The Philosophy of Food

Principles

Always cook your own food.
Buy meat that’s plain; you don’t know what has gone in the rub.
Increase Protein % Reduce Carbohydrate frequency

Initial thoughts on note taking

Thoughts on the hows of note taking

• Notes have to be generative
  This has been practically very difficult for me, the idea being listen to the conversation, comprehend it, and generate the ideas in your own words. What is challenging is often its hard for me to understand what is being said. The general consensus is this is a lack of paying attention and a lack of depth on previous topics. Will write thoughts on how to address that.

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Effective Learning: Recall on types of thinking and memory & chunking

Types of thinking

There are two kinds of thinking, one of extreme concentration, where the brain focusses on a subject and tries to solve a puzzle.
There is also another kind of thinking, one which is diffused and is more at a wider grander scope and view.

Both these types of thinking has their merit and their place in learning things.

Ideas and thoughts can be understood as patterns of neural paths that represent it. There are millions of billions of neural synapses that can interconnect with each other to represent an idea or a thought.

Leadership Tools

ref:https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-more-senior-your-job-title-the-more-you-need-to-keep-a-journal

As part of the above article, there were nuggets of wisdom and leadership and management tools that were referenced by Dan Ciampa

1. High pace causes more failures
2. Leaders are often scrutinised more
3. Expectations from leaders and often unrealistically high
4. Leaders cannot always avoid all of the above, but can and should manage the above.
5. Brain storming can provide rich results if after intense concentration, there is a break after which more ideas are thought about.

Journaling helps slow down and reflect, thus help learning

ref:https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-more-senior-your-job-title-the-more-you-need-to-keep-a-journal

All of humanity’s problems come from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone - Blaise Pascal

This article makes a case for slowing down, thinking and interacting with thoughts to help learn and make better decisions. It further proposes journaling as a tool to help with this reflection. Talks about what aspects are best noted in said journal and what would best help with interrogating with these notes in the future. It is recommended that the journal be handwritten on paper - it is implied that engages more of the brain. I however think the benefit of portability, the benefit of automated feedback and the ability to share and search make me want my journals in electronic form. Maybe in the future I might write on paper when I am my own manager.

Deep Work : Work Deeply

Notes from Deep Work, Rules section on Work Deeply
work in progress

tl;dr:

• Working deeply needs concentration
• Concentration is affected by distraction and desires
• Will power can force concentration by fighting distraction and desires
• However Will power is finite and should be imagined as a muscle that tires
• There are broad strategies that can be taken to reduce the will power needed to move to deep work state

Prerequisite

Deep work patterns can be of different types. Based on your situation, your needs and abilities one of the following should be adopted.

99 Oops - Notes

Notes from 99 Bottles OOPs

Notes on Design Thinking

101 on design thinking, methods, tools and approaches

10 things I figured about NZ as a 2 year immigrant

moving into nz and trying to understand what make you fit in

True Story : On how Asus.com helps laptop thiefs stay free after they rob.

Asus actively prevent their laptops recovery from thefts