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I do something to similar, although using a mobile app (Google Keep), and write down EVERYTHING. For me, probably the biggest benefit of doing so was freeing my brain. I no longer have to worry about naturally remembering things, and it makes my life a lot less stressful. It also provides me more time and brain power to think about what actually matters to me.

Nowdays, if a thought pops in my head while I'm laying down in bed, I'll just get up for a second and write it down. Feels so good.

This article https://hamberg.no/gtd/ articulates the idea pretty well:

> When your system and your trust in your system is in place, your subconsciousness will stop keeping track of all the things you need to do and stop constantly reminding you. This reduces stress and frees up precious brain time to more productive thinking—maybe it even saves real time so that you have more time for ballet lessons, painting classes, and roller-blading.

I feel the same. Had to actually take time to understand the different tiers, which should be immediately clear in my opinion.

Also, I'm a sucker for having all the chapters, and interested in, for example, the chapter about Redis caching. Do I have to pay $289? Way too much...

Thanks for sharing your experience! Sometimes I feel like I get the most insights from people simply sharing their stories, just like you did.

It has some great points.

> When amateurs [play tennis], they don’t edge each other out by being slightly more skillful. Instead, it’s a contest of who makes the fewest huge, gaping blunders.

I actually find this idea relevant to so many areas in life. Most of us are just about average in most of the things. It is frequent that hunting down the most critical "huge mistakes" is the easiest way to improve dramatically in a certain field. I feel like doing so just gives you the most bang for your buck, and therefore should often take precedence over slightly improving more general abilities (through a lot of hard work, usually).

I don't have the time to dive into it right now, but I gotta say I dig the layout.

"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is a classic read. It dates back to 2004 but the techniques are still relevant.

I'd look into the Dell XPS. Its build quality competes with the MacBook, it's one of the smallest laptops of it size (either 13 or 15) and the 4k screen is absolutely stunning (although some prefer fhd for the improved battery life). I got mine recently and I'm loving it.

Thanks for sharing! I'm really into that sort of things, will definitely check out your blog.

Thanks. I skimmed through the article and must have missed it.

> Everywhere people had the choice between what they were doing before and agriculture they either chose agriculture or they died out.

Once the agricultural revolution began, the extra food allowed the population to grow rapidly, forcing people to keep up with agriculture lifestyle to stay fed and survive - they couldn't just back out.

If anyone finds it interesting, I strongly recommend reading "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari - a very insightful book that also talks pretty extensively about the flaws of the agricultural revolution.

First time hearing of apps that manage windows position, and it makes me reconsider a single large monitor. I always thought about making the switch from 2 monitors for the widescreen asthestics, but windows' default window management (either 50% 50% or manual positioning) lead me to think it just doesn't worth it.