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Journaling Learning Thinking

How To Keep Your Notebook Organized

April 27, 2025April 28, 2025 Allen

In a previous post I provided some ideas for creating an Index while will help locate the information that you are looking for in a

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Books Journaling Thinking

Steal Like An Artist: Interactive Book Notes

February 3, 2025February 17, 2025 Allen

“Steal Like an Artist” is a book by Austin Kleon filled with inspirational quotes, activities, and exercises to tap into your creative life. Creativity isn’t

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Books Learning Thinking

Need Help Remembering What You Read? A Case Study

January 5, 2025January 5, 2025 Allen

I recently decided to read the Lord of The Rings trilogy, a 1200 page epic tale with dozens of characters, scenes, and parts of the

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Books Journaling Thinking

A Technological Innovation: The Notebook

December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 Allen

Rather than provide a detailed review, or parsing through my reading notes, I will provide some higher level perspective on the history of the notebook,

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Journaling Learning Thinking Writings

Should You Be Writing Morning Pages?

November 25, 2024November 26, 2024 Allen

What They Are (excerpts from The Artist’s Way) What’s The Point? To me, what we are trying to do is to practice writing and thinking

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Journaling Learning Thinking Writings

Yes, You Should Be Keeping A Common Place Book

November 8, 2024November 14, 2024 Allen

What It Is What It Is Not A place to write down quotes, ideas, information for further reading or research A collection of to do

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Books Learning Thinking

“The biggest problem today is not artificial intelligence, but instead natural stupidity”-Anand Tamboli

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 Allen

This is the second book that I’ve recently read while trying to increase my knowledge of how AI works. The difficulty is that AI is

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Journaling Learning Thinking

Interested in Doing More, Better? A Modified GTD Works for Me

July 28, 2024July 28, 2024 Allen

from amazon.com, referring to the 2015 edition Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most

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Books Learning Thinking

Improve Your Thinking!

May 23, 2024May 23, 2024 Allen

Logic, or critical thinking, is especially important in this era of a steady stream of information that bombards us every day, and we need help

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Books Thinking Visuals

Book Notes: The Back of the Napkin

April 15, 2024April 23, 2024 Allen

I found this book at the library as a supplement to my ongoing self improvement project to improve my visual thinking. To me, the book

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