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Folder: 4---Zettelkasten

373 items under this folder.

Aug 12, 2025
Social conditioning
Aug 12, 2025
Spaced repetition systems
- memory
- learning
Jun 20, 2025
Agency isn't general
- character
Jun 12, 2025
The story razor
Jun 12, 2025
Agency checks you out of poor systems
Jun 11, 2025
Sigmund Freud's steam engine
Jun 09, 2025
The danger of relying on metaphor
- sapling
Jun 09, 2025
Metaphor is pattern recognition
Jun 09, 2025
My interest in language learning
Jun 09, 2025
Etymology and Linguistics are interesting bonuses to learning a language
Jun 05, 2025
Zettelkasten helped me realize the strength of my analogous thinking
Jun 05, 2025
Digital Garden
May 31, 2025
Compulsive kindness
- relationships
May 29, 2025
Reclaiming connection in an age of isolation
- essay
May 24, 2025
The cultures of men and women
- seedling
- relationships
May 23, 2025
Ambition as a projection of future "Untaken" responsibility.
- ambition
May 23, 2025
Ambition is too tied to the culture
- culture
May 23, 2025
An alternative to college…
May 23, 2025
Analogy of lead poisoning in the 60’s to BPA’s and plastics today
May 23, 2025
Annual Year Review
May 23, 2025
Anxious generation
- modernity
May 23, 2025
Approach dating as if you could only say yes once
May 23, 2025
Arriving at the same answer ≠ the same outcome
- baby
- religion
May 23, 2025
Art vs Content
May 23, 2025
Belief Timeline
May 23, 2025
Branding is only reputation theory
May 23, 2025
Choose your regrets
May 23, 2025
College Yoga Documentary
- spirituality
- mystory
May 23, 2025
Comparison, it is said, is the thief of joy.
- revisit
May 23, 2025
Confidence
- baby
- character
May 23, 2025
Courage, only when it is too late.
May 23, 2025
Courage.
- character
- mystory
May 23, 2025
Creators headhunting list
- substack
- contentcreation
May 23, 2025
Debates aren't the best format for seeking truth
May 23, 2025
Do exceptions kill the logic?
- language
- morals
May 23, 2025
Do not start your drafts with consumption first.
May 23, 2025
Do we have too many "Creatives"?
- society
- draft
May 23, 2025
Do we love our vices?
- philosophy
May 23, 2025
Does a single wave in a hurricane get noticed?
- modernity
May 23, 2025
Don’t let your philosophy get ahead of you.
May 23, 2025
Dynamics over distillation in the macro
- thinking
- problemsolving
May 23, 2025
Earn your wisdom.
May 23, 2025
Essay structure
- writing
May 23, 2025
Event host power move
- hosting
May 23, 2025
Everyone in PD started by solving a shallow problem that led the to…
- mystory
May 23, 2025
Experience and Theory
May 23, 2025
Exposing our gaps
- freethinking
- question
May 23, 2025
Exposure to information is not learning
- baby
- learning
May 23, 2025
Faith requires Courage
May 23, 2025
Fallacy with which we rate intentions in humans.
- morals
May 23, 2025
Familiarity, Depth, and Token phrasing
May 23, 2025
Focus needs more elimination than addition
- building
May 23, 2025
Freedom is hard.
May 23, 2025
Greatest weaknesses create great strengths
May 23, 2025
Healthy relationship axioms
- relationships
- dating
May 23, 2025
Higher awareness required to get to the point of PD advice
- child
May 23, 2025
Hook Attention
May 23, 2025
Hosting Parties
- charisma
- friends
May 23, 2025
How to learn in the age of influence
May 23, 2025
Human proclivity to inject meaning
- meaning
May 23, 2025
I had terrible agency as a kid
- agency
May 23, 2025
I just thought of a metaphor image to use for understanding and circle…
May 23, 2025
I know. Me too.
- humanconnection
- humanjourney
May 23, 2025
I never make a fuss to get things fixed, I will typically just accept…
- agency
May 23, 2025
I want a relationship in which I don’t have to lie in order to keep the illusion going
- psychology
May 23, 2025
Ideas are doomed to imprecision as the context becomes distant
- thinking
May 23, 2025
If the answer isn’t simple it’s probably not the right answer
- insight
- thinking
May 23, 2025
If the victors write history
- politics
- narratives
May 23, 2025
If you don’t have new ideas you just don’t know enough of the convention…
- thinking
- knowledge
May 23, 2025
If your god can’t be wrestled with, he is too flimsy.
May 23, 2025
Initiative
May 23, 2025
InterviewPodcast Q’s
- question
- baby
May 23, 2025
Is reality just a story?
- beliefs
- religion
May 23, 2025
It is not the thought that counts.
- livin
May 23, 2025
It is safer to comment on our culture than to step into the rooseveltian arena
May 23, 2025
It’s the bad moods that make you question everything.
- stoicism
- emotion
May 23, 2025
Learned Vault 2025
May 23, 2025
Less impressed, more involved
May 23, 2025
Lightheartedness vs. Sensitivity
- psychology
- question
May 23, 2025
Meaning
May 23, 2025
Media(and creators who play the same game) is more in the business…
May 23, 2025
Memory palaces
- learning
May 23, 2025
Metrics are nice, reputation is better
- character
- contentcreation
May 23, 2025
Modern Transparency and Modern Secrets
- modernity
May 23, 2025
Moods are simply a weather effect
- stoicism
- emotion
May 23, 2025
Moroccan Arabic cheat sheet
May 23, 2025
Not all questions are equal. Hitting the tree in the forest.
May 23, 2025
Nuance to Extraversion x Introversion
- psychology
May 23, 2025
On Mastery
May 23, 2025
On multi-passionates
May 23, 2025
On the innacuracy of advice from people who wish they had your talents
- freethinking
May 23, 2025
On the misunderstood genius.
- autonomy
- character
May 23, 2025
Once a little bit better.
- draft
- contentcreation
May 23, 2025
Over-relying on Debate skills
- communication
- freethinking
May 23, 2025
Overcoming Weed
- mystory
- meditation
May 23, 2025
Part time work; Part time results
- building
- productivity
May 23, 2025
Passive vs Active optimism
May 23, 2025
Peace is not needing to argue with others in the shower.
- mystory
- assertiveness
May 23, 2025
Perfectionism is cynical
- beliefs
- philosophy
May 23, 2025
Perhaps if religious texts are all of humanities bets on trying to…
May 23, 2025
Petty criminals act out of fear and shrinking from their own values…
May 23, 2025
Phil Cousineau- The Art of Pilgrimage
- travel
May 23, 2025
Philosophy of money
- money
- philosophy
May 23, 2025
Postmodernist inability to see a multi-factorial explanation
May 23, 2025
Psychotherapy Maxims
- revisit
- psychology
May 23, 2025
Quality of life is not enjoyment of life
May 23, 2025
Quiet moments of the story
- storytelling
May 23, 2025
Relationships for ambitious people
- relationships
- dating
May 23, 2025
Religious Essay
May 23, 2025
Removing bad habits creates a void which needs to be filled.
- habits
May 23, 2025
Responsibility of the aux
- modernity
May 23, 2025
Saying No
May 23, 2025
Saying Yes
May 23, 2025
Secularism is religion without traditional tells
May 23, 2025
Seek the meaningful, not the expedient
- meaning
- philosophy
May 23, 2025
Selection of stories within the bible
- question
- research
May 23, 2025
Self-esteem in Travel
May 23, 2025
Statistics on loss of data from second-hand sources
- thinking
- psychology
May 23, 2025
Stop paying with spiritual and emotional credit
May 23, 2025
System 1
- psychology
May 23, 2025
System 2
May 23, 2025
Thank you letter
May 23, 2025
That’s where existentialism kills.
May 23, 2025
The Florida Effect
May 23, 2025
The best medium for living the life that you want is existentialism
May 23, 2025
The best way to reduce waste
May 23, 2025
The complexity of the universe within the simple
- thinking
May 23, 2025
The computer mind of meaning
- meaning
May 23, 2025
The dialogue is what’s so important for all of us.
- society
- modernity
May 23, 2025
The discerning gaze of science brings about the crushing and surgical…
May 23, 2025
The existential meaningless conclusion.
- existential
- philosophy
May 23, 2025
The gap between theory and experiments
May 23, 2025
The landscape of “Branding” on the internet between niches is a pyramid
- contentcreation
- freethinking
May 23, 2025
The moral amnesty of ignorance
- morals
May 23, 2025
The philosophy of a fairer lifetime of businesses.
May 23, 2025
The philosophy was as far as it was going to take me. I needed WORK.
- mystory
May 23, 2025
The point of sourcing different ideas about life.
May 23, 2025
The struggle in clearing out
- minimalism
- courage
May 23, 2025
The western world has a very “First half of life” approach.
May 23, 2025
The western world is a perfect business market.
- modernity
- society
May 23, 2025
Theory exists so that things can be practiced
May 23, 2025
There are no languages and dialects, there are only dialects.
May 23, 2025
There never was a safe path
May 23, 2025
Think about earliest memories.
- psychology
- psychotherapy
May 23, 2025
Time passes either way
- building
May 23, 2025
Tourist activities are crowdsourced enjoyment
- travel
May 23, 2025
University should not resemble luxury daycares
- modernity
- freethinking
May 23, 2025
Voluntary Exposure to Fears
- psychology
- psychotherapy
May 23, 2025
Want to tell story, document, live better, but don’t want to be an influencer
- contentcreation
May 23, 2025
We act like a criticism of one’s character = no need to listen.
May 23, 2025
What to do as a mentee
May 23, 2025
When fiction expresses what non-fiction can't
- writing
- storytelling
May 23, 2025
Why be virtuous if it does not serve you?
- philosophy
- stoicism
May 23, 2025
With question X or Challenge Y;
- question
May 23, 2025
Working on something will work on you more than you actually work on it
May 23, 2025
You don't need an opinion on it
May 23, 2025
You're not playing the same game as everyone else when you enter the arena
- building
- contentcreation
May 23, 2025
Your authentic self is your greatest gift to the world. Stop diluting it.
May 05, 2025
How long have you believed what you believe?
May 05, 2025
Why do you believe what you believe?
- philosophy
May 04, 2025
Serendipital gravity
May 04, 2025
The Existential Frame
- existential
May 04, 2025
The gardener and the architect
- writing
May 04, 2025
Reverse engineer your regrets
Apr 23, 2025
Moving on from Existentialism
Apr 21, 2025
The arms race of social psychology
Apr 18, 2025
The price of a good life is cheaper elsewhere
Apr 18, 2025
Creatively applying information is a higher-order of note-taking than consumption
- learning
Apr 11, 2025
The fisher's aquarium
Mar 19, 2025
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- history
Mar 15, 2025
AI Writing prompts
Mar 12, 2025
Where is the weight in the relationship?
- relationships
Mar 09, 2025
Non-fiction writing structure
Mar 09, 2025
Building brain-lore
Mar 09, 2025
Re-invent the wheel
- epistemology
Mar 07, 2025
Don't seek to become more, become less
- existential
- self-actualization
Mar 02, 2025
Just be yourself is low-resolution advice
Mar 01, 2025
Communication with guards up is pointless
- relationships
Mar 01, 2025
The conflict between writing to learn and writing to publish
- writing
Feb 27, 2025
Prospect for the appropriate people
- friends
- charisma
Feb 24, 2025
Esteem built upon "being right"
- self-esteem
Feb 24, 2025
Practice saying "I don't know"
- ignorance
Feb 23, 2025
Time billionaires
- building
- wealth
Feb 21, 2025
There won't be a "theory of everything"
Feb 21, 2025
The rules you play by are subject to who you want to become
Feb 19, 2025
Competing narratives
- relationships
- psychology
Feb 18, 2025
It's not you vs me, it's you & me vs The Problem
- relationships
Feb 16, 2025
Work within your system before you try to optimize
- building
Feb 16, 2025
Early language lessons should focus on chunks
- baby
- langaugelearning
Feb 16, 2025
Put more space between your inspiration and your own draft
Feb 13, 2025
Track your word count
- writing
- habits
Feb 13, 2025
Public zettelkasten allow for self-study within someone else's second brain
Feb 12, 2025
Fields of thought (and schools within) are conceptual mediums, thinking is the art
Feb 12, 2025
Knowledge systems should be densely-linked
- zettelkasten
Feb 12, 2025
Isolated information is less useful
- zettelkasten
Feb 12, 2025
Isolated information is not understood, thereby useless
- zettelkasten
Feb 12, 2025
Mastery is fluency within a medium
Feb 11, 2025
You can't read the label from inside the bottle
- psychology
Feb 11, 2025
Personal development is stuck at the tactical level within the greater medium
- existential
Feb 11, 2025
Learning happens in layers
- learning
Feb 11, 2025
You need lots of data to interpret who you are
- character
Feb 11, 2025
Intensity in memory
- memory
Feb 11, 2025
Energy without direction
- physics
- productivity
Feb 11, 2025
We experience the life we focus on
- psychology
Feb 10, 2025
The problem with linear learning
- learning
Feb 09, 2025
The third entity in a relationship
- relationships
Feb 07, 2025
Every version of ourselves is simultaneously possible
- identity
Feb 06, 2025
More information isn't the answer
Feb 06, 2025
The hardest part of learning a language is basic comprehension
- languagelearning
Feb 06, 2025
Atomic notes
- zettelkasten
- notetaking
Feb 06, 2025
Impulsivity
- personality
Feb 06, 2025
Most (useful) intelligence is building mental models
- models
- thinking
Feb 06, 2025
Misinterpreted-effort hypothesis
- learning
Feb 06, 2025
Note-taking isn't the same as deep-knowing
- learning
Feb 05, 2025
Prefer retention over consumption
- learning
Feb 05, 2025
High-fidelity association
- zettelkasten
- notetaking
Feb 05, 2025
Self-Acceptance vs The "development" push
- conflict
Feb 05, 2025
Being anti-tourist killed my wanderlust
- travel
- travelmeta
Feb 05, 2025
Don't just update. Iterate.
- child
- building
Feb 05, 2025
The zeigarnik effect
Feb 03, 2025
The cost of yes
Feb 03, 2025
Don't be nice, be Honest
- humanconnection
- character
Feb 03, 2025
Do not model all of your content from inspiration.
Feb 03, 2025
Beyond freedom is making a choice
Feb 02, 2025
The drowning rat study
- experiment
- study
Feb 02, 2025
The flea jar experiment
Feb 02, 2025
False metas
- gametheory
Feb 01, 2025
Priming
- psychology
Feb 01, 2025
There is no cultural vacuum
Feb 01, 2025
Culture compounds
- culture
- sociology
Jan 31, 2025
The nature of compounding
- building
- insight
Jan 30, 2025
Love what you do, and you will work harder than ever before
- productivity
Jan 29, 2025
Fundamental Attribution Error
Jan 29, 2025
Prefer associative links > indexed files
- zettelkasten
- knowledge-management
Jan 28, 2025
Knowledge systems should accrete
Jan 28, 2025
Skills can't be taught, they're only acquired
Jan 28, 2025
Make more pots if you want a perfect one
Jan 28, 2025
Discipline is a muscle
- nuance
- character
Jan 28, 2025
Life is your responsibility
- existential
- humanjourney
Jan 28, 2025
Atomic Notes should be concept-based
- zettelkasten
Jan 28, 2025
Smart is a terrible description
- character
Jan 28, 2025
Effectiveness beats efficiency in singular metrics
- productivity
Jan 28, 2025
For those who feel empty
- existential
- meaning
Jan 28, 2025
The beauty of the language barrier
- play
- language
Jan 27, 2025
Flimsy understanding
- learning
- epistemology
Jan 27, 2025
Do your own thinking
Jan 27, 2025
Understanding requires effortful engagement
Jan 26, 2025
Negative space
Jan 25, 2025
How to absorb a book
- learning
- notetaking
Jan 21, 2025
The art of synthesizing ideas
- creativity
- contentcreation
Jan 21, 2025
Learning the wrong lessons
Jan 21, 2025
The psychological load of philosophy
Jan 21, 2025
Find your Knuckleballers
Jan 21, 2025
What is the true "Most" important thing?
Jan 21, 2025
Beer friends, Wine friends, Whiskey friends
Jan 21, 2025
End goals vs. Means goals
- goals
- ambition
Jan 21, 2025
Don't ask; what are your goals? Set your standards
Jan 21, 2025
Be the architect
- beliefs
- freethinking
Jan 21, 2025
The foundation of self-esteem
- psychology
Jan 21, 2025
Interest in responsibility
- agency
- responsibility
Jan 20, 2025
General ambition
- building
- ambition
Jan 20, 2025
Social media makes more sense as an augment of what you do.
Jan 20, 2025
Can people change?
Jan 20, 2025
Reviewing 4 years of Apple Notes upon Obsidian transfer.
- writing
- mystory
Jan 20, 2025
The problem of Transfer
Jan 20, 2025
On Hypocrisy
- philosophy
- character
Jan 19, 2025
Social Contracts
Jan 19, 2025
Identity elections
Jan 19, 2025
Survival in the modern world
- modernity
- character
Jan 19, 2025
Sell them their time back
- building
Jan 19, 2025
Vengeance and the cycle of hatred
- emotion
- psychology
Jan 19, 2025
The "Safe" Path
- risk
- society
Jan 19, 2025
The strike of genius needs only a conduit.
- building
- insight
Jan 19, 2025
Lagging measures
- building
- character
Jan 18, 2025
Everything looks like a nail to one with a hammer
- models
- thinking
Jan 18, 2025
The hammer to smash every nail
- models
- thinking
Jan 18, 2025
Don’t try to boil the ocean, boil a pot instead
Jan 18, 2025
Productivity Density
- productivity
Jan 18, 2025
Don’t disagree for your partner.
Jan 18, 2025
Keep your body slave to the mind
- draft
- stoicism
Jan 18, 2025
Detachment from process kills understanding
- thinking
- theorizing
Jan 18, 2025
Wisdom is not earned through avoiding mistakes
Jan 18, 2025
Objective truth Is locked beyond human access.
- beliefs
- philosophy
Jan 18, 2025
Don't hide unwanted things in the fog
Jan 18, 2025
Co-dependency from lack of Boundaries
Jan 18, 2025
Wardrums of ambition
- ambition
- mystory
Jan 18, 2025
Tone in Storytelling & Writing
Jan 17, 2025
On Playfulness
- happiness
- dating
Jan 17, 2025
Increasing contact points
- learning
- memory
Jan 17, 2025
Better to have strong opinions, Loosely held
Jan 17, 2025
Best thing I ever did for my future was throw it away
Jan 17, 2025
Bell Hooks
- masculinity
Jan 17, 2025
Before you can create original work, you must first pay the dues
- creativity
Jan 17, 2025
Ask for help later than you first want to
- agency
Jan 17, 2025
Engineering Beliefs
Jan 17, 2025
On other's comments about you
- autonomy
- character
Jan 17, 2025
Be The One You Want
Jan 17, 2025
We Have No Other Choice
Jan 17, 2025
Tyrannical responsibility
- parenting
- agency
Jan 17, 2025
Awareness Without Understanding
- childhood
- mystory
Jan 17, 2025
Resentment Hates Sincerity
- emotion
Jan 17, 2025
2 Games of Tennis
Jan 17, 2025
Relearning the Same Things
- learning
- humanjourney
Jan 16, 2025
Iteration Over Preparation
- building
- skill
Jan 16, 2025
Advice is overrated (and action is underrated).
- character
- building
Jan 16, 2025
Urgency on Life
- character
- philosophy
Jan 16, 2025
We Are Not Our Philosophy
- philosophy
Jan 16, 2025
Lifetime Value
- marketing
Jan 16, 2025
Cast the adventure net
- travel
Jan 16, 2025
Parenting in Chzechia
Jan 16, 2025
Directionally correct
Jan 15, 2025
Consulting with the Future
Jan 15, 2025
You Must Find the Truth for Yourself
Jan 14, 2025
Deconstruct into Sub-Skills
- skill
- learning
Jan 14, 2025
Self-Help Theory is based on a Gap
- self-help
Jan 14, 2025
Aim for an Ideal. Do Not Abandon Ideals For Lack of Capability.
Jan 14, 2025
On Journaling
- child
- mystory
Jan 14, 2025
Antaeus and The Disconnection From Gaia
Jan 14, 2025
Pareto's Principle
Jan 12, 2025
Prioritization
- productivity
- building
Jan 12, 2025
Better to Be a Warrior in a Garden, Than a Gardener In a War.
Jan 12, 2025
Prioritization Over Efficiency
- productivity
- building
Jan 10, 2025
Skills acquired once -> Lifetime application
Jan 09, 2025
Turn decision into principal
Jan 09, 2025
Plowing Traction
Jan 09, 2025
Build tools ground up
Jan 09, 2025
Society batters your self-confidence
Jan 09, 2025
Holding Multiplicity (Both are True)
Jan 09, 2025
Hedonic Adaptation
Jan 09, 2025
Philosophy's role in my life
Jan 09, 2025
What is the purpose of state as a human?
Jan 09, 2025
The Second Start
Jan 09, 2025
Intellectual obesity
Jan 09, 2025
Nutrient density
- needsource
- nutrition
Jan 09, 2025
SUBSTACK
Jan 09, 2025
Religion and particularly “blind faith” didn’t work on me because…
Jan 09, 2025
Bias, Belief, and the lense of Temperament
Jan 09, 2025
The point of religion and loose draw of conclusions
Jan 09, 2025
Religion’s use of Consequences
Jan 09, 2025
Reading list to flesh out my own essay from the Condo
Jan 09, 2025
On re-opening conversation topics
Jan 09, 2025
The Bonfire of Dreams
- metaphor
- ambition
Jan 09, 2025
Good enough plateau
Jan 09, 2025
Early weakness can often be the best strength later
- learning
- skill
Jan 09, 2025
The problem of learning lessons distilled from others
Jan 09, 2025
On Rituals and Their Spiritual Lessons
Jan 09, 2025
On Political Narrative
Jan 08, 2025
On Decision-Making
Jan 08, 2025
Judging skill with emotions too early
- child
- skill
Jan 08, 2025
Pareto's Principal applied to circles of competence.
Jan 08, 2025
A critique of permission
- agency
- autonomy
Jan 08, 2025
The personal is universal
Jan 08, 2025
Insight requires context
Jan 08, 2025
The Optimizer's stopping point
Jan 08, 2025
Meta-Lesson Osmosis
- learning
Jan 07, 2025
Identity diversification
Jan 07, 2025
On Solo Travel
- travel
- travelmeta
Jan 07, 2025
The most important question probably isn't the “deepest” one
Jan 06, 2025
Armchairing
Jan 06, 2025
Boundaries
- child
- character
Jan 06, 2025
Accountability
- character
Jan 06, 2025
What does it mean to be a YouTuber before we even had the word influencer
Jan 06, 2025
So, I don't really care about money.
- baby
- money
Jan 06, 2025
Awe
- baby
- emotion
Jan 05, 2025
The same level of thinking that caused the problem wont solve the problem.
Jan 05, 2025
On Brevity
Jan 05, 2025
The Feynman Technique Atomic
- learning
Jan 05, 2025
The Feynman Technique
- learning
Jan 05, 2025
Cutting through Propaganda
- child
- thinking
Jan 05, 2025
Systems are the environment of production
- child
- productivity
Aug 07, 2023
Life is a series of gambles. Bet on me.
- risk
- character
Jul 09, 2023
As a child I had no emotional attachment to myself because I had no story.
Jul 30, 2022
What questions do I want answered in Iceland

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