Writer, Product Designer, and Software Engineer
The reported benefits of meditation are quite impressive: better physical health and happiness, less stress and anxiety, and even improved mental health and cognitive functions.
I leverage science, goals and goal-setting in a number a ways. But recently, I started something new. I started “scoring” them. This has proven a good way to periodically check my efforts over time and my organization in reaching the...
Meditation is one of the most touted habits we are all supposed to do these days. Meditation and mindfulness are lauded for a range of associated benefits from physical and mental health to cognitive improvements and beyond. It’s believed to...
There is a lot of excitement around how technology can be applied to improve our health. It seems like every day there is some new technology, wearable, pill, test, service or app aiming to track, monitoring, improve or cure us...
With so many quantified self tools and ways to track a life, it can be a bit confusing. A mind map can help.
When it comes to goals, we commonly conflate several different actions and phenomonon under this singular term of “goal.” But this one term hides an important range of dimensions and actions we undertake when we think about and endevour to...
How to Track, Analyze and Understand A Life in Writing
“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
What can one learn from a year in data? What lessons and observations can be drawn from tracking a life?
Measuring a Life, Understanding Progress, and Checking Your Status Towards a Goal
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...
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.
14,147. That’s the number of notes I had in Evernote.