I have given up completing unsolicited surveys for services I receive. There are just too many of them. All of them want 5 minutes of my time, and if I spent 5-minutes completing each survey I received I’d have to give up writing, or family time, or something–there just isn’t enough time in the day.…
Welcome to my blog series, “Practically Paperless with Obsidian.” For an overview of this series, please see Episode 0: Series Overview. Over the course of these episodes, one thing that I have stressed–because it is important to me–is creating my notes in a way that will make them easy to find. This goes for how…
I’m pretty late to the party, but I am finally starting to use Reddit. I used it in a vague sort of way 8 or 9 years ago, but mustly to moderate a now-dormant subredddit on going paperless. I never branched out beyond that. But I’ve noticed that there is a lot of good technical…
Now that I have been using Obsidian for a year, I felt I could make more of a committment to the product itself. I’ve recently done this in two ways. First, I’ve upgrade my Supporter-level account to a VIP account. I didn’t do this for the badges or perks, but to support the product and…
Here is what I read this week. Some of the articles/posts may require a subscription to read them. I also share my recommended reads on Pocket for anyone who wants to follow along there. Books Finished We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin The…
I was busy with work yesterday and when that happens I sometimes lose track of things. All day long, I kept looking at the calendar and wondering why January 28 seemed so familiar. Was it someone’s birthday? Anniversary? It wasn’t until the evening, after dinner, that an odd coincidence triggered the memory of the event:…
Nothing in my memory has disrupted my sleep patterns more than this pandemic we find ourselves in. A few months into the pandemic, I found I wasn’t sleeping well. This grew steadily worse until I was experiencing the worst sleep problems I’d ever had. I began meditating to see if that helped. I saw my…
A few months back, for the first time ever, I paid to read a blog. It was Joe Posnanski’s blog, “Joe’s Blog” on Substack. I absolutely love Joe’s writing. His book, The Baseball 100, was my favorite book of 2021 out of more than 80 books that I read last year. I even managed to…
Truth be told I am a serial committer of Dad Jokes. I fire these jokes off around the kids multiple times a week. Mostly, I forget them soon after. Two recent ones haven’t yet vacates my increasingly tenuous memory and I’ll share them with you now. The first came while the boy was studying for…
Welcome to my blog series, “Practically Paperless with Obsidian.” For an overview of this series, please see Episode 0: Series Overview. The Background For more than a decade, I’ve been looking for a way to capture a master index to my life. I’ve got digital files and documents going back to my college days in the…