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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Wow, I really like how you reserve the corners of the page for specific content. I also really like writing notes in the book, but I take a picture of each page and stick it into Evernote. On each note I'll write down the book and page
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
OP here I wrote this article last May and back then it was unclear whether or not I'd stick with PARA Here's the update three months later: The Bad : I’m kinda getting falling behind on some of the proactive archiving/organi
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
OP here Yeah, that book was pretty light on practical advice. I didn't find much in there that I hadn't already discovered by reading blog posts about it One thing that was unique though, was a set of questions to ask yourself whi
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
OP here 100% agreed on the "don't chase fancy tools" mindset. When I was taking the Building a Second Brain course, the instructor Tiago Forte had offered us three tools to use for organizing our notes: - Evernote - Roam - No
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I can attest to this. I tried offering my toddler a thousand dollars. She preferred to blow bubbles.
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Sounds like the perfect phone for 2020, when we're all at home and just need to surf the internet from our couches
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Reuse Your Side Projects(zainrizvi.io)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This sounds a lot like the old argument of developers not being careful about how much memory/cpu they use. Engineers have been complaining about this since the 70s! As hardware improves, developers realize that computing time is way c
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This sounds a lot like the old argument of developers not being careful about how much memory/cpu they use. Engineers have been complaining about this since the 70s! As hardware improves, developers realize that computing time is way
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When your bank helps your scammers – How I lost $5k(davidvargas.me)
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Effective Altruism Is Suboptimal(zainrizvi.io)
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Hacking the Bureaucracy to Get Stuff Done(zainrizvi.io)
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While maybe that's true at FB (it's not true at Google), your brain flips a special bit if you convince yourself that there's no time crunch. There've been various studies done which show that individuals who are under p
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Lol, it was a pretty solid cube. I still have it lying around somewhere. And yeah, it was totally branded all over with the company logo and other symbols I didn't understand until after attending the open house
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Makes sense that when you're interviewing programmers you don't have to look for candidates proficient in your particular area. You need someone willing to learn Conversely, if you're interviewing, signaling that you are high
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The Interview Advice No One Tells You About(zainrizvi.io)
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Unconventional tips for Mastering Software Interviews(zainrizvi.io)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Write tweets ;)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Discipline doesn't work for everyone. I suspect most folks who are reading this article are doing so because they failed at self-discipline (like myself). Instead, I suggest observing how long your motivation tends to last (~2 weeks fo
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
He emphasizes waning motivation as one of they key factors, but there's a logical consequence of this which he didn't point out. Instead of trying to keep your motivation up, figure out how long your motivation tends to last for (
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
It's not true that you have to loose work life balance at the higher paying companies. Speaking as someone who's worked at both Microsoft, Google, and Stripe your work life balance is completely up to you (Amazon is an outlier) Th
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
In my area the city had been paying the owners of a golf course thousands of dollars every year to have first dibs on the rights to purchase that land if and when the owners ever decided to sell it. A few years ago the golf course owners fi
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I tried Information Fasting for a week. It was harder than I thought(twitter.com)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
My pleasure!
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Agreed. Pen and paper is great for taking notes Yet discoverability becomes a huge challenge. I find that I almost never go back to reference those paper notes. I'd need a good system to keep those notes organized
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I'm using Evernote as my main note taking tool. They've put more effort into making it easier to put notes into it than the other systems I've seen and the PARA system was designed by a guy who used Evernote so it works reall
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I tried Zettelkasten a few months ago and I found a lot of what you said to be true. It also has a serious upfront labor overhead that really makes it hard to stick with. Then I discovered Building a Second Brain and it's P.A.R.A. met
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I recently studied both Zettelkasten and Build a Second Brain's P.A.R.A note taking methods. They share some core principles but BASB seems much more practical for most people The biggest difference was that Zettelkasten required a to
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Man-Computer Symbiosis – JCR Licklider (1960)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
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Comparing Zettelkasten to Para(zainrizvi.io)
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