Topic: Personal Growth

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• Two Types of Personal Journals

• The Four Laws of Behavior Change

• Five Books for Career Switchers

• The Informed Life with Karl Fast

• The Informed Life with Aidan Helfant

• How to Keep Your Stuff Findable

• The Ultimate Meta-skill

• The Informed Life with Andy Fitzgerald

• WIAD Alone

• Evergreen Notes

• My Favorite Books of 2022

• How to Take More Effective Notes

• Mind-Tickling Tactics

• Three Use Cases for Notes

• Use Taxonomies to Organize Your Stuff

• How to Avoid Misplacing Things

• The Informed Life with Kat King

• Organizing for Future You

• Three Types of Notes

• The Informed Life with Laura Yarrow

• Book Notes: “Genius”

• Book Notes: “How to Take Smart Notes”

• Why Do You Take Notes?

• Balancing Work and Meta-work

• Things I Was Wrong About: 280 Characters

• The Informed Life with Dan Klyn

• My Favorite Books of 2021

• The Most Logical Date Format for Notes

• The Informed Life with Patrick Tanguay

• Never Forget a Good Idea Again

• The Informed Life with Sunni Brown

• The Project Engagement Dilemma

• Book Notes: “Mindset”

• An Idea from Computer Science That Can Change Your Life

• Two Things to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Note-taking Apps

• Book Notes: “The Inner Game of Tennis”

• The Informed Life with Mags Hanley

• Everything in its Right Place

• Two Types of Work

• Saying No

• Book Notes: “Simple Rules”

• Book Notes: “Wanting”

• The Last Illusion

• Book Notes: “All Things Shining”

• Book Notes: “The Scout Mindset”

• The Informed Life with Kat Vellos

• Book Notes: “How to Read a Book”

• A Year of This

• Profiles in Curiosity

• Worth Your Attention

• My Favorite Reads of 2020

• Possibilities for Greatness

• Book Notes: “Mastery”

• Worth Your Attention

• Digital Dependency

• Thinking Contextually

• The Informed Life with Caroline Crampton

• Expanding Our Practice

• Documenting the Early Stages of Creative Work

• The Architecture of Information

• The Informed Life With Arvind Venkataramani

• Addressing Systemic Racial Injustice

• Laying Foundations First

• A (Very) Brief Message to the Class of 2020

• “We Will Meet Again”

• Book Notes: “The Optimist’s Telescope”

• The Informed Life With Maria Giudice

• Book Notes: "Shoe Dog"

• Please Support World IA Day

• The Name of the Bird

• LEGO: An Appreciation

• Book Notes: “Disney’s Land”

• The Capital and the Village

• The Kranz Dictum

• The Idea That Information Can Be Stored

• The Informed Life With Vanessa Foss

• On Google Reader

• Table Stakes

• The Informed Life With Lis Hubert

• Striving for Simplicity

• Learn a Second Language

• Blogging as Gardening

• Hitched to Everything Else

• How I Go Offline

• The Informed Life With Donna Lichaw

• Persistence

• What a Paradox Is

• Introductions in the Age of Social Networks

• Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Personal Productivity

• Possible Future

• Book Notes: “Digital Minimalism”

• The Informed Life With Andrea Kates

• Buffers: A Key to Working at Your Most Effective

• Book Notes: “Designerly Ways of Knowing”

• Seeing What’s Actually There

• We Are Tradesmen

• Anxiety About Results

• Discovering the Shortest Route

• Designing Your Life

• Five Practices for Using Information More Mindfully

• SF Architecture Walking Tour

• Tackling New Challenges

• Making Changes at the End of the Year?

• A Model for Teaching (and Learning)

• Tracking Commitments

• Seeing Clearly

• Craft and Inspiration

• Start With a Structure

• How To Frame an Argument

• Blogging and Social Media

• A Strong Body for Strong Workshops

• Something Real To Do

• Accordance With the Truth of Things

• Think Better, Fast

• A Good General

• Tag Your Stuff

• Working Towards Focus

• Mortar

• Book Notes: "Seeing What Others Don't"

• Unfriending the Baby With the Bathwater

• The Practice of Principles

• Book Notes: “Factfulness”

• Book Notes: “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now”

• The Simplicity on the Far Side of Complexity

• TAOI: Personalized Facebook Navigation Bar

• Optimism

• A Self-Saving World

• The Purpose of Computers

• Working With Ambiguity

• There's No Such Thing as Too Much Information

• Getting at the Real Meaning of Things

• Selling Design

• The Courage of Despair

• The Next Larger Context

• The Use of Models

• Quality is a Direct Experience

• The Abstraction Bell

• Bringing Systems to Life in Fort Mason

• What Keeps You Up at Night?

• How to Clear a Logjam

• Book Notes: "Enlightenment Now"

• What Are You In Service To?

• Seeing Clearly

• Team Moods

• How Do You Know?

• Book Notes: “Planning for Everything”

• Exercising Patience

• Book Notes: “Leonardo da Vinci”

• The Smooth Handle

• The End

• Compromises and Constraints

• Integrity

• The Dream of a Single Inbox

• We Are Not Stuff That Abides

• Theory and Practice

• Invisible Technologies

• Three Lessons From Oil Painting Class

• Reestablishing Routines After a Break

• Internet Sabbatical 2017 Edition

• Compassion in the Face of Redesign

• My Favorite Reads of 2017

• Book Notes: "Dawn of the New Everything"

• What's My iPhone For?

• Out With the Old

• Vaguely Right

• Making Time for Noodling

• Systems Everywhere

• Synchronizing the Pace of Communications

• Turmoil and Wonder

• Bad Terminology

• We'll See

• What's the Use of a Brick?

• Begin With the Unmeasurable

• How to Change Things

• Focus

• Acting Skillfully

• Your Attention, Please

• Buckminster Fuller's Mission Statement

• My Favorite Reads of 2013

• Stateside

• Getting a Sony Reader

• Being Selective

• Book Notes: "Worldchanging"

• The Chile IA retreat and encounter: My impressions

• The Post-Summit Blues, or IA Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Design and Games

• BootStudio: The First 10 Years

• Book notes: "The Art of Computer Game Design"