DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #12

Edition Links #12 of my newsletter, discussing Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and more!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #12

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Personal development, PKM & learning

Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Typing might be faster, but longhand stays with you better.
Transfer of learning: The necessary step to make learning stick
Without an understanding of the factors that affect transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is tough to bridge.
How Trauma Changes the Brain - Neuroscience News
Researchers discover changes to the brain’s salience network occur when a person experiences trauma.
Procrastination: the cognitive biases that enable it – and why it’s sometimes useful
Procrastination is linked to a preference for the status quo.
PKM Weekly Dec 4 2022 – Issue 047 – Curtis McHale
3 rules to express your thoughts so that everyone will understand you
It can be challenging to express your thoughts clearly. Alan Alda recommends three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

Farewell, Building in Public
The end of an era of radical transparency.
10 business principles that generated us $32 000 in 6 months
MakerBox journey in 10 lessons. 1) Better done than perfect Our landing pages are not masterpieces. We could spend months running interviews and changin...
What I learned in 10 years, as an entrepreneur | Hacker News
Is Your Business Idea Worth Pursuing? Here’s How to Tell.
Ask yourself these questions to decide if your business idea is worth acting on.
Strategy vs tactics for marketing - what’s the difference?
Learn the difference between strategy vs tactics by looking at the characteristics of marketing strategy, which distinguish it from tactics.

Tech

Announcing SvelteKit 1.0
Web development, streamlined
Increase Your Productivity With Espanso
Type faster with this awesome cross-platform text expander
Unique Identifiers Based on Timestamps in Distributed Applications - Chronicle Software
At Chronicle we build applications that must process very high numbers of events with minimum latency. Generating unique IDs for these events using the traditional method of UUIDs introduces an unacceptable time overhead into our applications, so an alternative approach is needed. I recently wrote a…
Multi-factor Authentication via Row Level Security Enforcement
MFA Auth with enforcement via RLS
How type influences readability – Fonts Knowledge - Google Fonts
Reading is what we do, and readability refers to qualities of a text that make reading easier. This includes content decisions, or format decisions, which help a reader to easily engage with and comprehend the message intended by the author.
Lago Blog - Being startup employee number one
Joining a startup at launch can be lonely, it can be challenging — and it can be a route to riches.