How do you make time for writing articles or newsletters such as this? How do you show up for that time? Does it take away from anything else (that you notice)?
The main trick I have, other than just being very fast at reading and typing, is that I try to write articles that ultimately save me time, because they are on topics that I talk about a lot with a bunch of different people, so writing out the article means I can direct people to the article instead of saying the same things over and over, hehe.
It doesn't really take away much from anything else, because I pull the time from when I might otherwise be playing a game or scrolling social media, or when I need to context switch from something else I'm hitting a wall on with work. And my family would rather I write the article than rant at him about stuff *he* doesn't care about as much as I do, so I have the cleared mental space for other things during dinner and our evening walks.
I use Readwise Reader to keep track of stuff I need to read or watch -- disclaimer, I work for them, but I was a user first. Alternatives include Matter, Omnivore, and some other options, but mostly I have a tagging scheme in Reader for things "toShare" or "articleSeed" that go into an "action items" system and "writing fodder" that resurfaces relevant things when I'm more likely to have time to write.
My new favorite plugin is an old favorite that's gotten some love lately -- QuickAdd has been the singlemost critical plugin for saving me time, and I'm really excited about the new updates to integrate with LLMs!
Dec 6, 2023·edited Dec 6, 2023Liked by Eleanor Konik
Bonjour Eleonor, I teach industrial design at the college level and I use Obsidian with my students. Even though they study in a fairly technical field they often struggle with its interface and all the bits one has to remember. I would like to know your opinion about what the Obsidian team could do to UNgeek its interface and make it more palatable for the average non techno user especialy in an educational setting. Many thanks,
I would love to see the Obsidian team put together some "sample vaults" for different use-cases to help people have less of a "blank page" starting location.
I don't listen to many podcasts -- I read super fast and earbuds hurt my ears -- but this one is fascinating tech history: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/
Any suggestions for ways to collaborate on long form (novel length) content? Was discussing this with an author for whom I’m reviewing and proofreading a draft. Track Changes in Word (which appears to be the industry standard) is fine, although Word and Google Docs get a bit unwieldy after several hundred pages. There’s lots of good tools for writing, from Scrivener to Obsidian Longform, but we haven’t found anything good for reviewing - the current approach is to make notes on the Kindle app on my phone and then export them.
There are some good version control apps intended for writers. Git is probably overkill, but Drawers for mac is probably good, or Almanac in the browser.
Thanks Eleanor , will look into those (and happy birthday, since I forgot to say at the time!).
I did think about Git. I use it for Obsidian myself. I think (unless I'm missing some aspect of it) that it mostly works by line number so isn't great for longform where sometimes you only add a comma or a comment etc.
I feel like Draftin.com was based on version control model but that was discontinued a while ago.
Happy Birthday! I'm curious whether you saw any big changes when you returned to this community? In terms of where the momentum or the "action" seems to be. Anything change noticeably while you were focused on parenthood?
AI has gotten so big, and there don't seem to be as many revolutionary / mindblowing workflows as things stabilize. There are also so many more automated tools to help keep pu than there used to be, and the Obsidian team has definitely started doing way more PR.
I'm currently keeping several very different sets of notes in different places - blog ideas in one place, todo lists in another, books to read in a third, and random links in a fourth (actually, several places, but.) Do you keep different non-overlapping non-intermixed sets of notes like this? Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve this?
I think non-overlapping non-intermixed notes is fine as long as you can keep track of it. I have household tasking on my fridge, grocery lists in Google Keep, an agenda book, a google calendar, a system of snoozing action item emails, notion files, obsidian notes, slack reminders......
Happy Birthday Eleanor, I am going to be greedy and ask 2 questions (but overlapping).
I am a fellow productivity and Obsidian obsessive. . And as a newly married man, kids are on the horizon. I am curious to know 2 different aspects of becoming a parent.
1. From the productivity side of things, how did you (are you) plan and handle having way less time, and i imagine very fragmented amount of time? How do you still be productive in work or in your personal productivity?
2. Less productivity focused, but more parenthood knowledge focused. Do you recommend any good blogs or books on preparing for being a good parent (from all aspects). I’m most of the way through ‘Expecting Better’ by Emily Oster who is an economist and breaks down a lot of common myths and parenthood topics by reference the actual scientific research. It’s fantastic, and so any recommendations like this would be cool!
Thank you for your awesome newsletter and writings! All the best!
Obsidian was how I managed fragmented time, after my first kid I started needing to leave myself notes in a way I hadn't ever needed before because previously I would just sit down and do it. I also had to take a hard look at my priorities and realize I was not gonna be finishing my novel anytime soon, so switched to writing short stories instead. That said, I'm actually more productive than I used to be. You know that old saying about how "if you need something done, ask a busy person" -- it's like that. I spend less time in bed avoiding getting up, I switch between tasks faster because I know I have a limited amount of time, there's just more urgency so I focus better. I don't ever get a 6 hour block of time to work on something, so I never spend enough time on a task to hit diminishing returns lol.
Expecting Better was very good, and if you haven't found her substack newsletter yet (ParentData), it's very handy. The other incredibly helpful parenting book I had was "Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right" by Jamie Glowacki -- it's very blunt and to the point, and every kid is different but the advice worked for me very well. A lot of it was applicable beyond potty training, and became relevant way before we actually initiated potty training.
Wishing you a very happy birthday Eleanor! I hope you have an amazing day and an awesome year ahead, full of good health, happiness, personal/spiritual growth and success.
Today is my son's, my best friend's daughter's, and my father-in-law's birthday. But since you didn't specify statistics, I won't ask about the odds.
I'm relatively new here, since I don't know if you answered this elsewhere. Do you keep a journal? Paper or electronic? I keep switching back and forth and Obsidian was the closest to working out for me, but may have finally settled on paper. I'm curious to hear your thoughts, though.
Hah! My husband's birthday was last week and my mother-in-law's was Saturday, so I feel you on the clustering.
I have a paper journal and a paper agenda book, both disbound so I can easily move pages around -- they're what I use for to do lists, raw ideation, etc. I use Obsidian mostly for notes that make sense for being electronic, i.e. things I want to be easily searched, so mostly notes from books (I highlight / annotate) -- I wrote up a whole thing about my system last year before I switched to substack, if you're curious about how I use Obsidian: https://www.eleanorkonik.com/the-konik-method-for-making-notes/
I use Notion for notes I want to share with my husband, like medicine logs, goals for our retirement house, databases for enrichment activities for our kids, etc.
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions.
I wondered whether anything has changed with how you take and manage your notes in Obsidian since you took time off while having your daughter. I'm sure that changed everything else in your life, and I'm curious how it changed your notes.
This is definitely a big topic I've been meaning to tackle as a proper article, but the main difference is that I use Notion a lot more for notes I share with my husband, like medicine logs, databases of ideas for enrichment activities for our kids. Trying to just share plain text things got to be untenable, but it's mostly replacing google suite for us.
I also use paper things more because I spend less time at my computer and with my device, so I've gotten into discbound notebooks for my evening wind-down reflection journals and task lists (I don't want my kids to see me on my phone/computer constantly, and I'm trying to model handwriting more, and I'm in the kitchen more so having notes scrawled on my fridge are more likely to be seen than on my computer). I've had a ton of success applying the principles I've learned from personal knowledge management to the paper flow.
I use Obsidian more for *using my notes* than making them, right now, (although I still make annotation style notes in Readwise Reader that go into Obsidian to be indexed) -- and I'm very grateful to past me for having such detailed and well organized notes and half-completed articles, so I can pick back up smoothly stuff I was working on before I got wiped out by the pregnancy. So the big change I guess is that Obsidian isn't my "everything" program, I've narrowed my scope in terms of how I use it, because I'm just in front of a computer so much less often right now than I used to be.
Like you, I have developed a multi-tool approach. Obsidian remains the hub, but I am no longer trying to do everything there, and I have been a lot happier with the change. I still have some cases where I haven't made clear enough rules for myself, and so I struggle a little about where to create and/or edit and/or store these things, but the cases are becoming fewer and fewer.
For me the toughest thing to figure out was tasks, but I eventually decided that I didn't need an optimized reminder system, I just needed lists in the places I'm most likely to see them when I need them. So it's all scattered around but I'm pretty good at anticipating where to put stuff so I'll see it again.
I don't want to tell you how many times and ways I tried to keep all tasks in my note-taking system, once I learned of the idea.
I eventually realized that Todoist does all that I need for general-purpose tasks.
But, for things associated with a project where I have notes in Obsidian, and where they are mostly of the form of a reminder of what to do next, or where they come from an established checklist for a process, I put them in Obsidian inside the note.
1) Adding a vote for any more info about how you're using AIs to help with writing and daily life.
2) What's your typical day in life (or not so typical) ? This kinda includes both how you process content as well as juggling baby, toddler, and work.
3) As a former tester I must-must-must ask: how do you hone your new craft? For example, have you already found your way into never-ending debates between context-driven school and ISTQB-ers, automation vs "manual" and etc? =)
Thank you, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you -- one of the ways I stay on top of things is by "batching" activities and candidly I got a lot more responses than I expected so I hadn't allotted enough time for responding last weekend, and during the week I was super focused on work.
My typical day changes season to season as my life changes, but right now it's basically...
I wake up around 7, check in on inboxes to make sure nothing's on fire, feed the baby, chat with the fam, eat breakfast, etc. send my oldest off to school, do some basic household maintenance, some days my mother in law or one of the local teenagers comes over to help with the baby during my meetings, but mostly the baby hangs out with me while I work -- she's young still, so I use a standing desk and a carrier, or let her be on an activity map while I use my laptop on the floor next to her. Sometimes I walk to the gym with her in the carrier for exercise, then work at my laptop while the childcare staff watches the baby for 90 minutes. They don't change diapers but I like it better than daycare because they just call me if she's fussy and I go get her.
Work is a lot of checking messages & email and doing quick burst testing, then trying to verify bug reports, it's not "traditional QA" so I don't write automated tests, the devs handle that part. My job is probably about a third what I call "tier two tech support," a third reproducing weird edge cases to verify and track down issues, and a third project management (i.e. helping prioritize dev tasking). I mostly hone this thru iterating over what our company's specific pain points are focusing on problem-solving rather than worrying about "the field" as a whole, I'm definitely not doing traditional QA like what my husband describes testers doing at his workplace (he's a software developer). I research when needed -- I spent 10 hours once doing a deep dive on mobile automated testing software -- but for the most part I'm responsive to needs more than worrying about philosophy.
But working for Readwise tends to include keeping up with my RSS feeds and articles and books as I test functionality (tracking a bug that hits text to speech on an ebook after 30 minutes doesn't require that the ebook be boring, after all!), which helps me keep up with my note-taking and such. I typically write and respond to newsletter things on the weekends because it's such a similar part of my brain that it's hard to do "after work." If I get a spark of inspiration though, I'll clock out and chase it to write an article. Having that kind of flexibility at work is huge.
The air fryer and instant pot have been enormous game changers in terms of getting dinner ready and stuff, and my husband is amazing at keeping our oldest playing outside after school, so he mostly takes point with our 3 year old, which helps. We switch after dinner -- he takes the baby and I take our oldest's bedtime routine. Then once our oldest is asleep we do more household stuff.
Thanks for the answer. Context is everything, as we talked about it in the discord, knowing how content creator lives makes huge difference into understanding their writing.
By the way, I have to disagree with your husband, because what you do is actually closer to QA than what he (and by proxy, you) think. First of all, there is a terminology shitshow about someone deciding to call testers "Quality Assurance" team. In 90% situations testers can't assure quality, they don't have enough power to do preventative work and decisions. So, that's quality control. Second part, with automation (specifically, UI automation), most of the testing devolved into weird "we're not as qualified as devs to do programming, yet we do the most hard programming tasks ever". So, if you're interested in being in this field, I'd suggest paying attention when you have time (not so much of it, right?) to stuff targeted to "quality coaches". Helping devs to write good automation so that they test what needs to be tested, being able to identify problems before tasks go into development ("requirements testing", "test analysis"), edge case predictor and risk analysis =)
1. What was the way information was encoded in the quipu?
2. Is there anything as cool as the way the Aramaic alphabet migrated (via Sogdian, Uighur, Mongolian) all the way to Manchu?
3. I have several thousand Obsidian notes. I am trying to find a productive way to harvest and bind-in-sheaves some of that knowledge.
4. Why haven't women adopted Diotima as the obvious Grandmother of Western philosophy? *I* wrote an article about her in the Theosophy magazine, but I have not seen her receiving the acclaim she deserves as Socrates' teacher...
1. I am not an expert on quipu, but my understanding is that various knot and color combinations corresponded to different meanings, the way that different strokes make different characters that correspond to different meanings in, say, kanji systems.
2. Cultural diffusion in general is really interesting! Also ancient trade routes of Obsidian make for very interesting maps.
3. What does your review practice look like currently? Have you tried one of the spaced repetition plugins?
4. I have a philosophy degree and I've never heard of her before this moment, but then again I also managed to escape college without reading any Nietzsche. I think patterns of popularity are interesting. Do you have a link to the article you shared? I'd love to signal boost it!
No questions, but Happy Birthday!
How do you make time for writing articles or newsletters such as this? How do you show up for that time? Does it take away from anything else (that you notice)?
The main trick I have, other than just being very fast at reading and typing, is that I try to write articles that ultimately save me time, because they are on topics that I talk about a lot with a bunch of different people, so writing out the article means I can direct people to the article instead of saying the same things over and over, hehe.
It doesn't really take away much from anything else, because I pull the time from when I might otherwise be playing a game or scrolling social media, or when I need to context switch from something else I'm hitting a wall on with work. And my family would rather I write the article than rant at him about stuff *he* doesn't care about as much as I do, so I have the cleared mental space for other things during dinner and our evening walks.
How do you manage/track articles to read, stuff like research articles or books? And whats your favorite new plugin?
I use Readwise Reader to keep track of stuff I need to read or watch -- disclaimer, I work for them, but I was a user first. Alternatives include Matter, Omnivore, and some other options, but mostly I have a tagging scheme in Reader for things "toShare" or "articleSeed" that go into an "action items" system and "writing fodder" that resurfaces relevant things when I'm more likely to have time to write.
My new favorite plugin is an old favorite that's gotten some love lately -- QuickAdd has been the singlemost critical plugin for saving me time, and I'm really excited about the new updates to integrate with LLMs!
Thanks for your reply, I'll look into Readwise
Bonjour Eleonor, I teach industrial design at the college level and I use Obsidian with my students. Even though they study in a fairly technical field they often struggle with its interface and all the bits one has to remember. I would like to know your opinion about what the Obsidian team could do to UNgeek its interface and make it more palatable for the average non techno user especialy in an educational setting. Many thanks,
I would love to see the Obsidian team put together some "sample vaults" for different use-cases to help people have less of a "blank page" starting location.
No questions, but Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂
Thanks!
Do you have any favourite (ancient, optionally) history podcasts?
I don't listen to many podcasts -- I read super fast and earbuds hurt my ears -- but this one is fascinating tech history: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/
this one is really interesting & about infrastructure: https://open.spotify.com/show/1dcDdTZgwicbxkb7OgNLo2
I've listened to them in the car with my husband, heh
Thank you! Will give both a try 🙂
Any suggestions for ways to collaborate on long form (novel length) content? Was discussing this with an author for whom I’m reviewing and proofreading a draft. Track Changes in Word (which appears to be the industry standard) is fine, although Word and Google Docs get a bit unwieldy after several hundred pages. There’s lots of good tools for writing, from Scrivener to Obsidian Longform, but we haven’t found anything good for reviewing - the current approach is to make notes on the Kindle app on my phone and then export them.
Hope you or the community have some thoughts.
There are some good version control apps intended for writers. Git is probably overkill, but Drawers for mac is probably good, or Almanac in the browser.
Thanks Eleanor , will look into those (and happy birthday, since I forgot to say at the time!).
I did think about Git. I use it for Obsidian myself. I think (unless I'm missing some aspect of it) that it mostly works by line number so isn't great for longform where sometimes you only add a comma or a comment etc.
I feel like Draftin.com was based on version control model but that was discontinued a while ago.
Happy Birthday! I'm curious whether you saw any big changes when you returned to this community? In terms of where the momentum or the "action" seems to be. Anything change noticeably while you were focused on parenthood?
AI has gotten so big, and there don't seem to be as many revolutionary / mindblowing workflows as things stabilize. There are also so many more automated tools to help keep pu than there used to be, and the Obsidian team has definitely started doing way more PR.
Happy birthday!
I'm currently keeping several very different sets of notes in different places - blog ideas in one place, todo lists in another, books to read in a third, and random links in a fourth (actually, several places, but.) Do you keep different non-overlapping non-intermixed sets of notes like this? Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve this?
I think non-overlapping non-intermixed notes is fine as long as you can keep track of it. I have household tasking on my fridge, grocery lists in Google Keep, an agenda book, a google calendar, a system of snoozing action item emails, notion files, obsidian notes, slack reminders......
Happy Birthday Eleanor, I am going to be greedy and ask 2 questions (but overlapping).
I am a fellow productivity and Obsidian obsessive. . And as a newly married man, kids are on the horizon. I am curious to know 2 different aspects of becoming a parent.
1. From the productivity side of things, how did you (are you) plan and handle having way less time, and i imagine very fragmented amount of time? How do you still be productive in work or in your personal productivity?
2. Less productivity focused, but more parenthood knowledge focused. Do you recommend any good blogs or books on preparing for being a good parent (from all aspects). I’m most of the way through ‘Expecting Better’ by Emily Oster who is an economist and breaks down a lot of common myths and parenthood topics by reference the actual scientific research. It’s fantastic, and so any recommendations like this would be cool!
Thank you for your awesome newsletter and writings! All the best!
Liam
Congrats on your marriage!
Obsidian was how I managed fragmented time, after my first kid I started needing to leave myself notes in a way I hadn't ever needed before because previously I would just sit down and do it. I also had to take a hard look at my priorities and realize I was not gonna be finishing my novel anytime soon, so switched to writing short stories instead. That said, I'm actually more productive than I used to be. You know that old saying about how "if you need something done, ask a busy person" -- it's like that. I spend less time in bed avoiding getting up, I switch between tasks faster because I know I have a limited amount of time, there's just more urgency so I focus better. I don't ever get a 6 hour block of time to work on something, so I never spend enough time on a task to hit diminishing returns lol.
Expecting Better was very good, and if you haven't found her substack newsletter yet (ParentData), it's very handy. The other incredibly helpful parenting book I had was "Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right" by Jamie Glowacki -- it's very blunt and to the point, and every kid is different but the advice worked for me very well. A lot of it was applicable beyond potty training, and became relevant way before we actually initiated potty training.
Wishing you a very happy birthday Eleanor! I hope you have an amazing day and an awesome year ahead, full of good health, happiness, personal/spiritual growth and success.
Today is my son's, my best friend's daughter's, and my father-in-law's birthday. But since you didn't specify statistics, I won't ask about the odds.
I'm relatively new here, since I don't know if you answered this elsewhere. Do you keep a journal? Paper or electronic? I keep switching back and forth and Obsidian was the closest to working out for me, but may have finally settled on paper. I'm curious to hear your thoughts, though.
Hah! My husband's birthday was last week and my mother-in-law's was Saturday, so I feel you on the clustering.
I have a paper journal and a paper agenda book, both disbound so I can easily move pages around -- they're what I use for to do lists, raw ideation, etc. I use Obsidian mostly for notes that make sense for being electronic, i.e. things I want to be easily searched, so mostly notes from books (I highlight / annotate) -- I wrote up a whole thing about my system last year before I switched to substack, if you're curious about how I use Obsidian: https://www.eleanorkonik.com/the-konik-method-for-making-notes/
I use Notion for notes I want to share with my husband, like medicine logs, goals for our retirement house, databases for enrichment activities for our kids, etc.
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions.
I wondered whether anything has changed with how you take and manage your notes in Obsidian since you took time off while having your daughter. I'm sure that changed everything else in your life, and I'm curious how it changed your notes.
This is definitely a big topic I've been meaning to tackle as a proper article, but the main difference is that I use Notion a lot more for notes I share with my husband, like medicine logs, databases of ideas for enrichment activities for our kids. Trying to just share plain text things got to be untenable, but it's mostly replacing google suite for us.
I also use paper things more because I spend less time at my computer and with my device, so I've gotten into discbound notebooks for my evening wind-down reflection journals and task lists (I don't want my kids to see me on my phone/computer constantly, and I'm trying to model handwriting more, and I'm in the kitchen more so having notes scrawled on my fridge are more likely to be seen than on my computer). I've had a ton of success applying the principles I've learned from personal knowledge management to the paper flow.
I use Obsidian more for *using my notes* than making them, right now, (although I still make annotation style notes in Readwise Reader that go into Obsidian to be indexed) -- and I'm very grateful to past me for having such detailed and well organized notes and half-completed articles, so I can pick back up smoothly stuff I was working on before I got wiped out by the pregnancy. So the big change I guess is that Obsidian isn't my "everything" program, I've narrowed my scope in terms of how I use it, because I'm just in front of a computer so much less often right now than I used to be.
Thank you for the explanation.
Like you, I have developed a multi-tool approach. Obsidian remains the hub, but I am no longer trying to do everything there, and I have been a lot happier with the change. I still have some cases where I haven't made clear enough rules for myself, and so I struggle a little about where to create and/or edit and/or store these things, but the cases are becoming fewer and fewer.
For me the toughest thing to figure out was tasks, but I eventually decided that I didn't need an optimized reminder system, I just needed lists in the places I'm most likely to see them when I need them. So it's all scattered around but I'm pretty good at anticipating where to put stuff so I'll see it again.
I don't want to tell you how many times and ways I tried to keep all tasks in my note-taking system, once I learned of the idea.
I eventually realized that Todoist does all that I need for general-purpose tasks.
But, for things associated with a project where I have notes in Obsidian, and where they are mostly of the form of a reminder of what to do next, or where they come from an established checklist for a process, I put them in Obsidian inside the note.
Happy birthday, с днем варенья, bonne fête!
My questions:
1) Adding a vote for any more info about how you're using AIs to help with writing and daily life.
2) What's your typical day in life (or not so typical) ? This kinda includes both how you process content as well as juggling baby, toddler, and work.
3) As a former tester I must-must-must ask: how do you hone your new craft? For example, have you already found your way into never-ending debates between context-driven school and ISTQB-ers, automation vs "manual" and etc? =)
Thank you, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you -- one of the ways I stay on top of things is by "batching" activities and candidly I got a lot more responses than I expected so I hadn't allotted enough time for responding last weekend, and during the week I was super focused on work.
My typical day changes season to season as my life changes, but right now it's basically...
I wake up around 7, check in on inboxes to make sure nothing's on fire, feed the baby, chat with the fam, eat breakfast, etc. send my oldest off to school, do some basic household maintenance, some days my mother in law or one of the local teenagers comes over to help with the baby during my meetings, but mostly the baby hangs out with me while I work -- she's young still, so I use a standing desk and a carrier, or let her be on an activity map while I use my laptop on the floor next to her. Sometimes I walk to the gym with her in the carrier for exercise, then work at my laptop while the childcare staff watches the baby for 90 minutes. They don't change diapers but I like it better than daycare because they just call me if she's fussy and I go get her.
Work is a lot of checking messages & email and doing quick burst testing, then trying to verify bug reports, it's not "traditional QA" so I don't write automated tests, the devs handle that part. My job is probably about a third what I call "tier two tech support," a third reproducing weird edge cases to verify and track down issues, and a third project management (i.e. helping prioritize dev tasking). I mostly hone this thru iterating over what our company's specific pain points are focusing on problem-solving rather than worrying about "the field" as a whole, I'm definitely not doing traditional QA like what my husband describes testers doing at his workplace (he's a software developer). I research when needed -- I spent 10 hours once doing a deep dive on mobile automated testing software -- but for the most part I'm responsive to needs more than worrying about philosophy.
But working for Readwise tends to include keeping up with my RSS feeds and articles and books as I test functionality (tracking a bug that hits text to speech on an ebook after 30 minutes doesn't require that the ebook be boring, after all!), which helps me keep up with my note-taking and such. I typically write and respond to newsletter things on the weekends because it's such a similar part of my brain that it's hard to do "after work." If I get a spark of inspiration though, I'll clock out and chase it to write an article. Having that kind of flexibility at work is huge.
The air fryer and instant pot have been enormous game changers in terms of getting dinner ready and stuff, and my husband is amazing at keeping our oldest playing outside after school, so he mostly takes point with our 3 year old, which helps. We switch after dinner -- he takes the baby and I take our oldest's bedtime routine. Then once our oldest is asleep we do more household stuff.
Thanks for the answer. Context is everything, as we talked about it in the discord, knowing how content creator lives makes huge difference into understanding their writing.
By the way, I have to disagree with your husband, because what you do is actually closer to QA than what he (and by proxy, you) think. First of all, there is a terminology shitshow about someone deciding to call testers "Quality Assurance" team. In 90% situations testers can't assure quality, they don't have enough power to do preventative work and decisions. So, that's quality control. Second part, with automation (specifically, UI automation), most of the testing devolved into weird "we're not as qualified as devs to do programming, yet we do the most hard programming tasks ever". So, if you're interested in being in this field, I'd suggest paying attention when you have time (not so much of it, right?) to stuff targeted to "quality coaches". Helping devs to write good automation so that they test what needs to be tested, being able to identify problems before tasks go into development ("requirements testing", "test analysis"), edge case predictor and risk analysis =)
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Happy birthday!
1. What was the way information was encoded in the quipu?
2. Is there anything as cool as the way the Aramaic alphabet migrated (via Sogdian, Uighur, Mongolian) all the way to Manchu?
3. I have several thousand Obsidian notes. I am trying to find a productive way to harvest and bind-in-sheaves some of that knowledge.
4. Why haven't women adopted Diotima as the obvious Grandmother of Western philosophy? *I* wrote an article about her in the Theosophy magazine, but I have not seen her receiving the acclaim she deserves as Socrates' teacher...
And Happy Birthday once again.
1. I am not an expert on quipu, but my understanding is that various knot and color combinations corresponded to different meanings, the way that different strokes make different characters that correspond to different meanings in, say, kanji systems.
2. Cultural diffusion in general is really interesting! Also ancient trade routes of Obsidian make for very interesting maps.
3. What does your review practice look like currently? Have you tried one of the spaced repetition plugins?
4. I have a philosophy degree and I've never heard of her before this moment, but then again I also managed to escape college without reading any Nietzsche. I think patterns of popularity are interesting. Do you have a link to the article you shared? I'd love to signal boost it!