Newsletter Week 03 | 2022

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Hey there.I hope you've had a great week.

What I've made for you

I updated my Obsidian plugin, QuickAdd, to feature support for multi-line inputs. This was a highly requested feature, so I hope everyone finds it useful!

Using notes to advance in life

Advancing your career can be done with a personal knowledge management system. For example, you might be entering some field. A few good things to keep track of: the field itself, relationships, and the different aspects of working in the field.

If you are entering something like Software Engineering, you'd want to keep track of new technologies, trends, etc. You'd also want to keep some kind of CRM, but for your own life. Then there are your notes on the various technologies, principles, processes, and such. And, of course, SWE is pretty broad, so you'd also want to keep tabs on your sub-niche. Say you're a SW Engineer for a hedge-fund—then you'd want to understand that well, too.

Likewise, if you wish to be a content creator. You'd want to keep track of the movements in your niche, the niche itself, other creators, content creation in general, content creation like you do it (video creation, writing, etc.).

The same can be said for other aspects of your life. If you want to become more healthy, there are obviously a few improvements that are common sense. However, past those, you'd want to start managing the vast information in the space. You'd also want some kind of way to keep track of the experiments you run, as well as the results of those—any you do experiment, for any change is an experiment, whether you document it or not.

The most important feature of your notes is their ability to facilitate your thinking (Writing is Thinking). The quality of your thinking—and further, the quality of your decisions—determine your outcomes. As such, you'd want to try to make the best decisions you can: this is what notes can help you do, by facilitating thinking through writing, and by acting as a compounding storage of ideas.

What I'm listening to

As a knowledge worker, I sit down a lot. And for me, that means various forms of pain and stiffness. Throughout the years, I've attempted to manage this in different ways.I acquired a standing desk, which is great. I go for walks. I do various forms of exercise.

But nothing, so far, has helped as much as stretching. And this is saying a lot.In the past few weeks, I've experimented with doing a stretching routine every day in the morning. I'm getting exposed to all kind of positions that I never do naturally, and I can feel it helping alleviate the pain of sitting so much.

I do a few different kinds of stretches. It's mostly a mix, as I'm still learning the game. However, I've found Ben Patrick very interesting to listen to on the matter. Ben is also known as 'kneesovertoesguy' on the internet, which you may have heard of recently—he has exploded in popularity, it feels like.

Either way, I listened to a podcast episode where he was a guest, and he explained his thoughts quite well. I think it could be worth a listen if you think you could use some more flexibility and strength in your body—and especially around your knees.

You can find a link to the podcast, as well as a clip from it, on his website ATG | Personal Training Reinvented.I'm not affiliated with him or ATG in any way, I'm just passing on something interested I've learned and I am trying out. I have not purchased his books, but I have watch and read some of his content, which I am trying out for myself.

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To your success. Regards,

Christian Bager Bach Houmann