This March, I spent a couple of days traveling through western Iceland.| thesephist.com
Last night, I built and started using Mira, a sort of a hybrid contacts-app-CRM that’s designed for my workflow around the people in my work and life. I’m calling it a “people notes” app.| thesephist.com
As I’ve written more often, writing has become more than just a way for me to communicate. To me these days, writing is the creative by-product of my learning and thinking process. If I learn something new, it begins life as just an idea, thrown somewhere into the distant orbit in my mental solar system of ideas. Over time, as this speck of an idea develops through conversations and readings, it starts growing and colliding into other ideas. Asteroids of ideas agglomerate in my mental orbit...| thesephist.com
As we use any kind of tool over time, we naturally want the tool to work better for us, to fit our workflows and our use cases. The more we use a tool as a part of our day to day work, the more important it is that the tool work exactly the way we want to work with it.| thesephist.com
Last March, when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted my travels and threw a wrench into my general life plans, I took a couple of months of break from work to recollect and work on my own projects full-time. Many of the projects I ended up building were about growing a personal universe of tools that augmented my workflows, the way I wanted my thoughts and ideas to flow around me. I learned that I enjoyed building tools at many different levels, from thinking about how we should design better c...| thesephist.com
A note-taking tool based on the principles of incremental note-taking, designed for quickly capturing fleeting ideas and growing a knowledge base over time. - thesephist/inc| GitHub
Here is a mental model I share often with friends looking for job opportunities: your ability to get a job is the product of two quantities, the value of your skill and the liquidity of your skill.| thesephist.com
I don’t normally write about new gadgets when they come out, but once in a while, a new device captures my imagination and creativity so much that I can’t help write a little bit about how I use it, and why it gets me so excited. The last time this happened, it was about the 2018 iPad Pro which I still use daily. This time, it’s about the Surface Duo, a dual-screen folding phone-tablet hybrid from Microsoft running a funky crossover of Google’s Android with Microsoft’s services.| thesephist.com