49 posts tagged: Personal growth
2025 year in review
2025 was a year of unexpected gifts.
Building a cyberbrain
A living document on AI tools, productivity, and learning systems.
How to think outside your brain
Set your brain free to connect while your notes handle the storage.
Discipline-free systems beat forced productivity
Design workflows that make discipline optional.
Three note types that transform thinking
Build a note reservoir so blank pages disappear.
Never start writing from scratch again
If you're staring at a blank page, you've already made a mistake. You started too late.
Your note-taking system is sabotaging your creativity
Your carefully curated collection is killing your creativity instead of feeding it.
How habits shape your life
Your habits are silently shaping your future.
Typography and Library
Expanding my digital garden with Typography notes and Library reflections.
Meaningful work
Mindfulness in choosing work that matters.
Perfect is the enemy of done
Making peace with 80% being good enough.
Rekindling your natural self-confidence
Discover and nurture your innate self-confidence.
Finding your ikigai
What is ikigai and how do you go about finding your ikigai?
Inspiring quotes from Japanese drama Beach Boys
Life lessons worth sharing.
How Japanese drama Beach Boys changed my life completely
The Japanese drama Beach Boys changed my life completely.
8 unproductive habits
Identify and address our unproductive habits.
Mindful wander
Understanding the world without distorted lens.
Secret of success
The secret of success is to do things that others dislike.
On fear
Fear is our instinctive reaction to protect us from harm.
Liberty of time
Time is a unique currency.
Useful writing
We're taught to be persuasive when we write, but is that useful?
How to read
Consuming information doesn’t mean you're learning.
Illusion of transparency
The gap between what we experience and what others think we are.
On silence
People often don’t say what they think.