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  • PKM Weekly March 19 2023 – Issue 061

    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could…

    March 20, 2023
  • Excellent Look at why TikTok Bans are Economic not Privacy Related

    From Paris Marx Since the dawn of the internet era, the United States has been pushing the line that every company needed to allow unfettered access to the web, or else they were violating the rights of their citizens. Any country that dared limit access to the web was chastised for their supposedly authoritarian actions.…

    March 19, 2023
  • Owning Books is Resistance

    In today’s member post we talk about owning books as an act of resistance to censorship. Specifically physical books. If you want to read the whole post become a member. Members also get my courses..

    March 18, 2023
  • Security Recommendations from the NSA

    This is a great set of security recommendations from the NSA. Some of them are going to be hard for non-technical users, like having 3 different wireless networks. One for you, one for guests, one for IoT devices. Overall, if you can do a number of these recommendations, you’ll be in better shape than most…

    March 17, 2023
  • The Impending US Ban on TikTok has little to do with Privacy

    Casey Newton from Platformer on what appears to be the impending banning of TikTok in the US. But I’m deeply uncomfortable about the implications of governments making one-off decisions to eliminate social apps on national security grounds, while at the same time taking a pass on national privacy legislation and other regulations that would take…

    March 17, 2023
  • Obsidian Novel Word Count

    Obsidian Novel Word Count

    Depending on how you have your projects organized, you may want the word count of a folder. This is where Novel Word Count for Obsidian can help you. Novel Word Count does one thing, count the words of the items in the folders in your Obsidian vault. By default it will only show you the…

    March 15, 2023
  • Don’t Trust Facebook’s Decentralized Social Network

    I recently read on Platformer that Facebook is trying to build a “next-generation” text-based social media platform to replace Twitter. I mean sure, Twitter is dying and its death is not happening nearly as slowly as I thought it would be1, but why on earth should we trust Facebook at all in this? Facebook uses…

    March 14, 2023
  • It’s okay to not be creative

    The third installment in some thoughts on creativity. It’s okay to not be creative. Tomorrow I’ve got 2 kids at home and a puppy to take care of. Usually, I’d record a YouTube video but I find it unlikely that I can get the dog to settle and the two kids occupied at the same…

    March 12, 2023
  • It’s Okay to be Bad at Things – to be creative

    Yesterday I wrote about the media demanding our attention and we can’t find the time we need to be creative. One thing I forgot to mention is that it’s okay to be bad at things. I’m terrible at email, I don’t respond in Discord, and as I said yesterday my phone is almost entirely muted.…

    March 12, 2023
  • PKM Weekly March 12 2023 – Issue 060

    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could…

    March 12, 2023
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