Author: Curtis McHale

  • How will your technology provide concrete benefits

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    Technology is full of hype. A few years ago crypto currency and the block chain was going to be “world changing”. According to proponents, we’d no longer use the standard currency of our country, we’d all want to be in on some crypto currency because it would be so much better than what our governments

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  • In Depth Look at Reflect.app

    In Depth Look at Reflect.app

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    This is a sponsored review. That means Reflect paid me to do it and provided a free account for the review. They didn’t get to see/approve any part of this before it was published. Today we’re going to take a deep dive into Reflect.app, a note-taking tool focused on your Daily Notes. If you want

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  • PKM Weekly May 28 2023 – Issue 071

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    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

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  • The Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism

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    One of the curses of being Canadian is our neighbour to the south. It’s easy to look at the United States, with regular mass shootings and rising overt white supremacy and think that quiet sleepy Canada isn’t nearly as bad as that so we’re “good”. But this isn’t the truth, and we don’t have to

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  • Laptop Batteries as a Work Limiter

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    While this may be folklore, I heard about a programmer that used a laptop years ago and would work with it unplugged. After the 2 – 3 hours that the battery would last, he’d stop working and plug the laptop in. He was not allowed to work again until the laptop was at 100%. Then

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  • Creating Direct Links to Zotero Documents in Obsidian

    Creating Direct Links to Zotero Documents in Obsidian

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    As I’m leaving DEVONthink behind, I still need a way to reference source material I’m taking notes on in Obsidian. Today we’re going to talk about doing that in Zotero with the Obsidian plugin Zotero Link. Installing Obsidian Zotero Link Before you can install the Zotero Link plugin in Obsidian you need to install two

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  • PKM Weekly May 21 2023 – Issue 70

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    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

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  • Forget Earning More – Purchase Your Time

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    This week I talk about the folly of thinking that earning more is “success”. I’d much rather purchase my time. If you want to read my weekly research notes become a member. Members get all my courses included..

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  • Ghosted – I’m here for the comedy

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    Ghosted recently came out on Apple TV+ and I watched it because I figured it would be a mindless action movie where the guy needs saving instead of the girl. Yes that happened, but I’m here for the comedy. Multiple cameos of major actors that lasted less than 2 minutes of screentime before the next

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  • Physical vs Digital PKM

    Physical vs Digital PKM

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    The question of what type of note-taking software you should use has been hotly debated. There are proponents of every piece of software out there. But maybe you should take one step back from which piece of software you should use to ask yourself if you should be using software at all? Maybe a pen

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