12 posts tagged with "productivity"

A week ago I tried switching my web browser's default search engine from Google to Perplexity.

I've been thinking lately that I should spend 10% less time doing, and 10% more time learning.

The 20th century belonged to specialists. Experts carved out narrow domains and dug deep. The system rewarded it — the best knee surgeon, the best COBOL programmer, the best ad copywriter. Depth was the differentiator. But AI tilts the game board.

I've long embraced generalism—dipping into different disciplines, interestsREST An architectural style for designing networked applications. REST uses HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to perform operations on resources identified by URLs., and ideas. I often worried this approach meant sacrificing depth for breadth, leaving me moving slowly in many directions rather than swiftly in one.

A list of tools I'm currently using

If a task MUST be done, it belongs in a to-do list If a task is ASPIRATIONAL and REGULAR, it belongs in a habit tracker

On Monday 4th November I opened my to-do list and was greeted with 149 due tasks.

I've finally organized my development environment setup into a proper dotfiles repository. After years of manually configuring each new machine, I decided to automate the whole process.

I have tried every way of writing dates for files, notes, and folders. The best I have found is YYMMDD.