Mark Koester

“The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated. Without external aids, deep, sustained reasoning is difficult.” Don Norman, professor and author of The Design of Everyday Things

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What can one learn from a year in data? What lessons and observations can be drawn from tracking a life?

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Measuring a Life, Understanding Progress, and Checking Your Status Towards a Goal

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I’m striving to be more conscious about what I read, how I learn from books and articles, and how I apply those lessons to my life, my work and my projects. So, in the spirit of that, I’m continuing a...

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One of the most useful and interesting things I learned in the last year was not so much a specific subject or skill but a meta-skill. I learned how to learn.

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14,147. That’s the number of notes I had in Evernote.

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