The Eight-Atom Method for Reading and Writing
Organize nonfiction reading into eight types of notes, then use them to answer your own questions.
Read the pieceHAMMERSMITH / AN INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
Forging myself
with code and words.
Every day.
Turn knowledge into judgment. Turn ideas into things that work. Code, writing, and honest feedback are how I shape a life of my own.
HS / FIELDWORK No. 001IN THE MAKING
Principles · Working guides
Turn your values into useful decisions.
Essays · Ore & temper
Move from an idea to something you can try.
Builds · Strikes
Real projects, decisions, and limitations.
ORE & TEMPER / SELECTED ESSAYS
Material worth working with.
Making Room for Good Fortune
Recognize the role of chance, limit avoidable losses, and use small experiments to encounter and recognize opportunities.
Read the pieceBUILD LOG / IN PROGRESS
Build it. Then see what holds.
A FreshRSS reading workflow: from subscriptions and chunked translation to Feishu delivery, including the decisions that changed along the way. With a local Docker guide.
Explore the case study ↗Personal practice · Case studyWORKING PRINCIPLES / LIFESMITHING
Principles to work by.
Work Where Important Things Connect
Find a point that affects several important outcomes, then test whether improving it helps them move forward.
Read the pieceValue × Efficiency × Leverage
Establish what is worth doing, improve how you do it, then make useful results reusable.
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