Notes

For a few years, I treated books the way I treat my RSS reader: triage, skim, move on. I kept a list of books “read.” The list felt good. The retention was terrible. The shift came when I started reading Invisible Cities and realized I couldn’t skim it. Calvino’s sentences don’t yield their meaning on first pass. You have to slow down or you get nothing. So I slowed down. And I noticed something: I was actually thinking about what I was reading, instead of just processing it. ...

Every year I mean to write one of these. Here are the tools I’ve drifted away from in the past twelve months, and what replaced them. Notion → a folder of Markdown files. I was using Notion for personal notes, project tracking, and everything else. The friction of opening a browser tab to write a note got to me. Now it’s nvim and a git repo. Search is rg. It’s faster. ...