I really enjoyed the notion of "Key Time Indicators" in this article. The same author also has 2024 -- a year in reading.

Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.

I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs.This isn’t true, but it’s morally true for the reference class I’m in (people who wrote a book about...

How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.

Start prepping for NaNoWriMo with the "snowflake method".

You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? It’s easy to get hung up …

Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.

🔗 See the source.

Changing one's behavior is not easy. There are some simple, universal truths. This article does a good job of walking through many of them.

Doing the best you can – with the resources you have, with the circumstances you’re in and with the mind you’ve inherited – at that moment is all you can ever do anyway.

• The 3-4-50 Framework suggesting that three behaviors contribute to 4 conditions that cause ~50 percent of deaths.
  • 3️⃣ behaviors: tobacco use, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle
  • 4️⃣ conditions: cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes
• The article references the six phases of change in the transtheoretical model of behavior change.
• The importance and impact of self-forgiveness and self-compassion are mentioned and supported in this article.

This is one of the posts that inspired me to start this site. I'm a fan of Simon's and his description of link blogging resonated with me.