Andy Wheeler
AI disclosure – this post was entirely written by myself. I know AI writing is still pretty cringey – so I get that people are quite opposed to it. For people like me though (academics promoting their work, more technical oriented) I would like to proffer a slight defense of (even cringey) AI...
Andy Wheeler
Many of the initial wave of “AI writing detectors” were quite bad. The biggest issue you need to be concerned about with an AI writing detector is false positives. If you are a professor and want to check students’ writing, it is very bad to falsely accuse a student. The Pangram product, though,...
Andy Wheeler
One of my connections mentioned in a post on LinkedIn that since he turned off Premium, his posts have been getting less engagement. Since LinkedIn offers a month for free, and I have been trying to promote my recent book, I figured I would try my free month trial and see how many more views I...
Andy Wheeler
Minor update, I have created a page, Job Advice Resources to cumulatively list all the materials I have written on advice for social scientists and crime analysts looking to pivot into private sector tech roles. I still get maybe ~2 folks a month ask for advice, and I am always happy to chat. I...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Growth is change. Progressive change. In Japanese, “Kaizen” translates to “improvement”, or “change for the better”. Kaizen as a philosophy is all about improvement. No matter where you are now, how you perform, or where to reach. Forget the perfection; Aim for progress. You...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Productivity is all about progress. Not about completing tasks —at least for me. Completing things will keep you at the same level. Progress takes you to the next. There are two types of productive people One, who wants to feel productive. Another who really wants to be...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Echo. Shout “hello”. You get back the same “hello” — multiple times. Echo Chamber is an environment (usually, a meeting room, friends group, or team you are working with) filled with people you rely on —especially in the process of decision-making. In the echo chamber, you only hear what...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
No, it is not about switching off your devices. And, It is not about handling distractions. ”All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal. (French philosopher) Have you heard of Circadian Rhythms or Ultradian Rhythms? Ultradian...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
When you move across a door from one room to another, you tend to forget things in that fraction of a second that you just had in your mind clearly just before crossing the door. The most annoying scenario that just every one of us went through many times in our life. The neuroscience study...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
I mentioned “trigger words” (or trigger points) in the previous post of this series. I want to debrief what it is and what it is meant to be despite many thinking that it is an alternative name for “keywords” or “tags”. Like the trigger words provoke psychological emotions, the trigger words...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
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Sakthitharan Subramanian
Advice and recommendations shared on the internet (blogs, Tweets, and by other means) are general or generalized ideas and often not for a specific person but for a group of people. After all, people who share productivity advice (on the internet) need readers/views/followers or for fame and...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Plan for the moment, possibly not more than a couple of hours. sporadically plan your day. Don’t get me wrong. List your tasks/set of tasks/projects for the day to work. But don’t put them in a box. Don’t plan strictly. You can never predict when the inspiration hits or when an interrupt arises. I...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
NotePlan, not a new app in the personal productivity space, but the latest iteration of it “NotePlan 3” underwent a good overhaul with [[backlink]] and ‘markdown file’ support. NotePlan, basically a note-taking app that supports tasks (Apple Reminders) and calendar (Apple Calendar) integration...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
In the Personal Knowledge Flow, Understanding is followed by reflective thinking. Why think? What to think? then, How to? Learning is a cognitive process. Cognition is the process of “judging” through perceiving. Perceiving and judging as the same process, as an interlaced mental event. It is...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
What is digital knowledge building? Is it not an intangible thing in our minds? If so, how can you manage them digitally or by taking notes, and what’s the need for it? I took numerous notes in the past, but I revisited a few to none and nothing of my knowledge is preserved or can be used in the...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
The fact is 9 out of 10 people is not typing in the proper way. There are people who can type without moving their eyes out of the screen, not searching for keys when pressing each character keys, and faster than others. Yet most of them are doing it wrong. In typewriting, you have to use all...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Procrastination, the one thing doesn’t need any introduction because everyone personally knows it. Yet, no one likes procrastination, but everyone do it (ironically they know they’re going to regret it when about to procrastinate) and then regret it. There’s thousands of different advices,...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
First, let me clarify the right meaning of the topic. It is not about knowledge management. It is personal knowledge ‘flow‘. How your mind converts the information to knowledge and the process of using the knowledge. Look the chart below, most of the concept is self explanatory. Personal...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
It’s good first to ask the right question to find the right answer. Consider life is a journey. Once you find the destination you can commence the life journey. (just breaking down the problem for better understanding). What is the highest, best, noblest destination in life? I doubt even any...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Minimalism is fundamentally a materialistic concept. A “less is more” type of philosophy focusing on minimizing your needs and requirement to lead the highly functional life. But it isn’t all about materialistic reduction or optimizing resources and saving a lot of money through it. The...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
[Edit: Nov 2020] – This method no longer works well with the new Evernote update v.10, I will write a new post if things change. Subscribe for updates and awesome new productivity & well-being notes. Evernote is a powerful note-taking app. Alfred on the other hand speedups your interactions...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
I use a very minimal number of apps and services for my productivity workflows as I also embrace minimalism and better modern digital well-being philosophies. To be honest, I am continually putting my effort to improve my productivity workflow and minimizing the apps required for that. Before...