Category Archives: Nature

Weeknote for 5/5/2024

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😎 I continued taking memory palace photos, choosing number names, and exploring resources for creating more mnemonic tools. I picked up a pair of symbolism dictionaries by Steven Olderr to help me think about visualizing abstract concepts. For ideas … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/14/2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I decided to start my memory training by learning a Person-Action-Object list for two-digit numbers based on the Dominic System. This is a popular way of memorizing numbers that balances speed of memorizing a number against the speed … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/7/2024

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😌 I started indexing the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my new sources. I worked from Mnemonic Techniques by Hoff and Remember It! by Dellis. Early on I tried entering the lists themselves, but that took too much time … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/17/2024

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😎 Scott Young’s Ultralearning (TED talk) is setting the agenda for my learning project. The book is about how to learn a lot about a subject in a relatively short time, perfect for the kind of learning projects I … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/3/2024

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Andy

Life maintenance 😌 Last week sprang some good surprises, the biggest one being that my health insurance started covering my ulcerative colitis med again. Tuesday’s surprise was that my busy doctor had an opening the next day, so I scheduled … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/25/2024

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Andy

Life maintenance 😬 My spring housekeeping was interrupted by a clash with the medical system. I’d learned a couple of weeks earlier that my health insurance had dropped coverage of my very expensive ulcerative colitis medication. The next week, the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/4/2024

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I finished separating my intervals database into iteration and day databases. This week I’ll try to get through creating a Make scenario for automatically registering work sessions for my tasks in Notion. I do it manually now, and … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/21/2024

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😐 I started fixing some issues in the design of my Notion workspace that had been bothering me. I merged a couple of redundant database columns, which came from the way my data is cobbled together from different sources. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/14/2024

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 🧐 The next four weeks I’ll take care of some work-intensive parts of my productivity system that will set me up for future improvements. The main two are (1) learning how to automate Notion with Make and (2) learning … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/31/2023

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Andy

Christmas 😌 In contrast with our other recent Christmases, this one was so low-key I had to remind myself it had even happened. Even so, in our quiet way we had plenty going on. Sunday we visited the black church … Continue reading →