§ What I Learned 2020

Personal

• COVID-19
  • Deaths per day in the US due to COVID-19 is more than twice that of WWII
  • COVID-19 is a vehicle of fantasmic projection
  • american values are incompatible with managing the epidemic
• structural racism
• substituted economics for racisom
• stress and anxiety are cumulative
• zoom fatigue
• My morning practice
• Personal note taking practice
• Reflections on writing 500 notes
• https://www.alexkehayias.com/essays/zettelkasten-setup/
• Building Noteland
• actions should be dictated by values not emotions
• emotional thermometer
• Identity is a powerful motivation for behaviors
• VO2 max
• mindfulness
• self-compassion

Projects

• Noteland
  • Initial stack for the Noteland web app
  • values and principles for developing Noteland
• Tunnelcast
• Personal note site
• Episodic narative generator
• Air quality monitor in Rust

Professional

• Moving on from Stripe Atlas
• Product
  • Product work is hard because it necessitates change
  • Product work is a pursuit of facts about the user, market, and their problems
  • https://www.alexkehayias.com/essays/problem-solving/
• Organization
  • Self-servicification
  • Building Remote Teams (2019)
  • Activities we relied on for relief from every day stress and anxiety are no longer available to us

Links to this note

• Writing Essays from a Zettelkasten Outline Is Much Faster

  When writing essays, starting from an outline of Zettelkasten notes makes it much easier and faster to write. This method separates the structure from the narrative. For example, finding notes and related ones keeps your thinking at a higher level of abstraction (atomic ideas or concepts) instead of getting bogged down in how you will word it. Once you have the outline, you are filling in the narrative that connects the ideas. This leads to faster progress compared to doing both at the same time.