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Productivity for distracted people The merits of goals, plans and habits have been discussed at length. You’ll find people preferring one or the other, depending on their own situation and personality. For me, this is also a recurring theme, mostly because I struggle with the distance between all of the ideas I have and how… Continue reading Goals vs Habits

Goals vs Habits We are all distracted. Mostly through media that is engulfing every dimension of our existence. Timelines and feeds are everywhere and you can get a little hit of dopamine just by taping little squares on the screen of your cellphone. In an interesting (perhaps even insidious) turn of events, we are distracted,… Continue reading Productivity for distracted people

Computers run on layers and layers of abstraction. These layers change and evolve and decay. For this reason, although you’re reading this on a device thousands (millions?) of times more powerful than any computer of the 90’s, you can’t play your childhood’s computer games on it. You’d need emulators and other software to make your… Continue reading Digital permanence

Alpha is one of those ideas that once you see it, you’ll find it everywhere. In simple terms, Alpha is a measure of performance when compared to a benchmark. Alpha is how much the measured performance went beyond the benchmark. In other words: If you have an investment that had a return of 10% and… Continue reading Capturing Alpha

This is my ongoing Digital Garden. I created it because regular blogging felt too artificial and contrived and personal notes felt too closed off. It is, by definition, alive and growing, but you might want to start at the beginning:

This is not a to-do list, necessarily. But smells a bit like one.In no particular order:

Digital Gardens are an analogy to actual Gardens, but made of knowledge and notes instead of plants. But why call them Digital Gardens? What is it in the image of a Garden that makes sense with this practice of publishing and linking notes? Gardens exist in the intersection of nature and human action. You can… Continue reading A Garden is something you tend to but evolves following its own patterns

This note is copied from my newsletter:https://12products12months.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-making-the-same-mistakes How to stop making the same mistakes I have plenty of projects and finished few. Although I now I understand that dropping a project is part of the process, I don’t like quitting projects. One of the ideas that has helped me the most is to focus on… Continue reading Failure Mode

Digital Gardens are both intellectual and technical challenges. They require tools that allow for the linking of ideas in the same way our brains do. Not all tools can do this and very few make this easy to do. I’m trying to avoid a familiar Failure Mode of mine (getting lost in the technical details),… Continue reading Using WordPress as my first Digital Garden

You think of a dog and within a mental step you can picture a wolf. But the same happens in reverse: a wolf evokes the image of a dog. Or think of a cat and be reminded of a dog as well. Or reminisce on your childhood and a memory of your dog pops up.… Continue reading Thoughts connect to each other bi-directionally