Another newsletter
I had an in-person conference last week, the first in years for most of us. There, I ran into a colleague on the street. After the customary, "how have you been?", she asked me, "are you still writing that newsletter? I think it's really important." Why did she say this?
Zero marginal effort
The internet enabled a new digital economy where the cost of increasing the production of digital goods is essentially zero. However, the notion of 'zero marginal cost' extends far beyond selling. Zero marginal effort means scaling activities that would otherwise cost time.
Rethink everything. Starting with meetings.
The global conversation is familiar, "will things go back to normal"? The collective answer is "I hope so...and I hope not". Disruption is a time for change. And if we think beyond skeuomorphism, we can find ways to do things better. Starting with meetings.
Sell the sawdust
One of the key ideas behind building reputation online is consistently generating proof of work. But how do you do this ? By 'selling the sawdust'. The beauty of this idea is that most people are already doing it, but just not realizing it.
My system to automatically import blog posts into Obsidian
Obsidian is great for generating ideas and writing new articles. But sometimes, I write new articles elsewhere. Wouldn't it be nice if I didn't manually transfer articles into Obsidian? In this post, I'm going to show you the system I've built to automatically import new posts into Obsidian.
My system to make thumbnails in 30 seconds
YouTube thumbnails are important. If no one clicks on your video, then no one will ever learn anything from it. But you also can't spend hours making the perfect thumbnail. So what do you do? In this video, I'm going to show you the system I've built around making thumbnails in 30 seconds.
Build a system to work smarter, not harder
"I'm too busy" is a thinly veiled way of saying "that's not important".
When I first heard this idea, it completely changed the way I thought about being busy. So how do we find time to do the things we want to do?
How to learn anything
Making it through school means you know lots of things. But rarely do you learn how to learn. So then how do you approach learning something afterward – in real life?
Building castles made of sand
A friend of mine was thinking of leaving her current academic home to build a new Institute at BFU (big
