Category Archives: Learning

Weeknote for 5/3/2020

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Andy

Learning 😎 For my project to create a first draft of a dictionary of mnemonic substitute words, I finished setting up the TransPhoner software and tinkered with it enough to see that parts of it will be useful. This week … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/26/2020

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Andy

Text-to-speech Even though I’ve now subscribed to Play.ht, it seems I’ve already exhausted my quota of words, so this week’s audio will sadly have to wait. In the meantime, if you use Chrome, try the Pericles extension. Learning After carefully … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/22/2020

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I had the notion that Josh Kaufman’s book The First 20 Hours would help me plan my projects, since many of them are about learning new skills, so I listened to that early in the week with the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/8/2020

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Andy

Learning 🙂 Last week I (1) reread a lot of William Atkinson’s anti-mnemonics book, (2) filled out my list of mnemonic devices, (3) listed over 30 memory palaces I could use from my life, (4) got a handle on the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/1/2020

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Andy

Learning 😎 Last week officially started my learning project, and I dashed out the plan and started the work, since I was so excited about it. The project’s purpose is to set up a learning system to experiment with, and … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/23/2020

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Andy

Sleep 🙂 After my degraded time management the week before, I had some success getting to bed earlier last week by using a Pomodoro timer to break up my work at the computer, which kept me from losing track of … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/16/2020

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Andy

Conceptual modeling 😐 I got through another two-and-a-half chapters and tweaked my note-taking method to take about half the time, at least in my very limited experiment. Instead of doing all my highlighting in one reading before taking notes, in … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/9/2020

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Andy

Life maintenance 😐 I did a little better at getting to bed earlier, so my sleep schedule isn’t a lost cause yet. I’m going to start a list of rules for my time management, probably in the form of implementation … Continue reading →

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Update for 11/11/2018

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Andy

Christmas 🙂 This month I’m working on my annual tradition of making creative Christmas labels for my family’s gifts. I didn’t get through all the planning steps last week, but I already knew how I wanted to start the work, … Continue reading →