How I use my Bullet Journal — a great practical guide to using a bullet journal.

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An idea: instead of just keeping old blog posts lying around, why not print them and turn them into a self published book? Then you can store them in a bookshelf at home.

This idea was somewhat inspired by this post by Kin Lane.

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God never gives you a dream that matches your budget. He's not checking your bank account, he's checking your faith. ~ Mark Walhberg

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Selective Ignorance is when you pick and choose what you want to focus on or what you want to learn, instead of taking in everything that's available out there. You want to consider doing this, because we don't have time to learn everything. So, you have to be selective. It is as Ness says, a form of intentional knowledge.

Source: Selective ignorance: cultivating intentional knowledge in a chaotic world

^ This is also a great way to help avoid information overload.

#AvoidingInformationOverload #DigitalMinimalism

One of the best things I've learned a few years ago: I don’t need to have an opinion on everything. There are things that are beyond my control and it’s pointless to wallow in them. Having an opinion on everything is like paying attention to something that didn’t ask for your attention.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRFQkXanEd5/?utmmedium=copylink

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https://john.do/today/ — seems to be was good advice for starting/restarting a blog. Unfortunately navigating to that page seems to elicit some warnings on the browser, so browse at your own risk.

Anyway, my takeaway from this was: Writing is all about putting down your imperfect thoughts and ideas into paper. This allows you to reflect on your thoughts and ideas, and then go from there.

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Prior to the purge that happened today, I had over 140 items in that list. I was like, “Enough is enough.” There's no way I could have read through all those links, plus read my books, while I kept adding more items every week or so. I needed a better way to manage the items going into my to-read list. I also needed a better way to determine if an item deserved to stay in my to-read list.

So today, I decided to come up with some criteria to determine when to add items to my to-read list, as well as when to remove items off my to-read list. The criteria are based off this excellent read from Nat Eliason — most of which I've already extracted and listed in here. These then are the questions I came up with, that would serve as filters for my to-read list going forward:

• Does this fall into a category I'm interested in?
• Does this answer a question that's already been answered?
• Does this answer a question I have right now?
• Is this going to help with something I'm working on now or in the near future?
• Does this help grow my philosophical knowledge or does it entertain me?

When I applied the questions listed above, to each item in my to-read list, I went from having 140+ items in there, to just 31 items. That's a good chunk of items that got filtered out.

Now to be clear, I didn't simply delete all the other items on the list. There were a lot that I wanted to keep, but based on my answers to the questions listed above, these were of low priority to me or barely passed those filters. So, those items I moved into a Reading List Backlog. In the unlikely event that I run out of items to read in my to-read list, I will start pulling items from my backlog.

Yeah, yeah, I know, it's another list to maintain. But hold on, this new list has a specific rule: The only items that can be added to it, are items that are already in my to-read list. That should keep it from turning into another unwieldy list in the future. Also, I can apply the same set of questions to each item in my backlog, to permanently delete links I will most likely never get to. And like I said above, it is unlikely that I'll ever run out of items in my to-read list. So I'm not too worried about this backlog taking up my time.

So, there you go. A set of questions that serves as a criteria for managing my to-read list. Just sharing this in case it might be of help to someone else. Thanks for reading and peace be with you all.

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