Keys

My idea for "keys" right now is this:

Sometimes, just knowing about something is the "key" to being able to advance in it. Once you hear about it, or even hear just a phrase, or a concept, or hear about something and realize it even exists, that alone is the key to the door of some significant advancement

My Keys so far

• Shell aliases

• Knowing about macOS keyboard shortcuts

  • ⌘⇧/ to bring up help for an app

  • Natively has Cocoa keybindings that mirror Emacs

• Karabiner-Elements, and being able to define OS-wide keyboard shortcuts

  • Caps Lock as ctrl/esc

• Email newsletters

  • Much better way to digest content

  • Don't get sucked into Twitter

  • Able to see the bigger picture better -- articles tend to be more significant

• Vim

• OLKB keyboards/shortened spacebars

• Idea of keeping a digital garden

• GTD

• Learning how to Learn

  • Basically everything Michael Simmons has blogged about

  • Skim books, read first and last chapter, read summaries, read reviews, listen to podcasts about the books

  • Fundamentally, the idea that we don't need to read things 100% of the way through -- just get the nuggets we're looking for

  • Also, there's some stat about successful entrepreneurs only reading like 10% of the books in their libraries (Bill Gates, Zuckerberg)

• Ephemerality of memory

  • There's some stat from psychology about loss of memory learning curve. Forget 75% within first 24 hours

• Pomodoro Method

• The mind is something to be trained

  • Some things aren't natural at first, but you'd be surprised at what we can train the mind to do

  • Examples: Meditation, ramping up podcast/book listening speeds

• gitupdate

  • Super useful when you dgaf about the commit name

  • Helps encourage committing

  • Tag team with VS Code task+keyboard shortcut, super easy commits

• Vimium

• Alfred

• Keyboard shortcut on every site like ? or ⌘/ to show the sites shortcuts