Tag: Productivity
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How (and Why) I Carry a Pocket Notebook WITH My Bullet Journal
Ever since I start to bullet journal regularly with an A5-sized (read: the “standard” size) notebook for a bullet journal, I had switched away from pocket-sized notebooks I used to use for my to-dos and other reminders. As anyone can guess, the major difference between my pre and post-bullet journal notebooks includes how much easier…
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A Quick Update on the 5 AM Club
This is yet another quick update, as I have been busy with a few things as of late. It also doesn’t help that I got sick with the common cold for the first time in a while. As a result, this is going to be more of an off-the-cuff update. Specifically, I’m going to talk…
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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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