My reading list is quite extensive, 600+ articles, some of them will not be read. Ever. Some are not even articles, more like apps or services that I want to try. And others are very interesting but very long articles that I want to read/listen.
To read the latter kind of articles I use Elevenreader, from Elevenlabs, which turns text into speech in a very smooth, convincing and nice way. This app has allowed me to listen to 40 pages long articles in 90 minutes while walking Pancho.
I highly recommend it, you can choose the voice (even Richard Feynman if you like), the speed... it's very good.
These are the people on which I have surely read or listened a bio about, and surely read their wikipedia page.
Stephen Hawking: great achievements despite limitations Winston S. Churchill: Great orator, nobel prize winner, great leader Alan Turing: Code breaking Richard Dawkins: scientific "evangelism" ;) Elon Musk: though less and less Richard Feynman: Nobel prize, drawing, bongo playing, lock-picking Isaac Newton: Calculus, Laws of motion, 3-body problem, philosopher's stone (?) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol Napoleon: Great leader and strategist Marie Curie: 2 Nobel prizes in 2 different subjects Carl Sagan: great scientist, great writer David Hume: great philosopher, great scotsman Adam Smith: great economist, great scotsman Benjamin Franklin: very proactive, renaissance man
Both podcasts, synthesize books on real or fictional characters, to find the hows and whys people became great.
This led me to think about why I read biographies (mainly audiobook format), such as Teddy Roosevelt's, Churchill's, Napoleon's, Hawkings's, Feynman's, Von Neumann's and Gordon Brown's...
I concluded that I look for alternatives that have not crossed my mind and special ingredients that these people may have that took them to a higher level in history.
We are all made of the same stuff, we all have the same 24 hours/day and roughly the same 30000 days/life, though some people achieve greatness, as per historical standards, and others just whiz by without a trace...
Please listen to these podcasts, I am currently listening to the Paul Atreides episode which is very interesting.
I recently read a post by Mandy Brown about a best practice that she incorporated into her routine.
She calls it bookending, as in the bookends that open and close the content of a book.
It is an SOP that defines a beginning and an end to the work day. It consists of the following steps:
At the beginning of your work day, start with a blank sheet of paper or notebook and visualise what the day will look like, before getting into the busyness of emails and notifications.
At the end of the day, close all the apps, shut down the computer, and review the day.
These simple steps limit and define your workday, especially relevant in a remote work environment.
This concept is something I've seen multiple times, though have not yet fully implemented it.
A person is very much like a computer, with a hardware (i.e: body) and a software (i.e: mind).
We can upgrade our hardware by eating better, being active and even and getting prosthetics to improving our abilities. We can also upgrade and improve our software, to achieve this we can keep on learning, adding facts and some could say meditate.
This comparison has led me to believe that sometimes, when things aren’t going as well as they should, a computer must be rebooted. And the same may be true with ourselves, when thing aren’t going great it’s possible that we need to undergo a rebooting process to start fresh.
Nothing too harsh. Just take a few days off, rethink how we do things, evaluate our systems and basically find better ways to go forward.
In the widest sense of the word, a website is a set of words and images placed together in order to share through internet an idea or message from one computer to another.
Simply put, a web site is an assembly of web pages, made of code, broken in one computer, sent in it’s smaller pieces (packets) to another computer, that reads the code, translates it, and
Reassembles it. A web page only requires text to be a full working website, if we would like to structure it, we can shape the text using html, if we would like to make ot prettier we can use CSS and we could use Javascript to make it dynamic.
To find a website we use domains (actually subdomains) or IP address, ie the name of a website. In addition we have to have a place to host the content (texts, images, files) of our website that must be connected to the internet at all times so that anyone can access at any time, this is the server or hosting service. The tool that reconstructs the information packages of your website is the browser (chrome, opera, firefox ...)
