stuck)

    The 6 Best Books I Read in 2025 (Nonfiction + Fiction that Stuck)

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    In 2025 I got back to reading a book a week by finishing 53 books, after a few years of being busy and not reading as much as I had hoped. I know that a book a week is an arbitrary number, but when I get to read that much I feel like I’m doing

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