Dino’s Journal 📖

avoidinginformationoverload

Headspace — great read on cleaning up your digital clutter and optimizing your sources of information.

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

#InterestingReads #BulletJournal


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.

#Blogging


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

#Quotes #Spirituality

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Today I decided to prune the items on my to-read list. It was getting unwieldy. I hoped to reduce the number of items in there every week. Instead, it kept on growing and growing and growing.

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?
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