I organize myself and my work using emacs’ org mode. It has served me extremely well over the past few years and has helped me better organize both my working and personal life. In this post, I describe how I use org mode for everything from long-term projects to appointments and ideas.
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Another mammoth post from Stephen Wolfram on the latest update to the Wolfram Language (part of Mathematica) – doesn’t this guy know how to write shorter things?
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You’re stuck at home. You have internet access and, maybe, a little more time to yourself. Should you write a book?
This advice is mainly for those who write business books and self-help books to gain influence — my primary audience. But I hope that…
Another great post from Josh Bernoff on breaking a big project into manageable pieces.
Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.
With five states already on lockdown, I think we are heading in this direction.
A good set of writing principles for all writing.
If you were wondering what qualifies as critical infrastructure or essential functions, this is it.
A few weeks ago Kicks Condor released a major update of his Fraidycat feed reader. Like Kick Consor’s blog itself, Fraidycat has a distinct personality.
Key with Fraidycat is that it aims to break the ‘never ending timeline’ type of reading content that the silos so favour to keep you scrollin…
Ton Zylstra reviews the Fraidy Cat RSS reader from Kicks Condor.
Terrific ideas for how to work remotely
Extensive site with tools/processes on building skills of investigation.
Different times call for different measures. When Covid-19 hit China, I was concerned, as were many public health professionals, about what could happen and urged rapid action to understand more and prepare. But few of us anticipated the catastrophic impact the new virus has had in Wuhan, in Italy and may soon have in many other places.
The adaptive response chart in this article is excellent – we have a long way to go…