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Edition 89 of my newsletter, discussing Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and more!

Sebastien Dubois

19 Oct 2022 — 8 min read

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Welcome to the 89th edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

I’ve had a really stressful week (yes, one more :o). I have good hopes to be past the stressful times by the end of the year, but as the weeks pass, I realize that I may be over-optimistic about that.

I also feel a massive lack of energy. I feel depleted. I’ve lost a lot of momentum on social networks and find it hard to resume sharing and engaging, which has ripple effects on the rest of what I do.

My main goal, for now, remains to fix the issues I’ve been battling for months because those prevent me from really putting my energy into my projects. My head is clearly elsewhere, and at the end of the day, I can’t find the energy to work on side projects anymore. Bummer!

So it’s an energy crisis, just like Europe is facing right now. A different kind of crisis, but still a crisis. Europe is filling the tanks as much as possible and preparing for the Winter to come. And on my end I’m trying to waste as little energy as I can on things that don’t deserve it. But just like Nord Stream, there are energy leaks, and I can only try to cope with those.

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Quotes of the week

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Book of the week

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

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Thinking and learning links of the week

Obsidian 1.0, the all-new Obsidian.

Obsidian 1.0 has been released, and it contains awesome improvements.

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🌲The Konik Method for Making Useful Notes

How to make notes for reference, not self-improvement: A practical guide to messy notes meant to be used, not admired.

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1/7 The definitive "RUNNING" list of learning material for @tana_inc

Since Tana is so new and there is a budding list of new learning content, I started this thread as way of capturing online Tana learning material.

Feel free to add if you find something else not on my list.
— TfT Hacker - Exploring Tools for Thought and PKM (@TfTHacker) October 3, 2022

My Notetaking Workflow and How I Get Notes Into Obsidian | by Jeffrey V Sibley | Sep, 2022 | Better Humans

This article focuses on a notetaking workflow utilizing Obsidian and demonstrates how to get notes taken from other sources into Obsidian. It also discusses the folder structure and how to utilize tags to enhance search functionality.

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1/11🧵 Does Tana replace Obsidian? = No.
Does Tana replace Logseq? = Maybe.
Does Tana replace Roam? = Yes.
Does Tana replace Notion? = Definitely.@tana_inc vs @obsdmd vs @logseq vs @RoamResearch vs @NotionHQ
🧵👇🧵
— Santi Younger (@SantiYounger) October 11, 2022

PKM Weekly Oct 9 2022 – Issue 039 – Curtis McHale

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Tech links of the week

How AI Image Generators Work (Stable Diffusion / Dall-E) - Computerphile

AI image generators are massive, but how are they creating such interesting images? Dr Mike Pound explains what’s going on. Thumbnail image partly created by…

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GitHub - leeoniya/uFuzzy: A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck

A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn’t suck. Contribute to leeoniya/uFuzzy development by creating an account on GitHub.

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GitHub - devcontainers/spec: Development Containers: Use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment.

Development Containers: Use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment. - GitHub - devcontainers/spec: Development Containers: Use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment.

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Development Container Specification

The purpose of the development container specification is to provide a way to enrich containers with the content and metadata necessary to enable development…

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GitHub - fosslife/devtools-x: Collection of offline first developer utilities available as desktop application. all in one place, cross-platform!

Collection of offline first developer utilities available as desktop application. all in one place, cross-platform! - GitHub - fosslife/devtools-x: Collection of offline first developer utilities available as desktop application. all in one place, cross-platform!

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JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers | TechRadar

CircleCI study finds JavaScript losing favor when it comes to the top programming languages.

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Speaking of languages, it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required. For the sake of security and reliability. the industry should declare those languages as deprecated.
— Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) September 19, 2022

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

How and why I built Japan Dev | Japan Dev

Japan Dev started as a list of companies I wanted to work for back in 2014. Here’s the story of how that idea morphed into a job board showcasing hundreds of Japan’s best tech companies.

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Stringing together several free tiers to host an application with zero cost using fly.io, Litestream and Cloudflare :: blog.dahl.dev

The image was generated by putting the blog post title into DALL-E 2. Quite fitting! I have a side project called bostadsbussen. It scrapes property listings for the Swedish real estate market. The site needs to persist data in the form of user accounts, property data and images. At the time of writing this post I am currently on a sabbatical. With my income at 0, I want to keep the cost of hosting my side project as low as possible.

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Surviving solopreneurship — an interview with Justin Welsh ($135K/mo)

Making $135,000 per month is pretty impressive for any business… let alone a solopreneur. I caught up with Justin Welsh to see how the heck he does it….

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You can add $13 000 in revenue in 1 week.

The best part?

You can do it without even touching your product.

Steal my pricing tactics that have brought easy sales for 50 startups: pic.twitter.com/KzPHg2RFgJ
— Denis Shatalin (@Denis__Shatalin) September 20, 2022

31 simple sentences that'll teach you more about sales than a $4,995 course:
— Ronen Hayempour (@RonenHayempour) September 20, 2022

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