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reading
- Surface, an Obsidian plugin for Readwise
I read a lot, and most of what I read flows through Readwise. If you haven't used it. Readwise (and its companion app Reader) captures highlights from your Kindle, articles, RSS, and even YouTube transcripts. Everythiā¦
- Read later Apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon
A fun discussion on the origins and history of my favorite app, Readwise, with the founders Daniel Doyon and Tristan Homsi.
- Books of 2022
This year I got to several books that have been on my list for years, excited to finally dig into them. Here's the full list, with my favorites āļø starred: {% include book-snippet.html book-id="storrs-hall-where-is-myā¦
- Notes on the Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things is essential reading for anyone that creates products. I've been doing a re-read of the most recent edition myself. I also ran across this excellent set of notes on the bookā¦
- Weekend Reading: Readwise's Next Chapter, Reviewing Revolt of the Public, and the Helicopter State
š The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our Own Reading App Great to see this evolution of Readwise to enter the "read-later" app space. None of the options out there seem to be thriving anymore (Pocket, Instapaper, etc.), bā¦
- Kindle Cloud Reader
I use the Kindle desktop app a fair amount, usually for going back to books I've already read for reference, or to review highlights and make notes. It's always been a pretty bad application, with a strangely dated inā¦
- Goal Progress: November
We had a hurricane blow up part of a week of productivity around here, but I still limped along with some middling progress on the year's goals. I'm behind the targets this year late in the game, but I'm still happy wā¦
- Goal Progress: October
October is over already? At this rate, it'll be New Years in no time flat. Anyway, let's check in on the 2020 goals: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|ā¦
- Goal Progress: September 2020
For the month of September: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 484.26 miles | 488 miles |ā¦
- The Antilibrary
In The Black Swan, Taleb raises the concept of the "Antilibrary," using author Umberto Eco's personal library of tens of thousands of books as an example. Here's Shane Parrish on Taleb: A good library is filled with mā¦
- Readwise and Roam Research
If I tracked my time spent in software tools, I'm pretty sure over the last 8 months Roam and Readwise would be top of the list. All of my writing, note-taking, idea logs, and (increasingly) to-dos happen now in Roam.ā¦
- Goal Progress: August 2020
Another month down of quarantine life. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 426.44 miles |ā¦
- Readwise, Books, and Spaced Repetition
In his piece "Why Books Don't Work," Andy Matuschak made a strong case that books are a poor medium for knowledge transfer. Even with the most advanced book experiences today (like digital ebook downloads to a Kindle)ā¦
- Goal Progress: July
A quick touch on progress for July. I can't believe it's already been 5 months since the beginning of the pandemic. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|-ā¦
- Library Notes
Jumping off from my Friday post on literature notes, Iāve taken the first step here in what will hopefully become something more meaningful over time. I just finished up filtering back through all my highlights and noā¦
- Literature Notes for the Library
With the last several books I've read, I've been trying to force myself to work through and document literature notes for my highlights, key ideas, and takeaways from books. Using a process (that perhaps I'll one dayā¦
- Book Light
I do most of my nighttime reading with my Kindle, but lately I've been reading a couple of books that don't exist in ebook format. I actually do prefer reading paper books as an experience, but I still favor the ebookā¦
- Goal Progress: June
These updates during the quarantine are weird. In some ways time feels like it's standing still, in others it feels like it's flying by. Every day feels mostly the same. Even though some has opened up in our area, we'ā¦
- Audiobooks and Engagement
Recently Nat Eliason started a thread on the subject of audiobooks, and how much lower comprehension and retention is when listening versus reading: Kinda like how it's hard to go back to reading after watching more Tā¦
- Goal Progress: May 2020
Just a quick update this month. With the pandemic still going, lockdown in a state of unknown non-committal from any authority, and the madness going on around the nation the past week, all of this seems kinda trivialā¦
- Goal Progress: April 2020
April was the first full calendar month of COVID lockdown. In the beginning of the month I started getting comfortable with the working-from-home setup. I have a decent desk setup and a large master bedroom-slash-offiā¦
- Current Reads
I recently added to my Library section to include the books I'm currently reading. At the top of the page now I'll be including books in the rotation. You'll notice that I'm always reading multiple things at once. Usuā¦
- Goal Progress: March
So March has wrapped, probably the longest month we've had in many years. The shake-up in schedule, work-life patterns, and disruptions in everything from kids, to family, to day-to-day activities played absolute hellā¦
- Goal Progress: February
A quick update for February. No big revelations or movements on goals, just slight progress. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|------------ā¦
- Readwise and Instapaper
Discovering Readwise a few months ago caused me to resurrect my long-dormant Instapaper account. Instapaper was my go-to "read later" service, but I also used it as a general bookmark archive. After a while I'd fallenā¦
- Kindle Features and Areas for Improvement
The Kindle launched in 2007, making ebooks accessible as a format not only because of a compelling device, but also a marketplace for content. Suddenly most books were available instantly for $10 a piece. No more tripā¦
- Goal Progress: January
The first month of 2020 is already in the books. 31 days blew by already? Itās been a rollercoaster of a first few weeks, with some vacation at New Years, shot out of a cannon with a reinvigorated team at work, a tripā¦
- Reading Metrics
Since I began tracking my books in a spreadsheet in 2018, I've got a bunch of data I can now look at on my reading habits. One thing I took a stab at was a "duration chart" that could show the reading patterns over tiā¦
- Kindle for Mac
Periodically I want to read on my computer, particularly when sitting at my desk. Amazon publishes a web app called Cloud Reader for reading Kindle books, which emulates pretty closely what their mobile apps look andā¦
- Goal Progress: November
This was a busy one. Between the All Hands earlier in the month and the week off for the holidays, those are brutal to maintaining the routine (though great to get a break and spend time with both workmates and familyā¦
- A Twitter "bestof" List
The only content feeds I regularly peruse anymore are my RSS subscriptions and Twitter. Iāve been trying to pull away a bit more from looking at Twitter so often. This is a common problem these days that people are reā¦
- Quotes
A while back I started a text file for logging the best quotes I run across. I put up a page to document those here publicly. No sense in keeping good stuff to myself when I can share my favorites. A few highlights: "ā¦
- Goal Progress: October
The big achievement this month was the culmination of the half marathon training, ending October by finishing my first one. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|---------ā¦
- Goal Progress: September
In September the training push continued for the half marathon. I did a personal record 88 miles in the 30 days, for an average of just about 3 miles per day the whole month. Somehow I'm not dead yet, but the aches anā¦
- Readwise
I signed up for Readwise earlier this week after seeing it mentioned in Twitter somewhere. If you read a lot of ebooks on Kindle and make highlights, it's a useful tool for recall and remembering what you read. Each dā¦
- Goal Progress: August
This month I made a concerted effort to kick it into a higher gear with the running. Mid-month was the start of the Strava training plan I'm going to try and follow for race preparation. | Activity | Progress | Pace |ā¦
- Goal Progress: July
I had surprisingly good results on goals this July given how much was going on all month. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------ā¦
- Goal Progress: June
So that's a wrap on the month of June. This was my best month so far in terms of a consistent plan and feeling more productive with staying on target. Even with an out-of-town trip to visit the Cape and Jacksonville fā¦
- Weekend Reading: Satellites, Antilibraries, and Libra
š° How to Profit in Space: A Visual Guide Fantastic visualizations from the WSJ team. Shows the history of satellite expansion divided by country, year, and orbits, both LEO and geosynchronous. A great use of maps forā¦
- The Reading Diet
Books are one purchase I don't restrict my spending on. I'm not a big buyer of "stuff" in general, but I don't hesitate at all about my money going to reading. I do try to be circumspect to not overwhelm myself, and tā¦
- Goal Progress: May
For the second half of the month I got into a good rhythm with every-other-day running. I was even able to push almost 5 miles beyond the pace target to end the month. I started running with the kids again in the joggā¦
- Goal Progress: April
I was able to stay on track this past month toward my 2019 goals. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| |ā¦
- Goal Progress: March
Month three is in the books. A seriously eventful month for us, so I'm surprised I was able to stay ahead of the curve. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|-------------ā¦
- Goal Progress: February
We just crossed month number two of the year, so hereās another pulse check on how Iām tracking against some personal goals for 2019. Iām tracking on all fronts, slightly better positioned against the pace marks thanā¦
- A Resurgence of Email
Email is seeing a resurgence in an age when everyone's been crying that email is dead. The comeback is not so much as a tool for intra-office communication (though itās still alive and well in most organizations, Slacā¦
- Goal Progress: January
This is the first year I set some goals on a few things. Iāve never been strongly goal-oriented, so I thought Iād put some stuff down to hold myself accountable and see if it helps build some healthy habits into my roā¦
- Nonfiction Reading Patterns
My nonfiction interests have evolved quite a bit. When I browse whatās new, recent, or recommended I find most of it uninteresting. I now find myself picking up books I wouldnāt have attempted several years back; Iādā¦