The current hype machine in tech is all around ChatGPT and other AI models, but is there much credibility to them? Should we even be calling them AI when they’re really large language models that can merely statistically predict word combinations? This is usually only for members … | Continue reading
I looked at this plugin just a few weeks ago and I had two bigger issues with it. First, your passwords were not encrypted in your Obsidian vault. Yes, WordPress has it on its roadmap to allow password scoping so that we could assign an application password to only do some things … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts, or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
The tools you use matter so much less than the process you have built around using them. The latest note app won’t suddenly make you a great thinker, if you never spend the time needed on thinking. If you want to read these posts become a member. Members get my courses included.. | Continue reading
Most of the devices in my house are Apple which means I pay for Apple One for the whole family to listen to music, play games, and have adequate storage for devices1. But with moving to Fedora Linux on one of my computers to work I no longer have access to Apple’s first party Mus … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts, or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
No members specific content today. I’m traveling with my daughter (she was invited to a skating development camp). Turns out I don’t have time to write specifically this week. Course Supporter members should start looking forward to a revamp Obsidian course I’ve started. If you’v … | Continue reading
From Heather Burns: After years of dragging my arse to the only mildly tolerable option, an open source community meetup appeared – in the function room of a twee Oirish pub, no less – and what ensued didn’t so much pivot my business but my entire life. And on that evidence, it’s … | Continue reading
Now that I have a Fedora Linux laptop to do my work on I’m realizing that I have some vendor lock-in I need to deal with in my note-taking system. Specifically, I’ve used DEVONthink as my storage for research materials and “other people’s thoughts” for a long time. DEVONthink is … | Continue reading
Sure the iPadPro may be more powerful than this1 but this runs a full fat operating system. So it can be a tablet, and my full-time computer for all tasks. My iPad still doesn’t do code well. I never checked I’m simply guessing because M1/2 chips are so fast. ↩ | Continue reading
From Analog Office: The magic is in the fact that writing is a transit system, which transports little electrical sparks in your synapses into things that affect shared reality. Yes I love Obsidian. Yes I write down most notes during the day in a notebook. | Continue reading
There is so much to agree with in Matt’s post. Tech hypes so much that will “revolutionize” our lives and lots of it fails to bring these innovations. How do we always forget the broken promises and blindly trust the new thing tech is hyping? | Continue reading
AI will solve the need to organize your notes!!! But will it really? Crypto was supposed to solve banking and make it modern. Instead it’s crashed a bunch and rich people got in early then cashed out and got richer. Ride hailing was supposed to revolutionize personal transportati … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value from this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You could also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. Membership includ … | Continue reading
Let’s talk about Substack starting its enshittification walk towards death by asking writers to prop up a company that doesn’t make money. To read this post you need to be a member. Members get my courses as well as the weekly research notes.. | Continue reading
I love this repurposing of an old computer with new brains from Framework. Before I purchased my 13″ Framework I tried to get an older ThinkPad, but after numerous shipping issues, I never got any of them. I love my Framework laptop. I love that even though I missed out on their … | Continue reading
This story from Vice about Harvard shows the sad state of affairs across the working world in North America. Harvard is doing the “great service” for it’s student workers of showing them resources to help them pay for things, like food. They want to be congratulated for this, whi … | Continue reading
Sigh…so it appears that the current federal budget has money earmarked for “making improvements to air travel”. They have $1.8 billion dollars devoted to this nebulous “improvement” campaign, specifically to improve security screening. Most of us know that the pain we go through … | Continue reading
For a while now I’ve controlled my Sonos system via AirPlay from any one of my Apple devices. But with a Fedora Framework laptop in my house, I needed to find a new way to send audio to the speakers without needing AirPlay. Unfortunately, Sonos doesn’t make an official Linux app, … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. This issue was sponsored by Reflect.app. Reflect is a note-taking app that mirrors the way your brain works through networked notes. It has a GPT-4 AI assistant that … | Continue reading
Today we look at why it’s hard to rethink our closely held ideas, and how to engage in the work needed to start thinking more critically about them. If you want to read this whole post become a member. Members get all my courses included.. | Continue reading
I had to move a bunch of files over from macOS to my Framework laptop, including a bunch of node stuff that just wasn't copying via the standard file browser in Fedora 37. This means I turned to rsync which will just work to copy any amount of files, and can resume itself. Wh … | Continue reading
Back in early 2022 I covered an Obsidian plugin that let you publish to WordPress and at the time I wasn’t all that impressed. It felt hard to use, didn’t remember your password, and really didn’t save any time. Since then I had it on my list to write a better plugin that took ad … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
From Paris Marx Since the dawn of the internet era, the United States has been pushing the line that every company needed to allow unfettered access to the web, or else they were violating the rights of their citizens. Any country that dared limit access to the web was chastised … | Continue reading
In today’s member post we talk about owning books as an act of resistance to censorship. Specifically physical books. If you want to read the whole post become a member. Members also get my courses.. | Continue reading
This is a great set of security recommendations from the NSA. Some of them are going to be hard for non-technical users, like having 3 different wireless networks. One for you, one for guests, one for IoT devices. Overall, if you can do a number of these recommendations, you’ll b … | Continue reading
Casey Newton from Platformer on what appears to be the impending banning of TikTok in the US. But I’m deeply uncomfortable about the implications of governments making one-off decisions to eliminate social apps on national security grounds, while at the same time taking a pass on … | Continue reading
Depending on how you have your projects organized, you may want the word count of a folder. This is where Novel Word Count for Obsidian can help you. Novel Word Count does one thing, count the words of the items in the folders in your Obsidian vault. By default it will only show … | Continue reading
I recently read on Platformer that Facebook is trying to build a “next-generation” text-based social media platform to replace Twitter. I mean sure, Twitter is dying and its death is not happening nearly as slowly as I thought it would be1, but why on earth should we trust Facebo … | Continue reading
The third installment in some thoughts on creativity. It’s okay to not be creative. Tomorrow I’ve got 2 kids at home and a puppy to take care of. Usually, I’d record a YouTube video but I find it unlikely that I can get the dog to settle and the two kids occupied at the same […] | Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about the media demanding our attention and we can’t find the time we need to be creative. One thing I forgot to mention is that it’s okay to be bad at things. I’m terrible at email, I don’t respond in Discord, and as I said yesterday my phone is almost entirely … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
I recently got mentioned in a Mastodon discussion about creativity. Here is the exact wording from Q. It’s hard to be productive as a creative person in the modern age because we are inundated with media that demands our attention and responses. I’d be interested to hear from oth … | Continue reading
I just ordered my first non-Apple laptop in 10-years, a Framework laptop. I’ll be running Fedora on it and for the first time in a while I’m excited about the new tech coming into my house. Here are some fun reads/videos that show why I’m excited about the new laptop. I Could mak … | Continue reading
I recently started gaming again and built a second Obsidian vault to keep track of the resources I want for various games. At this point it’s mostly a repository for Hollow Knight. This means I have lots of videos to embed and my previous method with a Templater file to start fro … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts, or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
Today we talk about why rich people want to stop student loan forgiveness. They say it’s not fair since they won’t get any debt forgiven, but really they want to make sure people that aren’t rich enough don’t compete with them for jobs. To read this whole post become a member. Me … | Continue reading
While there was much rhetoric around COVID-19 school closures harming the well-being of children, with some sources saying these COVID-19 closures increased suicide, a new study calls that finding into question. This study used a number of methods to track the history of teen sui … | Continue reading
I’ve helped a number of people with their note system, and almost every one of them has had the same problem. This single problem can be fixed with one trick, not an easy trick, but it’s the single biggest thing standing between you and producing something from your notes. Make T … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts, or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
Let’s talk about the “family” rhetoric companies use to exploit workers. If you want to read these posts become a member. Members get my courses included.. | Continue reading
I recently realized that my kids are older now and I have time for gaming again, so I purchased a Steam Deck for my birthday. If you’re not familiar with it, a Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer that runs Linux under the hood. It’s dockable to external monitors, and even le … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading
Today we talk about a book that seems like it should be about raising innovative children. It’s really a guidebook for rich parents to help their kids get ahead and never addresses any structural issues with education or society. To read the whole post become a member. Members ge … | Continue reading
I recently spent a few months with OmniFocus as my main task manager as I investigated building a course around using OmniFocus. To keep it short, no plans for an OmniFocus course. There are enough things that drive me bonkers that I’m going to stop using OmniFocus. Now there are … | Continue reading
So it was Super Bowl weekend and while 140 private jets appear to have been tasked with delivering rich people back home after the event I was rushing through Mcdonald’s and was delivered a paper straw to drink with. As you can guess from the title, it got soggy long before I was … | Continue reading
Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts, or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. … | Continue reading