Tag: Productivity
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I Tried Joining the 5 AM Club this Past Week.
Welcome to the Sudo Science Book Club! I’m not sure if I’m going to make this a regular thing or not, but I do like the idea. We’ll see how this goes first. I finished reading The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma just a few weeks ago and think I got much more out…
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I Used an Android “Dumbphone” for 7 Days. Here’s How It Went.
Here it is: the follow-up to my previous blog post detailing how I would try to make my full switch to the Android-powered Xiaomi Qin F22 Pro, a quasi-smartphone in a “dumbphone” form factor, for 7 straight days. How did everything go? Day 0 Wait, Day 0? Does this mean I actually went above and…
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Transitioning to a “Dumbphone” Part 2!
Deja vu? No, I’ve written about this subject before, but I failed miserably to switch last time. In case anyone forgot, this phone runs Android while featuring the look and feel of a mid-2000s feature phone. It looks like a perfect compromise between wanting to be a digital minimalist while still having a few “smart”…
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Pretty, Powerful, Productive: My Obsidian Power User Setup
Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) is such a useful and vital skill in today’s modern world, and I’m certainly not the first person to centralize the things I do want to track in one convenient, easy-to-navigate place. Of course, I don’t happen to focus everything into the second brain I’ve created (that’s why I also…
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Let’s Be Realistic About “Free Money” Apps
A QUICK ASIDE: Just to keep full transparency, I won’t include any affiliate links or sweeping endorsements here. This whole thing is me just trying to detail my view and experience with these sorts of apps. As a result, I get to be as honest and critical as I like. I found myself using an…
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Use What You Already Have to Get a “Dumbphone”
As I discussed in a few previous posts, I’ve made attempts to simplify my life before starting with my smartphone. Humorously, I remember being a younger Mr. Hyde around 2010 when Android phones were really starting to pick up traction, when the idea of digital convergence was truly exciting. The future looked so bright to…
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How I Accidentally My Arch Installation
Good Night, Sweet Prince I installed Arch back in the spring of 2020 for the first (serious) time on a VM within Kubuntu. After falling in love with how lightweight and fast it was, I decided to wipe Kubuntu and reinstall Arch from scratch there instead. I ran the very same install for the longest…
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Transitioning to a “Dumbphone”
I’m not somebody addicted to using a smartphone. In fact, I sort of adopted the digital minimalist mindset around six months ago and started using my existing smartphone, a OnePlus 10 5G, with the amazing Before Launcher. But something told me that wasn’t enough. I felt like I needed to do even more to make…
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Quitting QWERTY: Exploring Alternative Keyboard Layouts
It was around mid-2017 when I finally considered switching away from QWERTY. I was a rather accomplished typist who could push 95 to 100 WPM on most days, but I felt I could do more when it came to overall typing efficiency and ergonomics. Emphasis on ergonomics. My wrists would suffer from carpal tunnel when…
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How to Set Up OnlyOffice Docs Self-Hosting
I love using my personal instance of Nextcloud to host and move files around between machines. It comes in handy for letting me sync my documents, photos, wallpapers, and much more. However, at some point several months ago, I really wanted to get the OnlyOffice integration working correctly with Nextcloud. There was a hacky solution…
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