• iOS Mail is Terrible – I Love It

    iOS Mail is Terrible – I Love It

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    We all know that phones can be a distraction from life around you. The regular notifications from different applications can stress you out and take your focus away from the things you should be concentrating on. Heck you can even fool yourself into thinking some of these tools are productive. For me one of these…

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  • PKM Weekly Sept 11 2022 – Issue 035

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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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  • Apple Watch Ultra vs Garmin – I Don’t Think Apple Pundits Get it

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    I keep seeing takes like this one from Gruber and I’m not sure that they get the category they’re talking about. I am the owner of a Garmin Enduro (1 not the 2 linked in the article). I am the owner of a Garmin Edge 1030Plus for cycling. The Apple Watch Ultra is interesting, but…

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  • Gaining Work Freedom with Work I Don’t Want to Do

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    This week I’m a bit more introspective as I reflect on an article about treating your creative work as a business. What would it take to gain freedom from writing code so that I could create more? I’m not sure I like the most obvious answer. If you want to read this become a member.…

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  • Obsidian Popout Windows

    Obsidian Popout Windows

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    When I’m working on a writing project I often have many notes open, alongside the main writing pane I want to be working in. Previously I’d end up with many panes open in Obsidian, which limited the workspace I wanted to see, and sometimes meant that I’d close the pane I was writing in. Now…

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  • PKM Weekly September 4 2022 – Issue 034

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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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  • What is Your Shifting Baseline?

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    This week we compare hedonic adaptation and shifting baseline syndrome and I provide some reading recommendations so you don’t fall into these traps. If you want to read these posts become a member. Members get my courses included..

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  • AirPods Max Increased My Productivity

    AirPods Max Increased My Productivity

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    I was “late” to the AirPods Pro game mainly because I had a set of noise-cancelling over ear headphones that worked fine and I didn’t feel like spending the money. Then the padding on the ear cup started to fall apart so I grabbed a set of AirPods Max and have been using them daily…

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  • PKM Weekly August 28 2022 – Issue 033

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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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  • Are Digital Notes a Fad that is Bad?

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    This week we look at some of the hints that digital notes may not be everything we thought they were. Maybe we should be looking at analogue systems. To read this post you need to become a member. Members get all my courses.

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