Tag: Productivity and Habits
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Dvorak Keyboard, my Experience
I’ve used Dvorak for a long time and I’m happy with it. I don’t recommend switching unless you experience pain from typing, or you really want to optimize your typing skill for some reason. If you do switch, switch to Colemak, which is like Dvorak but more similar to Qwerty and easier to learn. This…
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Pascal’s Mugging
Google tells you that it is “a psychological bias where people to prioritize immediate rewards and satisfaction over future rewards”. In fact, this is only half right. Hyperbolic discounting also causes people to overvalue distant rewards in addition to overvaluing near-term rewards!
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Maximizing Goals and Satisfaction Goals
Like most people, I have goals that pull me in multiple directions. I have life goals, professional goals, and goals relating to other people. I use the GTD system, which encourages me to write down a list of all the projects that I’m working on. When I write that list down, it feels overwhelming! There…
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My Experience with Notion and a Personal Wiki
I don’t blog very much, but I often journal for myself. I think journaling has a reputation for being about personal feelings and the happenings of the day, and I do a lot of that sort of writing. But I find that much of what I write is more a reflection of what I’m reading.…
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How I Learned to Wake Up on Time
I’m not naturally a morning person. When I was younger, I struggled to get out of bed every morning. But now, I get up early and on time almost every day. Here are some things that worked for me: I hope these work for you, too.
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Willpower
What is willpower? Why does it feel limited? Why do some people seem to have more of it? The answer, I think, is that much of our behavior is driven by reward seeking decisions calculated deep within the brain. The reward driven part of our mind is integral to action taking, where actions are defined…