Notes

A debate is a dance not a war

All habits are based on a four-step pattern, which consists of cue, craving, response, and reward.

Block your time in order to spend it intentionally

Bringing too many arguments to the table can lead to Argument Dilution

Brown is just dark orange

Commonplace books were the predecessors to PKM or the concept of a „Second Brain“

Design matters most when technology becomes generalized and least when technology is new

Diminishing returns mean that there is a point where further optimization does not make sense anymore

Enable your future self to learn from your past self - because your future self will forget everything

Every object, even an apple, is essentially a colorless object

Growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest required resource (limiting factor)

HMW statements reframe a problem into a challenge, which is way more engaging than thinking about a problem

How to choose a daily highlight

Humans love being the cause

In order to form a habit, one should assign that habit with an identity

It is important to write in your own words

Knowing how to think of the world computationally is a core modern skill

Learning Astro Content Collections

Notes on how Astro 6 content collections work with the glob loader, Zod schemas, and the content store.

LLMs do not have mental models and therefore lack real understanding of concepts and ideas

Low Relationship Conflict leads to better decisions and more original ideas

Mental illness is a sign that who we are does not fit with our circumstances

Moloch is a race that’ll probably kill us, but that we can’t help but run

Most people undervalue their freely available time

On Digital Minimalism

Thoughts on building digital systems that serve you, not the other way around.

Only 20% of the content on a website is being read on average

People are building "sandcastles" over and over again

Planning fallacy describes how we generally underestimate the time needed to complete a task

Reframing is a very simple yet powerful tool to turn negative concepts into something positive

Small decisions can have big impacts

The amount of time spent on content declines rapidly after two screenfuls of content

The average attention span is shrinking as more topics are competing for finite attention spans

The experience of kindergarten teachers correlates with the income of their students in adulthood

The McGurk effect describes how our vision influences our hearing

We have a natural built-in function to forget

We should consume information the same way, we consume and select food

With systems and automated processes you gain compounding interest in your investment of time

You should always be thinking like a scientist