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Track Diversity in Your Reading
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If you’re looking for a book tracker then Bookish Brews has one that helps you track the diversity of the authors you’re reading. I’ve bookmarked this to see about adding it to my own Obsidian book tracking system.
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I’m on Christmas Holiday – No PKM Weekly
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Take a break.
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The Folly of Sidewalk in Toronto
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A shorter one today as I’m on holiday but I finished a book called Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy. Here are some things that stuck out to me. First, we always want to look for the “sexy” innovations instead of doing what has been established as working1. We see this as we plan roads
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If you want to sell books…you must love books
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Great article on the turn-around of Barnes & Nobel. Thanks to Matt for pointing the article out to me.
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Homelesness is a Housing Problem
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From The Atlantic: In their book, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, the University of Washington professor Gregg Colburn and the data scientist Clayton Page Aldern demonstrate that “the homelessness crisis in coastal cities cannot be explained by disproportionate levels of drug use, mental illness, or poverty.” Rather, the most relevant factors in the homelessness crisis
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One Reason I Write
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From Ness Labs: Anytime you struggle to write about something you just read, watched, or listen, make sure to take the time to understand properly. The fact that you’re struggling to express it in your own words often means you haven’t completely grasped the new idea. This is one reason I write, because I’m not
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Apple Reminders iOS Widgets
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While not everyone uses widgets on iOS, they can be used to achieve a good overview of what you have going on for a specific day. Adding a Widget To add a widget long press on your iPhone/iPad screen until you enter jiggle mode. Then you need to tap the plus icon in the top
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OmniFocus Task Templates in Obsidian
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Recently I shared a video on sharing an Obsidian note to OmniFocus as a task. Well as I test out OmniFocus again to think about doing a course on it, I realized I needed a few other shortcuts to make draw out some more power. On the Obsidian side, you’ll need to get the Shortcut
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PKM Weekly Dec 25 2022 – Issue 050
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This is the Christmas edition of the newsletter which means I filtered much harder than normal so I didn’t waste my time and you don’t feel any obligation to read this. I’ll be off next week so you’l even have a break. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming
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I’ve Heard Students Don’t Like School
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Today we look at some of the good and bad from Why Don’t Students Like School by Daniel T. Willingham. If you want to read the entire post, become a member. Members get all my courses included..
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