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COVID-19

Even if you are living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard a lot about COVID-19 and its potential to be a serious pandemic. There is, it turns out, not much you can do about the threat other than taking … Continue reading

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Notion and Org Mode

Ali Abdaal, whom I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is a physician and YouTuber from Britain. He’s a geek who at least once a week uploads a video usually about medicine, tech, or studying and learning. If you’re a … Continue reading

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Building a Personal Knowledge Base

I’m a big believer in collecting and storing information: in building a personal knowledge base if you like. I do this, of course, with Org-mode but that’s not the only possibility. Sung Cho has a nice post in which he … Continue reading

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Emacs Workout

Tony Ballantyne is an Emacs-using Science Fiction writer whom I’ve written about before. Ballantyne has an interesting device to help him remember Emacs commands: the Emacs workout. The idea is to write short summaries of Emacs features that you find … Continue reading

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Notion

Ali Abdaal is a Junior Doctor (sort of like a Resident in the US) practicing in Cambridge, UK. He’s also a YouTuber producing videos on productivity, efficient study habits, tech reviews, and life as a Junior Doctor. I’ve been following … Continue reading

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Screen Real Estate

A month ago, Mike Zamansky posted that he’d just replaced his two 27 inch monitors with a new 43 inch 4K monitor. I commented that every time I saw a post like his, I had an urge to run out … Continue reading

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