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July 15, 2019

Scoring Your Weekly Goals

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...

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July 10, 2019

What am I meditating for? In Pursuit of A Definition of Meditation

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...

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June 28, 2019

Data-Driven Health: Are you tracking a health indicator or healthy habit?

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...

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June 20, 2019

Quantified Self and Self-Tracking Mind Map: Conceptualizing Tracking and Other Data-Driven Tech

With so many quantified self tools and ways to track a life, it can be a bit confusing. A mind map can help.

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March 19, 2019

Goal Tracker for AirTable: A Flexible Tool for Goal Pursuit Tracking and Management

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March 8, 2019

Science of Goals: Goals as a Multi-Stage Pursuit

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...

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February 28, 2019

Tracking Your Writings and Note-Taking

How to Track, Analyze and Understand A Life in Writing

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February 14, 2019

The Plain Text Life: Note Taking, Writing and Life Organization Using Plain Text Files

“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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January 8, 2019

A Year in Data: 2018

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

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January 3, 2019

What should you be tracking in 2019?

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

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January 1, 2019

My Year in Book Reading: 2018

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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December 26, 2018

Learning to Learn: On the Science of Memory and Effective Learning

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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December 11, 2018

Post-Evernote: How to Migrate Your Evernote Notes, Images and Tags into Plain Text Markdown

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

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November 26, 2018

The Power of Systematic Notes: A Book Review of How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

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November 21, 2018

Towards A Science of Goals: Goal Setting as a Key Influence on Performance

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October 4, 2018

How to Create a Time Tracking Dashboard using RescueTime, IFTTT and Google Sheets

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June 25, 2018

How to Export, Parse and Explore Your Apple Health Data with Python

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June 8, 2018

Why People Self-Track: Research on the Motivations Behind the Quantified Self and Self-Trackers

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May 16, 2018

How to Track Your YouTube Watching (And Understand It)

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April 20, 2018

How I Write (2018): My Favorite Tools and Apps for Writing

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