Some Links
Link Tree? How about a Pan-tree? A little while ago I wrote about my thoughts on linktree type sites . It seems I am not the only one whofeels that way. Here’s some tips on making your own with pandoc . (This blog has a lot of information about pandoc.)
Distraction Free as a Distraction Are you trying to set up a distraction free writing environment? Do you spend a lot of time thinking about it? Does removing distractions distract you from what you need to do? Is it an excuse to buy new gadets?
What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? · brennan.day In a similar vein, how many of the elaborate note taking, knowledge management, second brain systems that you see posts and videos about exist just for the sake of making those posts and videos and ever more elaborate systems. Or another way: I see a lot of people talking about their note taking systems, but much less about what they do with those systems. There’s lot’s of good links in this post.
Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You RSS is great! But, it does have it’s drawbacks in that you don’t get to see people’s sites.
My Inspiration Checklist for Writing Blog Posts Inspiration, actually, doesn’t just come out of nowhere. Here’s a checklist to help get some.
I Wish People Were More Public Don’t just do stuff, tell people about it!
How to be less awkward Are you awkward? So am I. I found this article with advice on the matter. One insight: people often percieve themselves as more awkward than they actually are.
Just Be Normal About Things - by JA Westenberg - WESTENBERG What if not everything you like and do was an obsession? What if not every problem is a conspiracy? What if we were just normal about things?
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected.
I have many more tabs open than this, of course. But this gets things cleaned up a little bit.
Bonus Tidbit
I made a little bookmarklet to make getting these links easier. It’s a simple snippet of javascript:
javascript: navigator.clipboard .writeText(`[${document.title}](${document.URL})`)
This just formats the page title and url as a markdown link and puts it in the clipboard. I have this in my toolbar and it makes things easy.
