Hey folks! I'm coming back to life here after some unintentional time off, but here's what I've got to share with you today.
L...
2025-06-23 17:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post
... I got divorced.
There, I said it.
It went about as well as it could possibly have gone (we're still lovingly in each other's lives and families), but you don't leave a 20-year marr...
2025-01-08 20:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Here's a video just for Patreons, although Brandon and I may use short clips of this in future videos.
I've been following 2024-07-11 16:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been on a real visual note taking kick recently, thanks mostly to spending time with the visual PKM extraordinaire himself, Z...
2024-04-25 23:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I just released a new video about hybrid notes with Excalidraw, and I'm quite eager to share it with you all because it's about ...
2024-04-19 04:50:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Two months ago, I bought a reMarkable 2 on a whim (unboxing video here) and while the onboarding experi...
2024-04-13 19:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
On March 22nd and 23rd, I went to the PKM Summit, a conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I had never been to an in-person conf...
2024-04-05 14:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I've long wished for a way to work on notes on Obsidian with other people, and I've tried many different approaches. One of them, Etherpad, I even made a 2024-02-23 15:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I had fun recording the last little audio clip, so I decided to also read out the second issue of my newsletter, Thinking in Public: 2024-02-18 03:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I planned to write a book last year, but 2023 had other plans for me, and that didn't happen. This week's video i...
2024-02-16 11:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I've heard about e-ink tablets for writing for a while, but never really "got" the concept. I'm sure you already know I like digital note-taking, but I actually like analog note-taking too. I'm a h...
2024-02-09 16:44:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's video is about 10 concrete ways that I learn in public, and I'm putting my money where my mouth is by also announcing that I'm starting to write a book in public.
This ...
2024-02-02 12:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
More than a year ago, the Obsidian team released Canvas as a new core plugin. Canvas is a way to visually arrange your notes, me...
2024-01-29 08:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
This week's video is about a free, open-source, self-hostable tool called Quartz that you can use to publish ...
2024-01-26 12:18:56 +0000 UTC View PostSo Patreon apparently has a podcasting feature! Of course I wanted to try it out. So here's something that's half me reading out the latest (aka first) issue of my newsletter, 2024-01-23 00:38:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's video is about the process and apps that I use to consume content (books, articles, PDFs, podcasts, and videos) and take notes on them so that I remember the important bits. I also talk...
2024-01-18 23:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I first started making videos on YouTube 7 years ago, but it's only in the last two years that I feel I really hit my stride in terms of consistency. Part of that is due to taking a lot (I mean, a ...
2024-01-12 12:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2024! I wanted the first video of the year to be about balance.
Last year, and the few years before that, I've made more and more specific objectives for the year. The OKR (Objectives a...
2024-01-05 11:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! It's been a while. Lots of personal things have come up for me in the latter half of the year that have made me particularly glad that 2023 is over. Onwards and upwards!
I'm rampin...
2024-01-02 18:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, folks! I'm finally back after a bit of a break, and this time with a preview of a video I...
2023-09-23 15:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's video, I did something different: I recorded a conversation between me and my friend Andy Polaine, a leadership coach, a...
2023-07-03 21:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a preview of next week's video, in which I trace the path of one book I read throughout my vault, from raw Kindle highlights to the variety of notes, videos, and presentations I made from it...
2023-05-06 07:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! This week's video is going to be about an app I've been trying and using for seven months: Napkin.one. Napkin is an...
2023-05-03 15:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's video preview is about emergent note taking, which is the idea of taking modular notes and being able to put them together in new ways-- a good idea, but hard to put into practice. In t...
2023-04-22 07:11:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd already done a preview a few weeks ago of the latest v1.2 version of Obsidian just for you lovely patrons, but next week I'm...
2023-04-14 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Surely I'm not the only one who's struggled with how to organize and make sense of thousands of PDFs? Yeah, thousands. My TTRPG hobby makes it so that I literally have thousands of PDFs that are la...
2023-04-07 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I love people, and my Obsidian vault reflects that. This video is all about why, when, and how I take notes on people in different situations. This isn't for everyone, and I totally understand if m...
2023-03-31 23:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's video is a peek into my learning process. I have a history of jumping into new things I know nothing about and somehow ending up on the other side, and I thought I'd share some of my ex...
2023-03-20 15:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's video is about Obsidian Dice Roller-- but it's not in the context of gaming this time. I've covered Dice Roller a few times in other videos, but always while talking about using Obsidia...
2023-03-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post