I write about implementing 📝 productivity systems to reduce friction in our workflows. This blog also acts as a devlog for becoming a content creator (📷youtuber & ✏️ writer ). I like the concept of note-blogging so you can see my zettelkasten - containing my thoughts about remote work (goals!), mental health (burnout) and fiction.
This entire blog is a work in progress |・ω・) so I will have various todos scattered around XD.
I plan on writing blog posts as a accompanying piece to my Pamela Wang - YouTube videos, as a place to elaborate more (some stuff just doesn’t fit in the videos), put code snippets and links to interesting stuff I found while researching the video.
The Zettelkasten is going to be my experiment in trying note-blogging inspired by this list of digital gardens particularly Tim’s. I like the idea of making ‘claims’ about the world as you ideate, then later you go back and refine those as you learn more through researching the topic or actual experimentation. Inspired by the ideas of learning in public , I am just going to write as I think, because I believe that we need to z-express to think through the idea and failure is the mother of success so only by trying to figure out what I am thinking repeatedly (and hence failing repeatedly) can I get better :)
So if you see a bunch of zettels that you don’t agree with or know to be wrong, I am not making absolute assertions that they are right, just refining my model of how things work. Feel free to send me a message (at mwahacookie@gmail.com) if you would like to discuss any of the stuff here.
You can start at Zettel Inbox or the Entry Points tag :)
Things I wanna add to this section
TODO Stuff about my best writing (curated guides? opinion pieces?) right now I mostly have tutorials so maybe the weekly review blog-Automated Weekly Review in Obsidian or blog-tag based organization on my tagging system
I post videos on about productivity systems on YouTube
I’m always happy to chat, if you send me an email at mwahacookie@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter @MwahaCookie or
My List of Questions
Note taking
What is the difference between evergreen notes and zettelkasten notes? Evergreen = permanent? and plant metaphors Zettelkasten = the system for processing notes from fleeting → permanent
Nurture plays a big part in who you are
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We are affected by the influences around us, because they shape our beliefs and identity, and thus who we are and also our future interactions.
Chat with Mervin Walk - culture 2022-06-13 I had an interesting discussion with my brother on this actually, What is culture, how beliefs → identity and also back?
Something like this instead? Tu WeiMing Confucian Circles of Concern models self, family, others are concentric circles that interact with each other?...
only keep what sparks joy
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marie kondo on decluttering
people have special needs beyond the basics
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There is the idea of fundamental needs / basic rights, that have mostly been encoded into law, e.g. right to health care, need food to live, and even somewhat quantified (3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 hours without shelter, 3 mins without air not entirely accurate but it gives a general picture)
A good representation of standard needs is something like maslow hierarchy of needs
although this is also subject to changes between generations of people and models can only approximate the truth so it is not like the perfect list of needs either....
remote work
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There are different levels of remote work, GitLab’s Guide to All-Remote as defined by gitlab Article Source - The Five Levels of Remote Work — and Why You’re Probably at Level 2
Remote work is mainly the idea that you don’t have to be there in person, you can work from anywhere in the world, including your own home.
Benefits:
personal not wasting time on travel business not having to rent an office space Problems:...
rituals that doctors do
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Sometime during my university, in one of the humanities classes, I read about ‘rituals’ people have, not religious rituals but more of like tiny acts people do before they do stuff.
An example was how doctors had their own ‘rituals’ for washing their hands before surgery, or how athletes (sports competition ppl specifically?) would do the same actions everytime before they play.
It puts you in the correct state of mind to do the thing, sorta acts as compartmentalization?...
Tu WeiMing Circles of Concern
source:: Tu Weiming | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Vaguely remembered from HASS classes, the center of the circle is the self, and outside of that is the family (people that you owe responsibility to?) and then outside of that is the world?
I remember that this is linked to the idea of Individualism as self and other circle
Why create content
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What are the benefits of content creation?
learning in public is both a methodology of content creation and a benefit of creating content helps motivate me to think through things properly and actually get things produced instead of half-finished projects interaction with other people interested in the same topics → finding out about cool things within the field → learning possible career option because I am interested in remote work specifically, asynchronous remote work freedom!...
Zettel Inbox
source:: Do we have free will - TIM - Obsidian Publish is a really good example of what I want to do for this
For now this page is going to be my jumping off point for writing things, and everytime I want to start a zettel, I will create the first one here so it serves as Entry Points to the zettelkasten and you can follow my thinking process,...
don't be perfect just do it
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Ali always goes 100 crappy videos - first a video a week, then try to get it good.
Your code is never done your design is never done. just ship it and work on getting it better - dan rowden from Part Time Youtuber Academy
and also The Konik Philosophy of Gardening, Digital & Otherwise