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Mar 19

In Defense of the ToDo List

When to Use Them, How to Make Them Better — I was overwhelmed. I’d made a kanban board with fifty cards, each beautifully color-coded and allocated story points. I’d organised my calendar beautifully, mapping out the free time to write code every day that week. I’d constructed a burn-down chart and factored in my doctors’ appointment, sleep cycle, and a…

Productivity

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In Defense of the ToDo List
In Defense of the ToDo List

Mar 16

Laziness Does Not Exist

A Simple Process to Beat Procrastination — Do you procrastinate? How much? Do you feel like you could achieve more if you procrastinated less? Wouldn’t it be great to have more motivation? This is how the pitches for a lot of self-help books read. If you follow a guru’s chosen methods, you’ll never procrastinate again, and if…

Self Improvement

7 min read

Laziness Does Not Exist
Laziness Does Not Exist

Jun 26, 2021

How to Study Chinese Characters With Anki

Or: 8 Tips To Not Burn Out — If you’re not familiar with it, Anki is a flashcard app which can help you memorise any kind of information. It’s a great tool for situations where you need to focus on remembering details, facts, or pieces of information. A lot of language learners swear by it. …

Chinese

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How to Study Chinese Characters With Anki
How to Study Chinese Characters With Anki

Published in The Startup

·Jun 24, 2019

Tainted Inheritance

The Morality of Intergenerational Wealth Transfer — We live in a world of extreme inequality and nepotism. At present, the world’s 26 richest people own as much as the poorest 50%. This makes the question of intergenerational wealth transfer particularly important. Many people would be happy to live in a world with this level of extreme inequality…

Politics

8 min read

Tainted Inheritance
Tainted Inheritance

Apr 23, 2018

All Style, No Substance

Spielberg needs to watch more Black Mirror. — Technology has made the world unrecognisable in the past decade, and our modern anxieties — from Russian hackers to child grooming — almost all revolve around the consequences of networks and digital media. Despite its premise, Ready Player One totally fails to examine these anxieties.

Movies

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All Style, No Substance
All Style, No Substance

Nov 15, 2017

Two Approaches to VR

What really separates the Oculus and Vive? — In my current role as a Creative Technologist at RealityLab: London, I have the privilege of using both of today’s most popular desktop VR systems: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. At first glance these systems look similar, at least in terms of user experience. …

Virtual Reality

7 min read

Two Approaches to VR
Two Approaches to VR
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