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Why Regular Reflection Can Help You Become More Productive
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It can be easy to fall into the pattern of working from day to day, week to week. Finding the time and motivation to learn how to improve or become better than …
The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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The 12 Week Year will fundamentally change how you think about goal planning and working towards those goals. Who Should Read This Book? I would recommend this …
Jekyll - How To Determine Build Times
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If you’re looking to optimize the build time of your Jekyll blog, it’s useful to know just how long each part of the build process takes. By using the profile …
Overcoming The Blank Page As A Creator
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As I sit down to write this article, I’m not starting from scratch. The idea for the article came from my Writing Topics list. The content for the article is …
Jekyll - How To Limit Posts During The Build Process
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As your Jekyll blog grows in size over time, you might find that the build process takes longer to run. This can be frustrating if you just want to test out a …
Why Writing Blog Posts In Markdown Is A Game Changer
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I enjoy writing my articles using Markdown as it offers a lot of benefits. I’m able to write without distraction. Plus my hands never need to leave the keyboard …
Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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Eat That Frog is all about doing that one thing, the thing that provides you with the most value in the long-term. If you can Eat That Frog first thing in the …
Jekyll - Creating External Links That Open In A New Tab
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A common convention for external links is that they open in a new tab. The idea behind this is that you can easily go back to the previous tab if you need to. …
Keep A Web Dev Notebook To Learn More Effectively
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If you have read my recent post: You Learn More Effectively By Practicing, you’ll know that I’ve consciously made an effort to continue building my web …
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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Cognitive Surplus was a thought-provoking but enjoyable book to read. It raised a lot of great points about the world we currently live in. A world where people …
How To Remove A Post Category From The Blog Page In WordPress
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If you have many different post categories on your WordPress website, you might want to funnel them to different pages. This is especially important to consider …
You Learn More Effectively By Practicing
#design#coding
I recently started back into building up my web development skills. A lot has changed in the time since I last actively made an effort to advance my knowledge …
Hooked by Nir Eyal - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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Hooked by Nir Eyal outlines The Hook Model, a methodology for building habit forming products that improve a user’s life in some way. I found this to be a very …
My Obsidian Setup - Mar 2021
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I have been using Obsidian as my personal knowledge management (PKM) system for the last number of months. I, like many people, was hesitant to jump ship from …
How A UI Designer Uses Todoist
#productivity#design
I recently revised the way I use Todoist to manage my work-related tasks as a UI Designer at the company where I work. After re-reading the book Getting Things …
My Writing Workflow For Content Creation
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I recently revised my content creation workflow to tie in better with my goal to develop a consistent writing habit. With that in mind, I thought this would be …
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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Don’t Make Me Think was a transformative reading experience for me. It boils down a lot of complex and in-depth usability research and best practices into easy …
UI Design Patterns - How To Handle Disabled Components
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I recently had to do some research to figure out how to properly handle disabled fields and buttons (I’m collectively calling them components). This design …
Using Inboxes To Manage Your Thoughts And Ideas
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Our brains are always thinking and processing. If each thought was a word, we would be able to generate enough content to produce a whole book every single day. …
Can A Rubik's Cube Help With Your Focus?
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I recently wrote about the act of continuous learning and made a case for learning from and being inspired by others. In that article, I made reference to …
A Simple But Effective Way To Learn Every Day
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Just because you’ve left school doesn’t mean that you should stop learning. In fact, I would argue that you should never stop learning new things. From learning …
Getting Things Done by David Allen - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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Getting Things Done is widely considered a staple of the productivity world and is the go-to book recommended if you’re looking to become a more productive …
Don’t Underestimate The Benefits Of A Day Job
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In today’s day and age, many people can become their own boss by being a “content creator” or “knowledge worker”. The internet is full of ambitious and creative …
Peak by Anders Ericsson - Book Notes, Summary, Review
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Reading Peak was an extremely motivational experience for me. The idea that everyone can improve with deliberate practice no matter how old you are is a really …
How Task Batching Can Accelerate Your Productivity
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As someone who writes blog posts pretty consistently and as a content creator in general, I find that I end up working on a lot of the same types of tasks quite …