Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️

Life is a precious experiment • Honor it • Fight for the highest possibilities & voyage towards the peak of your existence.

Grow, Play, Love & Live

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@kepano Beware the Evernote trap 🫣

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

Omg. My feed is LITERALLY 100% AI. What a shit hole this platform has become.

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@GergelyOrosz Worked out well for whom? 😂

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@gtdguy What do you mean by “losing control”?

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@pjkmedia Some believe water has its own life to it 😅

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

https://t.co/ZsRwNRUaAt

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@NotionCoach You need to select better books.

And from which part did you conclude that lesson?

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@emisaghi @kareem_carr I‘ll save you the trouble: https://t.co/cbEoTMelFf

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

https://t.co/gtTpNoim1q

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

Over the past few weeks, I experimented with backward scoring. At the end of every day, I looked back at my "greatest hits" and evaluated my productivity based on that instead of reviewing how much I crossed off my daily to-do list. Here's what happened...
https://t.co/FoQqB5xU7x

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

@fortelabs @fortelabs do you have an updated version of this?

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

In pursuit of productiveness.

https://t.co/GWRQzWmwlU

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

“James Clear” did a bad bad thing when we bashed goal setting. He didn’t expect to get lucky and now thousands believe that goals don’t matter.

Ignore them.

https://t.co/kcXVGXMYlL

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

Why you SUCK at goal setting:

1. Close to no practice / repetition. You do it only once per year…

2. Extremely delayed feedback. You get it one year later, if at all.

3. No improvement. You use a new shiny method every year instead of iterating on your personal method.

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

I bet you don’t know the biggest foe of personal productivity — cause you’ve already forgotten it…

https://t.co/oKLu5aKFV6

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

Reposting this, as I recently moved out of the city and it now fits into my ignorant worldview 😬

[PJK @pjklife]

People who live in cities are 21 percent more likely to suffer from anxiety and 39 percent more likely to suffer from depression than people who live in rural areas.
- Comfort Crisis book

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

If any of my followers here is still active, here is my Threads profile: https://t.co/lpuUVJKfia

[Rᴏᴀᴍ & Gʀᴏᴡ ⚓️ @GrowthPilgrim]

If any of my followers here is still active, here is my Threads profile: https://t.co/lpuUVJKfia

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

To see if a book is real, ask 10 people of different backgrounds & professions to summarize it. If the summaries are similar, the book will not survive as it can be shortened to a journal article.
The more the summaries diverge, the higher the dimensionality of the book.

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.