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Photo by Frank Holleman on Unsplash In a recent episode of Cal Newport's The Deep Life Podcast — Episode 238: The Joys Of The Reading Life — Cal provided his well-thought-out ideas on how to have a deep reading life and how that intersects with our digital technologies. I agree…
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My daughter Crason recently participated in a White Coat Ceremony at Long Beach State University at the start of her nursing program. This ceremony is done at"enlightened" medical schools for doctors and nurses that expose their students at the beginning of their program with their "oath" of service vice at…
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Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash Back in 2019, I embarked on a daily morning personal devotion and growth plan by reading these two books on my Kindle Paperwhite (no ads): “Unshakeable: 365 Devotions for Finding Unwavering Strength in God’s Word” by Christine Caine “The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on…
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Just like last year, I have created some downloadable files of "continuous" calendars for 2023: Vertical version (PDF) Horizontal version (PDF) I hopefully did the conversion from 2022 to 2023 correctly. If you find an error then please let me know. These were inspired by Kairos Cognition very elegant calendar:
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I recently picked up some fun stickers for my new work laptop from Etsy: Capt. America R2D2 California Republic I highly recommend them.
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Introduction About two weeks ago I decided to move my personal David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system (aka "External Brain/Trusted System") to Obsidian.md (a "free" personal knowledge management application — note I previously thought that Obsidian was open-source but it is not). I don't have a huge set of…
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My current personal external Getting Things Done (GTD) brain/tool is Nirvana. I recently decided to move some of my "content" related items in my Someday/Maybe list to external list options in tools that are native for that type of content. For books I moved them to an Amazon Book Want…
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This photo is part of my Blurry collection. CURRENT HAPPENINGS The last two months have been going well. Mother's Day in May was great, and so was Father's Day in June. We have been slowly getting back out to our favorite places to eat, visiting breweries, attending church in person…
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This photo is part of my Blurry collection. CURRENT HAPPENINGS All but one of us is vaccinated. Guess which one? Ha Ha! #stay_home_if_sick, #wash_your_hands, #social_distance, #wear_a_mask Christy and I had a great 2nd retreat to The Oaks to celebrate our 27th Wedding Anniversary. It was super reflective and restful. Here…
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This photo is part of my Blurry collection. CURRENT HAPPENINGS All is good health-wise and no major COVID-19 impacts. We are looking forward to vaccines. #stay_home_if_sick, #wash_your_hands, #social_distance, #wear_a_mask Some how I didn't get around to a February post. Things have been pretty focused at home (taxes, CISSP Continuing Education…
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