Date registered: July 7, 2016
Aug 30
I’m currently reading, and listening to, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Gutenberg has multiple forms of the text, including downloads for Kindle and this HTML version. LibriVox has some audio readings. I’m using this one.
Apr 08
From a video on Twitter here. The summary follows. Here is the video you shared (it appears to be a clip from Howard H. Stevenson on “building a successful life”): 🎥 Video (for reference) Howard Stevenson – Building a Life (summary source) 🔎 Summary (concise) Howard Stevenson argues that “success” is often misunderstood and difficult …
Dec 19
Recently someone loaned me the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen (2001 and 2015). I found it useful. Here is an outline of many of major points of the book (the underlines are my own). The outline was made with the help of online summaries and AI.
Mar 23
Henbit Henbit is very common in spring (can cover large portions of farmer’s fields). It has a purpleish pink flower and leaves that mainly grow around the (often redish) stem, which is square. Leaves are deeply scalloped (no hairs). This is a winter annual. Creeping Charlie (aka Ground Ivy) Creeping Charlie has a purpleish, blue …
Aug 01
I couldn’t sleep. I turned to my iPad. On the Medium app I read an article, https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-most-important-skill-nobody-taught-you-9b162377ab77 The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You which really resonated with me. It has many good quotes, including According to Pascal, we fear the silence of existence, we dread boredom and instead choose aimless distraction, and we can’t help …
Jul 05
There is more than one way to brew green tea? This is more than one road to Rome. Dermis and feline can be divorced by manifold methods.
Mar 21
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2017/02/15/on-minimalism-the-difference-between-focused-and-busy/
Mar 19
Ostensible, Ostensive, Ostensibly, (Equiv. Ostensively) In appearance but possibly not true.
Jan 05
https://www.levo.com/posts/16-things-successful-people-do-on-monday-mornings
