This post is slightly long and slightly technical. The TL;DR is that I built a personal wiki out of files and folders and a few templates in Jekyll hosted on Github Pages. If you want to head straight
The phrase "digital garden" a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting "showpiece" and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there. While not
White America is in its feelings right now . Black folks are all too aware of this. We know it's all a lot to handle because we've been doing most of the handling thus far. After all, those of you who
This is part of our ongoing series of mini interviews (mini-views) with ministry leaders where we get a behind the scenes look into their Bible reading habits. Introduction: Jonathan is the lead pasto
Leonardo: one of the best note-takers in history Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the subject of connected thought. This is due in large part to Roam Research, a tool I’ve been u
What do hieroglyphs, flowcharts, road signs, and knowledge graphs have in common? They’re all thinking maps. Humans have been thinking in maps since the very first symbolic communication systems. Whil
Imagine being told about drawers but never seeing one. You’d be convinced that drawers would change how you keep your underwear forever. They sound simple so you attempt to make one. As you hammer awa
Last week, we looked at how to restore margin through decision making . This week, we’re going to look at restoring margin through leisure. Though a great deal of margin is lost or restored through th
In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden —to take care of your mind. The garden metaphor is particularly apt: taking care of your mind involves cultivating your
Credit... Photographs by Art Streiber The Great Read National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But — somehow, for some reason — Weird Al keeps rocking. Cred
Roam is a potent example of technology for Augmenting Human Intelligence . Similar-but-different to Artificial Intelligence , AHI tools focus on turbocharging your brain, rather than replacing it with
An ecosystem of custom-built software that zigs where legacy media zags. Tyler Denk May 13 · 12 min read L ast week, Morning Brew sent 16 newsletters to more than 2.5 million people around the world.
Last tended on May 14, 2020 With the recent rise of Roam Research , the idea of bi-directional linking is having a bit of a moment. We're all very used to the mono-directional link the World Wide Web
We often see creativity as something that happens to us. There is a thought every knowledge worker or creative has had at some point in their work life: “I don’t feel inspired.” But this idea of creat
After 20 years of long-distance competition, I ran my fastest. All it took was tech, training, and a new understanding of my life. Running is the simplest of sports: right foot, left foot, right foot.
/DREW//COFFMAN/ Smart Notes and How to Take Them Everyone is a writer. This is true even if you don’t think of yourself as one, because you’re actually writing all the time, whether it be in the form
Today, I’d like to focus on an angle that has not been explored in depth yet: how, if at all, do the artists, labels and curators in this scene sustain themselves financially? And how are they approaching their future growth and evolution, as the lo-fi hip-hop economy becomes ever more saturated and…
01 Intro One of the favorite activities of tech analysts, VCs and similar Twitter armchair experts is to predict what the next big technology platform might be. The usual suspects that come up in thes
This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series. Christ’s Tender Heart for Sinners In this episode, Dane Ortlund, author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers disc
I wish I could tell you that I have always been an environmental warrior. But my story is a more common one. I’ve always done my best to care for the environment. I cycle, walk or take public transpor
You are not crazy, my friends. Julio Vincent Gambuto Apr 10 · 9 min read Los Angeles, pollution-free. Photo: Gabriel Duarte This is the first part of a series of essays. Read Part II here. *Gaslightin
Jeff Morris Jr. Apr 13 · 4 min read In San Francisco, there is a small music venue called Rickshaw Stop in Hayes Valley. I used to go there when I was young and cool. I sometimes went to the venue on
RISE It's interesting to me that the resurrection, this ultimate and conclusive act of Jesus, is not described in the gospels. We go from his death to his return with the act of what happens 'in betwe
I live in the Seattle area (which means that I’m up against some of the least affordable childcare in the USA), and my daughter — who was blessed to be born with impeccable health and an easy-going te
Welcome to the third instalment of Mindful Makers, where we interview highly creative people and ask them what they think about creativity, productivity, and building products that matter in today’s c
For most of the week, we run around providing security and basic needs for ourselves. But Sabbath rest is about stopping to recognize that our lives and provisions ultimately come from God. And while
I’m a manager type, which means the calendar is usually full of meetings. Now, it is my goal in life to make sure that every single meeting must actively defend its right to exist, but even with that
INPUT-/>OUTPUT I have been thinking about the two types of exhaustion that Craig Mod speaks about in his talk Two Books and a Long Walk : The exhaustion of output and the exhaustion of input . These
The video gaming industry is one of the fastest growing in the world. There are now over 2.5 billion gamers worldwide, generating over $150 billion in annual revenue for gaming companies. And those nu
ROAM RESEARCH There’s a new tool that I’ve been using for the last month that I feel has single-handedly transformed my time in quarantine from what would have been a scattered mess into a period of i
Apple's new iPadOS 13.4 adds enhanced support for trackpads. And with that, a shiny new cursor. I gasped when I first saw the iPad's new cursor—a little circle, a shape-shifting blob. Because for deca
It was so easy to believe in the fairy tale. This wasn’t Tom Brady’s fault. If you paid attention, if your vision was clear and your mind was sober, you understood: Literally nothing that Brady said i
Text File Time Blocking March 16th, 2020 · 25 comments As longtime readers know, I’m a big advocate of time blocking as a productivity method. Running your day from a to-do list (or, God forbid, an em
A week or so after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks in 2001, New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani appealed to those who lived in the area to come back into New York to support the caving local economy.
Deborah Johnson Lanholm, 63, lives in Sicklerville, New Jersey. A retired nurse, she’s the primary caretaker for her older sister, Helen Palese, who lives with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Ge
A guide for Christian leaders. Andy Crouch Follow Mar 12 · 25 min read March 12, 2020 At this extraordinary moment, local leaders — people who lead groups of 10 to 1,000 people — have perhaps the grea
An app can be a home-cooked meal Have you heard about this new app called BoopSnoop? It launched in the first week of 2020, and almost immediately, it was downloaded by four people in three different
In running a completely distributed agency , I spend a signficant portion of my day on video calls. Like, most days, the majority of my day . So, if my colleagues and I have to spend a lot of time loo