Another year has come and gone. Review time! Every year I perform a complete review of my life, my goals, and my projects. I’ve done this for a decade, and every time it’s valuable and enjoyable. Here’s a summary of […]| Alex Vermeer
I’ve added an experimental deck to my Anki Decks page called Oblique Strategies. This deck is based on the Oblique Strategies decks of physical cards first created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975. The cards contain aphorisms to […]| Alex Vermeer
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” –Steve Martin Review So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport (2012) is about working right, rather than finding the right work. To achieve true work satisfaction you should learn to love […]| Alex Vermeer
I’m happy to announce that my 8,760 Hours guide has been cleaned up and improved, just in time for 2016 Reviews and 2017 Planning! When I first wrote the guide back in 2012 I expected maybe a few friends to read […]| Alex Vermeer
After picking away at it for months here and there, I finally finished a new page on this site: a fairly thorough summary of how I run various areas of my life. Check it out here!| Alex Vermeer
The pomodoro technique is, in short, starting a timer and doing 25 minutes of focused work on a single task without interruption, followed by a five minute break. Choose a new task, restart the timer, and repeat. Throughout 2013 I used […]| Alex Vermeer
Another year has come and gone. Review time! At the end of every year I perform a complete review of my life, my goals, and my projects. I’ve done this for about ten years now, and found it valuable every […]| Alex Vermeer
This post contains an up-to-date list of my “life areas”—a breakdown of the major different areas in my life, which I frequently use, for example when performing my yearly reviews. 1. Worldview & Purpose Is: your overall clarity as to your […]| Alex Vermeer
by Alex Vermeer and Jimmy Rintjema Why the hell can’t we get more done? We procrastinate. A lot. It sucks. We want to do it less. The procrastination equation, thanks to Piers Steel,1 accounts for every major finding on human […]| Alex Vermeer
I’ve been using Anki fairly regularly for a few years, but it’s time to start over. My decks are too many and too cluttered. I have too much material that I don’t actually care to spend my time memorizing. A lot […]| Alex Vermeer