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Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete.md create mode 100644 docs/The Little Book of Stoicism.md create mode 100644 docs/The Product Book.md create mode 100644 docs/The Product is Docs.md create mode 100644 docs/The Rape of Nanking.md create mode 100644 docs/The Science of Self-Discipline.md create mode 100644 docs/The Shallows.md create mode 100644 docs/The Souls of Black Folk.md create mode 100644 docs/The Subversive Copy Editor.md create mode 100644 docs/The Universe Doesnt Give a Flying Fuck About You.md create mode 100644 docs/Unbound.md create mode 100644 docs/Under the Bar.md create mode 100644 docs/Unwind!.md create mode 100644 docs/Walden.md create mode 100644 docs/Words That Change Minds.md diff --git a/docs/12 Rules for Life.md b/docs/12 Rules for Life.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..06e028c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/12 Rules for Life.md @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '41140' + title: '12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos' + author: Jordan B. Peterson + asin: B01FPGY5T0 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/619G6HHEWyL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 24 +--- +# 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FPGY5T0) | +| **Author** | [Jordan B. Peterson](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence. ^ref-50194 +- Location: [1009](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=1009) + +--- +## Highlight + +TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING ^ref-8883 +- Location: [1028](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=1028) + +--- +## Highlight + +As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.” ^ref-43904 +- Location: [1602](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=1602) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not. ^ref-34752 +- Location: [1893](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=1893) + +--- +## Highlight + +Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life. ^ref-1785 +- Location: [2006](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=2006) + +--- +## Highlight + +Because the consequence of remaining silent is worse. Of course, it’s easier in the moment to stay silent and avoid conflict. But in the long term, that’s deadly. ^ref-46678 +- Location: [2016](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=2016) + +--- +## Highlight + +What you aim at determines what you see. ^ref-49591 +- Location: [2105](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=2105) + +--- +## Highlight + +Life doesn’t have the problem. You do. At least that realization leaves you with some options. ^ref-49750 +- Location: [2164](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=2164) + +--- +## Highlight + +More thoughtful parents would not have let someone they truly cared for become the object of a crowd’s contempt. ^ref-24446 +- Location: [2382](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=2382) + +--- +## Highlight + +But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children if they chastise them for any reason. They want their children’s friendship above all, and are willing to sacrifice respect to get it. This is not good. ^ref-48333 +- Location: [2564](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=2564) + +--- +## Highlight + +Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient. ^ref-58490 +- Location: [3896](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=3896) + +--- +## Highlight + +You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would. Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond. ^ref-43687 +- Location: [4260](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=4260) + +--- +## Highlight + +A lie is connected to everything else. It produces the same effect on the world that a single drop of sewage produces in even the largest crystal magnum of champagne. It is something best considered live and growing. ^ref-20028 +- Location: [4350](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=4350) + +--- +## Highlight + +Why avoid, when avoidance necessarily and inevitably poisons the future? Because the possibility of a monster lurks underneath all disagreements and errors. ^ref-61971 +- Location: [5079](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5079) + +--- +## Highlight + +But not thinking about something you don’t want to know about doesn’t make it go away. You are merely trading specific, particular, pointed knowledge of the likely finite list of your real faults and flaws for a much longer list of undefined potential inadequacies and insufficiencies. ^ref-64820 +- Location: [5087](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5087) + +--- +## Highlight + +No one can have a discussion about “everything.” Instead, you can say, “This exact, precise thing—that is what is making me unhappy. This exact, precise thing—that is what I want, as an alternative (although I am open to suggestions, if they are specific). This exact, precise thing—that is what you could deliver, so that I will stop making your life and mine miserable.” But to do that, you have to think: What is wrong, exactly? What do I want, exactly? ^ref-6622 +- Location: [5204](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5204) + +--- +## Highlight + +People, including children (who are people too, after all), don’t seek to minimize risk. They seek to optimize it. They drive and walk and love and play so that they achieve what they desire, but they push themselves a bit at the same time, too, so they continue to develop. Thus, if things are made too safe, people (including children) start to figure out ways to make them dangerous again. ^ref-54750 +- Location: [5265](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5265) + +--- +## Highlight + +Why do we teach our young people that our incredible culture is the result of male oppression? ^ref-54297 +- Location: [5603](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5603) + +--- +## Highlight + +Here’s the fundamental problem: group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. ^ref-63546 +- Location: [5785](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5785) + +--- +## Highlight + +Insufficiently aggressive women—and men, although more rarely—do too much for others. ^ref-14506 +- Location: [5836](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5836) + +--- +## Highlight + +I teach excessively agreeable people to note the emergence of such resentment, which is a very important, although very toxic, emotion. There are only two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up. If you’re resentful, look for the reasons. ^ref-17336 +- Location: [5844](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=5844) + +--- +## Highlight + +People can survive through much pain and loss. But to persevere they must see the good in Being. If they lose that, they are truly lost. ^ref-56962 +- Location: [6376](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=6376) + +--- +## Highlight + +aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. ^ref-20434 +- Location: [6606](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=6606) + +--- +## Highlight + +Failure to make the proper sacrifices, failure to reveal yourself, failure to live and tell the truth—all that weakens you. In that weakened state, you will be unable to thrive in the world, and you will be of no benefit to yourself or to others. You will fail and suffer, stupidly. ^ref-23654 +- Location: [6633](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FPGY5T0&location=6633) + +--- diff --git a/docs/A Brief History of Earth.md b/docs/A Brief History of Earth.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e8f637e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/A Brief History of Earth.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '4351' + title: 'A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters' + author: Andrew H. Knoll + asin: B08D9HVKJG + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91lxVYWzmEL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 10 +--- +# A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D9HVKJG) | +| **Author** | [Andrew H. Knoll](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +In 1968, Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forest ranger, provided a memorable answer. “In the end,” he said, “we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” ^ref-62796 +- Location: [83](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=83) + +--- +## Highlight + +Together, dark matter and dark energy are thought to make up some 95 percent of all that exists, enigmatic constituents that we can’t detect but which are thought to have played a major role in shaping the universe. ^ref-31554 +- Location: [123](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=123) + +--- +## Highlight + +If light chronicles the history of the universe, rocks tell our planet’s story. When you gaze into the Grand Canyon or marvel at the peaks framing Lake Louise, you’re viewing nature’s library, with volumes of Earth history on display, inscribed in stone. Sediments—cobbles, sands, or muds formed by erosion of earlier rocks, or limestones precipitated from water bodies—spread across floodplains and the seafloor, recording, layer upon layer, the physical, chemical, and biological features of our planet’s surface at the time and place they formed. Igneous rocks—formed from molten materials deep inside the Earth—tell us more about our planet’s dynamic interior, as do metamorphic rocks forged from sedimentary or igneous precursors at elevated temperature and pressure deep within the Earth. Collectively, these rocks offer a grand narrative of Earth’s development from youth to maturity, of life’s evolution from bacteria to you, and—perhaps the grandest narrative of all—of the ways that the physical and biological Earth have influenced each other through time. ^ref-10466 +- Location: [182](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=182) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our planet coalesced some 4.54 billion years ago, but Earth’s oldest known rocks date back only to about 4 billion years. Older rocks must have existed, but they’ve been eroded away or were buried and transformed through metamorphism into unrecognizable form. A few may still lie in some remote Canadian or Siberian hillside, waiting to be recognized, but largely, the first 600 million years of Earth history constitutes our planet’s Dark Age. ^ref-41339 +- Location: [195](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=195) + +--- +## Highlight + +A few tens of millions of years after Earth had mostly accreted, a Mars-size body rammed into our infant planet, flinging rock and gas into space. Much of the ejected material eventually coalesced to form a relatively small rocky sphere, locked into permanent orbit around the Earth. The full moon may inspire poetry, but it was born in violence, its secrets unlocked through careful studies of lunar rocks. ^ref-53195 +- Location: [218](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=218) + +--- +## Highlight + +Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.47 billion years, meaning that on this timescale half of the uranium-238 in a sample will have decayed to lead-206; similarly, uranium-235 has a half-life of 710 million years. Because no lead entered the zircons as they formed, any lead we measure in them today must have formed by the radioactive decay of uranium. So, by the careful measurement of uranium and lead in zircons, we gain a clock, Earth’s best chronometer for calibrating our planet’s deep history. ^ref-51112 +- Location: [291](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=291) + +--- +## Highlight + +Chondritic meteorites, then, provide a source of water and carbon, and unlike comets, they pass the hydrogen isotope test. Thus it looks like chondritic meteorites of different kinds provided most of the rock, water, and air that we call home. ^ref-17438 +- Location: [327](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=327) + +--- +## Highlight + +Similarly, proteins—such good food for bacteria and fungi—are rarely preserved in any but the youngest rocks. What do preserve are lipids, those hardy constituents of membranes. I’m fond of telling students that when they die, the last bits of them that will remain for future generations to ponder will be their cholesterol! ^ref-60084 +- Location: [742](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=742) + +--- +## Highlight + +Had you lived at the time of Christ or a thousand years later, your life and, indeed, the human impact on our planet would have been broadly similar. Our numbers didn’t change much over that interval, hovering around 200 million. As humans learned to exploit the energy resources beneath our feet, however, the trajectories of population size, technological innovation, and environmental influence moved into high gear—in less than two centuries, we went from horse power and steam to gasoline and jet fuel. The human population passed the billion point around 1800, reaching two billion by 1930, and four billion in 1975. We’re on course to complete another doubling in the coming decade. And as our population has grown, the environmental impact of each individual has expanded remarkably. Fossil fuels have been extracted since the nineteenth century, but their use has increased nearly tenfold since World War II. ^ref-43284 +- Location: [1850](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=1850) + +--- +## Highlight + +Nearly two billion people who depend on seasonal melt from mountain glaciers in low latitudes will also see water availability dwindle as the glaciers that sustain them shrink and eventually disappear. ^ref-56258 +- Location: [1952](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08D9HVKJG&location=1952) + +--- diff --git a/docs/A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.md b/docs/A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3f038d0c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '51917' + title: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis + author: Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall + asin: B006IZ8VJI + lastAnnotatedDate: '2020-08-06' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Rilz9Fz0L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 2 +--- +# A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006IZ8VJI) | +| **Author** | [Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Consciousness actually means for us the distinguishing characteristic of the psychic life, and psychology is the science of the content of consciousness. ^ref-61168 +- Location: [224](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006IZ8VJI&location=224) + +--- +## Highlight + +SECOND ^ref-52350 +- Location: [260](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006IZ8VJI&location=260) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Alone Together.md b/docs/Alone Together.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..193f1506 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Alone Together.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '38903' + title: 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other' + author: Sherry Turkle + asin: B004DL0KW0 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-02-07' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81aLxP0mWlL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 1 +--- +# Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004DL0KW0) | +| **Author** | [Sherry Turkle](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +In ^ref-16855 +- Location: [121](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004DL0KW0&location=121) + +--- diff --git a/docs/America Before.md b/docs/America Before.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe74d5bc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/America Before.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '56676' + title: 'America Before: The Key to Earth''s Lost Civilization' + author: Graham Hancock + asin: B07HWL4KLM + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/915lTMza-uL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 4 +--- +# America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HWL4KLM) | +| **Author** | [Graham Hancock](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Across the ages and regardless of geography, in everything that really matters, it bears repeating that we are all members of a SINGLE human family—a family of intrepid adventurers who have been exploring the world in one form or another for the best part of a million years. ^ref-5844 +- Location: [1844](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HWL4KLM&location=1844) + +--- +## Highlight + +When, I wonder, will archaeologists take to heart the old dictum that absence of evidence is not the same thing as evidence of absence, and learn the lessons that their own profession has repeatedly taught—namely that the next turn of the excavator’s spade can change everything? ^ref-6989 +- Location: [2504](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HWL4KLM&location=2504) + +--- +## Highlight + +Indeed, what the evidence suggests is the former existence of “an ancient North American international religion10 … a common ethnoastronomy … and a common mythology. ^ref-30544 +- Location: [5020](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HWL4KLM&location=5020) + +--- +## Highlight + +Whereas in Mississippian art it was customary to depict a star in the form of a circle or dot, the star symbol in ancient Egypt was very much like the five-pointed version we still use today. ^ref-34324 +- Location: [5195](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HWL4KLM&location=5195) + +--- diff --git a/docs/American History in 50 Events.md b/docs/American History in 50 Events.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..25c1049b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/American History in 50 Events.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '64963' + title: >- + American History in 50 Events: (Battle of Yorktown, Spanish American War, + Roaring Twenties, Railroad History, George Washington, Gilded Age) (History + by Country Timeline Book 1) + author: Henry Freeman + asin: B019Z2SU1E + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-10-14' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81YskW-R0HL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 6 +--- +# American History in 50 Events: (Battle of Yorktown, Spanish American War, Roaring Twenties, Railroad History, George Washington, Gilded Age) (History by Country Timeline Book 1) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [American History in 50 Events: (Battle of Yorktown, Spanish American War, Roaring Twenties, Railroad History, George Washington, Gilded Age) (History by Country Timeline Book 1)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019Z2SU1E) | +| **Author** | [Henry Freeman](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Of particular concern to the colony of Boston was the taxation of essential goods—paper, wax, sugar, and others—but the increased taxation of tea was the most egregious of all. The Sons of Liberty decided to stage a physical protest of the new tax, and on December 16, 1773, a group of these men, disguised as Native Americans, boarded the British cargo ships and dumped the tea chests into Boston Harbor. The protest became known as the Boston Tea Party. This demonstration set in motion the events that would ultimately lead to the American Revolution. ^ref-12133 +- Location: [108](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B019Z2SU1E&location=108) + +--- +## Highlight + +On July 4, 1776, the Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, a document which formally severed ties between Britain and the colonies. From the British point of view, this was an act of treason and served only to further their desire to reassert control. For many Americans (as they had begun to think of themselves), this document solidified something they already knew—their subjection to British law was over. As it was considered a document of treason, many members of the Congress were hesitant to sign, until President of the Congress, John Hancock, signed his name in such a large script that his signature would draw the most attention and hopefully, draw most of the king’s rage. This move inspired others to sign. After the official adoption of the Declaration, copies were quickly delivered to the colonies so that all Americans could be made aware of the events that had transpired. The Declaration of Independence became one of the foundational and pivotal documents of American government. ^ref-4108 +- Location: [141](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B019Z2SU1E&location=141) + +--- +## Highlight + +Washington remains the only president who were not a member of an American political party, as he believed them to be divisive and harmful to the common good. ^ref-60938 +- Location: [181](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B019Z2SU1E&location=181) + +--- +## Highlight + +Despite the contributions of African Americans to World War II and the Korean War, the racial gap in America had widened during the 1950s to the point that African Americans were not allowed to use the same drinking fountains, attend the same schools, or sit in preferential seats on public transportation. ^ref-38961 +- Location: [457](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B019Z2SU1E&location=457) + +### Note +I don't think saying "the racial gap widened" is accurate. I think the racial gap just became more apparent because of African Americans being involved more with society. + +--- +## Highlight + +However, starting in 1955, a conflict in Vietnam would eventually drag America into war once again. ^ref-58539 +- Location: [492](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B019Z2SU1E&location=492) + +### Note +As more recent documentation shows, America seems to have involved itself in Vietnam. America was not dragged into conflict. + +--- +## Highlight + +This distrust of government shaped the attitudes of many Americans in the 1970s and 1980s, and this was felt particularly strongly in music, where the theme of rebellion was championed. ^ref-62517 +- Location: [500](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B019Z2SU1E&location=500) + +### Note +Arguably, this is when some of the best music was created. + +--- diff --git a/docs/Bulletproof Confidence.md b/docs/Bulletproof Confidence.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e8aa9a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Bulletproof Confidence.md @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '37132' + title: >- + Bulletproof Confidence: The Art of Not Caring What People Think and Living + Fearlessly (Be Confident and Fearless Book 6) + author: Patrick King + asin: B074C4RZ3B + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-01-09' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1-MsipwltL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 21 +--- +# Bulletproof Confidence: The Art of Not Caring What People Think and Living Fearlessly (Be Confident and Fearless Book 6) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Bulletproof Confidence: The Art of Not Caring What People Think and Living Fearlessly (Be Confident and Fearless Book 6)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C4RZ3B) | +| **Author** | [Patrick King](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Anyone that’s had a physical transformation can attest to the fact that treatment simply changes when you’re in better shape. ^ref-44575 +- Location: [95](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=95) + +--- +## Highlight + +Socially confident people expect to be accepted. When they meet strangers, they expect to make a good impression and don’t get entangled in or stymied by fears that they will be negatively perceived by others. They take for granted that people will react positively to them. They never approach situations thinking, “What if they don’t like me?” Instead they think, “I hope I like them.” ^ref-54557 +- Location: [329](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=329) + +--- +## Highlight + +Confidence is built through the life-changing magic of doing, taking action, making a leap of faith, closing your eyes and walking forward, and going for it. Stop thinking and planning and just reach for the unknown. ^ref-22148 +- Location: [530](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=530) + +--- +## Highlight + +Fearlessness is the ability to do something despite the fact that you are terrified of it. Fearlessness ignores all negative consequences, while confidence is the understanding that negative consequences will be acceptable and unlikely. ^ref-55210 +- Location: [580](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=580) + +--- +## Highlight + +perfectionism is an unhealthy behavior that occurs precisely because of a lack of confidence.   You might call yourself a perfectionist, or someone with extremely high standards for quality. ^ref-12836 +- Location: [731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=731) + +--- +## Highlight + +Perfectionism is a disease that is best battled by pursuing excellence, vulnerability, and realizing that the label of perfectionist is used as a disguise. ^ref-29348 +- Location: [837](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=837) + +--- +## Highlight + +Remember, when you act confident, people will perceive you as confident. ^ref-34475 +- Location: [1000](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1000) + +--- +## Highlight + +For perspective, the most common instance where people speak quickly is when they are nervous. Therefore, when you speak slowly and deliberately, you send the message that you are calm, in control, and sure of what you are saying. ^ref-25508 +- Location: [1003](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1003) + +--- +## Highlight + +People look for signs of strength and confidence, and posture is one of the easiest to spot. Tilt your chin up, stick your chest out, pinch your shoulder blades together, and don’t minimize the space you take up. Control your environment and mark it as yours. ^ref-51398 +- Location: [1011](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1011) + +--- +## Highlight + +Recognize the power and importance of eye contact and pledge to use it more frequently and for no less than one second. ^ref-4544 +- Location: [1029](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1029) + +--- +## Highlight + +When you’re not thankful for who you are and for the skills and talents you have, you are putting yourself in a position where you can only be unhappy. ^ref-13638 +- Location: [1057](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1057) + +--- +## Highlight + +What would you do in your life if you had the confidence to do it? ^ref-44198 +- Location: [1082](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1082) + +--- +## Highlight + +Everything that happens in your world is neutral. Since bad or good does not exist in external sources, it logically flows that all emotions come from within. Each circumstance you face doesn’t necessarily come bundled with a set of emotions. The narrative or story we tell ourselves is what creates our feelings. ^ref-3597 +- Location: [1285](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1285) + +--- +## Highlight + +Self-efficacy can be described as a having the belief in our ability to manage the challenges of life. ^ref-37294 +- Location: [1323](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1323) + +--- +## Highlight + +Self-respect, meanwhile, is the sureness we feel in our personal worth as human beings, regardless of any other circumstances. ^ref-51901 +- Location: [1327](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1327) + +--- +## Highlight + +Practicing self-acceptance means accepting our body, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and past actions, as these are what constitute our present reality. ^ref-54258 +- Location: [1378](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1378) + +--- +## Highlight + +Practicing self-responsibility means taking full control of our lives, no longer allowing our personal fulfillment to be dependent on other people and circumstances. ^ref-656 +- Location: [1405](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1405) + +--- +## Highlight + +The practice of self-assertiveness is being open and genuine about who you are, and standing up for yourself to fulfill your needs and wants; it is what enables people with high self-esteem to be at ease in expressing their thoughts, feelings, and desires to others. ^ref-53434 +- Location: [1427](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1427) + +--- +## Highlight + +To practice living purposefully means to have goals based on our values and desires, and to make decisions and act in a manner which is oriented with those goals. ^ref-12402 +- Location: [1448](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1448) + +--- +## Highlight + +The practice of personal integrity is the alignment of our actions with our professed value system. ^ref-40814 +- Location: [1465](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1465) + +--- +## Highlight + +But doing these things is a direct betrayal of our values and diminishes our sense of self-respect. Whether anybody else knows of these actions or not, how you judge yourself is of the utmost importance if you are going to have high levels of self-esteem. ^ref-45529 +- Location: [1471](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1471) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Cant Hurt Me.md b/docs/Cant Hurt Me.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..afcfa638 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Cant Hurt Me.md @@ -0,0 +1,200 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '43158' + title: 'Can''t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds' + author: David Goggins + asin: B07H453KGH + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-12-17' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gTRv2HXrL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 29 +--- +# Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H453KGH) | +| **Author** | [David Goggins](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +So I sought out pain, fell in love with suffering, and eventually transformed myself from the weakest piece of shit on the planet into the hardest man God ever created, or so I tell myself. ^ref-9458 +- Location: [46](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=46) + +### Note +This sounds egotistical, but there is truth to it. Many people need to think of themselves, humbly, as someone who has accomplished great things. + +--- +## Highlight + +Heraclitus, a philosopher born in the Persian Empire back in the fifth century BC, had it right when he wrote about men on the battlefield. “Out of every one hundred men,” he wrote, “ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior…” ^ref-62843 +- Location: [64](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=64) + +--- +## Highlight + +What are the current factors limiting your growth and success? Is someone standing in your way at work or school? Are you underappreciated and overlooked for opportunities? What are the long odds you’re up against right now? Are you standing in your own way? ^ref-19437 +- Location: [463](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=463) + +--- +## Highlight + +Call yourself out! ^ref-41172 +- Location: [790](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=790) + +--- +## Highlight + +You aren’t missing out on opportunities, making shit money, and getting evicted because of America or Donald fucking Trump or because your ancestors were slaves or because some people hate immigrants or Jews or harass women or believe gay people are going to hell. If any of that shit is stopping you from excelling in life, I’ve got some news. You are stopping you! You are giving up instead of getting hard! Tell the truth about the real reasons for your limitations and you will turn that negativity, which is real, into jet fuel. ^ref-16711 +- Location: [797](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=797) + +--- +## Highlight + +But when you have no confidence it becomes easy to value other people’s opinions, and I was valuing everyone’s opinion without considering the minds that generated them. That sounds silly, but it’s an easy trap to fall into, especially when you are insecure on top of being the only. As soon as I made that connection, being upset with them was not worth my time. Because if I was gonna kick their ass in life, and I was, I had way too much shit to do. Each insult or dismissive gesture became more fuel for the engine revving inside me. ^ref-24802 +- Location: [844](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=844) + +--- +## Highlight + +“In a society where mediocrity is too often the standard and too often rewarded,” he said, “there is intense fascination with men who detest mediocrity, who refuse to define themselves in conventional terms, and who seek to transcend traditionally recognized human capabilities. This is exactly the type of person BUD/S is meant to find. The man who finds a way to complete each and every task to the best of his ability. The man who will adapt and overcome any and all obstacles.” ^ref-36032 +- Location: [1041](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1041) + +--- +## Highlight + +The first step on the journey toward a calloused mind is stepping outside your comfort zone on a regular basis. Dig out your journal again and write down all the things you don’t like to do or that make you uncomfortable. Especially those things you know are good for you. Now go do one of them, and do it again. ^ref-52832 +- Location: [1240](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1240) + +--- +## Highlight + +We all have areas in our lives we either ignore or can improve upon. Find yours. We often choose to focus on our strengths rather than our weaknesses. Use this time to make your weaknesses your strengths. Doing things—even small things—that make you uncomfortable will help make you strong. The more often you get uncomfortable the stronger you’ll become, and soon you’ll develop a more productive, can-do dialogue with yourself in stressful situations. ^ref-26780 +- Location: [1247](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1247) + +--- +## Highlight + +Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end. That forgetting happens the second we give control over our emotions and actions to other people, which can easily happen when pain is peaking. ^ref-23428 +- Location: [1412](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1412) + +--- +## Highlight + +Taking Souls is a ticket to finding your own reserve power and riding a second wind. It’s the tool you can call upon to win any competition or overcome every life obstacle. You can utilize it to win a chess match, or conquer an adversary in a game of office politics. It can help you rock a job interview or excel at school. And yes, it can be used to conquer all manner of physical challenges, but remember, this is a game you are playing within yourself. Unless you’re engaged in physical competition, I’m not suggesting that you try to dominate someone or crush their spirit. In fact, they never even need to know you’re playing this game. This is a tactic for you to be your best when duty calls. It’s a mind game you’re playing on yourself. ^ref-28361 +- Location: [1500](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1500) + +--- +## Highlight + +List out your insecurities and weakness, as well as your opponent’s. For instance, if you’re getting bullied, and you know where you fall short or feel insecure, you can stay ahead of any insults or barbs a bully may throw your way. You can laugh at yourself along with them, which disempowers them. If you take what they do or say less personally, they no longer hold any cards. Feelings are just feelings. On the other hand, people who are secure with themselves don’t bully other people. They look out for other people, so if you’re getting bullied you know that you’re dealing with someone who has problem areas you can exploit or soothe. Sometimes the best way to defeat a bully is to actually help them. If you can think two or three moves ahead, you will commandeer their thought process, and if you do that, you’ve taken their damn soul without them even realizing it. ^ref-17351 +- Location: [1512](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1512) + +--- +## Highlight + +Until you experience hardships like abuse and bullying, failures and disappointments, your mind will remain soft and exposed. Life experience, especially negative experiences, help callous the mind. But it’s up to you where that callous lines up. If you choose to see yourself as a victim of circumstance into adulthood, that callous will become resentment that protects you from the unfamiliar. It will make you too cautious and untrusting, and possibly too angry at the world. It will make you fearful of change and hard to reach, but not hard of mind. ^ref-30721 +- Location: [1718](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1718) + +--- +## Highlight + +The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated. ^ref-33384 +- Location: [1791](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=1791) + +--- +## Highlight + +We all need small sparks, small accomplishments in our lives to fuel the big ones. Think of your small accomplishments as kindling. ^ref-53865 +- Location: [2459](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=2459) + +--- +## Highlight + +I knew then that I’d been selling myself short. That there was a whole new level of performance out there to tap into. That the human body can withstand and accomplish a hell of a lot more than most of us think possible, and that it all begins and ends in the mind. ^ref-30945 +- Location: [2503](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=2503) + +--- +## Highlight + +Sadly, most of us give up when we’ve only given around 40 percent of our maximum effort. Even when we feel like we’ve reached our absolute limit, we still have 60 percent more to give! ^ref-6196 +- Location: [2742](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=2742) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our minds are fucking strong, they are our most powerful weapon, but we have stopped using them. We have access to so many more resources today than ever before and yet we are so much less capable than those who came before us. If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind. It’s funny, being open-minded is often tagged as new age or soft. Fuck that. Being open-minded enough to find a way is old school. It’s what knuckle draggers do. ^ref-26557 +- Location: [2869](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=2869) + +--- +## Highlight + +There is no finish line. ^ref-38320 +- Location: [3007](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3007) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our culture has become hooked on the quick fix, the life hack, efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort. There’s no denying this attitude may get you some of the trappings of success, if you’re lucky, but it will not lead to a calloused mind or self-mastery. If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up. ^ref-53096 +- Location: [3254](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3254) + +--- +## Highlight + +Evaluate your life in its totality! We all waste so much time doing meaningless bullshit. We burn hours on social media and watching television, which by the end of the year would add up to entire days and weeks if you tabulated time like you do your taxes. You should, because if you knew the truth you’d deactivate your Facebook account STAT, and cut your cable. When you find yourself having frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that don’t better you in any way, move the fuck on! ^ref-38129 +- Location: [3287](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3287) + +--- +## Highlight + +It’s up to you to find ways to eviscerate your bullshit. How much time do you spend at the dinner table talking about nothing after the meal is done? How many calls and texts do you send for no reason at all? Look at your whole life, list your obligations and tasks. Put a time stamp on them. How many hours are required to shop, eat, and clean? How much sleep do you need? What’s your commute like? Can you make it there under your own power? Block everything into windows of time, and once your day is scheduled out, you’ll know how much flexibility you have to exercise on a given day and how to maximize it. ^ref-65169 +- Location: [3295](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3295) + +--- +## Highlight + +Always be willing to embrace ignorance and become the dumb fuck in the classroom again, because that is the only way to expand your body of knowledge and body of work. It’s the only way to expand your mind. ^ref-27525 +- Location: [3713](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3713) + +--- +## Highlight + +You can push yourself to a place that is beyond the current capability or temporal mindset of the people you work with, and that’s okay. Just know that your supposed superiority is a figment of your own ego. So don’t lord it over them, because it won’t help you advance as a team or as an individual in your field. Instead of getting angry that your colleagues can’t keep up, help pick your colleagues up and bring them with you! ^ref-47214 +- Location: [3749](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3749) + +--- +## Highlight + +We are all fighting the same battle. All of us are torn between comfort and performance, between settling for mediocrity or being willing to suffer in order to become our best self, all the damn time. We make those kinds of decisions a dozen or more times each day. ^ref-12804 +- Location: [3752](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=3752) + +--- +## Highlight + +A lot of us surround ourselves with people who speak to our desire for comfort. People who would rather treat the pain of our wounds and prevent further injury than help us callous over them and try again. We need to surround ourselves with people who will tell us what we need to hear, not what we want to hear, but at the same time not make us feel we’re up against the impossible. ^ref-24295 +- Location: [4168](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=4168) + +--- +## Highlight + +You can’t let a simple failure derail your mission, or let it worm so far up your ass it takes over your brain and sabotages your relationships with people who are close to you. Everyone fails sometimes and life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim. ^ref-49830 +- Location: [4190](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=4190) + +--- +## Highlight + +I didn’t want to do pull-ups anymore, but achieving goals or overcoming obstacles doesn’t have to be fun. Seeds burst from the inside out in a self-destructive ritual of new life. Does that sound like fucking fun? Like it feels good? I wasn’t in that gym to get happy or do what I wanted to be doing. I was there to turn myself inside out if that’s what it took to blast through any and all mental, emotional, and physical barriers. ^ref-62957 +- Location: [4244](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=4244) + +--- +## Highlight + +You know that my refrigerator is never full, and it never will be because I live a mission-driven life, always on the hunt for the next challenge. That mindset is the reason I broke that record, finished Badwater, became a SEAL, rocked Ranger School, and on down the list. In my mind I’m that racehorse always chasing a carrot I’ll never catch, forever trying to prove myself to myself. And when you live that way and attain a goal, success feels anti-climactic. ^ref-34667 +- Location: [4280](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07H453KGH&location=4280) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Cant We All Disagree More Constructively.md b/docs/Cant We All Disagree More Constructively.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6a32bb9a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Cant We All Disagree More Constructively.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '55765' + title: >- + Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind (Kindle + Single) (A Vintage Short) + author: Jonathan Haidt + asin: B01KS1HLPC + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-03-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A10GO1eapLL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 8 +--- +# Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KS1HLPC) | +| **Author** | [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +America’s hyperpartisanship is now a threat to the world. ^ref-13352 +- Location: [67](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=67) + +--- +## Highlight + +Here’s a simple definition of ideology: “A set of beliefs about the proper order of society and how it can be achieved.” ^ref-31581 +- Location: [81](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=81) + +--- +## Highlight + +Innate does not mean unmalleable; it means organized in advance of experience. ^ref-62429 +- Location: [111](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=111) + +--- +## Highlight + +Conservatives believe that people are inherently imperfect and are prone to act badly when all constraints and accountability are removed. ^ref-60202 +- Location: [314](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=314) + +--- +## Highlight + +Social capital refers to a kind of capital that economists had largely overlooked: the social ties among individuals and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from those ties. ^ref-43897 +- Location: [328](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=328) + +--- +## Highlight + +Tens of millions of children, particularly poor children in big cities, had grown up with high levels of lead, which interfered with their neural development from the 1950s until the late 1970s. The boys in this group went on to cause the giant surge of criminality that terrified America—and drove it to the right—from the 1960s until the early 1990s. These young men were eventually replaced by a new generation of young men with unleaded brains (and therefore better impulse control), which seems to be part of the reason the crime rate plummeted. ^ref-27531 +- Location: [482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=482) + +--- +## Highlight + +Liberals stand up for victims of oppression and exclusion. They fight to break down arbitrary barriers (such as those based on race, and more recently on sexual orientation). But their zeal to help victims, combined with their low scores on the Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity foundations, often lead them to push for changes that weaken groups, traditions, institutions, and moral capital. ^ref-29122 +- Location: [648](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=648) + +--- +## Highlight + +Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say. ^ref-5409 +- Location: [731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=731) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Content Mapping.md b/docs/Content Mapping.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..92180e95 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Content Mapping.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '50065' + title: >- + Content Mapping: Unlocking the Power of Content to Increase Engagement, + Leads and Sales + author: Henry Adaso + asin: B08QF742BG + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-08-26' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RCq5M+81L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 8 +--- +# Content Mapping: Unlocking the Power of Content to Increase Engagement, Leads and Sales + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Content Mapping: Unlocking the Power of Content to Increase Engagement, Leads and Sales](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QF742BG) | +| **Author** | [Henry Adaso](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +To get better results with content today, we must look at it through the lens of our customers. We have to map content to the intent and scenario of the people we hope to reach. When we understand intent and scenario, we have a better chance of creating remarkable content. ^ref-40645 +- Location: [61](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=61) + +--- +## Highlight + +The effort we put into developing personas paid off. We now had a clear understanding of our target audience whenever we created content. This helped us increase content quality and engagement. ^ref-932 +- Location: [322](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=322) + +--- +## Highlight + +Email generally produces more long-term customers than social media. This is because people still prefer the personable touch of email. ^ref-64890 +- Location: [487](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=487) + +### Note +Without more data, I'm not so sure this is true. Many email marketing campaigns have cumbersome or ineffective unsubscribe processes. Because of this, I think email seems to show more loyalty because people are more likely to label marketing email as junk or delete it, appearing S "subscribed" in the marketer's eyes. + +--- +## Highlight + +Companies that continue to play by the old rule of one-way conversations struggle on social media. The best brands engage. They activate the tribal power of social networks to increase reach and resonance. Above all, social media is a great way to listen to customers and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement. The best social media pages listen, engage, and delight. They seek to put the social back in social media. ^ref-14619 +- Location: [500](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=500) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever—create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.” David Ogilvy (“The Father of Advertising”) ^ref-55501 +- Location: [753](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=753) + +--- +## Highlight + +Customers don’t want a product or a service; they want a solution. This is what Professor Levitt meant when he said, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill; they want a quarter-inch hole.” ^ref-4180 +- Location: [1047](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=1047) + +--- +## Highlight + +Go beyond the why of what you do and lean into the why of the customer’s needs. Why should they take your offer? Is it because it brings them closer to a solution? Is it because it promises a transformation? ^ref-50997 +- Location: [1060](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=1060) + +--- +## Highlight + +Revisit your personas and your content map at least once a quarter to make sure their needs still hold true. As you receive new inputs from your organization and the marketplace, adapt your personas and strategies accordingly. ^ref-32160 +- Location: [1217](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B08QF742BG&location=1217) + +### Note +This practice seems like a best-case, ideal scenario. In reality, this would be significantly time consuming. I think reviewing personas once every six months and as needed (major product revisions, etc.) would be sufficient. + +--- diff --git a/docs/DMT The Spirit Molecule.md b/docs/DMT The Spirit Molecule.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..19a94c7d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/DMT The Spirit Molecule.md @@ -0,0 +1,211 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '42558' + title: >- + DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology + of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences + author: Rick Strassman + asin: B003N3U3J4 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-05-09' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81PzZpWFrJL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 31 +--- +# DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003N3U3J4) | +| **Author** | [Rick Strassman](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Or as Dogen, a thirteenth-century Japanese Buddhist teacher, said, “We must always be disturbed by the truth.” ^ref-63652 +- Location: [170](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=170) + +--- +## Highlight + +Enthusiasts of the psychedelic drug culture may dislike my conclusion: that DMT has no beneficial effects in and of itself; that rather, the context in which people take it is at least as important. ^ref-5083 +- Location: [172](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=172) + +--- +## Highlight + +Ronald Siegel and Terence McKenna, for example, suggest that our apelike ancestors imitated other animals by eating things that caused unusual behavior. In this way, they discovered the earliest mind-altering substances. ^ref-4423 +- Location: [536](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=536) + +--- +## Highlight + +Some authors have proposed that language developed out of psychedelically enhanced appreciation of, and associations with, early hominid mouth sounds. Others suggest that psychedelic states formed the basis of humans’ earliest awareness of religious experience. ^ref-26777 +- Location: [541](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=541) + +--- +## Highlight + +In addition, Freud distrusted religion and believed spiritual or religious experience was a defense against childish fears and wishes. ^ref-61793 +- Location: [564](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=564) + +--- +## Highlight + +While there was little effect on the underlying medical conditions, psychedelic psychotherapy in these patients had striking psychological effects. Depression lifted, requirements for pain medication fell dramatically, and patients’ acceptance of their disease and its prognosis improved markedly. ^ref-35650 +- Location: [611](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=611) + +--- +## Highlight + +Psychedelics exert their effects by a complex blending of three factors: set, setting, and drug. ^ref-21068 +- Location: [685](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=685) + +--- +## Highlight + +Hallucinogen is the most common medical term for psychedelic drugs, and it emphasizes the perceptual, mostly visual effects of these drugs. However, while perceptual effects of psychedelics are usual, they are not the only effects, nor are they necessarily the most valued. The visions actually may be distractions from the more sought-after properties of the experience, such as intense euphoria, profound intellectual or spiritual insights, and the dissolving of the body’s physical boundaries. ^ref-809 +- Location: [722](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=722) + +--- +## Highlight + +The best-known phenethylamine is mescaline, which is derived from the peyote cactus of the American Southwest. ^ref-31296 +- Location: [745](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=745) + +--- +## Highlight + +This is as good an example of the power of a negative set and setting as there is: two people high on injected DMT in a seedy flat at the same time, one being responsible for the other. “Terror” drug, indeed. ^ref-60848 +- Location: [940](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=940) + +--- +## Highlight + +Some bold individuals thought it possible to take DMT during lunch, and so it gained the dubious nickname, “businessman’s trip.” ^ref-18282 +- Location: [943](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=943) + +--- +## Highlight + +The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the “third” eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration—two basic survival functions intimately related to environmental light. ^ref-29822 +- Location: [1166](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1166) + +--- +## Highlight + +The human pineal gland becomes visible in the developing fetus at seven weeks, or forty-nine days, after conception. Of great interest to me was finding out that this is nearly exactly the moment in which one can clearly see the first indication of male or female gender. Before this time, the sex of the fetus is indeterminate, or unknown. Thus, the pineal gland and the most important differentiation of humanity, male and female gender, appear at the same time. ^ref-11093 +- Location: [1175](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1175) + +--- +## Highlight + +The human pineal gland is not actually part of the brain. Rather, it develops from specialized tissues in the roof of the fetal mouth. From there it migrates to the center of the brain, where it seems to have the best seat in the house. ^ref-18536 +- Location: [1179](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1179) + +--- +## Highlight + +They found that constant darkness blocked reproductive function and shrank the sexual organs; it also stimulated pineal growth and the production of melatonin. On the other hand, constant light shrank the pineal, reduced melatonin levels, and turned on sexual function. Using these experimental results, scientists concluded that melatonin was the crucial pineal factor in whose presence reproductive function flagged, and in whose absence reproductive function flourished. Put simply, melatonin possessed powerful anti-reproductive effects. ^ref-30343 +- Location: [1201](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1201) + +--- +## Highlight + +The longer the nighttime dark hours, the more melatonin. The greater the daylight hours, the less melatonin. ^ref-27373 +- Location: [1215](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1215) + +--- +## Highlight + +Some early studies suggested that melatonin has mind-altering properties. For example, administering high doses before bedtime seemed to induce vivid dreams. ^ref-30756 +- Location: [1239](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1239) + +--- +## Highlight + +The most general hypothesis is that the pineal gland produces psychedelic amounts of DMT at extraordinary times in our lives. ^ref-37154 +- Location: [1305](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1305) + +--- +## Highlight + +One of the most striking examples of how beta-carbolines work is ayahuasca. Certain plants that contain betacarbolines are combined with other plants that contain DMT to make this psychedelic Amazonian brew, which allows the DMT to become orally active. If it weren’t for the beta-carbolines, MAO in the gut would rapidly destroy this swallowed DMT, and it would have no effect on our minds. ^ref-7135 +- Location: [1322](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1322) + +--- +## Highlight + +The most likely time for us to dream is also the time at which melatonin levels are highest, that is, around 3 A.M. ^ref-8676 +- Location: [1391](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1391) + +--- +## Highlight + +That is, the body so ruthlessly defends the pineal gland so that we are not disabled by everyday levels of stress releasing psychedelic levels of DMT. ^ref-38763 +- Location: [1477](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1477) + +--- +## Highlight + +That is, seven weeks from the time of death of one person elapses until the life-force’s “rebirth” into its next body. ^ref-36108 +- Location: [1551](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1551) + +--- +## Highlight + +It takes forty-nine days from conception for the first signs of the human pineal to appear. Forty-nine days is also when the fetus differentiates into male or female gender. Thus the soul’s rebirth, the pineal, and the sexual organs all require forty-nine days before they manifest. ^ref-57479 +- Location: [1554](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=1554) + +--- +## Highlight + +“What do you normally do when you find yourself overwhelmed in a psychedelic experience?” “I usually breath deeply and slowly. ^ref-64295 +- Location: [2434](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=2434) + +--- +## Highlight + +Tolerance occurs when the same dose of a drug produces smaller effects when taken repeatedly. LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline all produce rapid and nearly complete tolerance after three or four daily doses. ^ref-54250 +- Location: [2482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=2482) + +--- +## Highlight + +Most people found the high dose of DMT exciting, euphoric, and extraordinarily pleasurable. ^ref-55056 +- Location: [2701](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=2701) + +--- +## Highlight + +For others the fear and anxiety were nearly unbearable. ^ref-43137 +- Location: [2704](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=2704) + +--- +## Highlight + +I’ve noticed that nausea in an altered state of consciousness often is a way for the body to distract us from anxiety and sadness. ^ref-15745 +- Location: [2862](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=2862) + +--- +## Highlight + +The visual images volunteers encountered on DMT sometimes reminded them of dreams. And, as Freud said, dreams are “the royal road to the unconscious.” ^ref-55973 +- Location: [2922](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=2922) + +--- +## Highlight + +For example, the euphoria brought on by DMT helped volunteers more unflinchingly look at their lives and conflicts. ^ref-39205 +- Location: [5731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=5731) + +--- +## Highlight + +The nature of the near-death experience is due to the psychedelic “side effects” of ketamine. ^ref-874 +- Location: [5985](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003N3U3J4&location=5985) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Discipline Equals Freedom.md b/docs/Discipline Equals Freedom.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e2ca114e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Discipline Equals Freedom.md @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '33755' + title: 'Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual' + author: Jocko Willink + asin: B06XB9HQMN + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71odJ6vMMOL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 14 +--- +# Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XB9HQMN) | +| **Author** | [Jocko Willink](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +People ^ref-60039 +- Location: [35](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=35) + +--- +## Highlight + +People are not who you want them to be. ^ref-60935 +- Location: [128](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=128) + +--- +## Highlight + +The only person you can control is you. So focus on making yourself who you want you to be: ^ref-8807 +- Location: [136](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=136) + +--- +## Highlight + +Get after it and you will become the person you want to be. And you become that person through:         One. Small. Decision. At. A. Time. ^ref-29390 +- Location: [140](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=140) + +--- +## Highlight + +You have control over your mind. You just have to assert it. ^ref-59680 +- Location: [158](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=158) + +--- +## Highlight + +I don’t accept that I am what I am and that “that” is what I am doomed to be. NO. I do not accept that. ^ref-19988 +- Location: [185](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=185) + +--- +## Highlight + +Humans can withstand almost inconceivable stress—and you can too. So that is your first step: Gain perspective. And to do that you must do something critical in many situations: Detach. Whatever problems or stress you are experiencing, detach from them. Stress is generally caused by what you can’t control. ^ref-52852 +- Location: [204](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=204) + +--- +## Highlight + +Fight weak emotions with the power of logic; fight the weakness of logic with the power of emotion. ^ref-22131 +- Location: [232](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=232) + +--- +## Highlight + +Discipline starts with waking up early. It really does. ^ref-29573 +- Location: [259](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=259) + +--- +## Highlight + +Thought is what wins—the MIND is what wins—knowledge is what wins. And you gain knowledge by asking questions. Which questions should you ask? Simple: Question everything. Don’t accept anything as truth. QUESTION IT ALL. ^ref-56350 +- Location: [280](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=280) + +--- +## Highlight + +Ask every question that comes to mind. That is how you learn. And most important: Question yourself.        Question yourself every day. Ask yourself: Who am I? What have I learned? What have I created? What forward progress have I made? Who have I helped? What am I doing to improve myself—today? To get better, faster, stronger, healthier, smarter? Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that? ^ref-50401 +- Location: [286](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=286) + +--- +## Highlight + +When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.” ^ref-11392 +- Location: [619](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=619) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. ^ref-13734 +- Location: [690](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=690) + +--- +## Highlight + +It isn’t in a melee of fire and destruction that most of us succumb to weakness. We are taken apart, slowly. Convinced to take an easier path. Enticed by comfort. Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be. ^ref-65234 +- Location: [733](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06XB9HQMN&location=733) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Ego Is the Enemy.md b/docs/Ego Is the Enemy.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a19b4eb --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Ego Is the Enemy.md @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '25307' + title: Ego Is the Enemy + author: Ryan Holiday + asin: B015NTIXWE + lastAnnotatedDate: '2021-08-31' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81QC6QYAtML._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 23 +--- +# Ego Is the Enemy + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Ego Is the Enemy](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015NTIXWE) | +| **Author** | [Ryan Holiday](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Perhaps you’ve always thought of yourself as a pretty balanced person. But for people with ambitions, talents, drives, and potential to fulfill, ego comes with the territory. ^ref-39020 +- Location: [204](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=204) + +--- +## Highlight + +The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition. ^ref-36733 +- Location: [210](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=210) + +--- +## Highlight + +Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures ^ref-18605 +- Location: [266](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=266) + +--- +## Highlight + +What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness. ^ref-27963 +- Location: [401](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=401) + +--- +## Highlight + +And then Boyd concluded with words that would guide that young man and many of his peers for the rest of their lives. “To be or to do? Which way will you go?” ^ref-20260 +- Location: [522](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=522) + +--- +## Highlight + +What is your purpose? What are you here to do? Because purpose helps you answer the question “To be or to do?“ quite easily. ^ref-16031 +- Location: [545](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=545) + +--- +## Highlight + +The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote. ^ref-43927 +- Location: [610](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=610) + +--- +## Highlight + +A true student is like a sponge. Absorbing what goes on around him, filtering it, latching on to what he can hold. A student is self-critical and self-motivated, always trying to improve his understanding so that he can move on to the next topic, the next challenge. A real student is also his own teacher and his own critic. There is no room for ego there. ^ref-33247 +- Location: [632](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=632) + +--- +## Highlight + +Passion typically masks a weakness. Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline, for mastery, for strength and purpose and perseverance. You need to be able to spot this in others and in yourself, because while the origins of passion may be earnest and good, its effects are comical and then monstrous. ^ref-30269 +- Location: [715](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=715) + +--- +## Highlight + +What humans require in our ascent is purpose and realism. Purpose, you could say, is like passion with boundaries. Realism is detachment and perspective. ^ref-36580 +- Location: [728](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=728) + +--- +## Highlight + +Passion is form over function. Purpose is function, function, function. ^ref-4281 +- Location: [744](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=744) + +--- +## Highlight + +Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn’t degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them. ^ref-16632 +- Location: [899](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=899) + +--- +## Highlight + +Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride. ^ref-1712 +- Location: [1022](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=1022) + +--- +## Highlight + +As a young basketball player, Bill Bradley would remind himself, “When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.” ^ref-3736 +- Location: [1123](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=1123) + +--- +## Highlight + +One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. —BERTRAND RUSSELL ^ref-24532 +- Location: [1501](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=1501) + +--- +## Highlight + +A sense of belonging to something larger, of realizing that “human things are an infinitesimal point in the immensity.” It is in these moments that we’re not only free but drawn toward important questions: Who am I? What am I doing? What is my role in this world? ^ref-19760 +- Location: [1731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=1731) + +--- +## Highlight + +There’s an old line about how if you want to live happy, live hidden. ^ref-42352 +- Location: [1851](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=1851) + +--- +## Highlight + +Make use of what’s around you. Don’t let stubbornness make a bad situation worse. ^ref-15160 +- Location: [2099](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=2099) + +--- +## Highlight + +Sometimes because we can’t face what’s been said or what’s been done, we do the unthinkable in response to the unbearable: we escalate. This is ego in its purest and most toxic form. ^ref-8170 +- Location: [2233](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=2233) + +--- +## Highlight + +Ego says we’re the immovable object, the unstoppable force. This delusion causes the problems. It meets failure and adversity with rule breaking—betting everything on some crazy scheme; doubling down on behind-the-scenes machinations or unlikely Hail Marys—even though that’s what got you to this pain point in the first place. ^ref-18610 +- Location: [2324](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=2324) + +--- +## Highlight + +Yet we find that what defines great leaders like Douglass is that instead of hating their enemies, they feel a sort of pity and empathy for them. ^ref-24283 +- Location: [2449](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=2449) + +--- +## Highlight + +It is no easy task to go head-to-head with one’s ego. To accept first that ego may be there. Then to subject it to scrutiny and criticism. Most of us can’t handle uncomfortable self-examination. It’s easier to do just about anything else—in fact, some of the world’s most unbelievable accomplishments are undoubtedly a result of a desire to avoid facing the darkness of ego. ^ref-46281 +- Location: [2521](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=2521) + +--- +## Highlight + +My friend the philosopher and martial artist Daniele Bolelli once gave me a helpful metaphor. He explained that training was like sweeping the floor. Just because we’ve done it once, doesn’t mean the floor is clean forever. Every day the dust comes back. Every day we must sweep. ^ref-23108 +- Location: [2525](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015NTIXWE&location=2525) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Empire of the Summer Moon.md b/docs/Empire of the Summer Moon.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ffd137da --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Empire of the Summer Moon.md @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '1837' + title: >- + Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the + Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History + author: S. C. Gwynne + asin: B003KN3MDG + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pDMZctb9L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 13 +--- +# Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN3MDG) | +| **Author** | [S. C. Gwynne](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +It is one of history’s great ironies that one of the main reasons Mexico had encouraged Americans to settle in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s was because they wanted a buffer against Comanches, a sort of insurance policy on their borderlands. In that sense, the Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto, and the birth of the Texas republic were the product of a misguided scheme to stop the Comanches. ^ref-9268 +- Location: [464](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=464) + +--- +## Highlight + +Meanwhile, back in the civilized, industrializing East, an enterprise was under way that would soon solve Hays’s problem, and in so doing change the world, but for now was mired in failure and obscurity. In 1830 a sixteen-year-old with big ideas and a knack for intricate mechanics named Samuel Colt had carved his first model of a revolving pistol out of wood. Six years later, he took out a patent on it. In 1838 a company in Paterson, New Jersey, began to manufacture Colt’s patented firearms. Among them was a .36-caliber, five-chambered revolving pistol with an octagonal barrel and a concealed trigger that dropped down when the gun was cocked. It was not the first such idea, but it was believed to be the first that was put into production for general use. There was just one problem with the new gun. No one wanted it. The weapon’s natural market, the U.S. government, could not see any application and refused to subsidize it. The weapon had the feel of a cavalry sidearm, but just then the U.S. Army did not have a cavalry. Nor did the new pistol seem to interest private citizens. It was a nifty, if somewhat impractical, product. Oddly, the only people who wanted it were in the exotic and faraway Republic of Texas. ^ref-11367 +- Location: [2675](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=2675) + +--- +## Highlight + +In 1844, fully six years after he had begun to produce his repeating pistols, his invention was a failure. The Paterson, New Jersey, factory had gone into bankruptcy in 1842. Colt managed to keep his patents but little else. The models, prototypes, and plans for his six-shooters were all lost or destroyed. He spent five years in poverty. But there was hope, and Colt knew it. Word of what Hays and his men were doing with the revolver had reached him in the East. ^ref-21009 +- Location: [2738](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=2738) + +--- +## Highlight + +Rip Ford was a man of many opinions, all of them strong. But he was most famous as a fighter of Indians and Mexicans. He had joined Jack Hays’s upstart Rangers in 1836, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. He served under Hays again as his adjutant during the Mexican War, where he earned his nickname. It was his job to send death notices to soldiers’ families, and he often included the postscript “Rest in Peace.” Since he ended up writing so many such reports, he shortened the message to “R.I.P.” ^ref-45035 +- Location: [3058](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=3058) + +--- +## Highlight + +They came in groups to gawk at the terrified captives, who were on display in front of a general store in downtown Fort Worth. It was a sort of freak show: Cynthia Ann was bound with rope and set out atop a large box so that everyone could see her. One can only wonder what role her uncle Isaac, politician that he was, played in it. According to one witness: She was not dressed in Indian costume but wore a torn calico dress. Her hair was bronzed by the sun. Her face was tanned, and she made a pathetic figure as she stood there, viewing the crowds that swarmed about her. The tears were streaming down her face, and she was muttering in the Indian language.29 ^ref-25601 +- Location: [3375](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=3375) + +--- +## Highlight + +Cynthia Ann’s repatriation was in fact a disaster. She was not only unrepentant. She was actively, and incessantly, hostile to her captors. She tried repeatedly to escape with her daughter, sometimes making it far into the woods and requiring a search party to find her. She was so intent on leaving that Isaac had to lock her in the house when he was away. As her legal guardian, he was empowered to do so. Cynthia Ann was being treated as though she were crazy: An entirely “free” white woman, thirty-three years old and from a prominent family, was being forcibly restrained so that she could not return to her sons and the culture that raised her. Her family believed that, owing to a life in which they assumed she had been sexually abused and beaten and enslaved, she was unable to know what was best for her. Cynthia Ann, meanwhile, always had a clear and quite correct sense of her own interests. Such treatment must have been terrible to endure. ^ref-38881 +- Location: [3394](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=3394) + +--- +## Highlight + +Her misery notwithstanding, Isaac’s plan worked. Two months after their visit, the Texas legislature voted to grant Cynthia Ann a $100-a-year pension for five years, plus a league of land (4,428 acres). Here, too, she was treated as a special case. The money and land were not to come to her but to be held in trust for her by her cousins Isaac Duke Parker and Benjamin Parker, as though they were the guardians of a minor—or of a mentally infirm adult who was unable to speak for herself.38 ^ref-24914 +- Location: [3440](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=3440) + +--- +## Highlight + +At eight o’clock in the evening of November 28, 1864, under a starry winter sky, Chivington and seven hundred territorial troops advanced from Fort Lyon in the Colorado territory, riding in columns of fours. The next morning they attacked the Cheyenne village of Chief Black Kettle—a village that had just made a truce with the white soldiers. But Chivington’s purpose was only to kill Indians, and that is what he did. He began by pounding the lodges with the fragmenting shells from four mountain howitzers. And then his men streamed in, many drunk or hungover from the night’s drinking, slashing and shooting indiscriminately. At the time of the attack, there were some six hundred Cheyennes in the camp. Of these, no more than thirty-five were warriors. Most of the men were out hunting buffalo. There is little point in describing in detail what happened. Children were shot, point-blank. Babies were bayoneted. Saddest of all was the sight of the Indians huddling around a large American flag that had been draped over Black Kettle’s tipi. They gathered and flew white flags and the women opened their shirts so there could be no mistaking their sex, and waited patiently for the soldiers to see that the Indians were friendly and stop the killing. Instead, they were cut down. When the smoke had cleared and the screaming had stopped, three hundred Cheyennes lay dead. All were scalped, and many were mutilated. One man had cut out a woman’s private parts and exhibited them on a stick.29 The massacre quickly became public, mainly because a number of Chivington’s soldiers were disgusted by what had happened and later told their story to the press, but also because the victors had not been shy of bragging about what they had done, of which they were proud, initially at least. Chivington’s return to Denver, in fact, was triumphant, the newspapers full of stories praising him. Chivington himself proclaimed that “Posterity will speak of me as the great Indian fighter. I have eclipsed Kit Carson.” (Carson responded: “Jis to think of that dog Chivington and his dirty hounds up thar at Sand Creek. His men shot down squaws and blew the brains out of innocent children. You call sich soldiers Christians, do ye?”)30At a theater in town the Colorado troopers had displayed their trophies for cheering crowds: tobacco pouches made from scrotums, fingers, scalps, purses made from pudenda cut from Cheyenne women.31 As the details became known, a wave of revulsion swept through the corridors of power and influence in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. The Sand Creek Massacre would have an enormous and lasting effect on the Indian policy that was made in those places. It is interesting to note, though, that such gut-churning shame and disgust was largely confined to the east. The protest over the killing of women was not echoed by any such sentiments in Indian country, where everyone knew that women were often combatants (they were not, in this case). Nor was there any outcry… ^ref-35323 +- Location: [4066](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=4066) + +### Note +This massacre should be considered a war crime akin to the Nanking Massacre and the Holocaust of World War II. + +--- +## Highlight + +The greatest threat of all to their identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter in North America, appeared on the plains in the late 1860s. These were the buffalo men. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely of the huge, lumbering creatures and destroying any last small hope that any horse tribe could ever be restored to its traditional life. There was no such thing as a horse Indian without a buffalo herd. Such an Indian had no identity at all. ^ref-44502 +- Location: [4775](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=4775) + +--- +## Highlight + +And while that was happening white whiskey peddlers moved freely inside the reservation, illegally selling diluted rotgut in exchange for buffalo robes. It amounted to robbery; the liquor cost little to make, while selling robes was virtually the only way many Indians could make money. Whiskey was becoming a serious problem. Many of the Indians became quickly addicted, and thus desperate to trade anything to get it. ^ref-50315 +- Location: [4832](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=4832) + +--- +## Highlight + +Quanah and his party headed westward across the rolling plains, climbed the caprock, and crossed the dead-flat grasslands of the high plains under the scorching summer sun. Near the Texas–New Mexico border he encountered a unit of forty black soldiers from the Tenth Cavalry under Captain Nicholas Nolan, a white man. They were looking for the same group of runaway Comanches, who had apparently attacked some buffalo hunters. The bluecoats were anticipating considerable glory when they caught the renegades and were thus unhappy when they learned of Quanah’s commission and of Colonel Mackenzie’s plan to give the criminal Indians a free pass back to Fort Sill.7 Quanah told Nolan that he knew where the Indians were and that he was heading southeast to find them. This was a bald-faced lie, and had its intended effect. Nolan’s troops took off in hot pursuit, in the wrong direction. In their haste they also neglected to provision themselves adequately for a trip across the plains in high summer. They soon ran out of water. The men were forced to drink their own and their horses’ urine, mixing it with sugar to make it more palatable. They killed and drank the blood of two of their horses. They somehow survived.8 They never found anybody. ^ref-54514 +- Location: [5369](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=5369) + +--- +## Highlight + +Comanches and Kiowas had long been uneasy about black troops, whom they called “buffalo soldiers” because their tight, curly hair reminded them of a buffalo’s ruff. They considered them bad medicine and were the only adversaries they would not scalp. ^ref-44056 +- Location: [5438](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=5438) + +--- +## Highlight + +Though Quanah always refused to talk about his days as a Comanche warrior, he loved to hold forth on tribal politics, or on his frequent trips to Washington. He loved jokes. He dined often with a family named Miller, and at one meal he stated that the white man had pushed the Indian off the land. When Mr. Miller asked how the whites had done this, Quanah told him to sit down on a cottonwood log in the yard. Quanah sat down close to him and said “Move over.“ Miller moved. Parker moved with him, and again sat down close to him. “Move over,” he repeated. This continued until Miller had fallen off the log. “Like that,” said Quanah.39 ^ref-57103 +- Location: [5585](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003KN3MDG&location=5585) + +--- diff --git a/docs/End of Life Guideline Series.md b/docs/End of Life Guideline Series.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4502e3c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/End of Life Guideline Series.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '55560' + title: 'End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets' + author: Barbara Karnes RN + asin: B008PWXSH2 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2016-04-18' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81vCQjNZHGL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 20 +--- +# End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008PWXSH2) | +| **Author** | [Barbara Karnes RN](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +(Life) gives us an anesthetic and we seem to sleep through the most difficult ^ref-64798 +- Location: [104](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=104) + +--- +## Highlight + +times for our bodies. We will sleep through our dying as well. We hear; we perceive; but we sleep. ^ref-10794 +- Location: [105](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=105) + +--- +## Highlight + +Dying a gradual death makes us the fortunate ones. We have been given the opportunity to say I love you, to amend the mistakes, to ride our roller coaster, to say good-bye. ^ref-28242 +- Location: [128](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=128) + +--- +## Highlight + +With this withdrawal comes less of a need to communicate with others. ^ref-22203 +- Location: [180](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=180) + +--- +## Highlight + +It is okay not to eat. A different kind of energy is needed now. A spiritual energy, not a physical one, will sustain from here on. ^ref-21706 +- Location: [187](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=187) + +--- +## Highlight + +Fear and unfinished business are two big factors in determining how much resistance we put into meeting death. ^ref-32014 +- Location: [228](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=228) + +--- +## Highlight + +The key thing to remember in keeping a person free of physical pain is to medicate until death. Keep to the pain-management schedule. A gentle death is a relaxed death and you cannot be relaxed if you are in physical pain. ^ref-55328 +- Location: [437](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=437) + +--- +## Highlight + +As we watch the person we care about proceed through labor it is important to remember that the labor to leave this world is usually harder on us, the watchers, than on the person who is dying. ^ref-1400 +- Location: [441](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=441) + +--- +## Highlight + +Gentle touch, massage, stroking, rubbing the feet or hands are conducive to relaxation and say, “I’m here,” “I care,” “You are not alone.” ^ref-59098 +- Location: [447](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=447) + +--- +## Highlight + +The key to getting out of the body is to relax. It is that easy. Tension creates a tightness that locks us in our body and makes our labor longer. Relax and we can release easily. ^ref-3441 +- Location: [464](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=464) + +--- +## Highlight + +With everyone gathered around the bed, take the nonresponsive, dying person’s hand and gently stroke it. You are getting the “driver’s” attention. Begin talking by stating who you are. Then, in your own manner, address these issues: ^ref-63016 +- Location: [475](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=475) + +--- +## Highlight + +   You are dying. This is what it is like to die.    Relax; be like a log flowing down stream, go with whatever comes or walk through a lovely garden following a path that leads to a gate that you walk through.    You are doing a good job; you have always done the best you could in life; let go of any feelings of mistakes or failures; take only the good with you.    Everyone here understands that you have to leave. We will miss you, we love you, but we understand it is time for you to go. You can leave whenever you are ready.    You are not alone; others who have died before you are here to help and guide you; there may be a spiritual presence. Ask for help and help will present itself. ^ref-64440 +- Location: [477](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=477) + +--- +## Highlight + +We’re angry that we are alone, angry that we are forced to change and angry that the person we care about is gone from us. We feel guilty and depressed because we don’t realize that anger is a natural emotion. If we ^ref-61885 +- Location: [669](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=669) + +--- +## Highlight + +don’t feel comfortable directing our anger at someone or something, we’ll settle for being angry with ourselves. ^ref-37704 +- Location: [670](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=670) + +--- +## Highlight + +At first, we think about the person continually. Then there’s a time where we actually watch an entire TV show without thinking how much they would have enjoyed it. Then there’s an afternoon luncheon where we even laugh without feeling guilty. Time stretches and stretches. Five, ten, twenty years—a word, a picture, a memory can touch the scar and it will hurt. The intensity is still there, the scar just isn’t touched as often. ^ref-30309 +- Location: [707](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=707) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t avoid talking about the person who has died. ^ref-34562 +- Location: [743](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=743) + +--- +## Highlight + +Do use their name, tell their stories and share your memories. ^ref-43993 +- Location: [744](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=744) + +--- +## Highlight + +Do remember that no one is perfect. See the relationship for what it was, not how you wanted it to be. ^ref-37788 +- Location: [746](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=746) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t stop loving and living. ^ref-57467 +- Location: [750](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=750) + +--- +## Highlight + +Do the best you can to find a good in each day. ^ref-63267 +- Location: [751](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008PWXSH2&location=751) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Enlightenment Now.md b/docs/Enlightenment Now.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db78b281 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Enlightenment Now.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '13902' + title: 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress' + author: Steven Pinker + asin: B073TJBYTB + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-05-22' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81R6-a9GStL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 3 +--- +# Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TJBYTB) | +| **Author** | [Steven Pinker](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Cruel punishments, whether or not they are in some sense “deserved,” are no more effective at deterring harm than moderate but surer punishments, and they desensitize spectators and brutalize the society that implements them. ^ref-18628 +- Location: [457](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B073TJBYTB&location=457) + +--- +## Highlight + +The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that in an isolated system (one that is not interacting with its environment), entropy never decreases. (The First Law is that energy is conserved; the Third, that a temperature of absolute zero is unreachable.) Closed systems inexorably become less structured, less organized, less able to accomplish interesting and useful outcomes, until they slide into an equilibrium of gray, tepid, homogeneous monotony and stay there. ^ref-36514 +- Location: [496](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B073TJBYTB&location=496) + +--- +## Highlight + +PROGRESS ^ref-39544 +- Location: [916](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B073TJBYTB&location=916) + +### Note +Note to self: Left off here if I decide to pick up this book in the future. The writing style and words used make this book difficult to follow. + +--- diff --git a/docs/Face to Face.md b/docs/Face to Face.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d8709737 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Face to Face.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '40655' + title: 'Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection' + author: Brian Grazer + asin: B074ZYTYP4 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2020-08-04' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zmugwZyJL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 7 +--- +# Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074ZYTYP4) | +| **Author** | [Brian Grazer](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Meeting another person’s gaze can feel awkward, frightening, even embarrassing at times. Being “real” with another person isn’t always comfortable either—many times it’s not. But I have learned that if we want to form connections in our lives that actually mean something, we have to make ourselves vulnerable. ^ref-62462 +- Location: [378](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=378) + +--- +## Highlight + +Research suggests that the ideal length of time to hold a person’s gaze if you want to form an authentic connection is seven to ten seconds (three to five if you are in a group).10 Any longer than that can turn people off and start to feel creepy. ^ref-12459 +- Location: [388](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=388) + +--- +## Highlight + +virtual interactions can only get you so far. Swiping left or right is transactional. You can’t find trust, authenticity, or intimacy using Google. And exchanging texts and emails doesn’t give you a chance to really connect spirit to spirit with someone. If what you want is a meaningful relationship that goes beyond the surface, at some point you have to get to know a person face to face. Only then can you read their eyes, body language, and vibe to get clues about their character, what they’re really thinking, and whether there is something special between you. ^ref-16516 +- Location: [469](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=469) + +### Note +Perfectly stated + +--- +## Highlight + +“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” —Carl Jung ^ref-64742 +- Location: [610](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=610) + +--- +## Highlight + +Looking into someone’s eyes, I can get a better feel for their emotional state. I can tell when their eyes light up that they are excited about what I am asking or interested in what I am saying. I can tell when they start to shift their eyes away from mine that they are uncomfortable with where things are going or are losing interest. All of these cues help me navigate the conversation and connect. ^ref-33568 +- Location: [1250](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=1250) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than to your comfort zone.” —Billy Cox ^ref-41895 +- Location: [1573](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=1573) + +--- +## Highlight + +“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius ^ref-64725 +- Location: [1719](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074ZYTYP4&location=1719) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Factfulness.md b/docs/Factfulness.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..711c4cb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Factfulness.md @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '38621' + title: >- + Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are + Better Than You Think + author: 'Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling' + asin: B0756J1LLV + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-03-01' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/818qWkHcICL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 19 +--- +# Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0756J1LLV) | +| **Author** | [Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Your most important challenge in developing a fact-based worldview is to realize that most of your firsthand experiences are from Level 4; and that your secondhand experiences are filtered through the mass media, which loves nonrepresentative extraordinary events and shuns normality. ^ref-28220 +- Location: [618](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=618) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when a story talks about a gap, and remembering that this paints a picture of two separate groups, with a gap in between. The reality is often not polarized at all. Usually the majority is right there in the middle, where the gap is supposed to be. To control the gap instinct, look for the majority. ^ref-19921 +- Location: [640](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=640) + +--- +## Highlight + +The majority of people think the world is getting worse. No wonder we all feel so stressed. ^ref-11384 +- Location: [691](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=691) + +--- +## Highlight + +There’s something else going on as well. What are people really thinking when they say the world is getting worse? My guess is they are not thinking. They are feeling. ^ref-63463 +- Location: [862](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=862) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when we get negative news, and remembering that information about bad events is much more likely to reach us. When things are getting better we often don’t hear about them. This gives us a systematically too-negative impression of the world around us, which is very stressful. To control the negativity instinct, expect bad news. ^ref-63595 +- Location: [943](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=943) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing the assumption that a line will just continue straight, and remembering that such lines are rare in reality. To control the straight line instinct, remember that curves come in different shapes. ^ref-51747 +- Location: [1246](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=1246) + +--- +## Highlight + +On US soil, 3,172 people died from terrorism over the last 20 years—an average of 159 a year. During those same years, alcohol contributed to the death of 1.4 million people in the United States—an average of 69,000 a year. ^ref-47961 +- Location: [1526](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=1526) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when frightening things get our attention, and remembering that these are not necessarily the most risky. Our natural fears of violence, captivity, and contamination make us systematically overestimate these risks. To control the fear instinct, calculate the risks. ^ref-14218 +- Location: [1551](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=1551) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when a lonely number seems impressive (small or large), and remembering that you could get the opposite impression if it were compared with or divided by some other relevant number. To control the size instinct, get things in proportion. ^ref-56270 +- Location: [1814](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=1814) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when a category is being used in an explanation, and remembering that categories can be misleading. We can’t stop generalization and we shouldn’t even try. What we should try to do is to avoid generalizing incorrectly. To control the generalization instinct, question your categories. ^ref-60666 +- Location: [2099](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2099) + +--- +## Highlight + +For example, in South Korea and Japan, many wives are still expected to take care of their husband’s parents, as well as taking full responsibility for the care of any children. I have encountered many men who are proud of these “Asian values,” as they call them. I have had conversations with many women too, who see it differently. They find this culture unbearable and tell me these values make them less interested in getting married. ^ref-57348 +- Location: [2275](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2275) + +--- +## Highlight + +The macho values that are found today in many Asian and African countries, these are not Asian values, or African values. They are not Muslim values. They are not Eastern values. They are patriarchal values like those found in Sweden only 60 years ago, and with social and economic progress they will vanish, just as they did in Sweden. They are not unchangeable. ^ref-7219 +- Location: [2293](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2293) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing that many things (including people, countries, religions, and cultures) appear to be constant just because the change is happening slowly, and remembering that even small, slow changes gradually add up to big changes. To control the destiny instinct, remember slow change is still change. ^ref-20245 +- Location: [2371](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2371) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing that a single perspective can limit your imagination, and remembering that it is better to look at problems from many angles to get a more accurate understanding and find practical solutions. To control the single perspective instinct, get a toolbox, not a hammer. ^ref-25793 +- Location: [2611](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2611) + +--- +## Highlight + +It seems that it comes very naturally for us to decide that when things go wrong, it must be because of some bad individual with bad intentions. We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening. ^ref-46917 +- Location: [2666](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2666) + +--- +## Highlight + +The blame game often reveals our preferences. We tend to look for bad guys who confirm our existing beliefs. ^ref-56769 +- Location: [2680](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2680) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when a scapegoat is being used and remembering that blaming an individual often steals the focus from other possible explanations and blocks our ability to prevent similar problems in the future. To control the blame instinct, resist finding a scapegoat. ^ref-50099 +- Location: [2890](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=2890) + +--- +## Highlight + +The Spanish flu that spread across the world in the wake of the First World War killed 50 million people—more people than the war had, although that was partly because the populations were already weakened after four years of war. As a result, global life expectancy fell by ten years, from 33 to 23, as you can see from the dip in the curve here. ^ref-21580 +- Location: [3117](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=3117) + +--- +## Highlight + +Factfulness is … recognizing when a decision feels urgent and remembering that it rarely is. To control the urgency instinct, take small steps. ^ref-32540 +- Location: [3181](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0756J1LLV&location=3181) + +--- diff --git a/docs/How Will You Measure Your Life.md b/docs/How Will You Measure Your Life.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..768b7f87 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/How Will You Measure Your Life.md @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '45998' + title: How Will You Measure Your Life? + author: 'Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon' + asin: B006ID0CH4 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-04-07' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ey-2UpI8L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 12 +--- +# How Will You Measure Your Life? + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [How Will You Measure Your Life?](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ID0CH4) | +| **Author** | [Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +How can I be sure that I will be successful and happy in my career? My relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness? I live a life of integrity—and stay out of jail? ^ref-27650 +- Location: [104](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=104) + +--- +## Highlight + +People often think that the best way to predict the future is by collecting as much data as possible before making a decision. But this is like driving a car looking only at the rearview mirror—because data is only available about the past. ^ref-37543 +- Location: [193](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=193) + +--- +## Highlight + +The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs ^ref-50438 +- Location: [244](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=244) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we find ourselves stuck in unhappy careers—and even unhappy lives—it is often the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of what really motivates us. ^ref-1106 +- Location: [297](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=297) + +--- +## Highlight + +Well, there is a second school of thought—often called two-factor theory, or motivation theory—that turns the incentive theory on its head. It acknowledges that you can pay people to want what you want—over and over again. But incentives are not the same as motivation. True motivation is getting people to do something because they want to do it. ^ref-29816 +- Location: [378](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=378) + +--- +## Highlight + +Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth. Feelings that you are making a meaningful contribution to work arise from intrinsic conditions of the work itself. Motivation is much less about external prodding or stimulation, and much more about what’s inside of you, and inside of your work. ^ref-51026 +- Location: [409](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=409) + +--- +## Highlight + +In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder. ^ref-43774 +- Location: [476](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=476) + +--- +## Highlight + +Change can often be difficult, and it will probably seem easier to just stick with what you are already doing. That thinking can be dangerous. You’re only kicking the can down the road, and you risk waking up one day, years later, looking into the mirror, asking yourself: “What am I doing with my life?” ^ref-29171 +- Location: [736](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=736) + +--- +## Highlight + +The person you are at work and the amount of time you spend there will impact the person you are outside of work with your family and close friends. ^ref-4733 +- Location: [927](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=927) + +--- +## Highlight + +Companies focus too much on what they want to sell their customers, rather than what those customers really need. What’s missing is empathy: a deep understanding of what problems customers are trying to solve. The same is true in our relationships: we go into them thinking about what we want rather than what is important to the other person. ^ref-21528 +- Location: [1159](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=1159) + +--- +## Highlight + +This may sound counterintuitive, but I deeply believe that the path to happiness in a relationship is not just about finding someone who you think is going to make you happy. Rather, the reverse is equally true: the path to happiness is about finding someone who you want to make happy, someone whose happiness is worth devoting yourself to. ^ref-60582 +- Location: [1364](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=1364) + +--- +## Highlight + +Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don’t even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. ^ref-4180 +- Location: [1923](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B006ID0CH4&location=1923) + +--- diff --git a/docs/How to Change Your Mind.md b/docs/How to Change Your Mind.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0625fa50 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/How to Change Your Mind.md @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '62079' + title: >- + How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us + About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence + author: Michael Pollan + asin: B076GPJXWZ + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Q04nfZtJL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 15 +--- +# How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076GPJXWZ) | +| **Author** | [Michael Pollan](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Set is the mind-set or expectation one brings to the experience, and setting is the environment in which it takes place. Compared with other drugs, psychedelics seldom affect people the same way twice, because they tend to magnify whatever’s already going on both inside and outside one’s head. ^ref-57753 +- Location: [209](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=209) + +--- +## Highlight + +Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an “experience of the numinous” to help them negotiate the second half of their lives. ^ref-20620 +- Location: [219](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=219) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states,” one of the researchers was quoted as saying. They “return with a new perspective and profound acceptance.” ^ref-64803 +- Location: [235](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=235) + +--- +## Highlight + +The study demonstrated that a high dose of psilocybin could be used to safely and reliably “occasion” a mystical experience—typically described as the dissolution of one’s ego followed by a sense of merging with nature or the universe. ^ref-11312 +- Location: [268](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=268) + +--- +## Highlight + +The efficiencies of the adult mind, useful as they are, blind us to the present moment. We’re constantly jumping ahead to the next thing. We approach experience much as an artificial intelligence (AI) program does, with our brains continually translating the data of the present into the terms of the past, reaching back in time for the relevant experience, and then using that to make its best guess as to how to predict and navigate the future. ^ref-12187 +- Location: [339](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=339) + +--- +## Highlight + +In 1971, Richard Nixon declared Timothy Leary, a washed-up psychology professor, “the most dangerous man in America.” ^ref-15297 +- Location: [920](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=920) + +--- +## Highlight + +“There is so much authority that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical structures.” ^ref-23784 +- Location: [930](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=930) + +--- +## Highlight + +The flight instructions advise guides to use mantras like “Trust the trajectory” and “TLO—Trust, Let Go, Be Open.” ^ref-4006 +- Location: [993](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=993) + +--- +## Highlight + +The majority of volunteers who had a mystical experience reported that their fear of death had either greatly diminished or completely disappeared. ^ref-30299 +- Location: [1214](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=1214) + +--- +## Highlight + +So after the Exxon Valdez ran aground off the coast of Alaska in 1989, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Stamets revived a long-standing idea of putting fungi to work breaking down petrochemical waste. ^ref-24462 +- Location: [1334](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=1334) + +--- +## Highlight + +The two psychiatrists had observed that the molecular structure of mescaline closely resembled that of adrenaline. ^ref-17257 +- Location: [2135](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=2135) + +--- +## Highlight + +Huxley’s proposal came in a couplet: To make this trivial world sublime, Take half a gramme of phanerothyme. His coinage combined the Greek words for “spirit” and “manifesting.” Perhaps wary of adopting such an overtly spiritual term, the scientist replied with his own rhyme: To fathom Hell or go angelic Just take a pinch of psychedelic. ^ref-22050 +- Location: [2367](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=2367) + +--- +## Highlight + +Schwartz said that several of the early computer engineers relied on LSD in designing circuit chips, especially in the years before they could be designed on computers. “You had to be able to visualize a staggering complexity in three dimensions, hold it all in your head. They found that LSD could help.” ^ref-61816 +- Location: [2635](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=2635) + +--- +## Highlight + +The whole notion of cybernetics, the idea that material reality can be translated into bits of information, may also owe something to the experience of LSD, with its power to collapse matter into spirit. ^ref-20264 +- Location: [2650](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=2650) + +--- +## Highlight + +Your ^ref-37328 +- Location: [4136](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076GPJXWZ&location=4136) + +### Note +Note to self: Stopped here. Will pick up later. + +--- diff --git a/docs/How to Kill a City.md b/docs/How to Kill a City.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..33c65061 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/How to Kill a City.md @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '1352' + title: >- + How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the + Neighborhood + author: Peter Moskowitz + asin: B01MXXCDVV + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91khmuusMnL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 13 +--- +# How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXXCDVV) | +| **Author** | [Peter Moskowitz](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Gentrification is a system that places the needs of capital (both in terms of city budget and in terms of real estate profits) above the needs of people. ^ref-30628 +- Location: [300](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=300) + +--- +## Highlight + +Gentrification, at its deepest level, is really about reorienting the purpose of cities away from being spaces that provide for the poor and middle classes and toward being spaces that generate capital for the rich. ^ref-57241 +- Location: [445](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=445) + +### Note +We see this in Tokyo as well. For example, Monzennakacho and Kiyosumi-Shirakawa were traditionally working-class districts. Now they are becoming fashionable places, with stylish cafes, bars, and boutiques. + +--- +## Highlight + +Before Katrina, the Lower Ninth was nearly 100 percent black, and despite its reputation as being a poor section of the city, it was actually mostly middle-income—the median area income at the 2000 census was $37,894. The area had one of the highest rates of African American homeownership in the country. During Katrina, the concrete barriers holding water back from the Industrial Canal broke, flooding the entire neighborhood, destroying the vast majority of its homes, and killing a thousand people in the Lower Ninth alone. After the storm, residents reported hearing loud booms as the storm encroached, and rumors flew over whether the levees holding back the Industrial Canal had been deliberately blown in order to save richer areas of the city. ^ref-35810 +- Location: [474](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=474) + +--- +## Highlight + +There’s some evidence that historically this phase of gentrification was often spearheaded by gays and lesbians in search of safe spaces outside homogenized suburbia where they could congregate. San Francisco experienced an influx of gays during World War II, thanks in part to the military’s practice of dishonorably discharging gay men into the city via military bases on the Pacific Ocean. ^ref-19819 +- Location: [610](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=610) + +--- +## Highlight + +Using the rent gap theory, Smith was able to accurately predict the gentrification of many New York neighborhoods, including the Lower East Side, Harlem, and Park Slope. He looked at tax arrears data and found that gentrification happened right after buildings hit their highest level of tax debt—a sign landlords were milking their buildings by not doing repairs or paying their taxes in preparation for flipping them. ^ref-39170 +- Location: [716](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=716) + +--- +## Highlight + +There’s no federal mandate that suggests the government should attempt to return people home after a disaster. So Katrina’s victims were given housing anywhere it was available. ^ref-31708 +- Location: [808](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=808) + +--- +## Highlight + +One state representative went as far as to say that public housing residents should be sterilized. And former US representative Richard Baker, who’d represented Baton Rouge for ten terms, said: “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans.… We couldn’t do it, but God did.” ^ref-25516 +- Location: [924](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=924) + +--- +## Highlight + +Road Home, Louisiana’s main program meant to help homeowners rebuild their houses, was meant to distribute billions of dollars from the federal government. But by 2008, two-thirds of the funds hadn’t yet been doled out. And in 2011, a court found that Road Home distributed grants in a racially biased way, awarding homeowners in majority-white neighborhoods more money to rebuild than those with similar homes in majority-black neighborhoods. ^ref-40676 +- Location: [944](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=944) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you look toward San Francisco and New York, cities that have a few decades of gentrification under their belts, you’ll see that the gentrifiers—punks, artists, LGBT communities—are inevitably replaced by a flood of hipsters with more money, and those hipsters with more money are then pushed out by yuppies with even more money. ^ref-50377 +- Location: [972](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=972) + +### Note +Is this factual? It sounds presumptuous. + +--- +## Highlight + +Freret feels like so many gentrifying neighborhoods in US cities. If you spun around a couple of times, you might think you were in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, or San Francisco’s Mission District. The Mojo Coffee on one of Freret’s corners could be in Brooklyn or Portland, or really anywhere with enough twentysomethings with MacBooks to sustain a business that makes most of its money from $4 cups of coffee. The tattoo place could come from Austin, Texas. The burger joint could be in Uptown Minneapolis. In the same way the outskirts of every city host a confluence of chain stores—Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, OfficeMax—every city now seems to contain a Freret Street. ^ref-25482 +- Location: [1006](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=1006) + +### Note +More bitterness by the author without considering any positives from this aspect of gentrificaton (e.g., job growth and crime reduction). + +--- +## Highlight + +When I asked if John and Alicia saw themselves—two young white transplants making enough money to buy a $370,000 house—as gentrifiers, both said they’d never thought about it, but that perhaps they were. “I don’t know if we’re doing the same thing as in Dalston,” John said. “But maybe we’re the pricks changing the neighborhood. Sometimes I feel guilty and wonder if the neighbors think, ‘There goes the neighborhood’ when they see me.” ^ref-20240 +- Location: [1022](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=1022) + +### Note +The author focuses too much on projecting white guilt, especially here. Blame is put on governments, corporations, and white people, but a city and its people (e.g., eduation and societal values) are not considered in retrospect. + +--- +## Highlight + +His shop is not meant for gentrifiers—nothing prevents them from coming in, but Dennis makes no effort to attract them. His employees are black, and from what I could tell, so are all of his customers. The shop is busy, Dennis said, but less busy than it used to be. Yet he sees new businesses catering to white people opening constantly. “Our customers are getting further and further away,” he said. “We’re struggling. But the welcome mat is rolled out for the newcomers.” ^ref-28663 +- Location: [1031](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=1031) + +### Note +This part makes no sense. You can't say that you don't care about attacting a demographic and then later say you're struggling and have the welcome mat for the people you don't care about having as customers. + +--- +## Highlight + +In ^ref-16855 +- Location: [1271](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01MXXCDVV&location=1271) + +### Note +Note to self: Stopped here. This book looks at gentrification at only one angle and continuously beats that argument into the ground. Also, the finger-pointing at specific demographics (whether caucasian, hipster, or rich) is off-putting. This book has not been an enjoyable or enlightening read. + +--- diff --git a/docs/How to Make Sense of Any Mess.md b/docs/How to Make Sense of Any Mess.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1e683567 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/How to Make Sense of Any Mess.md @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '54047' + title: 'How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody' + author: Abby Covert + asin: B00PKMUHKG + lastAnnotatedDate: '2023-03-05' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51GR+H2kvYL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 13 +--- +# How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PKMUHKG) | +| **Author** | [Abby Covert](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Data is facts, observations, and questions about something. Content can be cookies, words, documents, images, videos, or whatever you're arranging or sequencing. The difference between information, data, and content is tricky, but the important point is that the absence of content or data can be just as informing as the presence. ^ref-56658 +- Location: [100](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=100) + +--- +## Highlight + +To start to identify the mess you're facing, work through these questions: Users: Who are your intended users? What do you know about them? How can you get to know them better? How might they describe this mess? Stakeholders: Who are your stakeholders? What are their expectations? What are their thoughts about this mess? How might they describe it? Information: What interpretations are you dealing with? What information is being created through a lack of data or content? Current state: Are you dealing with too much information, not enough information, not the right information, or a combination of these? ^ref-59465 +- Location: [153](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=153) + +--- +## Highlight + +Perception is the process of considering, and interpreting something. Perception is subjective like truth is. Something that's beautiful to one person may be an eyesore to another. For example, many designers would describe the busy, colorful patterns in the carpets of Las Vegas as gaudy. People who frequent casinos often describe them as beautiful. ^ref-18062 +- Location: [173](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=173) + +--- +## Highlight + +We need to consider our intended users. Sometimes they're our customers or the public. Often times, they're also stakeholders, colleagues, employees, partners, superiors, or clients. These are the people who use our process. To determine who matters, ask these questions: Who's most important to get agreement from? Who's most important to serve? What words might make them defensive? What words might put them at ease? How open are they to change? How will this affect their lives? How does the current state of things look to them? Is that good or bad? ^ref-57672 +- Location: [204](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=204) + +--- +## Highlight + +To start with why, ask yourself: Why does this work need to be done? Why is change needed? Why do those changes matter? Why should other people care? Why hasn't this been tackled correctly? Why will this time be different? ^ref-3526 +- Location: [216](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=216) + +--- +## Highlight + +The words we choose change the things we make and how we think about them. Our words also change how other people make sense of our work. ^ref-58565 +- Location: [247](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=247) + +### Note +Important to keep in mind that this applies not only to professional, business-related content but also professional and personal communication across mediums (social media, private messaging, face-to-face, etc.). + +--- +## Highlight + +As you go through the mess, you'll encounter several types of players: Current users: People who interact with whatever you're making. Potential users: People you hope to reach. Stakeholders: People who care about the outcome of what you're making. Competitors: People who share your current or potential users. Distractors: People that could take attention away from your intent. ^ref-18386 +- Location: [282](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=282) + +### Note +I'd add "Advocates" to this list since they can play a big role in the success and improvement of a product and even company. + +--- +## Highlight + +Everything is easier with a map. Let me guide you through making a map for your own mess. On the following page is another favorite diagram of mine, the matrix diagram. The power of a matrix diagram is that you can make the boxes collect whatever you want. Each box becomes a task to fulfill or a question to answer, whether you're alone or in a group. Matrix diagrams are especially useful when you're facilitating a discussion, because they're easy to create and they keep themselves on track. An empty box means you're not done yet. ^ref-25246 +- Location: [442](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=442) + +--- +## Highlight + +People often get in their own way by becoming overwhelmed with choices, choosing not to choose instead. Others are limited by frustration over things they can't change immediately or easily. Change takes time. Start by choosing a direction to go toward. If you take one step in that direction each day, you'll get to the finish line in due time. If you spend all your time thinking about how far the finish line is and fearing never getting there, you'll make slower progress or never make it at all. ^ref-5691 +- Location: [456](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=456) + +### Note +Very true. I think many of us can imagine what a successful project looks like, but getting to that point and being satisfied with the outcome is often not so straightforward or without its challenges. + +Instead of being discouraged about processes or lack of progress, notice the little wins. Focusing on small achievements while striving to meet the main objective or ideal scenario will keep you motivated. + +--- +## Highlight + +A good controlled vocabulary considers: Variant spellings (e.g., American or British) Tone (e.g., Submit or Send) Scientific and popular terms (e.g., cockroaches or Periplaneta Americana) Insider and outsider terms (e.g., what we say at work; what we say in public) Acceptable synonyms (e.g., automobile, car, auto, or vehicle) Acceptable acronyms (e.g., General Electric, GE, or G.E.) ^ref-62445 +- Location: [550](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=550) + +### Note +Good things to note in a writing style guide. + +--- +## Highlight + +A goal is something specific that you want to do. A well-defined goal has the following elements: Intent: What are the specific results you want to see for your efforts? Baseline: What points of reference can you use to compare your progress with where you are today? Progress: How will you measure movement towards or away from your goal? ^ref-30783 +- Location: [649](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=649) + +--- +## Highlight + +Perfection isn't possible, but progress is. ^ref-39707 +- Location: [903](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=903) + +--- +## Highlight + +No matter what the mess is made of, we have many masters, versions of reality, and needs to serve. Information is full of history and preconceptions. ^ref-63894 +- Location: [936](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00PKMUHKG&location=936) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Information Architecture.md b/docs/Information Architecture.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..77ffa8a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Information Architecture.md @@ -0,0 +1,353 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '21807' + title: 'Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond' + author: 'Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango' + asin: B015D78JV6 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-12' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91mM8lOzugL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 52 +--- +# Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015D78JV6) | +| **Author** | [Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +IA allows us to think about problems through two important perspectives: that information products and services are perceived by people as places made of information, and that these information environments can be organized for optimum findability and understandability. ^ref-55428 +- Location: [227](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=227) + +--- +## Highlight + +The career of Richard Saul Wurman—originator of the term “information architect”—is based on using design to address information overload. His book Information Anxiety2 is considered a classic in the field. ^ref-54172 +- Location: [346](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=346) + +### Note +Check out this book. + +--- +## Highlight + +Increasingly, organizations have to consider how users will access their information in these and many other wildly different contexts. They will obviously want these experiences to be consistent and coherent regardless of where and how the information is being accessed. ^ref-27217 +- Location: [441](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=441) + +--- +## Highlight + +What is needed is a systematic, comprehensive, holistic approach to structuring information in a way that makes it easy to find and understand—regardless of the context, channel, or medium the user employs to access it. ^ref-46556 +- Location: [459](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=459) + +--- +## Highlight + +Digital experiences are new (and very real) types of places made of information; the design challenge lies in making them be coherent across multiple contexts. ^ref-2997 +- Location: [477](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=477) + +--- +## Highlight + +information architecture asks designers to define semantic structures that can be instantiated in multiple ways depending on the needs of different channels. ^ref-20890 +- Location: [484](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=484) + +--- +## Highlight + +A navigation structure that works well in a desktop web page should function differently when presented on a five-inch touchscreen, but the user’s experience with both should be coherent (Figure 1-7). ^ref-9113 +- Location: [485](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=485) + +--- +## Highlight + +In other words, when an organization serves its users via multiple channels, the users’ experiences across those channels should be consistent and familiar. ^ref-13677 +- Location: [498](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=498) + +--- +## Highlight + +Effective information environments strike a balance between structural coherence (high-level invariance) and suppleness (low-level flexibility), so well-designed information architectures consider both. ^ref-11227 +- Location: [525](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=525) + +--- +## Highlight + +Information architecture is focused on making information findable and understandable. ^ref-37387 +- Location: [551](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=551) + +--- +## Highlight + +It does this by asking the designer to think about problems through two important perspectives: that our products and services are perceived as places made of information, and that they function as ecosystems that can be designed for maximum effectiveness. ^ref-55029 +- Location: [553](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=553) + +--- +## Highlight + +Let’s start by clarifying what we mean by information architecture: The structural design of shared information environments The synthesis of organization, labeling, search, and navigation systems within digital, physical, and cross-channel ecosystems The art and science of shaping information products and experiences to support usability, findability, and understanding An emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape ^ref-46653 +- Location: [592](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=592) + +--- +## Highlight + +Users. Content. Context. You’ll hear these three words again and again throughout this book. They form the basis of our model for practicing effective information architecture design. ^ref-65272 +- Location: [702](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=702) + +--- +## Highlight + +An architect can’t huddle in a dark room with a bunch of content, organize it, and emerge with a grand solution. It simply won’t hold up against the light of day. ^ref-29577 +- Location: [704](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=704) + +--- +## Highlight + +We use the concept of an “information ecology”3 composed of users, content, and context to address the complex dependencies that exist in these information environments. And we draw upon our trusty Venn diagram (see Figure 2-6) to help people visualize and understand these relationships. The three circles illustrate the interdependent nature of users, content, and context within a complex, adaptive information ecology. Figure 2-6. The infamous three circles of information architecture ^ref-58707 +- Location: [710](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=710) + +--- +## Highlight + +Differences in customer preferences and behaviors within the physical world translate into different information needs and information-seeking behaviors in the context of websites and apps. For example, senior executives may need to find a few good documents on a particular topic very quickly. Research analysts may need to find all the relevant documents and may be willing to spend several hours on the hunt. Managers may have a high level of industry knowledge but low navigation and searching proficiency. Teenagers may be new to the subject area but skilled in handling a search engine. ^ref-1564 +- Location: [819](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=819) + +--- +## Highlight + +Do you know who’s using your system? Do you know how they’re using it? And perhaps most importantly, do you know what information they want from your systems? ^ref-55964 +- Location: [824](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=824) + +--- +## Highlight + +Information architecture starts with people and the reason they come to your site or use your app: they have an information need. ^ref-11569 +- Location: [856](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=856) + +--- +## Highlight + +There is no goal more important to designing information architecture than to satisfy peoples’ needs. ^ref-14321 +- Location: [862](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=862) + +--- +## Highlight + +Searching, browsing, and asking are all methods for finding, and these are the basic building blocks of information-seeking behavior. ^ref-6893 +- Location: [966](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=966) + +--- +## Highlight + +If the berry-picking model is common to your users, you’ll want to look for ways to support moving easily from search to browse and back again. Amazon.com provides one such integrated approach to consider: you can search within the categories you find through browsing, and you can browse through categories that you find by searching, as shown in Figure 3-5. Figure 3-5. Browsing and searching are tightly integrated on Amazon.com ^ref-50469 +- Location: [996](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=996) + +--- +## Highlight + +Another useful model is the “pearl-growing” approach. Users start with one or a few good documents that are exactly what they need. They want to get “more like this one.” ^ref-45530 +- Location: [1002](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1002) + +--- +## Highlight + +How can we learn about users’ information needs and seeking behaviors? There are a variety of user research methods to consider—too many to cover in detail here—so we’ll recommend a pair of our favorites: search analytics and contextual inquiry. Search analytics2 involves reviewing the most common search queries on your site (usually stored in your search engine’s logfiles) as a way to diagnose problems with search performance, metadata, navigation, and content. Search analytics provides a sense of what users commonly seek, and can help inform your understanding of their information needs and seeking behaviors (and it’s handy in other ways, too, such as developing task-analysis exercises). ^ref-62508 +- Location: [1023](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1023) + +--- +## Highlight + +The structure of information environments influences more than how we find stuff: it also changes how we understand it. ^ref-37322 +- Location: [1374](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1374) + +--- +## Highlight + +When designing information environments, we can learn from the design of physical environments. ^ref-9503 +- Location: [1376](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1376) + +--- +## Highlight + +Why is it important to be able to visualize information architecture? As we mentioned in Chapter 2, the field is abstract, and many who might conceptually understand the basic premise of information architecture won’t really “get it” until they see it and experience it. Also, a well-designed information architecture is invisible to users (which, paradoxically, is quite an unfair reward for IA success). ^ref-36282 +- Location: [1415](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1415) + +--- +## Highlight + +You might be surprised by how much information architecture you can see if you know how to look. For example, the information has been structured in some basic ways, which we’ll explain further in later chapters: Organization systems present the site’s information to us in a variety of ways, such as content categories that pertain to the entire campus (e.g., the top bar and its “Academics” and “Admission” choices), or to specific audiences (the block on the middle left, with such choices as “Future Students” and “Staff”). Navigation systems help users move through the content, such as with the custom organization of the individual drop-down menus in the main navigation bar. Search systems allow users to search the content; when the user starts typing in the site’s search bar, a list of suggestions is shown with possible matches for the user’s search term. Labeling systems describe categories, options, and links in language that (hopefully) is meaningful to users; you’ll see examples throughout the page (e.g., “Admission,” “Alumni,” “Events”). ^ref-55427 +- Location: [1440](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1440) + +--- +## Highlight + +A good information architecture is designed to anticipate this type of use; Keith Instone’s simple and practical “navigation stress test” is a great way to evaluate a site’s bottom-up information architecture. ^ref-48932 +- Location: [1499](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1499) + +### Note +Refer to this stress test in the future when organizing documentation. + +--- +## Highlight + +Our understanding of the world is largely determined by our ability to organize information. Where do you live? What do you do? Who are you? Our answers reveal the systems of classification that form the very foundations of our understanding. We live in towns within states within countries. We work in departments in companies in industries. We are parents, children, and siblings, each an integral part of a family tree. We organize to understand, to explain, and to control. ^ref-61503 +- Location: [1687](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1687) + +--- +## Highlight + +In recent years, increasing attention has been focused on the challenge of organizing information. Yet this challenge is not new. People have struggled with the difficulties of information organization for centuries. The field of librarianship has been largely devoted to the task of organizing and providing access to information. So why all the fuss now? Believe it or not, we’re all becoming librarians. This quiet yet powerful revolution is driven by the decentralizing force of the global Internet. Not long ago, the responsibility for labeling, organizing, and providing access to information fell squarely in the laps of librarians. ^ref-27986 +- Location: [1705](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1705) + +--- +## Highlight + +As the Internet provides users with the freedom to publish information, it quietly burdens them with the responsibility to organize that information. New information technologies open the floodgates for exponential content growth, which creates a need for innovation in content organization (see Figure 6-1 ^ref-1456 +- Location: [1714](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1714) + +### Note +Very true. Along with content creation and information sharing, we also need to consider how that content and information is organized. + +--- +## Highlight + +It is difficult and often misguided to attempt a one-size-fits-all approach to the organization of heterogeneous content. This is a fundamental flaw of many enterprise taxonomy initiatives. ^ref-33291 +- Location: [1764](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1764) + +--- +## Highlight + +We employ a mix of user research and analysis methods to gain real insight. How do users group the information? What types of labels do they use? How do they navigate? This challenge is complicated by the fact that most information environments are designed for multiple users, and all users will have different ways of understanding the information. Their levels of familiarity with your company and your content will vary. For these reasons, even with a massive barrage of user tests, it is impossible to create a perfect organization system. One system does not fit all! However, by recognizing the importance of perspective, by striving to understand the intended audiences through user research and testing, and by providing multiple navigation pathways, you can do a better job of organizing information for public consumption than your coworker does on his desktop computer. ^ref-46926 +- Location: [1780](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1780) + +--- +## Highlight + +There’s a simple reason why people find ambiguous organization schemes so useful: we don’t always know what we’re looking for. In some cases, you simply don’t know the correct label. In others, you may have only a vague information need that you can’t quite articulate. As we mentioned in Chapter 3, information seeking is often iterative and interactive. What you find at the beginning of your search may influence what you look for and find later in your search. This information-seeking process can involve a wonderful element of associative learning. Seek and ye shall find, but if the system is well designed, you also might learn along the way. ^ref-2940 +- Location: [1884](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=1884) + +--- +## Highlight + +In contrast to breadth, when considering depth, you should be even more conservative. If users are forced to click through more than two or three levels, they may simply give up and leave your website. At the very least, they’ll become frustrated. An excellent study conducted by Microsoft Research suggests that a balance of breadth and depth may provide the best results. ^ref-25946 +- Location: [2082](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=2082) + +--- +## Highlight + +For these reasons, hypertext is rarely a good candidate for the primary organization structure. Rather, it can be used to complement structures based upon the hierarchical or database models. Hypertext allows for useful and creative relationships between items and areas in the hierarchy. It usually makes sense to first design the information hierarchy and then identify ways in which hypertext can complement the hierarchy. ^ref-2186 +- Location: [2166](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=2166) + +### Note +This seems to be the opposite of what many in personal knowledge management follow. + +--- +## Highlight + +Iconic labels like these add aesthetic appeal to an information environment, and as long as they don’t compromise the system’s usability, there’s no reason not to use them. In fact, the iconic “language” might get established in your users’ minds through repeated exposure. In such situations, icons are especially useful shorthand, both representational and easy to visually recognize—a double bonus. Unless your system has a patient, loyal audience of users who are willing to learn your visual language, however, we suggest using iconic labels only for environments with a limited set of options, being careful not to place form ahead of function. ^ref-20472 +- Location: [2579](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=2579) + +--- +## Highlight + +We expect that as more people and devices become connected through these networks, dynamically generated social navigation systems will become increasingly complex, sophisticated, and useful. As a result, organizations will find new ways of tailoring the navigation structures of information environments to better serve the needs of individual users. However, we must be careful to not go overboard: systems that are too precisely tuned to the preferences of any one particular user’s social groups can easily devolve into echo chambers that downplay alternative points of view. ^ref-63872 +- Location: [3622](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=3622) + +### Note +We've reached this point already, probably around 2017 or 2018. + +--- +## Highlight + +Building context—allowing users to locate their positions within the system—is a critical function of navigation systems. ^ref-58864 +- Location: [3636](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=3636) + +--- +## Highlight + +Because many developers see search engines as the solution to the problems users have when trying to find information in their products, search engines become Band-Aids for poorly designed navigation systems and other architectural weaknesses. If you see yourself falling into this trap, you should probably suspend implementing your search system until you fix your navigation system’s problems. You’ll find that search systems often perform better if they can take advantage of aspects of strong navigation systems, such as the controlled vocabulary terms used to tag content. And users will often benefit even more from using both types of finding if they work together well. Of course, your product’s navigation might be a disaster for political reasons, such as an inability among your organization’s decision makers to agree on a system-wide navigation system. In such cases, reality trumps what ought to be, and search might indeed be your best alternative. ^ref-40268 +- Location: [3688](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=3688) + +--- +## Highlight + +Search helps fragmented sites Powell’s room after room after room of books is also a good analogy for the silos of content that make up so many intranets and large public websites. As is so often the case, each business unit has gone ahead and done its own thing, developing content haphazardly with few (if any) standards, and probably no metadata to support any sort of reasonable browsing. If this describes your situation, you have a long road ahead of you, and search won’t solve all of your problems—let alone your users’ problems. But your priority should be to set up a search system to perform full-text indexing of as much system content as possible, even across such traditional silos as company departments. Even if it’s only a stopgap, search will address your users’ dire need for finding information regardless of which business unit actually owns it. Search will also help you to get a better handle on what content is actually out there. ^ref-40576 +- Location: [3730](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=3730) + +--- +## Highlight + +Figure 11-1. The process of information architecture development ^ref-39880 +- Location: [5179](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5179) + +### Note +Good, simple diagram that explains that "project" phase and the ongoing process after the project. + +--- +## Highlight + +And last but not least is administration, the continuous evaluation and improvement of the system’s information architecture. Administration includes the daily tasks of tagging new documents and weeding out old ones. It also requires monitoring usage and user feedback, identifying opportunities to improve through major or minor adjustments. Effective administration can make a good information environment great. ^ref-43717 +- Location: [5206](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5206) + +--- +## Highlight + +A heuristic evaluation is an expert critique that tests a product or service against a set of design guidelines. It’s usually best to have someone outside the organization perform this critique, so this person is able to look with fresh eyes and be largely unburdened with political considerations. Ideally, the heuristic evaluation should occur before a review of background materials to avoid bias. At its simplest, a heuristic evaluation of an information architecture involves one expert reviewing an information environment and identifying major problems and opportunities for improvement. This expert brings to the table an unwritten set of assumptions about what does and doesn’t work, drawing upon experiences with many projects in many organizations. ^ref-30799 +- Location: [5393](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5393) + +--- +## Highlight + +Benchmarking can also be applied to a single information environment over time to measure improvements. We can use it to answer such return-on-investment (ROI) questions as: How much did the intranet redesign reduce our employees’ average time finding core documents? Has the website redesign improved our customers’ ability to find the products they need? Which aspects of our redesign have had a negative impact on user efficiency or effectiveness? ^ref-5156 +- Location: [5525](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5525) + +--- +## Highlight + +The advantages of before-and-after benchmarking include the following: Identifies and prioritizes information architecture features in the existing environment Encourages transition from broad generalizations (e.g., “Our site’s navigation stinks”) to specific, actionable definitions (“The label of this link should be updated because our testers didn’t know what it meant”) Creates a point of reference against which you can measure improvements ^ref-10595 +- Location: [5533](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5533) + +--- +## Highlight + +On the other hand, competitive benchmarking offers these benefits: Generates a laundry list of information architecture features, bringing lots of new ideas to table Encourages transition from broad generalizations (e.g., “Amazon is a good model”) to specific, actionable definitions (“Amazon’s personalization feature works well for frequent visitors”) Challenges embedded assumptions (e.g., “We should be like Fidelity”) and avoids copying the wrong features for the wrong reasons Establishes current position with respect to competitors and creates a point of reference against which to measure speed of improvement ^ref-29859 +- Location: [5538](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5538) + +--- +## Highlight + +As you consider integrating these user research methods into your design process, keep a couple of things in mind. First, observe the golden rule of discount usability engineering: any testing is better than no testing. Don’t let budgets or schedules become an excuse. Second, remember that users can be your most powerful allies. It’s easy for your colleagues and your boss to argue with you, but it’s difficult for them to argue with their customers and with real user behavior. User research is an extremely effective political tool. ^ref-11911 +- Location: [5566](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5566) + +--- +## Highlight + +An information architecture strategy is a high-level conceptual framework for structuring and organizing an information environment. It provides the firm sense of direction and scope necessary to proceed with confidence into the design and implementation phases. It also facilitates discussion and helps get people on the same page before moving into the more expensive design phase. Just as the operating plans of each department should be driven by a unifying business strategy, your information architecture should be driven by a holistic IA strategy. To succeed, you need a strategy that will work within the unique information ecology at hand. Based upon the results of your research into context, people, and content, you’re striving to design a strategy that balances the needs and realities of each. ^ref-27342 +- Location: [5939](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=5939) + +--- +## Highlight + +We often find it useful to go beyond the content management discussion and actually create a project plan for information architecture design as part of the strategy phase deliverables. This project plan can accomplish two major objectives. First, when developed in parallel with the strategy report, it forces the team to constantly ask questions such as: How will we accomplish that? How long will it take? Who will do it? What kinds of deliverables will be required? What are the dependencies? This ensures that information architecture strategy is grounded in reality. The second objective of the project plan is to form the bridge between strategy and design. It can be integrated with plans from other teams (e.g., interaction design, content authoring, or application development) toward the development of a structured schedule for overall site design. ^ref-47336 +- Location: [6463](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=6463) + +--- +## Highlight + +An information architecture strategy serves as a bridge between research and design. The IA strategy provides a high-level conceptual framework for structuring and organizing an information environment. You should start considering possible strategies for structuring and organizing the product before research begins. The main deliverable of the strategy phase is the strategy report. We find it useful to create a project plan for the design of the information architecture as part of the strategy phase. You’re not done when you’ve created the report—you also need to present and discuss it with stakeholders. ^ref-19944 +- Location: [6520](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=6520) + +--- +## Highlight + +An architecture style guide is a document that explains how the environment is organized, why it is organized that way, who it’s for, and how the architecture should be extended as the system grows. You should begin your guide with documentation of the mission and vision for the product, as it’s important to understand the original goals. Continue with information about the intended audiences. Who was it designed for? What are their goals? What assumptions were made about their information needs? Then, follow up with a description of the content development policy. What types of content will and won’t be included, and why? How often will it be updated? When will it be removed? And who will be responsible for it? ^ref-47871 +- Location: [7274](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B015D78JV6&location=7274) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Lost Connections.md b/docs/Lost Connections.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..40cbbebc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Lost Connections.md @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '50826' + title: >- + Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the + Unexpected Solutions + author: Johann Hari + asin: B07583XJRW + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zPsn0-GbL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 28 +--- +# Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07583XJRW) | +| **Author** | [Johann Hari](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +when scientists test the water supply of Western countries, they always find it is laced with antidepressants, because so many of us are taking them and excreting them that they simply can’t be filtered out of the water we drink every day. ^ref-10527 +- Location: [262](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=262) + +--- +## Highlight + +Everything that causes an increase in depression also causes an increase in anxiety, and the other way around. They rise and fall together. ^ref-56919 +- Location: [296](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=296) + +--- +## Highlight + +The primary cause of all this rising depression and anxiety is not in our heads. It is, I discovered, largely in the world, and the way we are living in it. ^ref-60383 +- Location: [330](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=330) + +--- +## Highlight + +“clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.”14 ^ref-48043 +- Location: [1053](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1053) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you spend so many of your waking hours deadening yourself to get through the day, it’s hard—he explained—to turn that off and be engaged with the people you love when you get home. ^ref-45558 +- Location: [1182](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1182) + +### Note +Very interesting way to look at how relationships can be strained simply because of an uninteresting, demoralizing job. + +--- +## Highlight + +“When work is enriching, life is fuller, and that spills over into the things you do outside work,” he said to me. But “when it’s deadening,” you feel “shattered at the end of the day, just shattered.” ^ref-51377 +- Location: [1320](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1320) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Disempowerment,” Michael told me, “is at the heart13 of poor health”—physical, mental, and emotional. ^ref-10036 +- Location: [1327](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1327) + +--- +## Highlight + +Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a “lack of balance between efforts and rewards.”15 ^ref-8996 +- Location: [1342](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1342) + +--- +## Highlight + +So every human instinct is honed not for life on your own, but for life like this, in a tribe. Humans need tribes12 as much as bees need a hive. ^ref-28104 +- Location: [1499](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1499) + +--- +## Highlight + +Protracted loneliness causes you to shut down socially, and to be more suspicious of any social contact, he found. You become hypervigilant. You start to be more likely to take offense where none was intended, and to be afraid of strangers. You start to be afraid of the very thing you need most. John calls this a “snowball” effect, as disconnection spirals into more disconnection. ^ref-9503 +- Location: [1591](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1591) + +--- +## Highlight + +To end loneliness, you need other people—plus something else. You also need, he explained to me, to feel you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. ^ref-65334 +- Location: [1615](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1615) + +--- +## Highlight + +Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else. ^ref-23874 +- Location: [1622](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1622) + +--- +## Highlight + +Of all the people they’ve treated at this rehab center, Hilarie told me, there are certain things almost everyone has in common. They were all anxious or depressed before the compulsion began. For the patient, the Internet obsession was a way of “escaping his anxiety, through distraction,” she said. “That is their exact profile, ninety percent of the time.” ^ref-4552 +- Location: [1714](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1714) + +--- +## Highlight + +We’re meant to be in connection with one another in a safe, caring way, and when it’s mediated by a screen, that’s absolutely not there.” ^ref-39900 +- Location: [1740](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=1740) + +--- +## Highlight + +Vincent began to ask all his patients these three simple questions. How did you feel when you lost weight? When in your life did you start to put on weight? What else happened around that time? ^ref-63459 +- Location: [2139](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2139) + +### Note +A good set of questions to ask, even by slightly modifying them to apply to other situations. + +--- +## Highlight + +Allen Barbour, an internist at Stanford University,15 had said that depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences. ^ref-17904 +- Location: [2218](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2218) + +--- +## Highlight + +Many animals in captivity lose the desire to have sex4—that’s why it’s so hard to get animals to mate in zoos. ^ref-21777 +- Location: [2497](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2497) + +### Note +"Captivity" here could be a metaphor for other situations in regard to humans. + +--- +## Highlight + +What if, she wondered, humans become more depressed when we are deprived of access to the kind of landscape we evolved in, too? ^ref-17624 +- Location: [2505](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2505) + +### Note +Interesting anecdote that has many layers to it. + +--- +## Highlight + +What they found was clear: the people who moved to green areas saw a big reduction in depression,6 and the people who moved away from green areas saw a big increase in depression. ^ref-51187 +- Location: [2515](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2515) + +--- +## Highlight + +This leads to another reason Isabel thinks depressed or anxious people feel better when they get out into natural landscapes. When you are depressed—as Isabel knows from her own experience—you feel that “now everything is about you.” You become trapped in your own story and your own thoughts, and they rattle around in your head with a dull, bitter insistence. Becoming depressed or anxious is a process of becoming a prisoner of your ego, where no air from the outside can get in. ^ref-59333 +- Location: [2573](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2573) + +--- +## Highlight + +As humans, “I think we have many modern forms of captivity,” she told me. The lesson the depressed bonobos had taught her, she said, is: “Don’t be in captivity. Fuck captivity.” ^ref-57058 +- Location: [2613](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=2613) + +--- +## Highlight + +Rufus tells his patients when they come to him feeling deeply depressed or anxious: You’re not crazy to feel so distressed. You’re not broken. You’re not defective. ^ref-34291 +- Location: [3105](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=3105) + +--- +## Highlight + +“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.” ^ref-30054 +- Location: [3107](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=3107) + +--- +## Highlight + +To them, an antidepressant wasn’t about changing your brain chemistry, an idea that seemed bizarre to their culture. It was about the community, together, empowering the depressed person to change his life. ^ref-34807 +- Location: [3135](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=3135) + +--- +## Highlight + +You don’t control your economic life, from the standpoint that it’s precarious whether you’ve got work at all, and then if you do have a job, you walk into the place, spend forty, fifty, sixty, eighty hours a week in this place. You don’t have free speech. You don’t have any sort of voting.” Anxiety and depression seem to him, he says, “rational reactions to the situation, as opposed to some kind of biological break.” ^ref-11757 +- Location: [4052](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=4052) + +--- +## Highlight + +Everybody wants to feel useful, and have purpose.”5 The humiliation and control of so many workplaces can suppress that, or drive it out of people, but it’s always there, and it reemerges in the right environment. ^ref-23193 +- Location: [4090](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=4090) + +--- +## Highlight + +our disconnection from nature is increasing our depression and anxiety. ^ref-57656 +- Location: [4666](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=4666) + +--- +## Highlight + +Some people will do it with psychedelics; more people will do it with loving-kindness meditation—and we need to look at exploring many other techniques too. But whatever way you choose, he says, “it’s not a trick of the mind. It’s an opening of the mind that allows you to see … [the] things that are inside you already.” ^ref-14338 +- Location: [4721](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07583XJRW&location=4721) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It.md b/docs/Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7b32d307 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It.md @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '18127' + title: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It + author: Kamal Ravikant + asin: B0086BX8UE + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/614kEo5YuFL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 9 +--- +# Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0086BX8UE) | +| **Author** | [Kamal Ravikant](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. ^ref-45880 +- Location: [116](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=116) + +--- +## Highlight + +Each time the mind shifts to darkness - fear, worry, pain, you name it - when you notice, clean the window.  Light will flow in. ^ref-39710 +- Location: [193](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=193) + +--- +## Highlight + +Fighting fear doesn't work.  It just drags us in closer.  One has to focus on what is real.  On the truth.  When in darkness, don't fight it.  You can't win.  Just find the nearest switch, turn on the light. ^ref-21390 +- Location: [384](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=384) + +--- +## Highlight + +And I would also share the next thing I've learned, which is, don't let yourself coast when things are going great. ^ref-4697 +- Location: [418](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=418) + +--- +## Highlight + +The goal, if there is one, is to practice until the thought you chose becomes the primary loop. ^ref-54903 +- Location: [441](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=441) + +--- +## Highlight + +The key, at least for me, has been to let go.  Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be.  And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world.  There is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced. ^ref-58997 +- Location: [454](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=454) + +--- +## Highlight + +real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations. ^ref-13482 +- Location: [488](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=488) + +--- +## Highlight + +If something else feels true for you, then do that.  I really don't think the details matter.  What matters is the practice, the commitment to living your truth. ^ref-28890 +- Location: [534](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=534) + +--- +## Highlight + +After all, it's the things we hold against ourselves that weigh us down more than anything. ^ref-9314 +- Location: [582](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0086BX8UE&location=582) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Mans Search for Meaning.md b/docs/Mans Search for Meaning.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..daed7898 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Mans Search for Meaning.md @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '18394' + title: Man's Search for Meaning + author: 'Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, and William J. Winslade' + asin: B009U9S6FI + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-05-21' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tdb1udZnL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 21 +--- +# Man's Search for Meaning + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Man's Search for Meaning](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009U9S6FI) | +| **Author** | [Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, and William J. Winslade](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it. ^ref-46354 +- Location: [27](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=27) + +--- +## Highlight + +Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. ^ref-53906 +- Location: [34](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=34) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. ^ref-44837 +- Location: [79](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=79) + +--- +## Highlight + +The salvation of man is through love and in love. ^ref-30933 +- Location: [520](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=520) + +--- +## Highlight + +Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. ^ref-21626 +- Location: [532](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=532) + +--- +## Highlight + +Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation. ^ref-23488 +- Location: [590](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=590) + +--- +## Highlight + +But at other times it was a very conscious effort on our part—in conformity with one of the camp’s most imperative laws of self-preservation: Do not be conspicuous. ^ref-64607 +- Location: [681](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=681) + +--- +## Highlight + +If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. ^ref-33738 +- Location: [878](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=878) + +--- +## Highlight + +A man who could not see the end of his “provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. ^ref-45346 +- Location: [917](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=917) + +--- +## Highlight + +Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. ^ref-39376 +- Location: [963](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=963) + +--- +## Highlight + +The prisoner who had lost faith in the future—his future—was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay. ^ref-27086 +- Location: [963](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=963) + +--- +## Highlight + +As we said before, any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners. ^ref-4073 +- Location: [991](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=991) + +--- +## Highlight + +When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden. ^ref-13103 +- Location: [1008](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1008) + +--- +## Highlight + +But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. ^ref-60658 +- Location: [1020](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1020) + +--- +## Highlight + +A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.” ^ref-35550 +- Location: [1034](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1034) + +--- +## Highlight + +For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. ^ref-27767 +- Location: [1334](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1334) + +--- +## Highlight + +But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.” Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation. ^ref-50285 +- Location: [1683](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1683) + +--- +## Highlight + +The more a patient, instead of forgetting himself through giving himself, directly strives for orgasm, i.e., sexual pleasure, the more this pursuit of sexual pleasure becomes self-defeating. Indeed, what is called “the pleasure principle” is, rather, a fun-spoiler. ^ref-49048 +- Location: [1690](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1690) + +--- +## Highlight + +Once an individual’s search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering. ^ref-51135 +- Location: [1692](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1692) + +--- +## Highlight + +Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. ^ref-11592 +- Location: [1821](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=1821) + +--- +## Highlight + +“The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” ^ref-7534 +- Location: [2015](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B009U9S6FI&location=2015) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Media Control.md b/docs/Media Control.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..40726c78 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Media Control.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '55243' + title: >- + Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media + Series) + author: Noam Chomsky + asin: B00541YJPM + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-10-10' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fg2sqW-ML._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 6 +--- +# Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00541YJPM) | +| **Author** | [Noam Chomsky](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +But more crucially they wanted to control the thought of the more intelligent members of the community in the United States, who would then disseminate the propaganda that they were concocting and convert the pacifistic country to wartime hysteria. That worked. It worked very well. And it taught a lesson: State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. ^ref-6200 +- Location: [55](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00541YJPM&location=55) + +--- +## Highlight + +Of course, there was an issue. The issue was, Do you support our policy? But you don’t want people to think about that issue. That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about. ^ref-56345 +- Location: [154](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00541YJPM&location=154) + +--- +## Highlight + +Obviously, there is a certain conception behind it. The conception of democracy is the one that I mentioned. The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” ^ref-39267 +- Location: [170](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00541YJPM&location=170) + +--- +## Highlight + +The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them. ^ref-3274 +- Location: [190](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00541YJPM&location=190) + +--- +## Highlight + +Over the last ten years, every year or two, some major monster is constructed that we have to defend ourselves against. There used to be one that was always readily available: The Russians. You could always defend yourself against the Russians. ^ref-23131 +- Location: [286](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00541YJPM&location=286) + +--- +## Highlight + +Then you have a magnificent victory over Grenada, Panama, or some other defenseless third-world army that you can pulverize before you ever bother to look at them—which is just what happened. That gives relief. We were saved at the last minute. That’s one of the ways in which you can keep the bewildered herd from paying attention to what’s really going on around them, keep them diverted and controlled. ^ref-18630 +- Location: [293](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00541YJPM&location=293) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Meditations for People WhoWorry Too Much.md b/docs/Meditations for People WhoWorry Too Much.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..26f2b690 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Meditations for People WhoWorry Too Much.md @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '8582' + title: Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much + author: Anne Wilson Schaef + asin: B00F8FA2B4 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2017-09-21' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61PmERgo52L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 49 +--- +# Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F8FA2B4) | +| **Author** | [Anne Wilson Schaef](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Our dislike of surprises is in direct proportion to our illusion of control. ^ref-16082 +- Location: [405](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=405) + +--- +## Highlight + +When I stretch out upon the earth and let my entire body relax upon her, I do feel better. Sometimes, I even go to a favorite tree and lean against her, taking the time to stay there until I feel better. ^ref-55726 +- Location: [421](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=421) + +--- +## Highlight + +if I am worrying about the people I love, I am often not respecting them and their ability to cope. ^ref-35505 +- Location: [454](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=454) + +--- +## Highlight + +Goodness is everyday. It is noticing—noticing a new dress, noticing pain, noticing when someone is not being honest. ^ref-58785 +- Location: [473](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=473) + +--- +## Highlight + +Goodness is the gentleness that makes loving others a process and not an event. ^ref-18013 +- Location: [474](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=474) + +--- +## Highlight + +Goodness is never out of style. And, we often have to slow down to see and experience it in ourselves and in others. ^ref-43539 +- Location: [475](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=475) + +--- +## Highlight + +What might be always robs us of what is! ^ref-41815 +- Location: [487](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=487) + +--- +## Highlight + +Letting others know what I need may be one of life’s most respectful acts. ^ref-54476 +- Location: [540](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=540) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we lose our sense of humor, we lose our perspective on life. Without humor, we can easily confuse reality and begin to think that we are the center of the universe and that what happens to us will, indeed, change the course of human events. ^ref-8187 +- Location: [557](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=557) + +--- +## Highlight + +My worry will not change the course of events. I am the only person I can change. ^ref-22815 +- Location: [596](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=596) + +--- +## Highlight + +Be completely where you are at the time you are there, not thinking of where you are going or what you are doing next. ^ref-59083 +- Location: [622](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=622) + +--- +## Highlight + +Happiness is right now. How often we rob ourselves of the happiness we are experiencing in the moment because we are afraid that it will go away. ^ref-18970 +- Location: [699](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=699) + +--- +## Highlight + +So many people destroy relationships by refusing to enjoy the happiness that is present today and worrying about what tomorrow will bring. ^ref-22148 +- Location: [704](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=704) + +--- +## Highlight + +Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested. ^ref-4359 +- Location: [739](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=739) + +--- +## Highlight + +I am, of course, a product of my culture. It’s comforting to know that we both can change. ^ref-27050 +- Location: [778](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=778) + +--- +## Highlight + +What if instead of “medicating” our fears and powerlessness we let ourselves feel these feelings without trying to medicate them with anything. ^ref-53303 +- Location: [797](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=797) + +--- +## Highlight + +Fear is a part of living. We all are afraid sometimes. There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. Usually, our fear of fear is the problem, and not the fear itself. Likewise, we often feel powerless because we are! Actually, we are powerless over much of life. The sooner we realize this powerlessness, the better off we will be. That’s where spirituality begins. ^ref-61003 +- Location: [798](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=798) + +--- +## Highlight + +How much of our “worry time” could be spent doing something that we want to do or something the person we are worrying about would want us to do? Some of us are good at doing “double time” and can work our worry in while we are doing other things. And, I am not sure that is efficient. We may just be giving part of ourselves to each task. ^ref-33296 +- Location: [862](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=862) + +--- +## Highlight + +My sadness often exists only to remind me of the joy in my life. ^ref-32307 +- Location: [920](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=920) + +--- +## Highlight + +How much time we waste in what might have been when we have only to deal with what is! Often the anticipation is much worse than dealing with the actual event, no matter how horrible it is. Pain is that way. I think we cause pain by anticipating it. Better to deal with it as we must. ^ref-17679 +- Location: [1003](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1003) + +--- +## Highlight + +How difficult it is to just let a relationship be, not manage or direct it, and just participate in it. ^ref-56106 +- Location: [1026](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1026) + +--- +## Highlight + +It’s important not to blurt out everything that comes to our minds, especially if we aren’t clear. And, it’s important to take responsibility for what we say. ^ref-34156 +- Location: [1052](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1052) + +--- +## Highlight + +What a loss it is that we have come to think that when no one else is around we are with no one. When we are alone we are, indeed, with one of the most important people in our lives. If we use our alone-time to worry, we transform alone-time into isolation, and isolation will destroy us. ^ref-61854 +- Location: [1126](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1126) + +--- +## Highlight + +As worriers, we want to know exactly what’s possible and what’s impossible and then go from there. We would much rather know something is impossible before we attempt it than attempt it and thus prove it is impossible. ^ref-48433 +- Location: [1157](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1157) + +--- +## Highlight + +One of the ways we worriers have learned to cope is by not telling others about our worrying for fear they will start worrying. Somehow, we believe we are such good cons that if we don’t tell others about our worrying they will not know that we are worrying. ^ref-61907 +- Location: [1189](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1189) + +--- +## Highlight + +Often, sharing our concerns gives us an opportunity to let them go. We do need to look carefully, however, at whether we are really ready to give them up. ^ref-41719 +- Location: [1193](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1193) + +--- +## Highlight + +Remember, those who genuinely care about us truly want to know what’s going on with us. ^ref-45020 +- Location: [1195](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1195) + +--- +## Highlight + +Often, our minds are our worst enemies. Or, we let them be. With little effort at all we can think ourselves into a complete tizzy. We cannot actually live in the future … but … our minds can and do. ^ref-20435 +- Location: [1212](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1212) + +--- +## Highlight + +“What others think about me and say about me(!) is none of my business,” ^ref-44235 +- Location: [1236](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1236) + +--- +## Highlight + +Worrying pulls us into ourselves and away from the other person and we can hide behind walls of concern. Unfortunately, walls of concern are still walls, and walls always separate us from those we love the most. ^ref-61705 +- Location: [1307](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1307) + +--- +## Highlight + +Good things happen every day. We have only to notice. ^ref-14929 +- Location: [1444](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1444) + +--- +## Highlight + +The problem with worrying is, the more we do it, the more we isolate ourselves. The problem with isolating ourselves is, the more we do it, the more we do it. ^ref-55540 +- Location: [1662](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1662) + +--- +## Highlight + +Control is almost a knee-jerk reaction to worry. We also become very self-centered. As we move more and more into our world of worry, our world gets smaller and smaller and we tend to believe it revolves around us. ^ref-63287 +- Location: [1839](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1839) + +--- +## Highlight + +These brains, miraculous though they are, always need a certain chemical produced in the body to keep them in balance. It seems that certain chemicals can only be produced through laughter, and laughter at oneself seems to produce the most potent dosage. ^ref-58190 +- Location: [1852](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1852) + +--- +## Highlight + +We also get in trouble when we believe that relationships are built upon focusing on the other person. Because when we focus upon the other person we also tend to focus upon what is wrong with them and what we need to do to fix them or to get them to fix themselves. ^ref-42552 +- Location: [1964](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=1964) + +--- +## Highlight + +We tend to send our energy where our attention is. Unfortunately, not all energy is positive. And when we send our energy in a negative way, we may well send those we love negative energy without even realizing it. ^ref-53928 +- Location: [2087](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2087) + +--- +## Highlight + +When it gets right down to it, it is really none of our business what others think about us or what they say about us. We have no control over either. It is, however, up to us whether we send out engraved invitations to move into our minds. ^ref-51025 +- Location: [2314](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2314) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our tendency to blame others can be a red flag that there is something going on that we need to look at. For many of us, our knee-jerk reaction is to look for someone to blame. We may even focus upon ourselves as a good “blame object” and in that process, objectify ourselves just as we objectify others. ^ref-3667 +- Location: [2464](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2464) + +--- +## Highlight + +The issue is to stop and see what we are feeling and see what we need. ^ref-5571 +- Location: [2467](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2467) + +--- +## Highlight + +In our illusionary approach to our lives we have been able to fool ourselves into thinking that things should go right and … we have a very specific idea of what “right” is. ^ref-28101 +- Location: [2498](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2498) + +--- +## Highlight + +For meditation to be an everyday thing, we need to discover the ways we already have meditation in our lives. ^ref-29681 +- Location: [2511](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2511) + +--- +## Highlight + +We put foods, medicines, tobacco smoke, and drugs and alcohol into our bodies without stopping to think what we are doing to them … and, still they carry on. ^ref-26651 +- Location: [2664](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2664) + +--- +## Highlight + +How often do we let up from battering our bodies to just say “thanks”? ^ref-51450 +- Location: [2667](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2667) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our bodies get tired for a reason. Our bodies get sick for a reason. Ignoring what our bodies are telling us is a form of abuse and neglect. ^ref-34093 +- Location: [2865](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=2865) + +--- +## Highlight + +We want our relationships to last and we just can’t stand the tension of seeing whether they will last or not. We would rather know what we are dealing with and then we will deal with it. ^ref-25314 +- Location: [3004](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=3004) + +--- +## Highlight + +We get to a point where we would rather destroy the possibility than wait for the slow, gradual evolution of a relationship. ^ref-46618 +- Location: [3006](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=3006) + +--- +## Highlight + +Yet, teasing can be very loving. In fact, many people only tease those they love and teasing is a loving form of intimacy. Teasing can be a way of saying, “I see this in you and I love you for it.” ^ref-30241 +- Location: [3090](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=3090) + +--- +## Highlight + +Let’s take hope, for example. When our minds narrow down the things we hope for to one or even two possibilities, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. We are narrowing the possibility of what we want, and we are increasing the odds against something good happening a thousandfold. ^ref-7240 +- Location: [3222](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=3222) + +--- +## Highlight + +We need to learn the difference between isolation and alone-time. ^ref-6392 +- Location: [4158](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00F8FA2B4&location=4158) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Modern Technical Writing.md b/docs/Modern Technical Writing.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..86f87820 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Modern Technical Writing.md @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '63265' + title: 'Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software Documentation' + author: Andrew Etter + asin: B01A2QL9SS + lastAnnotatedDate: '2023-03-13' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71N2zYWXZoL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 20 +--- +# Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software Documentation + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software Documentation](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A2QL9SS) | +| **Author** | [Andrew Etter](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Great documentation makes new hires productive in days instead of weeks, prevents thousands of calls to customer support, is the difference between crippling downtime and rock solid stability, and inspires true, fervent love of development platforms. ^ref-1121 +- Location: [28](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=28) + +--- +## Highlight + +Huge blocks of writing look intimidating, and excessive content waters down useful content. Identify what the audience actually needs to know, and include only that. ^ref-12458 +- Location: [47](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=47) + +--- +## Highlight + +Technical writers, first and foremost, are testers and researchers. Your job is to know what people want to achieve and precisely how to achieve it. Communicating that knowledge is the last step of the process and really shouldn't comprise more than 10% of your time. ^ref-54235 +- Location: [55](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=55) + +--- +## Highlight + +When people say, "I was writing all day," they don't mean they were intermittently typing for eight straight hours. They mean they spent the entire day engaged in the writing process. And a big part of that process is installing, configuring, and testing software. In other words, learning. ^ref-25595 +- Location: [57](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=57) + +--- +## Highlight + +The learning process is time-consuming, so don't be discouraged if your measurable output is essentially nil for days or even weeks after moving onto a new project. ^ref-27878 +- Location: [68](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=68) + +--- +## Highlight + +What is this product? Why would anyone want it? These two questions are incredibly challenging for the average technical writer, a group of people much more focused on how than what or why. I've struggled with them many times. But if you can't answer these questions, you need to go back to the research phase, because you don't understand your audience at all. The answer to this question shouldn't come from a marketing department. Instead, it should be an honest, buzzword-free appraisal of capabilities and use cases. ^ref-64775 +- Location: [116](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=116) + +--- +## Highlight + +How does this product fit into a broader ecosystem, if at all? Does it have any dependencies? ^ref-62670 +- Location: [120](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=120) + +--- +## Highlight + +Where can I acquire this product? If there are multiple distribution packages, which should I choose and why? ^ref-13388 +- Location: [123](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=123) + +--- +## Highlight + +How do I install the product? What are the basic configuration options, if any? ^ref-1523 +- Location: [126](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=126) + +--- +## Highlight + +What does a simple, start to finish operation look like? ^ref-64678 +- Location: [128](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=128) + +--- +## Highlight + +One of the most important functions of a technical writer is to record changes to a product. Good change logs convince people to upgrade, inspire confidence in the direction of a product, and help developers take advantage of new features. ^ref-47099 +- Location: [162](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=162) + +--- +## Highlight + +Even the best documentation, like software, eventually goes out of date. PDFs get downloaded onto hard drives and then sit there like day-old bagels, growing more and more stale until they're actively harmful. You can never update them. Even if someone downloads updated versions, every modern web browser saves the new files as Admin_Guide (1).pdf rather than overwriting the old files. The whole situation gives me the chills. Hosting your content on a website gives you the power to fix inaccuracies almost instantly and keep your content in sync with the latest software release. ^ref-64342 +- Location: [170](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=170) + +--- +## Highlight + +However you decide to write and distribute your documentation, you should do it in a way that encourages others to contribute. ^ref-5958 +- Location: [179](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=179) + +### Note +This is extremely important. We can only become better at writing by involving ourselves in the process of writing. + +If we can give our colleagues the ability to improve or update documentation, we can become more knowledgeable about the intricacies of the product we are offering. + +Even better (and arguably), if we can give users the ability to revise our documentation, we can gain new perspective directly from them. This reduces the need for us to actively reach out or make assumptions about the clarity of our documentation. + +--- +## Highlight + +Storing content directly in XML-based languages like XHTML, DocBook, and DITA dramatically reduces people's ability to contribute. ^ref-61883 +- Location: [226](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=226) + +--- +## Highlight + +Rather than being mere deterrents (like writing in XML), specialized applications actually prevent people from contributing. ^ref-64497 +- Location: [230](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=230) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you have the opportunity to store your documentation in the same repository as its corresponding product source code, strongly consider doing so. The approach has some real appeal: Documentation and code branches stay in sync. Developers are more likely to contribute if they don't have to clone a separate repository. Of course, this approach also has some cons: If a repository is large (e.g. 2 GB), checking out the entire repository just to access the 40 KB ./docs directory can dramatically slow down documentation builds. Onerous commit hooks and pull request submission policies, designed to keep a code base stable, can make even simple documentation changes a chore. If your product is composed of code from many repositories, a single documentation repository offers simpler builds and a more cohesive writing experience. ^ref-39246 +- Location: [284](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=284) + +--- +## Highlight + +The worst duplication sin of all is to store similar copies of the same documentation in version control. The root cause here is typically the desire to have one version for coworkers and another for customers, and it inevitably leads to a maintenance nightmare. Instead of multiple copies, the better approach is to use a feature sometimes called "conditional text." Conditional text lets you selectively include or exclude files (or portions of files) in the final output. AsciiDoc supports conditional text under the name "conditional inclusion macros." reStructuredText supports it through Sphinx with the .. only:: directive. Unfortunately, this feature is not present in Markdown. ^ref-52088 +- Location: [303](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=303) + +--- +## Highlight + +Unfortunately, doing your job well might actually cause lawsuits. I've heard unsubstantiated rumors of patent trolls using publicly-available technical documentation as evidence of infringement. In this case, the open, forward-thinking spirit of enabling users to contribute to the documentation can be financially disastrous for your company. You might need to keep your source files in an internal repository, rather than GitHub. Further, you might need to protect your documentation website behind a customer login page. You should still use lightweight markup and distributed version control so that coworkers can contribute, but the general public might not be able to. ^ref-26875 +- Location: [399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=399) + +### Note +Interesting, considering many organizations are going the open-source route of publishing not only their product but also their documentation. + +--- +## Highlight + +To show you how impressed they are, IT builds you a Linux VM with 256 MB of RAM and 3 GB of disk space and refuses to give you superuser privileges.↩︎ But they still don't submit the pull request.↩︎ ^ref-43071 +- Location: [509](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=509) + +### Note +Comedy XD + +--- +## Highlight + +Learn everything about a subject. Write down exactly what an audience needs to know and no more. Make the content beautiful, discoverable, scannable, and searchable. Consider everything a draft, and iterate relentlessly. Make contribution simple. ^ref-18965 +- Location: [514](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01A2QL9SS&location=514) + +### Note +Good takeaways from this book for both technical writers and non-technical writers. + +--- diff --git a/docs/Moonlight Blogger.md b/docs/Moonlight Blogger.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3b50bb95 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Moonlight Blogger.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '27659' + title: 'Moonlight Blogger: From The Subversive Copy Editor Blog' + author: Carol Fisher Saller + asin: B0073XM668 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-09-05' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XFceh+1hL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 2 +--- +# Moonlight Blogger: From The Subversive Copy Editor Blog + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Moonlight Blogger: From The Subversive Copy Editor Blog](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073XM668) | +| **Author** | [Carol Fisher Saller](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +People who tinker with cars, adjust recipes, alter clothes, or copyedit have in common that we start with something that’s not perfect yet and use our minds and tools to bring it into alignment, give it more flavor, make it fit. The best of us are masters of improvisation. And when we’re in the midst of concentrating and things are falling into place—in the midst of what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi made famous as “flow”—well, don’t let anyone tell you that’s tedium or drudgery. It’s fun. ^ref-18138 +- Location: [585](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0073XM668&location=585) + +--- +## Highlight + +Right, ^ref-43340 +- Location: [830](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0073XM668&location=830) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Overrun.md b/docs/Overrun.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..11fbed99 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Overrun.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '4801' + title: 'Overrun: Jungle Warfare in Vietnam (No Safe Spaces)' + author: Anthony H Johnson + asin: B07J48HDK9 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2021-07-19' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81LNf27jDcL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 1 +--- +# Overrun: Jungle Warfare in Vietnam (No Safe Spaces) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Overrun: Jungle Warfare in Vietnam (No Safe Spaces)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J48HDK9) | +| **Author** | [Anthony H Johnson](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +The reason for the seemingly super strength and ability to shrug off bullet impacts would become apparent later when we examined the bodies of the dead North Vietnamese soldiers. They were “sappers.” Our senior NCOs explained that sappers are basically suicide troops. They have tourniquets tied around their arms and legs to stop the bleeding before they suffer the inevitable wounds that will cause it. They are high on opium to kill the pain from the injuries they know they will receive. They are armed with a rifle and typically one 30-round magazine, in addition to grenades or satchel charges of explosives. Their mission is to breach their enemy's position and kill as many as possible, then make it back to their side to hand off their rifle and die. Apparently, they get some heavenly reward for that action. Jungle warfare at night is not precise. It is hectic, confusing and scary. It is challenging to take out a sapper before he completes his mission. It is necessary to do neurological damage to disable him physically, because he will not bleed to death and is not immobilized by pain. You have to shoot the sapper enough times to get a hit in his brain or spinal cord. If you break the spinal cord, everything below that break stops working….. immediately. ^ref-61645 +- Location: [105](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07J48HDK9&location=105) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Own the Day, Own Your Life.md b/docs/Own the Day, Own Your Life.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a904aace --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Own the Day, Own Your Life.md @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '44746' + title: >- + Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, + Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex + author: Aubrey Marcus + asin: B072HLS5QJ + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Y4CxJolIL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 19 +--- +# Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072HLS5QJ) | +| **Author** | [Aubrey Marcus](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +When you’re dehydrated and have nothing in your stomach, the caffeine enters your bloodstream incredibly fast, releasing a flood of stress hormones from your adrenal glands that your body reads as a fight-or-flight trigger. ^ref-59828 +- Location: [141](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=141) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you are going to own the day, you must own your breath. ^ref-20699 +- Location: [502](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=502) + +--- +## Highlight + +Cold showers have also been suggested as a potential treatment for depression. A lot of this rests on the ability of the cold to modulate inflammation. ^ref-2275 +- Location: [524](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=524) + +--- +## Highlight + +The Power Shower Turn the shower to hot and wash. Do Wim Hof breathing (thirty to fifty breaths, or until you feel tingling and/or mild light-headedness). Turn the shower as cold as it can get. Continue Wim Hof breaths until breathing calms. Hold at the bottom of breath until the gasp reflex kicks in. Optional: Repeat breathing cycle up to twice more, at your discretion, with cold water running continuously or with periods of warm water between cycles to create contrast. Total cold water exposure = ~3 minutes ^ref-5263 +- Location: [619](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=619) + +--- +## Highlight + +As the great swordsman Miyamoto Musashi said, “Today is victory over yourself of yesterday, tomorrow is victory over a lesser foe.” ^ref-45202 +- Location: [682](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=682) + +--- +## Highlight + +That eating pumpkin seeds before you have sex is a supplement (it increases nitric oxide, which increases blood flow). ^ref-23417 +- Location: [1147](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=1147) + +--- +## Highlight + +Far too much media is designed to provoke and distract—the opposite of both mindfulness and mindfillness—and so when people think they are informing themselves, they are in fact falling for a giant con. ^ref-59426 +- Location: [1501](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=1501) + +--- +## Highlight + +Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ^ref-21018 +- Location: [2000](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=2000) + +--- +## Highlight + +When you’re cooking for your health, even if you’re indulging in some delicious pan-fried foods, you want to make sure you don’t heat your fats—olive oil, butter, coconut oil—to what is called their “smoke point.” This is where healthy fats start to turn unhealthy, because once they burn, they start to produce toxic compounds called aldehydes, which, interestingly, are also in the class of compounds that accumulate when we drink too much alcohol, making us feel hungover. ^ref-8117 +- Location: [2512](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=2512) + +--- +## Highlight + +In a study of 1,139 children, researchers found a 50–90 percent increased risk of ADHD in children with the highest levels of pesticides in their urine, compared to those with the lowest levels. ^ref-23566 +- Location: [2531](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=2531) + +--- +## Highlight + +An analysis of over fifteen clinical trials, compiled well over a decade ago, showed that artificial food dyes increased hyperactivity in children. And yet they still remain in food. ^ref-60682 +- Location: [2537](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=2537) + +--- +## Highlight + +Tartrazine, also known as FD&C Yellow #5, found in many of those tasty mac-and-cheese boxes and Kraft singles marketed to kids, is particularly ugly, having been correlated with behavioral changes including irritability, restlessness, depression, and difficulty sleeping. ^ref-15456 +- Location: [2539](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=2539) + +--- +## Highlight + +You can find binaural beats tracks for sale online or on YouTube, but to get you started I have hosted two of mine for free at aubreymarcus.com/beats. ^ref-40907 +- Location: [2817](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=2817) + +--- +## Highlight + +In an earlier era, we used to do things socially—people were in bowling leagues, played music with each other, sat on their porches and talked. Ironically, in a world of social media, we’ve gotten considerably less social. The result has been an epidemic of existential angst and loneliness. The easiest way to solve that in your life is to actively seek out in-person connection and community after work. ^ref-28875 +- Location: [3317](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=3317) + +--- +## Highlight + +A 2015 Journal of American Medical Association meta-analysis of nearly eighty cannabinoid trials across more than 6,400 participants found a 64 percent reduction in chronic pain. ^ref-11605 +- Location: [3370](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=3370) + +--- +## Highlight + +L-theanine, which occurs naturally in green tea, is great at mimicking the effects of GABA. Matcha, as we described in chapter 6, is the best source. ^ref-51445 +- Location: [3784](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=3784) + +### Note +This could be why I rarely feel hungover after drinking ryoku-cha hai (green tea and shochu). + +--- +## Highlight + +The famous nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.” ^ref-47765 +- Location: [4530](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=4530) + +--- +## Highlight + +Visualization is a prime example of that intentional placebo at work, one we’ve already seen in this book with those study participants who visualized themselves lifting heavy weights and getting stronger as a result. The same principle applies with owning the day. Visualizing yourself doing it will have a positive impact. ^ref-10297 +- Location: [4863](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=4863) + +--- +## Highlight + +Find your own mantra, and use it daily, you will not regret it ^ref-13425 +- Location: [4937](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B072HLS5QJ&location=4937) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Rashomon and Other Stories.md b/docs/Rashomon and Other Stories.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..172a3ade --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Rashomon and Other Stories.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '48573' + title: Rashomon and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics) + author: 'Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Howard Hibbett, and Kojima Takashi' + asin: B005CVV1SM + lastAnnotatedDate: '2018-12-25' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81UtnEcO+ZL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 2 +--- +# Rashomon and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Rashomon and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CVV1SM) | +| **Author** | [Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Howard Hibbett, and Kojima Takashi](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +No torture can make me confess what I don’t know. ^ref-63346 +- Location: [128](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005CVV1SM&location=128) + +--- +## Highlight + +Time and tide wait for no man. A year passed like a snowflake that falls into the river, a moment white and then gone forever. ^ref-10288 +- Location: [654](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005CVV1SM&location=654) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Rising Above a Toxic Workplace.md b/docs/Rising Above a Toxic Workplace.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e566757b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Rising Above a Toxic Workplace.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '43606' + title: >- + Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy + Environment + author: 'Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra' + asin: B00J48B04Y + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-01-09' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EH3oLiMnL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 5 +--- +# Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J48B04Y) | +| **Author** | [Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +It is, above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. ^ref-20946 +- Location: [196](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00J48B04Y&location=196) + +--- +## Highlight + +Life is difficult and always has been, yet today’s economic pressures, uncertainties, complexities, and social breakdowns generate endless reasons workplaces fail to encourage and empower their employees. ^ref-48016 +- Location: [198](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00J48B04Y&location=198) + +--- +## Highlight + +“People I admire and respect value me. That’s where the truth is.” ^ref-58331 +- Location: [213](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00J48B04Y&location=213) + +--- +## Highlight + +Its thesis held that workers keep getting promoted till they reach the level of their incompetence. Often individuals are promoted into positions of power without the skills to exercise power. ^ref-46723 +- Location: [404](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00J48B04Y&location=404) + +--- +## Highlight + +He is also intentional about positive self-talk. He tells himself he comes from sturdy stock and knows how to work hard and take what comes. He remembers his father who survived far more difficult jobs. ^ref-64100 +- Location: [1122](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00J48B04Y&location=1122) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Sapiens.md b/docs/Sapiens.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b61dc671 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Sapiens.md @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '19945' + title: 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' + author: Yuval Noah Harari + asin: B00ICN066A + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ZR6hn+GbL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 14 +--- +# Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ICN066A) | +| **Author** | [Yuval Noah Harari](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +We ^ref-21724 +- Location: [214](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=214) + +--- +## Highlight + +Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? ^ref-35381 +- Location: [532](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=532) + +--- +## Highlight + +The instinct to gorge on high-calorie food was hard-wired into our genes. ^ref-50641 +- Location: [683](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=683) + +--- +## Highlight + +The proponents of this ‘ancient commune’ theory argue that the frequent infidelities that characterise modern marriages, and the high rates of divorce, not to mention the cornucopia of psychological complexes from which both children and adults suffer, all result from forcing humans to live in nuclear families and monogamous relationships that are incompatible with our biological software.1 ^ref-60175 +- Location: [697](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=697) + +--- +## Highlight + +How did it happen that in the one species whose success depends above all on cooperation, individuals who are supposedly less cooperative (men) control individuals who are supposedly more cooperative (women)? ^ref-56248 +- Location: [2484](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=2484) + +### Note +What a blanket statement... + +--- +## Highlight + +For thousands of years, philosophers, thinkers and prophets have besmirched money and called it the root of all evil. Be that as it may, money is also the apogee of human tolerance. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money is the only trust system created by humans that can bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to money, even people who don’t know each other and don’t trust each other can nevertheless cooperate effectively. ^ref-39177 +- Location: [2872](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=2872) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you experience sadness without craving that the sadness go away, you continue to feel sadness but you do not suffer from it. There can actually be richness in the sadness. If you experience joy without craving that the joy linger and intensify, you continue to feel joy without losing your peace of mind. ^ref-12165 +- Location: [3472](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=3472) + +--- +## Highlight + +Gautama developed a set of meditation techniques that train the mind to experience reality as it is, without craving. These practices train the mind to focus all its attention on the question, ‘What am I experiencing now?’ rather than on ‘What would I rather be experiencing?’ ^ref-24957 +- Location: [3476](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=3476) + +--- +## Highlight + +In 1700 the world was home to some 700 million humans. In 1800 there were 950 million of us. By 1900 we almost doubled our numbers to 1.6 billion. And by 2000 that quadrupled to 6 billion. Today there are just shy of 7 billion Sapiens. ^ref-10505 +- Location: [5425](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=5425) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you were an eighteen-year-old youth in a small village 5,000 years ago you’d probably think you were good-looking because there were only fifty other men in your village and most of them were either old, scarred and wrinkled, or still little kids. But if you are a teenager today you are a lot more likely to feel inadequate. ^ref-15659 +- Location: [5937](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=5937) + +--- +## Highlight + +People are made happy by one thing and one thing only – pleasant sensations in their bodies. ^ref-40524 +- Location: [5967](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=5967) + +### Note +This is vague. Are we talking about physical or mental sensations? It all depends on the person. + +--- +## Highlight + +It is true that married people are happier than singles and divorcees, but that does not necessarily mean that marriage produces happiness. It could be that happiness causes marriage. Or more correctly, that serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin bring about and maintain a marriage. People who are born with a cheerful biochemistry are generally happy and content. Such people are more attractive spouses, and consequently they have a greater chance of getting married. They are also less likely to divorce, because it is far easier to live with a happy and content spouse than with a depressed and dissatisfied one. ^ref-57509 +- Location: [5995](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=5995) + +--- +## Highlight + +Does happiness really depend on self-delusion? ^ref-22390 +- Location: [6069](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=6069) + +--- +## Highlight + +Whatever we do throughout our lives, whether scratching our leg, fidgeting slightly in the chair, or fighting world wars, we are just trying to get pleasant feelings. ^ref-3714 +- Location: [6106](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00ICN066A&location=6106) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Social Anxiety.md b/docs/Social Anxiety.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..de579129 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Social Anxiety.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '12220' + title: >- + Social Anxiety : Easy Daily Strategies for Overcoming Social Anxiety and + Shyness, Build Successful Relationships, and Increase Happiness + author: James W. Williams + asin: B07KWQTGHV + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-12-01' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Cy8bpOjWL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 4 +--- +# Social Anxiety : Easy Daily Strategies for Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness, Build Successful Relationships, and Increase Happiness + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Social Anxiety : Easy Daily Strategies for Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness, Build Successful Relationships, and Increase Happiness](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KWQTGHV) | +| **Author** | [James W. Williams](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Social anxiety is the fear of being judged in a negative way by others, while shyness is a feeling of being awkward or tense around others. ^ref-31651 +- Location: [80](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07KWQTGHV&location=80) + +--- +## Highlight + +Staying aware of where you are, what is going on around you, and keeping your focus on the person talking to you will help distract your mind from its anxious thoughts. ^ref-57626 +- Location: [203](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07KWQTGHV&location=203) + +--- +## Highlight + +Social anxiety is often triggered by an initial thought, which then attaches to a memory and subsequent emotion. ^ref-44757 +- Location: [260](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07KWQTGHV&location=260) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t call attention to your shyness, either. First, it sets you up with any new people around you to try and take advantage of you being shy. Broadcasting that you are shy is equivalent to wearing “I’m insecure” on a sandwich board in the middle of Times Square. ^ref-17376 +- Location: [289](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07KWQTGHV&location=289) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Special Operations Mental Toughness.md b/docs/Special Operations Mental Toughness.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..079b357f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Special Operations Mental Toughness.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '21253' + title: >- + Special Operations Mental Toughness:The Invincible Mindset of Delta Force + Operators, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers & Other Elite Warriors! + author: Lawrence Colebrooke + asin: B018M6WURE + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81TuyxKD3tL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 6 +--- +# Special Operations Mental Toughness:The Invincible Mindset of Delta Force Operators, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers & Other Elite Warriors! + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Special Operations Mental Toughness:The Invincible Mindset of Delta Force Operators, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers & Other Elite Warriors!](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018M6WURE) | +| **Author** | [Lawrence Colebrooke](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Most successful special operators are able to utilize positive self-talk as a means to eliminate doubt and bolster confidence when they face difficult, stressful situations. We all engage in some form of self-talk almost continuously throughout the day. It is very important to ensure that this self-talk is of a positive nature rather than negative. ^ref-13476 +- Location: [171](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B018M6WURE&location=171) + +--- +## Highlight + +Special operators are trained to refocus their attention to positive thoughts and to focus on visualizing the immediate tasks that need to be performed. ^ref-24151 +- Location: [175](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B018M6WURE&location=175) + +--- +## Highlight + +"In my opinion, mental toughness is the ability to remain calm when others are overcome by fear or panic, and being able to do whatever needs to be done to win." ^ref-62880 +- Location: [287](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B018M6WURE&location=287) + +--- +## Highlight + +Think for a moment of a person who is known for being mentally tough. Odds are that this person has established a reputation for achieving consistently superior results under a wide range of conditions or in various types of situations involving stress, pressure, and risk. He or she likely maintains a positive attitude and approach to achieving his or her goals, and remains focused on winning despite numerous distractions and changing circumstances. Resilience and enthusiasm even in the face of setbacks, disappointing results, and mistakes, as well as the ability to remain focused on accomplishing stated goals or objectives, are all probably qualities this person exemplifies. ^ref-52323 +- Location: [312](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B018M6WURE&location=312) + +--- +## Highlight + +I encourage you to consider approaching someone you admire and asking them for advice and guidance. ^ref-58816 +- Location: [1070](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B018M6WURE&location=1070) + +--- +## Highlight + +There are countless goal setting techniques, one of the most popular ones is called the SMART goal setting method. The S M A R T stands for: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. By using this method you will integrate the ability to track your progress and verify that the course you are on will lead you to success. You will be able to define milestones and assess the goal’s attainability along the way. ^ref-20831 +- Location: [1169](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B018M6WURE&location=1169) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Supersizing Urban America.md b/docs/Supersizing Urban America.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..91f0cce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Supersizing Urban America.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '30105' + title: >- + Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government + Help + author: Chin Jou + asin: B06WWRPB8Q + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81M1ThE-MJL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 5 +--- +# Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WWRPB8Q) | +| **Author** | [Chin Jou](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +With their hard plastic seating and soft menu items requiring little chewing and few utensils, McDonald’s and other chains were designed to maximize traffic and get customers in and out as quickly as possible.3 Even the primary colors that screamed at patrons as they entered McDonald’s restaurants were meant to discourage dawdling diners, surmises journalist and cultural critic Martin Plimmer. ^ref-14018 +- Location: [752](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06WWRPB8Q&location=752) + +--- +## Highlight + +Getting the Hell out of there is the point. The interior colours have been chosen carefully with this end in mind. From the scarlet and yellow of the logo to the maroon of the uniform: everything clashes. It’s designed to stop people feeling so comfortable they might want to stay.4 ^ref-30484 +- Location: [756](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06WWRPB8Q&location=756) + +--- +## Highlight + +Americans’ fast food expenditures surged from about $6 billion in the early 1970s to $110 billion thirty years later. ^ref-24628 +- Location: [1040](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06WWRPB8Q&location=1040) + +--- +## Highlight + +Nixon, like Johnson, saw programs for black economic development as “crisis management tools” intended to “allay urban unrest.” ^ref-55097 +- Location: [1331](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06WWRPB8Q&location=1331) + +--- +## Highlight + +As one SBA critic has pointed out, the agency’s willingness to lend to fast food franchisees enables the multi-billion dollar international conglomerates that oversee the franchises to “tap into a lending program for the small guy,” and shift the burden of risk onto the federal government.11 ^ref-36615 +- Location: [2473](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B06WWRPB8Q&location=2473) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Infographics Edition.md b/docs/The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Infographics Edition.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f21fb4ec --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Infographics Edition.md @@ -0,0 +1,318 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '35520' + title: >- + The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Infographics Edition: Powerful + Lessons in Personal Change + author: Stephen R. Covey + asin: B01069X4H0 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-09-08' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/710e2r4iKML._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 46 +--- +# The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Infographics Edition: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Infographics Edition: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01069X4H0) | +| **Author** | [Stephen R. Covey](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view. ^ref-6643 +- Location: [327](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=327) + +--- +## Highlight + +It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. ^ref-64041 +- Location: [374](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=374) + +--- +## Highlight + +Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” ^ref-61843 +- Location: [586](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=586) + +--- +## Highlight + +Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three. ^ref-56398 +- Location: [646](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=646) + +--- +## Highlight + +But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us. ^ref-36142 +- Location: [689](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=689) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our most important financial asset is our own capacity to earn. If we don’t continually invest in improving our own PC, we severely limit our options. We’re locked into our present situation, running scared of our corporation or our boss’s opinion of us, economically dependent and defensive. Again, it simply isn’t effective. ^ref-61436 +- Location: [761](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=761) + +--- +## Highlight + +When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate. The goose gets sicker day by day. ^ref-24425 +- Location: [764](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=764) + +--- +## Highlight + +There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees. The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. ^ref-59864 +- Location: [819](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=819) + +### Note +Agree. Treating your employees like you do your customers has a ripple effect not only throughout the organization but also externally--for example, when attracting talent or new customers. + +--- +## Highlight + +We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. ^ref-6473 +- Location: [910](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=910) + +--- +## Highlight + +Self-awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we “see” ourselves—our self-paradigm, the most fundamental paradigm of effectiveness. It affects not only our attitudes and behaviors, but also how we see other people. It becomes our map of the basic nature of mankind. ^ref-44769 +- Location: [911](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=911) + +--- +## Highlight + +If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror—from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us—our view of ourselves is like the reflection in the crazy mirror room at the carnival. ^ref-43947 +- Location: [919](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=919) + +--- +## Highlight + +Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. ^ref-54160 +- Location: [985](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=985) + +--- +## Highlight + +Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn’t, it affects their attitude and their performance. ^ref-53706 +- Location: [990](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=990) + +--- +## Highlight + +Reactive people are also affected by their social environment, by the “social weather.” When people treat them well, they feel well; when people don’t, they become defensive or protective. Reactive people build their emotional lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weaknesses of other people to control them. ^ref-26995 +- Location: [993](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=993) + +--- +## Highlight + +Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. ^ref-47250 +- Location: [996](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=996) + +--- +## Highlight + +It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. ^ref-6067 +- Location: [1020](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1020) + +--- +## Highlight + +what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life. ^ref-8016 +- Location: [1048](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1048) + +--- +## Highlight + +Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen. ^ref-16395 +- Location: [1052](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1052) + +--- +## Highlight + +A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief. They feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny. They blame outside forces—other people, circumstances, even the stars—for their own situation. ^ref-50219 +- Location: [1130](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1130) + +--- +## Highlight + +Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ^ref-8165 +- Location: [1443](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1443) + +--- +## Highlight + +Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.” No management success can compensate for failure in leadership. But leadership is hard because we’re often caught in a management paradigm. ^ref-21830 +- Location: [1465](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1465) + +--- +## Highlight + +If our sense of emotional worth comes primarily from our marriage, then we become highly dependent upon that relationship. We become vulnerable to the moods and feelings, the behavior and treatment of our spouse, or to any external event that may impinge on the relationship—a new child, in-laws, economic setbacks, social successes, and so forth. ^ref-62368 +- Location: [1636](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1636) + +--- +## Highlight + +As proactive people, we can begin to give expression to what we want to be and to do in our lives. We can write a personal mission statement, a personal constitution. A mission statement is not something you write overnight. It takes deep introspection, careful analysis, thoughtful expression, and often many rewrites to produce it in final form. It may take you several weeks or even months before you feel really comfortable with it, before you feel it is a complete and concise expression of your innermost values and directions. Even then, you will want to review it regularly and make minor changes as the years bring additional insights or changing circumstances. ^ref-48937 +- Location: [1879](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1879) + +--- +## Highlight + +Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behavior with your beliefs. As you do, other people begin to sense that you’re not being driven by everything that happens to you. You have a sense of mission about what you’re trying to do and you are excited about it. ^ref-40693 +- Location: [1888](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=1888) + +--- +## Highlight + +Effective management is putting first things first. While leadership decides what “first things” are, it is management that puts them first, day-by-day, moment-by-moment. Management is discipline, carrying it out. ^ref-53031 +- Location: [2214](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2214) + +--- +## Highlight + +“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” ^ref-1455 +- Location: [2223](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2223) + +--- +## Highlight + +Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They’re often popular with others. They’re usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant! Importance, on the other hand, has to do with results. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals. ^ref-17164 +- Location: [2264](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2264) + +--- +## Highlight + +Some people are literally beaten up by problems all day every day. The only relief they have is in escaping to the not important, not urgent activities of Quadrant IV. So when you look at their total matrix, 90 percent of their time is in Quadrant I and most of the remaining 10 percent is in Quadrant IV, with only negligible attention paid to Quadrants II and III. That’s how people who manage their lives by crisis live. ^ref-61774 +- Location: [2276](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2276) + +### Note +I definitely feel like this when I'm experiencing burnout and feeling down and need a "quick win" for the sake of morale. However, those "quick wins" come at the expense of the bigger picture of important tasks, as described in Quadrant II. + +--- +## Highlight + +Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management. It deals with things that are not urgent, but are important. It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren’t urgent. ^ref-48863 +- Location: [2286](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2286) + +--- +## Highlight + +We accomplish all that we do through delegation—either to time or to other people. If we delegate to time, we think efficiency. If we delegate to other people, we think effectiveness. Many people refuse to delegate to other people because they feel it takes too much time and effort and they could do the job better themselves. But effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is. Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and for organizations. ^ref-54379 +- Location: [2552](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2552) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you know the failure paths of the job, identify them. Be honest and open—tell a person where the quicksand is and where the wild animals are. You don’t want to have to reinvent the wheel every day. Let people learn from your mistakes or the mistakes of others. Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don’t tell them what to do. Keep the responsibility for results with them—to do whatever is necessary within the guidelines. ^ref-22631 +- Location: [2600](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2600) + +--- +## Highlight + +An Emotional Bank Account is a metaphor that describes the amount of trust that’s been built up in a relationship. It’s the feeling of safeness you have with another human being. If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you’ll get my meaning anyway. You won’t make me “an offender for a word.” When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. But if I have a habit of showing discourtesy, disrespect, cutting you off, overreacting, ignoring you, becoming arbitrary, betraying your trust, threatening you, or playing little tin god in your life, eventually my Emotional Bank Account is overdrawn. The trust level gets very low. Then what flexibility do I have? None. ^ref-48669 +- Location: [2783](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2783) + +--- +## Highlight + +One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. When you defend those who are absent, you retain the trust of those present. ^ref-47808 +- Location: [2925](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2925) + +--- +## Highlight + +Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles. As you do, people will come to trust you. They may not at first appreciate the honest confrontational experiences such integrity might generate. Confrontation takes considerable courage, and many people would prefer to take the course of least resistance, belittling and criticizing, betraying confidences, or participating in gossip about others behind their backs. But in the long run, people will trust and respect you if you are honest and open and kind with them. You care enough to confront. And to be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved. ^ref-50884 +- Location: [2940](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2940) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we make withdrawals from the Emotional Bank Account, we need to apologize and we need to do it sincerely. Great deposits come in the sincere words: “I was wrong.” “That was unkind of me.” “I showed you no respect.” “I gave you no dignity, and I’m deeply sorry.” “I embarrassed you in front of your friends and I had no call to do that. Even though I wanted to make a point, I never should have done it. I apologize.” ^ref-20168 +- Location: [2955](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2955) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we violate the primary laws of love—when we attach strings and conditions to that gift—we actually encourage others to violate the primary laws of life. We put them in a reactive, defensive position where they feel they have to prove “I matter as a person, independent of you.” ^ref-22425 +- Location: [2992](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=2992) + +--- +## Highlight + +Out of the 800 people there, around forty received awards for top performance, such as “Most Sales,” “Greatest Volume,” “Highest Earned Commissions,” and “Most Listings.” There was a lot of hoopla—excitement, cheering, applause—around the presentation of these awards. There was no doubt that those forty people had won; but there was also the underlying awareness that 760 people had lost. ^ref-19045 +- Location: [3523](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=3523) + +--- +## Highlight + +So often the problem is in the system, not in the people. If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow. ^ref-26006 +- Location: [3571](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=3571) + +--- +## Highlight + +Win/Win is not a personality technique. It’s a total paradigm of human interaction. It comes from a character of integrity, maturity, and the Abundance Mentality. It grows out of high-trust relationships. It is embodied in agreements that effectively clarify and manage expectations as well as accomplishment. It thrives in supportive systems. ^ref-35979 +- Location: [3600](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=3600) + +--- +## Highlight + +This is one of the greatest insights in the field of human motivation: Satisfied needs do not motivate. It’s only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated. ^ref-5285 +- Location: [3721](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=3721) + +--- +## Highlight + +An effective sales person first seeks to understand the needs, the concerns, the situation of the customer. The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems. ^ref-61449 +- Location: [3777](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=3777) + +--- +## Highlight + +The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings. That person values the differences because those differences add to his knowledge, to his understanding of reality. When we’re left to our own experiences, we constantly suffer from a shortage of data. ^ref-62372 +- Location: [4372](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=4372) + +--- +## Highlight + +The relationship of the parts is also the power in creating a synergistic culture inside a family or an organization. The more genuine the involvement, the more sincere and sustained the participation in analyzing and solving problems, the greater the release of everyone’s creativity, and of their commitment to what they create. ^ref-61116 +- Location: [4480](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=4480) + +--- +## Highlight + +This, I’m convinced, is the essence of the power in the Japanese approach to business, which has changed the world marketplace. ^ref-48880 +- Location: [4482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=4482) + +### Note +The author should have expanded on this. Internally, traditional Japanese companies tend to lack honest synergy amongst employees for the sake of harmonic synergy. "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down." + +Now if we're talking about how separate companies work with each other, I can agree with this. Companies, especially consumer-facing businesses, seem much more likely to work together to create win-win situations. + +--- +## Highlight + +Continuing surveys indicate that television is on in most homes some thirty-five to forty-five hours a week. That’s as much time as many people put into their jobs, more than most put into school. It’s the most powerful socializing influence there is. And when we watch, we’re subject to all the values that are being taught through it. That can powerfully influence us in very subtle and imperceptible ways. ^ref-52697 +- Location: [4648](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=4648) + +### Note +Since the mid-2010s, one could argue that smartphones and social media have replaced this TV time. + +--- +## Highlight + +This process of continuous improvement is the hallmark of the Total Quality Movement and a key to Japan’s economic ascendency. ^ref-39697 +- Location: [4801](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01069X4H0&location=4801) + +### Note +Although Japan is still considered a large player in the global economy in 2022, I don't think this statement holds true anymore like it did when this book was first published in 1989. + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Art Of Saying NO.md b/docs/The Art Of Saying NO.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..15540fe7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Art Of Saying NO.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '8095' + title: >- + The Art Of Saying NO: How To Stand Your Ground, Reclaim Your Time And + Energy, And Refuse To Be Taken For Granted (Without Feeling Guilty!) (The + Art Of Living Well Book 1) + author: Damon Zahariades + asin: B074LZG7KS + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-01-09' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81HAu7GTkhL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 3 +--- +# The Art Of Saying NO: How To Stand Your Ground, Reclaim Your Time And Energy, And Refuse To Be Taken For Granted (Without Feeling Guilty!) (The Art Of Living Well Book 1) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Art Of Saying NO: How To Stand Your Ground, Reclaim Your Time And Energy, And Refuse To Be Taken For Granted (Without Feeling Guilty!) (The Art Of Living Well Book 1)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074LZG7KS) | +| **Author** | [Damon Zahariades](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Remember, there’s only so much time in the day. You can’t do everything. That means each time you say yes to something, you tacitly say no to something else. In pursuing some opportunities, you miss out on others. ^ref-52874 +- Location: [535](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LZG7KS&location=535) + +--- +## Highlight + +By declining some offers, you allow yourself the freedom to say yes to those that’ll prove truly rewarding to you. ^ref-49209 +- Location: [537](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LZG7KS&location=537) + +--- +## Highlight + +The problem is, capitulating to avoid conflict reinforces the idea that your feelings are less important than those of the other person. The reality is, they’re not less important. ^ref-58007 +- Location: [580](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LZG7KS&location=580) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Art of Letting GO.md b/docs/The Art of Letting GO.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b04df732 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Art of Letting GO.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '1470' + title: >- + The Art of Letting GO: How to Let Go of the Past, Look Forward to the + Future, and Finally Enjoy the Emotional Freedom You Deserve! (The Art Of + Living Well Book 2) + author: Damon Zahariades + asin: B09T66MSLN + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-10-10' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jOrVr9bvL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 19 +--- +# The Art of Letting GO: How to Let Go of the Past, Look Forward to the Future, and Finally Enjoy the Emotional Freedom You Deserve! (The Art Of Living Well Book 2) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Art of Letting GO: How to Let Go of the Past, Look Forward to the Future, and Finally Enjoy the Emotional Freedom You Deserve! (The Art Of Living Well Book 2)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T66MSLN) | +| **Author** | [Damon Zahariades](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Once we decouple ourself from the frustrations, regrets, and painful memories that burden us, we experience emotional freedom. It manifests in our behaviors, decisions, and level of self-awareness. It shows in our relationships with loved ones, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. It reveals itself in the quality of our work and the satisfaction we feel from having completed the work. ^ref-5526 +- Location: [145](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=145) + +--- +## Highlight + +Once we let go of our bleak, defeatist headspace, it can no longer hold us back. Letting it go releases us to focus on the important things that truly matter to us. ^ref-51514 +- Location: [148](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=148) + +--- +## Highlight + +Clinging to painful memories puts significant strain on our confidence, self-esteem, and mental resilience. It slowly wears us down and can even set the stage for depression. ^ref-3728 +- Location: [330](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=330) + +--- +## Highlight + +Remaining emotionally attached to past regrets, judgments, and even personal grudges puts significant strain on our bodies, as well. It raises our stress levels, increases our blood pressure, and can even impair our ability to sleep soundly. ^ref-19929 +- Location: [333](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=333) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we let go of the past, we give ourself permission to no longer focus on pleasing others. Instead, we can focus on making decisions that prioritize our own needs and make the best use of the resources at our disposal. ^ref-49125 +- Location: [342](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=342) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we fixate on others’ perceptions of us, we implicitly allow them to make our decisions for us. Our life is no longer our own. And our emotional health becomes dependent on what others think of us. ^ref-31827 +- Location: [423](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=423) + +--- +## Highlight + +Whatever its origin, perfectionism always leads to our dissatisfaction. If we believe that being perfect is the only way we’ll be happy, we guarantee our perpetual unhappiness. When we stop trying to be perfect, we experience less anxiety, enjoy more creativity, and become more inclined to take purposeful, calculated risks. And importantly, we free ourself from the emotional burden of constantly striving for others’ approval. ^ref-38482 +- Location: [470](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=470) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we let go of our fear of failure, we become more willing to step outside our comfort zone. Our confidence and self-esteem improve as we take leaps of faith based on the belief that failing doesn’t mean disaster. Conversely, our failures often pave the road toward personal growth and self-improvement. ^ref-50730 +- Location: [482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=482) + +--- +## Highlight + +Problems arise when we allow ourself to become agitated by others’ opinions. It’s not enough that we feel we’re right; we must convince other people that we’re right. And so we spend time each day arguing about everything from politics and cultural norms to the economy and whether scrambled eggs should be eaten alone or with ketchup. Needless to say, this constant bickering can be emotionally exhausting. Moreover, it’s rarely rewarding. ^ref-63051 +- Location: [487](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=487) + +### Note +This line of thinking is exactly why social media can be so detrimental and a waste of time. + +--- +## Highlight + +The main stumbling block associated with the fear of missing out is found in its name: fear. We fear moving on. We fear missing a chance to experience something good. We fear losing out on something that might happen. Unfortunately, this anxiety causes us to perpetuate our suffering by staying emotionally attached to things that make us unhappy. ^ref-11353 +- Location: [573](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=573) + +--- +## Highlight + +But pride flirts with the dark side of our ego. Left unchecked, it can cause us to feel arrogant and self-important. When it does so, it becomes a destructive force. It turns into a stumbling block that negatively impacts our relationships, careers, and decisions. Unchallenged, pride also discourages us from letting go the things that haunt us. We become less inclined to admit our mistakes, convinced we’re faultless. We become less willing to apologize, certain that others are to blame and thus owe us an apology. We habitually compare ourself to others to measure our self-worth, and obsess over keeping up with them. ^ref-32858 +- Location: [1176](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1176) + +--- +## Highlight + +Constantly trying to make everyone else happy only leads to misery. We lose ourself in their priorities. We spend so much energy catering to others’ needs and wants that we have none left to address our own. ^ref-4173 +- Location: [1327](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1327) + +--- +## Highlight + +One of the reasons is that our obsession with being happy causes us to overemphasize the impact of our failures. When we fail, we sometimes experience intensely negative emotions that are unwarranted by the circumstances. A study was published awhile back in the journal Emotion that described this tendency.1 The researchers found that people who obsess over being happy often experience more stress as their obsession causes them to dwell on negative thoughts and emotions attached to their failures. ^ref-8148 +- Location: [1376](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1376) + +--- +## Highlight + +The problem is, when we focus on things that can go wrong rather than celebrate the good things in our life, we operate from a place of fear. This fear reinforces the emotionally painful experiences we’ve endured in the past. It highlights our unmet needs. It emphasizes past betrayals. It underscores our dashed expectations, painful memories, and personal grudges. It’s a constant reminder that so many things have hurt us in the past and can potentially hurt us again in the future. So we cling to the painful memories and the cynicism, distrust, and negativity attached to them. It’s a survival mechanism. ^ref-11478 +- Location: [1537](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1537) + +--- +## Highlight + +Lastly, review the list of things this individual did that displeased you. Keeping in mind his or her positive traits, ask yourself “how serious is this issue to me in the long run?” ^ref-12607 +- Location: [1720](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1720) + +--- +## Highlight + +We only have 24 hours each day. It’s helpful to recognize how some of this time is already committed. ^ref-4880 +- Location: [1757](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1757) + +--- +## Highlight + +This exercise serves two purposes. First, it reveals how much of our time is already committed, even if we don’t realize it. Second, it underscores the fact that overcommitting means siphoning away time from important areas of our life. ^ref-4358 +- Location: [1774](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1774) + +--- +## Highlight + +Emotional diversity helps us to let go of our distressing memories, painful regrets, and upsetting grievances. We experience an array of emotions that makes us more adaptable to our circumstances. We become more resilient to the negative thoughts and feelings that might otherwise monopolize our headspace. Rather than obsessing over our emotional pain, we become more comfortable confronting its source, managing our feelings regarding it, and finally letting those feelings go. ^ref-49010 +- Location: [1868](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=1868) + +--- +## Highlight + +One final note… I encourage you to revisit The Art of Letting GO whenever you’re feeling angry, depressed, or downtrodden by life. You don’t necessarily have to read the entire book again. Rather, simply look through the table of contents and revisit the section that resonates with you in that moment. ^ref-32895 +- Location: [2002](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09T66MSLN&location=2002) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Big Ones.md b/docs/The Big Ones.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9f139ff6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Big Ones.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '13913' + title: >- + The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About + Them) + author: Lucy Jones + asin: B07465FXBP + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-09-24' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81jlUJlbKgL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 8 +--- +# The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07465FXBP) | +| **Author** | [Lucy Jones](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Natural hazards are inevitable; the disaster is not. ^ref-9576 +- Location: [172](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=172) + +--- +## Highlight + +But in times of natural disaster, the public turns to scientists to minimize not just destruction but also fear. ^ref-27139 +- Location: [184](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=184) + +--- +## Highlight + +The last thing any of us will want to do is accept that, sometimes, shift just happens. ^ref-17287 +- Location: [215](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=215) + +--- +## Highlight + +Volcanic soils are porous with good drainage and lots of fresh nutrients, producing fertile crops. Deformation of the rocks around a volcano often creates good natural harbors and defensible valleys. ^ref-8090 +- Location: [249](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=249) + +--- +## Highlight + +At a primal level, we abhor randomness because it leaves us vulnerable. ^ref-43542 +- Location: [379](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=379) + +--- +## Highlight + +There were too many bodies to bury before decomposition turned them into a public health nightmare, so the bodies were cast into the sea tied to heavy weights, despite Jesuit opposition. ^ref-29721 +- Location: [562](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=562) + +--- +## Highlight + +And when it comes to our evaluation of risk, emotion is often more powerful than reason. ^ref-47231 +- Location: [1089](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=1089) + +--- +## Highlight + +We must remember the most dangerous threat in a disaster is the threat to our humanity. ^ref-42074 +- Location: [1717](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07465FXBP&location=1717) + +--- diff --git "a/docs/The Boys of \342\200\23167.md" "b/docs/The Boys of \342\200\23167.md" new file mode 100644 index 00000000..56d52ba8 --- /dev/null +++ "b/docs/The Boys of \342\200\23167.md" @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '47323' + title: 'The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam' + author: Andrew Wiest + asin: B01DPPWE4G + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91VUNYhUtkL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 2 +--- +# The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DPPWE4G) | +| **Author** | [Andrew Wiest](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +All the Vietnamese prostitutes come down to the fox holes at night to peddle their wares! Only about ½ the guys will touch them and there are a few who have already paid the price. One guy I know came in to see the doctor and found out he had 4 different types of V.D.! 4 The docs told him it would be impossible to cure him because they’ve never seen anything like the 4 types he’s got. Incurable. They’re going to send him back to the states to see if anything can be done there, but they doubt it. He’s a very unhappy and sorrowful boy right now. It sounds kind of funny, but if they can’t cure all 4, he signed his death warrant. ^ref-43863 +- Location: [1942](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DPPWE4G&location=1942) + +--- +## Highlight + +The pressure cooker of war, along with the growing bonds of camaraderie within Charlie Company, blurred differences of race and class that had once seemed so important. ^ref-4355 +- Location: [3102](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DPPWE4G&location=3102) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Ends of the World.md b/docs/The Ends of the World.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09f9b347 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Ends of the World.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '58260' + title: >- + The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to + Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions + author: Peter Brannen + asin: B01LZ6RXS6 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-09-01' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91jUxKcZPjL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 8 +--- +# The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZ6RXS6) | +| **Author** | [Peter Brannen](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +These topographic ghost stories of a planet recently locked in ice are told far beyond my own neighborhood: the Finger Lakes of New York were carved by massive glaciers, while the Great Lakes are basically the world’s largest puddles, left when the ice sheets melted only a few thousand years ago. The most dramatic example might be in the epic Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington, which were carved by truly mind-blowing cyclical floods called jökulhlaups. ^ref-1184 +- Location: [853](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=853) + +--- +## Highlight + +It may be less than a coincidence that at the same time animals like this were terrorizing the seas, our paddle-limbed fishy ancestors were making their first tentative forays onto dry land. As American Museum of Natural History paleontologist John Maisey told Nature, our ancestors “did not so much conquer the land, as escape from the water.” That is, they were literally scared onto terra firma. University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin writes, “The strategies to succeed in [the Devonian] were pretty obvious: get big, get armor, or get out of the water. It looks as if our distant ancestors avoided the fight.” ^ref-14453 +- Location: [1508](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=1508) + +--- +## Highlight + +As a result, temperature estimates for the End-Permian mass extinction and its aftermath strain belief. In the Karoo Desert, as rivers stopped winding, insects stopped buzzing, and mass death swept over the land, the temperature might have jumped as much as 16 degrees Celsius. On Pangaea, 140-degree-Fahrenheit heat waves wouldn’t have been unusual. In the tropics, ocean temperatures skyrocketed from 25 degrees Celsius—similar to today’s oceans—to perhaps upwards of 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the temperature of a hot tub, or as End-Permian expert Paul Wignall puts it, that of “very hot soup.” Multicellular life simply can’t exist in this sort of globe-spanning Jacuzzi. The complex proteins of life denature—that is, they cook. The language of academic papers is typically measured and sober, but even the peer-reviewed science literature describes the early Triassic period that followed this worst mass extinction ever as a “post-apocalyptic greenhouse.” ^ref-8604 +- Location: [2068](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=2068) + +--- +## Highlight + +And then, 20 million years after the Great Dying, something beautiful happened. It started raining. And it rained, and it rained. And it kept raining. Dinosaurs appeared. Not long after, the first flower blossomed.* Crocodile ancestors followed, along with the first true mammals. The planetary deluge was what’s known as the Carnian Pluvial Event, a little studied but extraordinary event in Earth’s history when the floodgates opened and the arid world got a sorely needed soak. It’s been called “the greening of Triassic Earth.” ^ref-14476 +- Location: [2321](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=2321) + +--- +## Highlight + +Undoubtedly, there are some obvious, unsettling parallels between the Triassic end-times and the current day—when, barring aggressive climate action, temperatures on the planet are expected to jump as much as 6 degrees, if not by the end of this century, then sometime during the next, with the oceans acidifying not on the scale of thousands of years but within decades. ^ref-22082 +- Location: [2665](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=2665) + +--- +## Highlight + +Mount Pinatubo was the 1991 volcano in the Philippines that, when it exploded, lowered the global temperature by half a degree Celsius for three years. Pumping sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere is currently being pitched as a controversial geoengineering solution to global warming. (One reason it’s controversial is that it does nothing to address ocean acidification.) ^ref-43292 +- Location: [2692](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=2692) + +--- +## Highlight + +At the end of the Cretaceous, the largest asteroid known to have hit any planet in the solar system in a half-billion years hit Earth . . . At virtually the same time that one of the largest volcanic eruptions ever smothered parts of India in lava more than 2 miles deep. ^ref-22373 +- Location: [2772](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=2772) + +--- +## Highlight + +Seeds in fruit are designed to be eaten and dispersed by animals, but for the avocado this makes little sense. Their billiard ball–sized cores, if swallowed whole, would at the very least make for an agonizing few days of digestive transit. But the fruit makes a little more sense in a land populated by tree-foraging giants, like the sometimes dinosaur-proportioned ground sloths, who swallowed the seeds and hardly noticed them. ^ref-2034 +- Location: [3552](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01LZ6RXS6&location=3552) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Future of Work.md b/docs/The Future of Work.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b53d9e3d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Future of Work.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '46797' + title: 'The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation' + author: Darrell M. West + asin: B0741CP8N5 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-09' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71svjlDsS4L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 10 +--- +# The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0741CP8N5) | +| **Author** | [Darrell M. West](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +THE FUTURE OF WORK ROBOTS, AI, AND AUTOMATION ^ref-32147 +- Location: [4](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=4) + +### Note +The last few chapters of this book hardly discuss robots, AI, and automation. Instead, the content focuses on economy and politics, without really discussing what role AI and automation plays into those topics. + +--- +## Highlight + +The difficulty in many of these cases is that AI operates by linking computing decisions to a baseline of existing data. Such a decisionmaking method can be problematic because historical data sets often reflect traditional values, which may or may not represent the values or preferences wanted in a current system. ^ref-34425 +- Location: [729](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=729) + +--- +## Highlight + +A survey of AI experts by researchers at Yale University and Oxford University found that technical specialists believe a dramatic workforce transformation will take place over the next few decades. ^ref-31964 +- Location: [1220](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1220) + +--- +## Highlight + +With clear health and economic benefits resulting from paid leave, the researchers convincingly argue it is time for America to end its status as the only developed nation not to provide paid leave for family care. ^ref-38960 +- Location: [1684](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1684) + +### Note +Ideally, this would happen at the federal or even state level. Fortunately, there seem to be companies that take this social responsibility into their own hands. + +--- +## Highlight + +The 401(k) saving program was originally designed in 1978 as a supplement to existing pension programs. But in many cases it has now replaced the traditional pension. In 1979, 38 percent of American private sector workers had a traditional pension, but that number has dropped to 13 percent of workers in 2017. Rather than rely on a benefit-defined alternative, the 401(k) plan has become a common vehicle for retirement saving. However, only 55 percent of Americans currently have a retirement account, and the average person has only around $50,000 in overall retirement savings. This is far below what will be needed for actual retirement. According to Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, 52 percent of households are likely to run low on money during old age. ^ref-25146 +- Location: [1754](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1754) + +--- +## Highlight + +Finding a way to aid those individuals should be a high priority in the digital economy. ^ref-20056 +- Location: [1776](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1776) + +### Note +Although I think this is important, I wish the author had gone into detail, at this point, about how we could possibly remedy this. + +--- +## Highlight + +Ben Schiller has written that “a universal basic income is the bipartisan solution to poverty we’ve been waiting for.” ^ref-29217 +- Location: [1782](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1782) + +### Note +I don't agree with this. A basic universal income will let some people continue to be lazy and live at the poverty level (or "new poverty level"). We need innovation to create better jobs for people, not another welfare system that essentially forces taxes on people making more than the universal basic income. + +--- +## Highlight + +Proponents see a basic income as a way to provide people with greater flexibility in social welfare support. ^ref-21104 +- Location: [1796](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1796) + +### Note +Glad to see the author tackle this concern. However, there are many more concerns outside of this that need to be discussed in detail. + +--- +## Highlight + +If there were no exclusions for charitable contributions or other considerations, a 1 percent wealth tax would generate about $379 billion in government revenue each year. ^ref-6460 +- Location: [1915](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1915) + +### Note +This is pretty substantial, but would rely on those who fall in that income to not have tax havens. + +--- +## Highlight + +The emerging economy presents challenges in terms of ensuring workers’ income and social benefits. As employers move away from full-time jobs with benefits to temporary positions without benefits, it is vital that we figure out ways to support essential services. Emerging technologies allow businesses to provide goods and services with far fewer employees, so it is crucial to develop new models of benefit delivery. ^ref-43499 +- Location: [1948](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0741CP8N5&location=1948) + +### Note +I agree with this statement. Ensuring people can provide for themselves and making sure families can thrive, not just "get by," is vital for our society. + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete.md b/docs/The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea3ff1df --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '32453' + title: 'The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete' + author: Chad Wesley Smith + asin: B00DRIYWBU + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81nfKDYVX1L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 4 +--- +# The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DRIYWBU) | +| **Author** | [Chad Wesley Smith](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +The legendary sprints coach, the late Charlie Francis, likened the central nervous system to a cup, explaining how a cups capacity is finite. Everything the athlete does will fill that cup up to some degree, with high intensity stressors (practicing at maximal intensity, sprinting, max effort or dynamic effort weights, throws, jumps) filling up the cup ^ref-16628 +- Location: [139](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00DRIYWBU&location=139) + +--- +## Highlight + +the most. An athlete needs to fill up their cup with what is the most important, sports practice and its accompanying drills and all physical preparation tasks need to compliment that. If the cup overflows, the athlete is overtrained, which is a long and arduous process to recover from. ^ref-63969 +- Location: [141](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00DRIYWBU&location=141) + +--- +## Highlight + +When setting rep records, an integral part of The Juggernaut Method, it is critical to avoid missing reps, but rather you want to finish on a powerful, clean rep. ^ref-14631 +- Location: [145](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00DRIYWBU&location=145) + +--- +## Highlight + +Be mindful that rep records in the 8+ rep range aren’t as accurate as projections from the lower range. ^ref-4579 +- Location: [162](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00DRIYWBU&location=162) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Little Book of Stoicism.md b/docs/The Little Book of Stoicism.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8ce8f760 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Little Book of Stoicism.md @@ -0,0 +1,226 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '45346' + title: >- + The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, + and Calmness + author: Jonas Salzgeber and Nils Salzgeber + asin: B07MY2VFQD + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91EoFOugeML._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 33 +--- +# The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MY2VFQD) | +| **Author** | [Jonas Salzgeber and Nils Salzgeber](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Just like for the trees, heavy rain and strong winds are to the advantage of good people, it’s how they may grow calm, disciplined, humble, and strong. ^ref-26153 +- Location: [281](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=281) + +--- +## Highlight + +Just like the tree must tighten its grip not to fall down with every breeze, we must strengthen our position if we don’t want to be swept off our feet by every trifle. ^ref-9735 +- Location: [282](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=282) + +--- +## Highlight + +For the Stoics and all other schools of ancient philosophy, the ultimate goal of life was eudaimonia, to become good (eu) with your inner daimon. ^ref-22988 +- Location: [326](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=326) + +--- +## Highlight + +This brings us to the second promise of Stoicism: Philosophy trains us to be able to take on every obstacle in life with the right mindset so that life keeps on going smoothly. ^ref-8656 +- Location: [348](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=348) + +--- +## Highlight + +And the same is true for philosophers; just because life slaps, kicks, spits, and knocks us out doesn’t mean we should give up and leave, it means we should get back up and keep on getting better. ^ref-326 +- Location: [355](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=355) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Unharmed prosperity cannot endure a single blow,” says Seneca, but a man who has gone through countless misfortunes “acquires a skin calloused by suffering.” This man fights to the ground and carries on the fight even on his knees. He will never give up. ^ref-59713 +- Location: [358](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=358) + +### Note +This reminds me of the message of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl in his book "Man's Search For Meaning." + +--- +## Highlight + +Yet, we can only deal well with life’s challenges when we’re emotionally resilient and don’t let our emotions jerk us around. ^ref-57662 +- Location: [378](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=378) + +--- +## Highlight + +In other words, it’s more about unslaving ourselves from negative emotions, more like taming rather than getting rid of them. ^ref-42056 +- Location: [399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=399) + +--- +## Highlight + +Stoic author Donald Robertson explains it well: “A brave man isn’t someone who doesn’t experience any trace of fear whatsoever but someone who acts courageously despite feeling anxiety.” ^ref-40349 +- Location: [416](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=416) + +--- +## Highlight + +This comeback of Stoicism can be traced back to Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and Albert Ellis’ rational emotive behavior therapy, both of which were influenced by Stoic philosophy. ^ref-7224 +- Location: [487](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=487) + +--- +## Highlight + +“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius ^ref-33248 +- Location: [552](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=552) + +--- +## Highlight + +Because somewhere in the darkness of the gap, they are lurking, the bad guys lead by regret, anxiety, and disillusionment. ^ref-2690 +- Location: [629](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=629) + +--- +## Highlight + +We cannot express our highest selves without at the same time contributing to the common good. If we seek the very best in ourselves, we will actively care for the wellbeing of all other human beings. The best for others will be the best for you. ^ref-51984 +- Location: [784](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=784) + +--- +## Highlight + +We can choose our intentions and actions but the ultimate outcome depends on external variables beyond our control. ^ref-7534 +- Location: [863](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=863) + +--- +## Highlight + +The good and bad things can only be found in your behavior. Expressing your highest self, as seen earlier, is sufficient for the happy and smoothly flowing life. Because it’s all that is within our power. Our actions matter greatly, and the development of one’s character is all that counts for the good life. ^ref-59971 +- Location: [946](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=946) + +--- +## Highlight + +Friendship is the most important preferred indifferent for the Stoics. Our human nature is not only rational but also social and, therefore, we’re naturally attracted to other people. And a good person always shows love, kindness, justice, and concern for his fellow human beings—for his brothers, neighbors, and strangers alike. Having wise and good friends is the most precious external thing in the world. ^ref-39010 +- Location: [965](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=965) + +--- +## Highlight + +Stoicism teaches that we’re very much responsible for our own happiness as well as unhappiness. It also teaches that taking this responsibility will improve our chances of attaining eudaimonia. The victim mentality—blaming external circumstances for our unhappiness—on the other hand, will make the happy life an impossible goal to reach. ^ref-3860 +- Location: [1018](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1018) + +--- +## Highlight + +We must refuse to let the hands we’re dealt decide over our wellbeing. The Stoics say that outside events and other people may have the power to affect how and even whether you live, but they don’t have the power to ruin our lives. Only you yourself can ruin your life by getting jerked around by things you don’t control and by failing to act as well as you’re capable of. ^ref-11495 +- Location: [1021](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1021) + +--- +## Highlight + +We must keep in mind that happiness depends more on what we make of what happens rather than what happens in the first place. ^ref-59570 +- Location: [1097](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1097) + +--- +## Highlight + +They advised to occasionally practice getting uncomfortable in order to be better off in the future. The goal isn’t to punish yourself with a whip or something, the goal is to train endurance and self-control. ^ref-42216 +- Location: [1610](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1610) + +--- +## Highlight + +Epictetus advises to rehearse the day in the morning, and then review your progress in the evening. At daybreak, we should ask ourselves a few questions: What do I still lack in order to achieve freedom from negative emotions? What do I need to achieve tranquility? What am I? A rational being. ^ref-23644 +- Location: [1641](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1641) + +--- +## Highlight + +Personally, I do the good, better, best exercise. I ask myself three simple questions: Good: What did I do well today? Better: How could I improve? What could I do better? Best: What do I need to do if I want to be the best version of myself? ^ref-20723 +- Location: [1696](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1696) + +--- +## Highlight + +This is a classic Stoic idea: Play your role well by being the best you can be, focusing on what you control, and ultimately being a good person. ^ref-37728 +- Location: [1778](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1778) + +--- +## Highlight + +Play your roles well, even if others don’t. ^ref-63595 +- Location: [1782](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=1782) + +--- +## Highlight + +When you find yourself frustrated, don’t blame other people or outside events, but yourself and your unrealistic expectations. Turn your focus inward, remember, we must take responsibility. ^ref-53795 +- Location: [2150](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2150) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t wish for life to be hard, but neither wish for it to be easier when it gets tough. Rather wish for the strength to deal with it. It’s an opportunity for growth. ^ref-45912 +- Location: [2269](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2269) + +--- +## Highlight + +People do what seems right to them. If they do wrong, it’s because that’s what seems true to them. Therefore, we should not blame people, even if they treat us rudely and unfairly. They don’t do those things on purpose. As Socrates said: “Nobody does wrong willingly.” ^ref-50421 +- Location: [2550](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2550) + +--- +## Highlight + +They don’t see what they’re doing. And because they’re ill, it’s not like they had a choice in that matter. So who are we to blame them? Let’s not resent what they do, because that’s like resenting their illness. The only appropriate response is compassion and forgiveness. ^ref-29841 +- Location: [2609](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2609) + +--- +## Highlight + +You wouldn’t judge an injured teammate when he’s unable to catch a ball. In the exact same way the injured player shouldn’t judge the person who tells him off. Because the offender is injured too, just not in his body but in his mind. Even if we can’t see it from the outside. ^ref-5676 +- Location: [2628](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2628) + +--- +## Highlight + +It’s in your power to be kind to people. It’s in your power to stay true to your path and respond to evildoers with compassion, forgiveness, and kindness. ^ref-55834 +- Location: [2639](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2639) + +--- +## Highlight + +“You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.” ^ref-53345 +- Location: [2815](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2815) + +--- +## Highlight + +That’s why we should choose our friends carefully. They have the power to pull you either down or up to their level. You either get better, thanks to the people you spend time with, or you get worse because of them. ^ref-8765 +- Location: [2816](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2816) + +--- +## Highlight + +The Stoics are clear on this: Don’t gossip. Don’t blame. Don’t complain. Don’t talk too much. Especially not about what’s not meaningful. ^ref-43560 +- Location: [2910](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MY2VFQD&location=2910) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Product Book.md b/docs/The Product Book.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b74ca723 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Product Book.md @@ -0,0 +1,394 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '33351' + title: 'The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager' + author: 'Product School, Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, and Josh Anon' + asin: B071HFBGXR + lastAnnotatedDate: '2023-08-27' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61FQlEL3R5L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 57 +--- +# The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071HFBGXR) | +| **Author** | [Product School, Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, and Josh Anon](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +“Nobody ^ref-9357 +- Location: [66](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=66) + +--- +## Highlight + +Put simply, a product manager (PM) represents the customer. No one buys a product because they want to give the company money. Customers buy and use products because the products address their needs. Done properly, the products let the customers be awesome. The end result of representing the customer is that a PM helps the customer be awesome. ^ref-55428 +- Location: [76](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=76) + +--- +## Highlight + +Day to day, PMs must understand both business strategy and execution. They must first figure out who the customers are and what problems the customers have. They must know how to set a vision, finding the right opportunities in a sea of possibilities, by using both data and intuition. They must know how to define success, for the customer and the product, by prioritizing doing what is right over doing what is easy. ^ref-15506 +- Location: [82](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=82) + +--- +## Highlight + +PMs manage products, not people, so they must achieve everything using soft influence, effective communication, leadership, and trust—not orders. ^ref-54322 +- Location: [88](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=88) + +--- +## Highlight + +Project managers are masters of schedules and Gantt charts, not of representing customers. ^ref-57604 +- Location: [106](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=106) + +--- +## Highlight + +Program managers tend to be masters of execution, sort of like a “super” project manager. ^ref-11554 +- Location: [110](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=110) + +--- +## Highlight + +Product managers are like the conductor in an orchestra. The conductor never makes a sound but is responsible for making the orchestra as a whole sound awesome to deliver a great performance to the audience. Great conductors understand and engage with everyone in the orchestra, using the right vocabulary with each section, diplomatically moving everyone together toward the shared goal of a great performance. ^ref-38212 +- Location: [115](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=115) + +--- +## Highlight + +The most common approach you’ll encounter is a hybrid of waterfall and lean where the PM will plan a bit upfront to find the right opportunity, but then the teams will implement the product in an iterative way. This is nice because it lets you keep a big-picture goal in mind, but change course if needed such as if you find a significant technical obstacle or find that customers don’t want the product you’re building. We’ll mainly focus on a hybrid approach in this book. ^ref-40729 +- Location: [194](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=194) + +--- +## Highlight + +Every product goes through five key conceptual stages: 1. Finding and planning the right opportunity 2. Designing the solution 3. Building the solution 4. Sharing the solution 5. Assessing the solution Put another way, this process involves figuring out what problem to work on, figuring out how to solve it, building the solution, getting it in customers’ hands, and seeing if it worked for them. ^ref-23718 +- Location: [205](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=205) + +--- +## Highlight + +The very first phase of the product-development life cycle is to find and clearly define the next opportunity to pursue. The world’s a sea of possibilities! What should you build next? Usually, it’s up to the product manager to create and sort through all the possibilities, picking the right one to focus on next. ^ref-24636 +- Location: [216](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=216) + +--- +## Highlight + +At a high level, company goals fall into three categories: growth, revenue, and customer satisfaction. Specifically, does the company want to get more users for the product, increase its revenue from the current customers, or make its current customers happier? If the goal is revenue, how does the company currently monetize their product, and how can you increase the value for customers to make them more willing to pay for the product? If the goal is growth, what’s stopping new customers from using the product? If the goal is to delight their customers, what can you deliver that they would love, but wouldn’t expect? By understanding the current goals you can think strategically, and make sure the products you’re building align with those goals, helping the company be successful. ^ref-28939 +- Location: [230](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=230) + +--- +## Highlight + +Scoping means clearly defining the opportunity and the customers you want to target, along with the requirements for the solution. ^ref-62545 +- Location: [256](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=256) + +--- +## Highlight + +Most companies using a hybrid model never build a true MVP, but rather an MVP with some extra key features they believe will make the product more enticing. If you know for certain customers will want those key features, incorporating them from the start will help shorten the iteration cycle. ^ref-33775 +- Location: [287](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=287) + +--- +## Highlight + +Product managers create a document that encompasses the entire planning phase, called a product requirements document (PRD), collecting all this planning information in one spot. A PRD contains the explanation for why you’re pursuing this opportunity, the scoped problem definition, the success metrics, and more. But you don’t create the PRD in isolation—you’ll work with your team, your boss, and other product stakeholders to make sure the opportunity and requirements are clear and the goals are achievable. ^ref-2122 +- Location: [304](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=304) + +--- +## Highlight + +In the hybrid model, the PRD is treated as a great communications tool to get everyone on the same page and as a living—not dictating—document. Over the product-development life cycle, the PRD will expand to contain more information, but it starts by clearly stating the problem and why we’re working on it. When the product’s built, the PRD provides a great reference for the sales and support teams to understand what’s in the product and why. ^ref-40696 +- Location: [312](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=312) + +--- +## Highlight + +Contrary to popular belief, design doesn’t just mean what the solution looks like. Design involves aspects like information architecture (In what order are things presented to the user?), wireframes (Where should the information live on the screen?), and pixels (How does it look?). ^ref-44881 +- Location: [331](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=331) + +--- +## Highlight + +Engineers hate taking on technical debt—they want to write a complete answer from the outset. If you come from an engineering background, taking on technical debt can be hard. As a PM, you’ll often have to make hard tradeoff decisions, accepting short-term debt to provide customer value faster. The opposite is true as well, which is hard for PMs from a non-technical background. You’ll have to pay off that debt later—cleaning up the code—otherwise the code can get unwieldy, and it can become very hard to iterate on the project. ^ref-26689 +- Location: [357](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=357) + +--- +## Highlight + +while Design will have figured out the most common use cases in the prototyping stage, there are likely many edge cases that will come up while Engineering’s building the product. Product, Design, and Engineering will work together to address these needs and questions that arise while working on the product. ^ref-51567 +- Location: [363](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=363) + +--- +## Highlight + +In the product marketing phase of the product-development life cycle, you figure out how to succinctly and effectively communicate how the product solves that problem and makes the customer awesome. It’s essentially storytelling, and we call it “messaging.” ^ref-2660 +- Location: [390](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=390) + +--- +## Highlight + +As a product manager, keeping the company’s core value proposition in mind will help you understand the company’s vision. Understanding the vision will let you understand the company’s goals, which lets you understand its product roadmap. We’re getting ahead of ourselves here! Suffice it to say, your first task when looking at a company from a product point of view needs to be understanding its “why.” ^ref-26367 +- Location: [486](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=486) + +--- +## Highlight + +A common question PMs deal with is, how do we pick the right goals and supporting success metrics to focus on? In general, it depends on your company. But Sarah Tavel, who was Pinterest’s founding PM for search and discovery and is now a partner at Greylock, noticed a trend in the success metrics of successful consumer-focused internet startups, and she wrote up her findings in a blog post entitled “The Hierarchy of Engagement.” Tavel noted that there are three distinct strategy phases startups, and by extension new products, go through: engagement, retention, and self-perpetuating. Startups that go through all three tend to turn into multibillion-dollar companies, whereas startups that get stuck in one phase commonly fail. ^ref-44708 +- Location: [725](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=725) + +--- +## Highlight + +Vanity metrics are those that sound useful, and might be great for some other business need, but don’t help us measure product performance. Actionable metrics are real data we can use to make decisions. ^ref-42226 +- Location: [766](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=766) + +--- +## Highlight + +NPS is measured by asking customers, “On a scale of 1–10, how likely is it that you would recommend [brand] to a friend or colleague?” Promoters rank your brand 9 or 10 and are “loyal enthusiasts who will keep buying and refer others, fueling growth.” These are the people you want! Passives will rank you 7 or 8 and are “satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who are vulnerable to competitive offerings.” Detractors score you from 0 to 6 and “are unhappy customers who can damage your brand and impede growth through negative word-of-mouth.” ^ref-31931 +- Location: [793](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=793) + +### Note +I've analyzed this type of feedback in previous roles. + +Over time, this type of data can be really useful. However, as customers accounts grow, this can get difficult to measure, with so many customers having different needs and expectations. Some customers may use the survey to voice unrelated concerns, which may skew the results. + +Therefore, using NPS method should be well monitored and worded to encourage customers to guide them in providing well-thought-out, actionable feedback that can help shape a product. + +--- +## Highlight + +Measuring NPS over time is a way to see how customers are reacting to the product changes you make (or don’t make). If your company’s goal is customer satisfaction, with NPS as your success metric, and your NPS is lower than you’d like, then your immediate product goals will be around improving your customers’ happiness. ^ref-7857 +- Location: [801](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=801) + +### Note +Feedback is vital in documentation. We need to know what isn't working well so that we can improve. The tricky part is, when people find issues, they tend to not report them for a variety of reasons, with the main one being they don't know where or how to report the issue. Instead, they drop off from the product and you lose someone who could have been a promoter. + +--- +## Highlight + +The key definition of an iterative change is that you’re taking an existing product and making it better. Iteration is incredibly important, as the first version of a product is never perfect for all customers, and it’s through iteration that a product evolves to become something customers love. If you don’t have product/market fit yet, we’d recommend focusing on achieving it before trying to focus on revenue or growth goals. What is also nice about iteration is that you already have information about how the customers are using the product, and your hypothesis about what to do next might come from quantitative sources (like how many users complain about a bug), or qualitative sources (like ideas the support team has). ^ref-2908 +- Location: [990](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=990) + +--- +## Highlight + +The downside to iteration is that you can get stuck finding the “local maxima.” This means that you’ve optimized something really well, but you focused so much on optimization that you missed a bigger shift that happened. ^ref-5894 +- Location: [997](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=997) + +--- +## Highlight + +Identify the key success metric supporting your goal and the metrics that support that goal. If your success metric is how engaged your customers are, you should track how often they complete the core “success” action and the steps that lead to it. If the right metrics aren’t there, then your first task for this iteration of the product-development life cycle is to implement analytics for those metrics. ^ref-10207 +- Location: [1115](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1115) + +--- +## Highlight + +Nearly any sequentialaction group of metrics (workflow) can form a funnel, and your goal is always to look at how a user goes from initiating to completing an action. Not every customer enters your product the same way (e.g., tapping an app on the home screen to open it the first time, opening the app for the tenth time with a restored state, tapping a link that opens the app, etc.). Your analytics tool likely has a behavior flow report to see how users enter the funnel and where they go. Any place there’s a substantial undesired falloff is a potential opportunity, and you should flag that particular metric. ^ref-46652 +- Location: [1145](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1145) + +--- +## Highlight + +In a feature audit, you start by creating a graph of how many people use a feature on the x-axis vs. how often they use it (See Table 3-1). When doing this, make sure to exclude “administrative” features such as password recovery, as they’ll skew the result. The core value of your product, the reason it exists and people buy it, should be at the top right (Feature C) because everyone should use it all the time. Table 3-1. A sample Intercom feature audit table. ^ref-1268 +- Location: [1238](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1238) + +--- +## Highlight + +Seen in Figure 3-2, the Hook Canvas has four elements. First is the trigger—what happens to get the user to the product? Second—what’s the absolute simplest thing you can get a customer to do that will give them the reward? Third—what reward can you provide that’s fulfilling and makes the user want more and invest in the product? Last, what tiny bit of action can you get the customer to invest in doing that will lead to more triggers and get them to return? Figure 3-2. Nir Eyal’s Hook Canvas and its four phases. ^ref-63410 +- Location: [1265](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1265) + +--- +## Highlight + +As a PM, you’re in a unique position to know what the major pain points for customers are, how they’re reacting to your product, what the technical issues are with your product, and what technical innovations have occurred within your engineering team. ^ref-12783 +- Location: [1356](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1356) + +--- +## Highlight + +A great PM will also be paying attention to the broader tech world, thinking about how innovations elsewhere might apply to his product and customers. ^ref-11773 +- Location: [1358](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1358) + +--- +## Highlight + +Stravinsky, Faulkner, Picasso…regardless of who said it, you might have heard the quote, “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” Sometimes your competition has a great idea, and stealing it—and making it better—is your opportunity. Be careful with this source. “Because the other guy did it” is never a valid reason alone to create a feature—that’s just copying. ^ref-44354 +- Location: [1409](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1409) + +--- +## Highlight + +The Kano model defines three principles that a product needs to achieve to be successful over time: Value attracts customers. Quality keeps customers and builds loyalty. Innovation differentiates your product from others and keeps you competitive. ^ref-5768 +- Location: [1533](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1533) + +--- +## Highlight + +A SWOT analysis is a common method for looking at how an opportunity hypothesis fits in. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This framework helps you identify the most important internal and external elements of achieving your goals. ^ref-8852 +- Location: [1637](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1637) + +--- +## Highlight + +To do a SWOT analysis, first identify your key goals and success metrics. Then create a two-by-two table like Table 4-1. The top row will be your internal elements—the strengths and weaknesses for the product/ company around achieving your goals. The bottom row will look at external elements—the opportunities and threats, including things like cultural, governmental, and technological trends. ^ref-5913 +- Location: [1640](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1640) + +--- +## Highlight + +Here’s a checklist of questions that will help you start validating an opportunity. If the answer to any of these is negative, then you should most likely not pursue this opportunity. Is this opportunity in line with our vision? Does it support the product’s vision and core function? Can we do it well with our capabilities (or is it feasible and desirable to expand our capabilities to meet the opportunity)? How does it contribute to our key metrics? Do we have any data, be it from analytics, surveys, or bug reports, to support this opportunity? Is it required to meet a critical business initiative? How does it contribute to our users’ winning? Is it on our roadmap for this year, even indirectly as part of something else? Will it matter in two years? (It’s OK if the feature is to address an immediate need, but you’ll want to limit those, as you want to prioritize things that have a higher value over time.) Will everyone benefit? If it only helps a niche set of customers, is it worth the cost? If it succeeds, can we support it? ^ref-47085 +- Location: [1658](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1658) + +--- +## Highlight + +So what is customer development? It’s a way to validate if the people you think are your customers truly are the right customers and confirming you’re on the right path. This includes finding out what problems customers are seeking to solve, what they’re doing right now that either creates those problems and tries to solve them, what they’re able to do (technically, financially, socially, etc.), and how they find out about and decide if a new product/feature is worth it. Fundamentally, it’s a conversation and an exchange of information. It’s also useful to know what customer development is not. It’s not a way for people to give you a wish list. It’s not a focus group to only see how people respond to ideas. It’s not a place to observe how customers use your prototype. It’s also not a replacement for product vision. Customers will give you a huge wish list, but they’ll often ask for more than they actually need, end up not using features, and —in really bad cases—might get confused by all the extra features. This is a big part of why we recommend having some opportunity hypotheses in mind first. ^ref-47639 +- Location: [1774](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1774) + +--- +## Highlight + +It can be helpful to explicitly write your opportunity hypothesis in terms of these canvases: “I believe that experience when doing because of , and alleviating that pain would let the customer , although she’d have to .” ^ref-23052 +- Location: [1804](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1804) + +--- +## Highlight + +Think about the Henry Ford’s “faster horse” example here: The feature request is a faster horse. The underlying desire is the desire to get to a destination faster. Restating someone’s feature request to make sure you understand it and asking what she thinks it’d let her do or how she envisions using that feature is an easy way to start to get to the underlying desire. ^ref-62742 +- Location: [1857](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1857) + +--- +## Highlight + +It usually takes 5 to 10 interviews to fully get into the zone, and unless you’re changing your questions, 15 to 20 interviews is usually when you stop hearing new things. ^ref-48061 +- Location: [1964](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=1964) + +### Note +I've heard 15 people are enough for a study/interview group, but I've also heard 5 people are enough. + +With sufficient knowledge and research, I'd lean towards 5-10 people as sufficient. By interviewing fewer people, we can reduce the cost of the study, in terms of pre-interview preparation, the actual interview, and post-interview content review. + +--- +## Highlight + +The last type is a fake door MVP. If you’re thinking about building a new feature into your product, add the UX elements you’d use to trigger the interaction, but rather than actually delivering the feature, provide a notification that the feature’s coming soon. See how many people use your “fake door.” For example, if your hypothesis is that people would find a live group chat feature useful on your online education site, add a “Chat” button and see how many people click it. If only a tiny percentage do, reconsider if it’s worth pursuing this opportunity, depending on the value of those customers vs. the cost of implementing the feature. ^ref-6838 +- Location: [2151](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2151) + +--- +## Highlight + +A simple way to compare priorities is to come up with a value vs. cost number. Work with an engineering lead to put difficulty values on different opportunities. From your customer-development work and other internal analysis, create business-value numbers for each opportunity. Use higher numbers to indicate more expensive cost, or more valuable. Because it’s tough to estimate value and difficulty precisely, use an exponential series rather than a linear one—i.e., use 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 rather than 1 through 5. This way, it’s very clear when one opportunity is harder or more valuable than another. Next, for each opportunity, figure out a score using score = value÷cost. Focus on the highest-scoring opportunities first, as they provide the most value for the lowest cost. ^ref-60278 +- Location: [2173](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2173) + +--- +## Highlight + +Before we go further, let’s clear up a big misconception about MVPs. Minimum doesn’t mean bad. Your product is still going to be designed and engineered well, tested thoroughly, and, most importantly, it will deliver value to the user. It should be a product that people are willing to buy and use. Even if it’s not fully featured, it should work well enough that it becomes your customers’ go-to solution. ^ref-64825 +- Location: [2346](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2346) + +--- +## Highlight + +We love MVPs because they let you focus on delivering a product your customers want and will use. But remember, minimum doesn’t mean bad. You need to be continuously seeking ways to make sure what you’re doing is great. In Chapter 3 we talked about the Kano model, and we introduced the idea of delighter features, features that customers don’t ask for but that deliver a huge return in customer satisfaction. ^ref-59464 +- Location: [2384](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2384) + +--- +## Highlight + +Disney historian Les Perkins tells a story from the early days of Disneyland. Walt was holding a Christmas parade, which cost $350,000. His accountants begged him not to spend that money, because people would already be in the park. Walt’s reply was, “That’s just the point. We should do the parade precisely because no one’s expecting it. Our goal at Disneyland is to always give the people more than they expect. As long as we keep surprising them, they’ll keep coming back. But if they ever stop coming, it’ll cost us ten times that much to get them to come back.” ^ref-10020 +- Location: [2392](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2392) + +### Note +Intriguing and possibly even conservative in the part "it will cost is ten times that much to get them to come back." + +--- +## Highlight + +The PRD is a tool for everyone involved in the product. At first you’ll use it to get all the key stakeholders on the same page and help the team understand the project. Having an initial PRD can be reassuring and inspire confidence in your project, as it’s clear to others in the company that you have an idea for where to take the project. We believe that, throughout the project, the PRD should be the project’s home page—or at least the very first link on the project’s homepage. As you near release, your support and sales teams will use it to find out everything they need to know about the product. And when you’re done, it’s a historical reference for why you made certain decisions. ^ref-64939 +- Location: [2422](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2422) + +--- +## Highlight + +Breaking Down a PRD ^ref-27145 +- Location: [2433](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2433) + +### Note +Thos section is helpful and may be useful for myself or others to refer to in the future when writing a PRD. + +--- +## Highlight + +The design process generally breaks down into six primary phases: User research Information architecture Interaction design Prototyping Visual design Content strategy ^ref-60247 +- Location: [2934](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=2934) + +--- +## Highlight + +So how do you build a constructive relationship with the design team? A simple but important step is to get to know the team. Building individual relationships with the people you work with will help you respect each other as people and deal with conflict more productively. ^ref-36370 +- Location: [3116](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=3116) + +### Note +I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. However, relationships with co-workers is incredibly difficult to do in a remote workplace or within a remote team. There really is no substitute for in-person relationship building and communication. + +--- +## Highlight + +You might have everyone work individually to generate ideas using “Crazy Eights,” where you fold a piece of paper in half three times, to create a page with eight segments, and take five minutes to draw eight ideas, one per segment. ^ref-30433 +- Location: [3229](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=3229) + +### Note +I like this idea. It’s engaging and eventually builds trust amongst a team to be vulnerable and show designs that may not fit with the solution that the team needs to make. + +However, I think this really mostly works in an in-person environment. I think doing this remotely might be a little awkward and not build the repertoire necessary for a project to succeed. + +--- +## Highlight + +Despite the various criticisms, the Standish Group, an IT advisory center, tracked 50,000 projects from 2011 through 2015 and found that the success rate (shipping a working product) of agile products was 39% vs. 11% with waterfall. That’s a huge difference, but note that even with agile 61% of projects don’t have a working product by the end. ^ref-19860 +- Location: [3447](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=3447) + +--- +## Highlight + +Furthermore, we like writing backlog tasks as user stories because that format helps explain why something is an issue so that Design and Engineering can determine the best approach to address the issue. ^ref-43957 +- Location: [3470](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=3470) + +--- +## Highlight + +Finally, remember that your message is not about what the product does, it’s about what the product lets the customer do. Customers buy your product to make their lives better. Make sure your message clearly highlights how your product will help your customers improve their lives. ^ref-19193 +- Location: [3856](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=3856) + +--- +## Highlight + +If a launch wasn’t well received, you should still recognize the effort that went into it, as you want the team to have a positive attitude when working on the next iteration of the product. ^ref-31626 +- Location: [4248](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=4248) + +--- +## Highlight + +Assessing how things went ensures that you gather feedback, letting people feel their concerns are heard, and think about how to do better in the next cycle. ^ref-9923 +- Location: [4258](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=4258) + +--- +## Highlight + +For some people, assessing how things went during the development cycle is very difficult, personally. This is when you explicitly put yourself out there and ask for feedback, and you will get feedback, both positive and negative. ^ref-47433 +- Location: [4260](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071HFBGXR&location=4260) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Product is Docs.md b/docs/The Product is Docs.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..93461a37 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Product is Docs.md @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '52914' + title: >- + The Product is Docs: Writing technical documentation in a product + development group + author: Christopher Gales and Splunk Documentation Team + asin: B085KHTV95 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71aQdmXHo6L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 43 +--- +# The Product is Docs: Writing technical documentation in a product development group + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Product is Docs: Writing technical documentation in a product development group](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085KHTV95) | +| **Author** | [Christopher Gales and Splunk Documentation Team](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +In an Agile environment, you need to be an adaptable, proactive self-starter. Most of the other scrum team members won’t habitually think of reaching out to the documentation team to notify you that a feature or enhancement has a documentation impact. You need to watch for and track down the information. ^ref-40216 +- Location: [111](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=111) + +--- +## Highlight + +Attend as many stand-ups, sprint and release planning meetings, demos, and retrospectives as you can, and exercise your status as a full member of the team. ^ref-57617 +- Location: [123](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=123) + +--- +## Highlight + +There is no definition of done without docs. Customer documentation is part of the working software. ^ref-6804 +- Location: [141](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=141) + +--- +## Highlight + +Use your company’s standard development tracking program, such as Jira or Rally, to track your documentation tasks, doc reviews, to raise issues and questions, and to file defects. ^ref-60551 +- Location: [212](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=212) + +--- +## Highlight + +Add story points and priority values to the tickets that have documentation impact. There are tasks that require a lot of engineering work and very little documentation work. There are other tasks that require a small or medium amount of engineering work but require a large amount of documentation work. Make your work visible in the same tickets that development uses to organize and track their work. ^ref-62848 +- Location: [215](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=215) + +--- +## Highlight + +Push the product managers to write scenario-based user stories. All too often, stories don’t provide enough context for meaningful development work. This context is important not just for you, the tech writer, but for everyone from the marketing, sales, QA, support, and training teams. Everyone needs to know who the audience is and what they are trying to accomplish with the feature. You might need to push, nag, and cajole your colleagues into writing good user stories, but it’s worth the effort. ^ref-47196 +- Location: [218](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=218) + +--- +## Highlight + +Setting up a separate scrum team and sprint cadence for writers separate from the rest of product development isn’t a true Agile approach. Being involved with the scrum team only late in the development cycle means that you invest less time tracking ongoing changes as features evolve and change. When you begin to write, the feature is likely to be close to its final state. With a scrum of writers, there are good opportunities for cross-training. ^ref-22200 +- Location: [279](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=279) + +### Note +In organizations with few resources, this seems like the best option and one that I've envisioned since my days working at Ricoh. + +--- +## Highlight + +Finally, using a separate scrum of writers violates most of the tenets of the Agile Manifesto and usually results in a waterfall approach masquerading as iterative development. If you find yourself considering the scrum of writers, consider that scrum might not be the best methodology for those tasks, and you might not need to use it at all to achieve efficient and effective results. ^ref-45695 +- Location: [294](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=294) + +--- +## Highlight + +Reliable and accessible documentation requires thorough product knowledge. It also depends equally, if not more, on knowing your audience. ^ref-48873 +- Location: [328](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=328) + +### Note +This is vital for documentation to be effective. + +--- +## Highlight + +Technical writers craft connections between an audience and a product. To build these connections, you need to identify your users as clearly as possible. You also need to identify your users’ goals: the problems they want to solve, the decisions they need to make, or the things they want to build. Equipped with this audience awareness, you can write more accessible, well-situated, and supportive documentation. You can also help create more satisfied customers. ^ref-49678 +- Location: [329](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=329) + +--- +## Highlight + +Audience definitions help writers reevaluate existing content and move more easily from one assignment to another. ^ref-13703 +- Location: [460](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=460) + +### Note +Audience definitions also help engineers, product managers, and others involved with product development understand and write their own documentation. + +--- +## Highlight + +Most of the time, frustrated users want to complete a task or install a product and cannot because the instructions assume a certain level of experience and don’t account for novices, or because the user can’t find the information they need. ^ref-39768 +- Location: [587](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=587) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you have topics that aren’t frequently visited, consider that if someone isn’t reading the information, it might actually be useful but difficult to find. Experiment by linking more richly to those topics and reevaluating the data after a few months. If users visit those topics more frequently and spend more time on the page, the content is probably useful. If they aren’t, you can consider whether you need those topics at all. ^ref-37579 +- Location: [747](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=747) + +--- +## Highlight + +Avoid linking readers to the third-party website. Instead, provide a search term that helps readers find the correct content on the third-party website using their search tool. Test it to make sure your reader can successfully find the content on their website using that term. ^ref-40655 +- Location: [850](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=850) + +--- +## Highlight + +The job, fundamentally, isn’t about writing or learning technology. It’s a relationship business, more like investigative journalism than anything else. Writers have to identify and cultivate your sources, build mutual respect and trust, and follow the story wherever it leads. On top of that, they have to organize that information and write about it clearly. But only then. In today’s product development world, writers need to demonstrate a journalistic hunger. ^ref-39507 +- Location: [901](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=901) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you’re hiring writers for today’s software world, you want writers who embody these characteristics: Flexible Fearless Personable Organized Experimental Customer-focused Generalists ^ref-11095 +- Location: [925](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=925) + +--- +## Highlight + +The work of the documentation team spans multiple scrums and often represents the integration of technologies from multiple product teams. To help each other—and the customers—succeed, writers need to watch and listen at all times for information that might be relevant to another writing colleague. It goes beyond sharing information. It requires informed, lateral thinking and a clear understanding of the overall product context. Whether you call this “shared consciousness”, “joint cognition”, or, as we do in the Splunk doc team, “collective intelligence”, you have to instill this practice in the cultural fabric of your department. ^ref-28482 +- Location: [978](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=978) + +--- +## Highlight + +The optimal ratio of developers to writer is mythical and not that useful, but it is persistent. If you, as a doc team manager, are involved in conversations about the ratio, be sure to make a couple of points: The ratio should not focus on developers because developers aren’t the only people who create work for technical writers. The ratio must consider all of the people who make work for technical writers, including developers, designers, product managers, testers, and customer support engineers. The answer depends on what the developers are doing. You can assign a team of eight developers to spend six months working on performance, and their dedicated effort will result in just a few days of documentation work. On the other hand, two UI developers working for a week could keep a team of several tech writers busy for a month. ^ref-49012 +- Location: [1004](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1004) + +--- +## Highlight + +Larger organizations need more process. Focus on developing light processes that reduce the time writers spend trying to figure out how to do their work so that they can spend more time actually doing it. Processes such as these should also enable you to build an effective, repeatable training experience for new team members so that writers who are joining your team don’t create extra work for existing team members. Another tool to help manage complexity is the development of standards. A well-developed style guide and glossary, along with peer reviews or formal editing, will ensure consistent terminology and usage. If you’re working in a structured authoring environment, the development of topic types and standardized information architecture also reduces some of the unnecessary variation that comes with complexity. ^ref-452 +- Location: [1023](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1023) + +--- +## Highlight + +Benefits of learning objectives when crafting documentation ^ref-57843 +- Location: [1091](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1091) + +### Note +This whole section has good, relevant information. + +--- +## Highlight + +If learning objectives are closely related, it might be a good idea to include all of the content in one topic. Focus on optimizing for a straightforward, easily navigable documentation experience. ^ref-13020 +- Location: [1149](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1149) + +--- +## Highlight + +Several learning objectives might combine to support one user goal. A user might progress through multiple topics, each with a different type of learning objective—awareness, comprehension, applicable skill—as they move toward their goal. ^ref-56810 +- Location: [1151](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1151) + +--- +## Highlight + +​When assessing the effectiveness of the learning objective, consider the qualities: Criteria for a strong learning objective How the objective meets the criteria Does the objective support a real-world user goal? Is the user better equipped to solve a problem, create something, or make a decision after reading this topic? The user should be able to follow configuration steps, resulting in a customized visualization. Is the objective rooted in a clear starting point? Before meeting this objective, users should be familiar with the given data visualization type and be able to select it to represent data in a specific use case. They should also be able to describe the available configuration options for the visualization. Does the objective indicate a clear destination? By achieving this learning objective, users are equipped to configure the visualization. Depending on the complexity of the steps, users might be able to independently repeat the steps or describe the steps to another user. Can the objective be categorized into one of the following types: Awareness Comprehension Applicable skill Yes; applicable skill ^ref-25094 +- Location: [1228](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1228) + +### Note +Great starting points when considering the direction of documentation. + +--- +## Highlight + +Look at use cases that a product manager identifies. These use cases will help you identify your audience and understand the user goals intended for the feature. Remember that user goals aren’t the same as learning objectives. ^ref-29526 +- Location: [1287](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1287) + +--- +## Highlight + +Internal engineering documentation Internal engineering docs are helpful for considering more constrained objectives, such as making users aware of particular configuration settings or permissions. More generally, while product specs are useful for identifying broader learning objectives, engineering internal docs can help you figure out how to get the user there. This kind of documentation can contain more information than users need, so consider what to include and exclude in user documentation. Remember that creating relevant content is more important than creating comprehensive content. ^ref-3760 +- Location: [1290](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1290) + +--- +## Highlight + +When you revisit material that you haven’t worked on for a while, new ideas and connections can occur to you. Your expertise can grow over time or use cases can change or merit reconsideration. When you look at material with a fresh eye, you often see its faults in a way that you couldn’t when you wrote it originally. ^ref-39782 +- Location: [1375](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1375) + +--- +## Highlight + +Remember: the attention that you pay to updating existing content is what distinguishes your docs and builds confidence within your customer community. ^ref-51884 +- Location: [1424](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1424) + +--- +## Highlight + +One example of this kind of simplicity is what Hubbard calls the “Rule of Five”, which states that there is a 93.75% chance that the median of a population is between the smallest and largest values in any random sample of five from that population (Hubbard, 30). ^ref-25897 +- Location: [1487](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1487) + +--- +## Highlight + +Measurement supports iteration. ^ref-33151 +- Location: [1498](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1498) + +--- +## Highlight + +Even when a question is well-framed and properly delivered, it can be hard to get a timely answer. Sources are busy, and your questions probably aren’t their priority. After a decent interval, ask again. Be as cheerfully persistent as a golden retriever. Give them a deadline. When the direct approach doesn’t work, you can sometimes provoke a response by writing something that is so wrong that a reviewer will be compelled to respond. ^ref-11390 +- Location: [1805](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1805) + +### Note +Good tactic to get feedback, especially the last sentence about intentionally including incorrect information to drive a response. + +--- +## Highlight + +But technical editing is more than copyediting. Technical editing covers a wide spectrum of writerly things that stretch far beyond catching typos. Technical editing addresses issues of style, usability, clarity and cohesion, consistent terminology, audience definition, and minimalism. Its practices extend from sentence to topic to complex documentation sets. ^ref-33795 +- Location: [1961](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1961) + +### Note +Technical "writing" has really transformed into this Technical editor role recently. Because of how fast iterations are released, technical writers don't have the luxury of time to learn about features in detail and write drafts from scratch. Additionally, technical editors tend to work aith multiple teams, so dedicated writing resources are thin. + +--- +## Highlight + +It doesn’t have to be someone with the job title of technical editor who gives you feedback on the effectiveness of your documentation. It can be anyone in your product organization, such as a peer technical writer on your documentation team, a product manager, a colleague in marketing or customer success, or even a valued customer with whom you have established a strong relationship. ^ref-8455 +- Location: [1964](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1964) + +### Note +Feedback from anyone is valuable. Arguably, the best feedback comes from people unfamiliar with the content, especially for external-facing docs. + +--- +## Highlight + +What technical editing adds ^ref-11593 +- Location: [1966](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=1966) + +### Note +This whole section is well-written and describes how reviews and feedback are important in improving documentation and understanding. + +--- +## Highlight + +These kinds of questions work for self-editing, too: Who is the intended audience for this content? What is the learning objective for the content? Does the content provide enough context for the user? Does it contain information that isn’t directly relevant to the user’s goal? Is the level of detail correct? Does this information path lead the user through the content efficiently? Is this type of information documented frequently enough to warrant a template? How do you handle optional steps in a task? How do you handle conditional information? Is this topic too long? ^ref-7119 +- Location: [2010](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=2010) + +### Note +All valid points to consider when working with an SME and reviewing documentation. + +--- +## Highlight + +Self-edit checklist ^ref-2142 +- Location: [2171](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=2171) + +### Note +Borrow from this section when creating a "self-editing checklist" for people involved with development. + +--- +## Highlight + +One factor that matters a lot, and is probably largely beyond your ability to affect, short of moving to a new company, is the established relationship between the doc team and the engineering team. Do the engineers view the writers as part of their team? Do they understand the importance of good documentation to product usability and customer satisfaction? Do engineers understand their responsibility for ensuring the quality of the documentation? ^ref-46697 +- Location: [2340](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=2340) + +--- +## Highlight + +Another bedrock factor, which you do have a great deal of control over, is your own relationship to the engineering team. Do they see you as part of their team? Do they experience your contributions in a positive light? And do they view you as smart or stupid? You can help your standing on a team by showing that you’re prepared and up to date on the feature by participating in development meetings and reading relevant engineering documents before sitting down with the developer to discuss a product feature. Also, ask intelligent questions and make intelligent suggestions. And, whatever you do, don’t allow yourself to feel intimidated—or, if you do feel intimidated, don’t allow it to show. ^ref-14304 +- Location: [2343](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=2343) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t overwhelm reviewers with suggestions about how to do their reviews. Understand that they are going to spend as little time as possible on the review. If there’s something in the documentation that requires further explanation, add a note to the reviewers in the copy itself. Don’t distract your reviewers by asking them to absorb extraneous information about what constitutes a good review. They won’t read it anyway, so it’s a waste of your time. ^ref-54291 +- Location: [2356](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=2356) + +--- +## Highlight + +In organizations that lack formal processes, be the person who brings a method to the madness. By designing a formal approval process without creating too much overhead, you create accountability from your teams. ^ref-41273 +- Location: [2378](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=2378) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t sulk if you don’t get any feedback. Reevaluate your methods, clarify what you are asking for, and try again. Talk to the product manager about the mutual benefits of attending to documentation and share some of the customer feedback they should know about. ^ref-29633 +- Location: [3152](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=3152) + +--- +## Highlight + +The Agile Manifesto says, “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation”. ^ref-34566 +- Location: [3212](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=3212) + +--- +## Highlight + +Progressively disclosing complexity is a solid principle for design as well as information development. Most customers in most situations might not need additional troubleshooting or management capabilities for a feature. But for the minority who do, documentation shouldn’t be the only part of the product that helps them. ^ref-54192 +- Location: [3386](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=3386) + +--- +## Highlight + +Above all else, SaaS customers expect the management of their service to be seamless. To enable this managed service model, your customer support teams, infrastructure and operations teams, or teams such as Network Operation Center (NOC) and Security Operation Center (SOC), need a repository of documentation. This documentation helps teams execute their daily operational work and respond to customer issues. Even though they never see it, internal documentation is as important to SaaS customers as the customer-facing documentation they do read. ^ref-48945 +- Location: [3614](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B085KHTV95&location=3614) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Rape of Nanking.md b/docs/The Rape of Nanking.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fbdb4a7f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Rape of Nanking.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '24888' + title: 'The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II' + author: Iris Chang + asin: B005XQ973M + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-05-24' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81eYpm+G+JL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 3 +--- +# The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XQ973M) | +| **Author** | [Iris Chang](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Even more important, it does a disservice not only to the men, women, and children whose lives were taken at Nanking but to the Japanese people as well to say that any criticism of Japanese behavior at a certain time and place is criticism of the Japanese as people. ^ref-35785 +- Location: [290](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005XQ973M&location=290) + +--- +## Highlight + +“To this day,” an American naval intelligence officer wrote of Japanese culture during World War II, “the Japanese idea of a polite answer is one satisfactory to the questioner. Is it surprising that good manners are a national trait with the Japanese?” ^ref-40442 +- Location: [855](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005XQ973M&location=855) + +--- +## Highlight + +What happened to Azuma Shiro, the first Japanese veteran to admit openly his crimes in Nanking, is a spectacular example of the system of Japanese intimidation at its worst. In 1987 he created a sensation when he became the first former Japanese soldier to apologize in public for his role in the Nanking massacre. On the eve of his departure to Nanking to participate in a fifty-year memorial ceremony of the great Rape, he gave interviews to newspaper and television reporters at a press conference in Kyoto. The result was an avalanche of criticism and death threats. To protect himself, Azuma retired from his company and moved with his wife into a house in a tiny village outside Kyoto, where he kept an arsenal of weapons, such as truncheons, clubs, pepper sprays, chains, and knuckle dusters. ^ref-41362 +- Location: [3183](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005XQ973M&location=3183) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Science of Self-Discipline.md b/docs/The Science of Self-Discipline.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2a920847 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Science of Self-Discipline.md @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '8222' + title: >- + The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and + Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals (Live a Disciplined + Life Book 1) + author: Peter Hollins + asin: B076MVJLJ5 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2019-01-09' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Vljp-v1uL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 15 +--- +# The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals (Live a Disciplined Life Book 1) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals (Live a Disciplined Life Book 1)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076MVJLJ5) | +| **Author** | [Peter Hollins](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +An in-depth analysis of more than 12,000 employee diary entries showed that the top motivator for workplace productivity wasn’t financially or status driven. People were most incentivized to work by the feeling of making consistent progress toward a meaningful goal. The feeling that they were improving, getting better, and generally growing. ^ref-25940 +- Location: [285](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=285) + +--- +## Highlight + +Studies have consistently shown material possessions to be a poor motivator. Instead, personal feelings of progress, autonomy, mastery, and purpose are far better motivators to attach yourself to. ^ref-18217 +- Location: [421](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=421) + +--- +## Highlight + +This means that when SEALs recognize that they are feeling overwhelmed, they regain control by focusing on their breath—breathing in for four seconds, holding for four seconds, and then out for four seconds, and repeating until you can feel your heart rate slow down and normalize. ^ref-40891 +- Location: [520](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=520) + +--- +## Highlight + +That’s where the 10-Minute Rule comes in—if you want something, wait at least 10 minutes before getting it. ^ref-40665 +- Location: [579](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=579) + +--- +## Highlight + +Similarly, if you want to quit something beneficial, wait just 10 more minutes. It’s the same thought process applied in a different way. ^ref-50368 +- Location: [583](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=583) + +--- +## Highlight + +Many social media platforms profit from “time on site,” meaning the amount of time users spend on their platform. As a result, those platforms have been optimized to tap into dopamine responses as much as possible, because addicted users are profitable ones. ^ref-43724 +- Location: [1015](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1015) + +--- +## Highlight + +Invest in Your Network   We can’t choose our families, but we can certainly choose whom we spend our free time with. We should be selective in the people we associate with. ^ref-2194 +- Location: [1122](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1122) + +--- +## Highlight + +You may have heard it said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ^ref-33833 +- Location: [1137](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1137) + +--- +## Highlight + +Not just for self-discipline, fill your network with people that you admire and whom you look up to—not those whom you look down upon and whom you have to prop up. ^ref-44002 +- Location: [1140](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1140) + +--- +## Highlight + +It was concluded that it wasn’t necessarily emphasizing the victories that cemented the weight loss, it was having a supportive presence that gave people mental and emotional resilience. ^ref-20126 +- Location: [1154](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1154) + +--- +## Highlight + +The endowed progress effect works by reducing the perceived amount of effort that’s necessary to accomplish a goal while increasing the feeling of progress already made toward it. ^ref-58018 +- Location: [1598](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1598) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you’ve already invested in achieving a goal in some way, you can contemplate how it would feel to waste whatever time, effort, and resources you’ve invested if you don’t follow through and accomplish the goal. ^ref-20764 +- Location: [1608](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1608) + +--- +## Highlight + +This principle, combined with the previous one, means you should always keep track of your progress and make sure to note each accomplishment, no matter how small. Emphasize how far away from starting from 0% you are, and how close to 100% you are. ^ref-54664 +- Location: [1635](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1635) + +--- +## Highlight + +Whenever you feel trapped or just stuck where you are in life, ask yourself whether you’re focusing on outcomes and what people think of you, or if you are engaged in the process of pursuing your goals and truly living in the present. When you are enjoying the journey, you can fully express and manifest your gifts and talents in a way that often leads to more positive outcomes. ^ref-7969 +- Location: [1708](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1708) + +--- +## Highlight + +Don’t Wait for It to “Feel Right” ^ref-16115 +- Location: [1807](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B076MVJLJ5&location=1807) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Shallows.md b/docs/The Shallows.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b1a41c7c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Shallows.md @@ -0,0 +1,125 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '59423' + title: 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' + author: Nicholas Carr + asin: B003R7L90I + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/811F86ohcxL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 17 +--- +# The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003R7L90I) | +| **Author** | [Nicholas Carr](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Thanks to the ready adaptability of neurons, the senses of hearing and touch can grow sharper to mitigate the effects of the loss of sight. ^ref-522 +- Location: [528](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=528) + +--- +## Highlight + +Descartes may have been wrong about dualism, but he appears to have been correct in believing that our thoughts can exert a physical influence on, or at least cause a physical reaction in, our brains. We become, neurologically, what we think. ^ref-15957 +- Location: [601](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=601) + +--- +## Highlight + +The more a sufferer concentrates on his symptoms, the deeper those symptoms are etched into his neural circuits. In the worst cases, the mind essentially trains itself to be sick. ^ref-45920 +- Location: [623](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=623) + +--- +## Highlight + +Every intellectual technology, to put it another way, embodies an intellectual ethic, a set of assumptions about how the human mind works or should work. ^ref-18168 +- Location: [777](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=777) + +--- +## Highlight + +Ultimately, it’s an invention’s intellectual ethic that has the most profound effect on us. The intellectual ethic is the message that a medium or other tool transmits into the minds and culture of its users. ^ref-15002 +- Location: [784](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=784) + +--- +## Highlight + +Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an “ecosystem of interruption technologies,” ^ref-34652 +- Location: [1521](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=1521) + +--- +## Highlight + +when we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. It’s possible to think deeply while surfing the Net, just as it’s possible to think shallowly while reading a book, but that’s not the type of thinking the technology encourages and rewards. ^ref-41456 +- Location: [1911](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=1911) + +--- +## Highlight + +The links got in the way of learning, the researchers concluded.22 ^ref-41432 +- Location: [2120](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=2120) + +--- +## Highlight + +She found that comprehension declined as the number of links increased. Readers were forced to devote more and more of their attention and brain power to evaluating the links and deciding whether to click on them. That left less attention and fewer cognitive resources to devote to understanding what they were reading. ^ref-4995 +- Location: [2124](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=2124) + +--- +## Highlight + +The vast majority skimmed the text quickly, their eyes skipping down the page in a pattern that resembled, roughly, the letter F. ^ref-43913 +- Location: [2224](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=2224) + +--- +## Highlight + +What the Net diminishes is Johnson’s primary kind of knowledge: the ability to know, in depth, a subject for ourselves, to construct within our own minds the rich and idiosyncratic set of connections that give rise to a singular intelligence. ^ref-35699 +- Location: [2368](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=2368) + +--- +## Highlight + +“Human beings are ashamed to have been born instead of made,” the twentieth-century philosopher Günther Anders once observed, and in the pronouncements of Google’s founders we can sense that shame as well as the ambition it engenders. ^ref-25225 +- Location: [2859](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=2859) + +--- +## Highlight + +The two types of memory entail different biological processes. Storing long-term memories requires the synthesis of new proteins. Storing short-term memories does not. ^ref-53385 +- Location: [3036](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=3036) + +--- +## Highlight + +The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing. ^ref-47191 +- Location: [3197](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=3197) + +--- +## Highlight + +When we outsource our memory to a machine, we also outsource a very important part of our intellect and even our identity. ^ref-55398 +- Location: [3222](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=3222) + +--- +## Highlight + +People born into societies that celebrate individual achievement, like the United States, tend, for example, to be able to remember events from earlier in their lives than do people raised in societies that stress communal achievement, such as Korea. ^ref-25961 +- Location: [3227](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=3227) + +--- +## Highlight + +It then used an algorithmic “reassembly kit,” tailored to the template, that included a rule specifying that “any sentence of the form ‘I am BLAH’” should be “transformed to ‘How long have you been BLAH,’ independently of the meaning of BLAH.” ^ref-62968 +- Location: [3293](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003R7L90I&location=3293) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Souls of Black Folk.md b/docs/The Souls of Black Folk.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..70719211 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Souls of Black Folk.md @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '64478' + title: The Souls of Black Folk (AmazonClassics Edition) + author: W. E. B. Du Bois + asin: B071FQQHFB + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71o+qaKyM0L._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 6 +--- +# The Souls of Black Folk (AmazonClassics Edition) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Souls of Black Folk (AmazonClassics Edition)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071FQQHFB) | +| **Author** | [W. E. B. Du Bois](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. ^ref-2003 +- Location: [60](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071FQQHFB&location=60) + +--- +## Highlight + +He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another. ^ref-17557 +- Location: [127](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071FQQHFB&location=127) + +--- +## Highlight + +It is full easy now to see that the man who lost home, fortune, and family at a stroke, and saw his land ruled by “mules and niggers,” was really benefited by the passing of slavery. ^ref-26500 +- Location: [413](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071FQQHFB&location=413) + +--- +## Highlight + +Then in one sad day came the crash,—all the hard-earned dollars of the freedmen disappeared; but that was the least of the loss,—all the faith in saving went too, and much of the faith in men; and that was a loss that a Nation which to-day sneers at Negro shiftlessness has never yet made good. ^ref-43961 +- Location: [438](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071FQQHFB&location=438) + +--- +## Highlight + +The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. ^ref-17389 +- Location: [479](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071FQQHFB&location=479) + +--- +## Highlight + +This ^ref-20921 +- Location: [605](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B071FQQHFB&location=605) + +### Note +Note to self: Stopped here. Will pick up later. + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Subversive Copy Editor.md b/docs/The Subversive Copy Editor.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1698fc3a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Subversive Copy Editor.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '3769' + title: >- + The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good + Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Chicago + Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) + author: Carol Fisher Saller + asin: B01DGPSNWW + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BS85gcxWL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 18 +--- +# The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DGPSNWW) | +| **Author** | [Carol Fisher Saller](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +If you’re charged with following a style guide that you haven’t yet mastered, then restraint—doing no harm—is your best tactic. ^ref-44540 +- Location: [288](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=288) + +--- +## Highlight + +1. Don’t bother writers with questions they can’t answer. ^ref-15483 +- Location: [525](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=525) + +--- +## Highlight + +2. Be brief. Don’t patronize or overexplain. ^ref-57206 +- Location: [538](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=538) + +--- +## Highlight + +3. Read over the early queries when you’re finished. ^ref-60034 +- Location: [541](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=541) + +--- +## Highlight + +• In editing, every time you make a mark on someone else’s copy, you must know why, according to an authority, chapter and verse, you are making that change. ^ref-32494 +- Location: [565](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=565) + +--- +## Highlight + +• In querying, every time you challenge a writer’s grammar, usage, or facts, you must first either look it up, remember looking it up, or (if it’s one of those evolving issues) remember looking it up in the not-too-distant past. ^ref-29582 +- Location: [568](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=568) + +--- +## Highlight + +What these questions suggest is that copy editors fail to understand that style rules (which pertain to punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, preferred spellings, and conventions for citing sources, among other things) are often by nature arbitrary and changeable. ^ref-25059 +- Location: [589](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=589) + +--- +## Highlight + +The inability to identify the difference between negotiable matters of style and less negotiable matters of English grammar is perhaps the most common cause of grief ^ref-753 +- Location: [594](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=594) + +--- +## Highlight + +Remember: when requests from an intimidating author will affect a project’s cost or schedule, you don’t always have to say no; you just have to be careful about saying yes. ^ref-64940 +- Location: [690](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=690) + +--- +## Highlight + +Since we’ve already agreed that there’s no room for power-tripping as a copy editor, it stands to reason that there are going to be times when it’s expedient to back down. ^ref-22886 +- Location: [763](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=763) + +--- +## Highlight + +You may have noticed this phenomenon: often it seems that the more tinkering you do in a document, the more errors remain. ^ref-31447 +- Location: [832](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=832) + +--- +## Highlight + +The first question is always “What’s the rule?” instead of “What is helpful?” or “What makes sense?” or—the unthinkable—“Can I break this rule?” ^ref-17172 +- Location: [884](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=884) + +--- +## Highlight + +We have the power to break the rule. ^ref-31209 +- Location: [885](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=885) + +--- +## Highlight + +Understanding the thinking behind a style choice gives you the power both to discard it when better thinking should prevail and to argue for it more convincingly when the reasoning applies. ^ref-22959 +- Location: [888](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=888) + +--- +## Highlight + +Copy editors have a choice as to what kind of power they wield. They can wave the rule book about and try to assume the power of saying “No, you can’t” to writers, or they can acquire the power of knowing when to break a rule in order to help writers achieve great writing. ^ref-60129 +- Location: [890](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=890) + +--- +## Highlight + +My point is that a work will never be edited the same way twice, and it will never be considered perfect, no matter how many times it’s edited—probably not even by the last person who edited it. ^ref-24772 +- Location: [992](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=992) + +--- +## Highlight + +So when you submit work—even if it consists of previously published material—be prepared for someone to find something that needs changing. When we talk about not taking editing “personally,” realize that this is why. A good amount of copyediting has nothing to do with how great a writer you are. ^ref-59582 +- Location: [1004](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=1004) + +--- +## Highlight + +If it doesn’t seem to follow any guide you’re familiar with, but it’s more or less consistent and makes sense, seriously consider leaving it alone. ^ref-44608 +- Location: [1338](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01DGPSNWW&location=1338) + +--- diff --git a/docs/The Universe Doesnt Give a Flying Fuck About You.md b/docs/The Universe Doesnt Give a Flying Fuck About You.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51fe572d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/The Universe Doesnt Give a Flying Fuck About You.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '18702' + title: The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You (Epic series Book 1) + author: J. Truant + asin: B005OMBTKY + lastAnnotatedDate: '2017-10-01' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Ufr-AwayL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 3 +--- +# The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You (Epic series Book 1) + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You (Epic series Book 1)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005OMBTKY) | +| **Author** | [J. Truant](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +You'd think we're never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action. ^ref-57526 +- Location: [55](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005OMBTKY&location=55) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you knew how small you are and how short a time you have to do what you can, you wouldn't waste time watching five fucking hours of TV a day. You wouldn't waste time doing a job you hate. You wouldn't waste the little time you have dealing with assholes, feeling sorry for yourself, or being timid about the things you'd really like to do. ^ref-3291 +- Location: [72](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005OMBTKY&location=72) + +--- +## Highlight + +If your life is to mean something, it's up to YOU. ^ref-17587 +- Location: [153](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005OMBTKY&location=153) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Unbound.md b/docs/Unbound.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a1ce088b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Unbound.md @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '12499' + title: >- + Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the + Brink + author: Richard L. Currier and Tom Gjelten + asin: B012TN04Y2 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81eA3BAjNWL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 16 +--- +# Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012TN04Y2) | +| **Author** | [Richard L. Currier and Tom Gjelten](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +THE ^ref-37698 +- Location: [269](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=269) + +--- +## Highlight + +Humans are, however, unique in the strong bonds that typically develop between fathers and their offspring, a revolutionary development among group-living primates. ^ref-43046 +- Location: [363](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=363) + +--- +## Highlight + +Instead, sexual behavior among bonobos seems to function as a means of resolving conflict and reducing tension between individuals. ^ref-57426 +- Location: [393](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=393) + +--- +## Highlight + +Monogamy, the most common form of sexual bonding among humans, is nonexistent among 97 percent of all mammalian species and is rare among apes and monkeys. ^ref-40398 +- Location: [403](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=403) + +--- +## Highlight + +Upon assuming ownership of the harem, the new alpha male often kills the offspring that are still in infancy. Since these infants were fathered by the previous male, this behavior probably evolved to ensure that the new male will be able to invest his time and energy protecting and defending the survival of those offspring that are carrying his own genes rather than the genes of his predecessor. ^ref-14870 +- Location: [424](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=424) + +--- +## Highlight + +It is tempting to think that only human beings fall in love, but the intense affection and attraction for another individual—an attraction that often rises to the level of an obsession with the other individual—occurs among many animal species and is entirely consistent with our definition of “love.” ^ref-9505 +- Location: [480](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=480) + +--- +## Highlight + +These dominance displays function not only as a warning to other males but also as a means of attracting sexually active females from the other group, in the hopes of having sexual liaisons with one of them. ^ref-61804 +- Location: [527](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=527) + +--- +## Highlight + +The “warning display hypothesis” proposes that individuals (especially males) that could threaten others by frequently standing erect were more dominant and thus sexually outcompeted individuals who stood erect less frequently. ^ref-30280 +- Location: [855](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=855) + +--- +## Highlight + +Indeed it is quite possible that sharpened sticks—relied on heavily, for survival, by known foraging people as digging sticks and as spears, but unknown among monkeys and apes—may have been the tool that tipped natural selection decisively toward upright posture.” ^ref-7389 +- Location: [915](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=915) + +--- +## Highlight + +This grasping reflex, which disappears in the first weeks of life, is the remnant of a powerful instinct we inherited from our primate ancestors. Its original purpose was to ensure that every primate infant would cling to the fur of its mother with unremitting tenacity, since continual physical contact with its mother was its only place of safety and vital to its very survival. ^ref-62406 +- Location: [988](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=988) + +--- +## Highlight + +The newly joined consort pair will separate themselves from the group and spend most of their time together, having sex, grooming each other, and sharing food. ^ref-36819 +- Location: [1026](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=1026) + +--- +## Highlight + +The caveman is not extinct but is alive and well and living today in the houses and apartments of the modern world. ^ref-5152 +- Location: [1519](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=1519) + +--- +## Highlight + +In fact, the !Kung consider sexual activity to be essential for proper mental health, and they believe that sexual deprivation in adulthood is the most likely cause of mental illness. ^ref-23978 +- Location: [2747](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=2747) + +--- +## Highlight + +The number 150, which came to be called “Dunbar’s number,” turns out to be approximately the maximum number of full-fledged relationships a normal human being can maintain at any given time. ^ref-58402 +- Location: [3346](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=3346) + +--- +## Highlight + +The final tally was 442 electoral votes for Eisenhower versus 89 for Stevenson. UNIVAC had predicted the results to within less than 1 percent of the final result. ^ref-31601 +- Location: [4072](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=4072) + +--- +## Highlight + +This means that the current increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide will not only delay the onset of the next ice age but might actually prevent another ice age from occurring altogether. ^ref-13899 +- Location: [4730](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B012TN04Y2&location=4730) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Under the Bar.md b/docs/Under the Bar.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..74e05f4f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Under the Bar.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '45158' + title: 'Under the Bar: Twelve Lessons Of Life From The World Of Powerlifting' + author: Dave Tate + asin: B01FWFG0PQ + lastAnnotatedDate: '2017-09-24' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71AeHFRRNzL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 1 +--- +# Under the Bar: Twelve Lessons Of Life From The World Of Powerlifting + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Under the Bar: Twelve Lessons Of Life From The World Of Powerlifting](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FWFG0PQ) | +| **Author** | [Dave Tate](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +I feel a man is only as good as his word, and that is the way it should be. Honesty broken once will be broken forever. A lie is a lie, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a white lie or a huge monster lie. ^ref-31268 +- Location: [422](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01FWFG0PQ&location=422) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Unwind!.md b/docs/Unwind!.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea65a907 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Unwind!.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '8170' + title: 'Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life' + author: 'Michael Olpin, Sam Bracken, and Daniel G. Amen' + asin: B00GJ201VQ + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-05' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91IGan3c2gL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 16 +--- +# Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GJ201VQ) | +| **Author** | [Michael Olpin, Sam Bracken, and Daniel G. Amen](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +Once the danger passes, the body returns to a state of equilibrium called homeostasis. So short-term stress—called episodic stress—can be a good thing. ^ref-29534 +- Location: [186](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=186) + +--- +## Highlight + +Under stress, your body will produce an excessive amount of cortisol (technically called hydrocortisone). This hormone is essential for life and does you much good—in moderate doses. But a continual flood of it weakens your immune system, making you more susceptible to infection. It slows down your bone cell growth, which over time can lead to osteoporosis. It drains potassium from your cells and makes it more difficult for your intestines to absorb calcium. It interrupts normal reproductive functions such as menstruation and the production of estrogen and testosterone. It causes you to retain water and store excess fat. It also hurts your brain. After about thirty minutes of stress and prolonged exposure to cortisol, the energy supply to the memory center of the brain, the hippocampus, drops by about 25 percent. Eventually, the neurons in the hippocampus begin to die. The result is that under high or prolonged stress, memory and concentration are impaired. You literally don’t think as well as you used to. Your thoughts become more superficial, less rational. ^ref-22643 +- Location: [280](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=280) + +--- +## Highlight + +We activate the stress response when we send our minds into the future or the past and include threat thoughts into the mix of those future or past thoughts. Worrying, for example, involves thinking of a future event and including a painful scenario in the stream of future thoughts. Regret is essentially doing the same thing but in the opposite direction, into our past. ^ref-32044 +- Location: [494](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=494) + +--- +## Highlight + +And here is why mindfulness is so powerful: The instant we do this, we leave behind threat thoughts of the future or the past, because here and now is safe. As we sense the safety of here and now, the stress response automatically turns off. ^ref-8120 +- Location: [502](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=502) + +--- +## Highlight + +Mindfulness implies that we cease consuming the present by beating ourselves up over the past and the future. Remember, we can focus only on one thing at a time. The present moment, here and now, is not stressful. The past and the future can be. But you have a choice about which one you want to think about. ^ref-40363 +- Location: [567](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=567) + +--- +## Highlight + +Let go of your need to judge anything that you observe. Observe everything that presents itself to your senses the same way you would look at a rainbow, a starry night, or a sunset without judging, analyzing, or comparing. If you notice any stressful thoughts creeping back in, return to a full focus on your senses. ^ref-29858 +- Location: [605](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=605) + +--- +## Highlight + +people with the reactive paradigm are far more stressed out than they need to be. The root of their stress is their beliefs. ^ref-13667 +- Location: [847](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=847) + +--- +## Highlight + +Proactive people know that even though they can’t control the external world, the external world doesn’t control them. They are secure in the knowledge that there are certain principles in life that are timeless and unchanging—and they seek to live by those principles. Living a principle-centered life is the best stress-prevention tool we know. ^ref-27628 +- Location: [895](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=895) + +--- +## Highlight + +Most people can’t turn off their sympathy for other human beings. Hurting people leaves scars on both the giver and the receiver. As a result, unethical people have stormier internal lives because they have to work to suppress their consciences and sympathies to deal with the ways they treat others. When they fail to properly suppress their sympathies, the guilt and shame that comes with harming or disrespecting one’s fellow human beings takes deep root within them.40 ^ref-39157 +- Location: [917](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=917) + +--- +## Highlight + +What matters most to you in life? What is most important to you, and what do you value the most? What value, idea, or principle has such great worth that you would dedicate your life to be able to live by that principle? ^ref-5350 +- Location: [1042](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1042) + +--- +## Highlight + +The paradigm of hassle is that life is a battle, and in every battle there’s a winner and a loser. You’ve got to compete or die. But for a person with a paradigm of harmony, life is not a competition. Everyone can win. No one really has to lose in order for me to win. ^ref-48033 +- Location: [1284](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1284) + +--- +## Highlight + +Empathy is understanding what others feel. Sympathy is feeling sorry for others and comforting them. ^ref-39641 +- Location: [1328](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1328) + +--- +## Highlight + +But the rise of social media has the paradoxical effect of discouraging personal contact with others. ^ref-27305 +- Location: [1376](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1376) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you have the diversity paradigm, you won’t stress out when facing a difference of opinion. Instead, you will say, “You have a different opinion. I need to understand it.” That question by itself eliminates virtually all the stress in any interaction. And it’s an honest question. ^ref-63858 +- Location: [1476](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1476) + +--- +## Highlight + +Research on guided imagery has shown that it is effective in providing relief from chronic pain, headaches, and even asthma. It has also been shown to work on people with chemical dependencies and athletes suffering slumps in performance. ^ref-48359 +- Location: [1662](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1662) + +--- +## Highlight + +Remember, the quality of a good meditation is not necessarily what happens during the meditation. The important issue is how you feel after meditating. If you have more energy, more alertness, if your mind is calmer, more peaceful, and you feel happier, this is feedback that your mind/body enjoys and finds benefit from the meditation. ^ref-44881 +- Location: [1731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00GJ201VQ&location=1731) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Walden.md b/docs/Walden.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f7dcb941 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Walden.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '52093' + title: Walden + author: Henry David Thoreau + asin: B00MF0ZVPW + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-07-02' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91k0JRERWjL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 2 +--- +# Walden + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Walden](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MF0ZVPW) | +| **Author** | [Henry David Thoreau](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ^ref-24712 +- Location: [85](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00MF0ZVPW&location=85) + +--- +## Highlight + +It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. ^ref-13017 +- Location: [91](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00MF0ZVPW&location=91) + +--- diff --git a/docs/Words That Change Minds.md b/docs/Words That Change Minds.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..08e55225 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Words That Change Minds.md @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +--- +kindle-sync: + bookId: '49267' + title: >- + Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of + Influence + author: Shelle Rose Charvet + asin: B07PVSR2J4 + lastAnnotatedDate: '2022-09-27' + bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ctAxN+DpL._SY160.jpg' + highlightsCount: 19 +--- +# Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence + +## Metadata + +| Syntax | Description | +| ---------- | ---------- | +| **Title** | [Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PVSR2J4) | +| **Author** | [Shelle Rose Charvet](https://www.amazon.comundefined) | +| **Book on Kindle** | Open in Kindle | +| **Tags** | #Kindle #books | + +--- + +## Highlight + +But what if we could really understand what someone means when he or she talks to us? Even better, what if we could predict someone's behavior based simply on what was said? Best of all-what if we could influence that behavior by how we responded? ^ref-4861 +- Location: [366](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=366) + +--- +## Highlight + +You pay attention to how people talk when they answer, rather than what they talk about. Even when a person does not answer the question directly, they will reveal their pattern by the manner in which they answer (or don't). ^ref-64014 +- Location: [398](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=398) + +--- +## Highlight + +With these three filters, Deletion, Distortion and Generalization, we each create our own model of the world. ^ref-65100 +- Location: [454](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=454) + +### Note +Refer to these definitions in the future. + +--- +## Highlight + +You pay attention to how people answer, instead of what they say. In this way, after asking a few simple questions, you can determine what will trigger and maintain someone's motivation and how they internally process information. ^ref-7843 +- Location: [478](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=478) + +--- +## Highlight + +To help you identify when someone is talking about or has switched Contexts, listen for: When? Where? With whom? and a verb. When people use these cues, they are telling you what a Context is for them: ^ref-4369 +- Location: [539](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=539) + +--- +## Highlight + +Since most people at work are somewhere in the middle, they will need to think and do, respond and initiate. The best kinds of work for these people are tasks and responsibilities that allow enough of each. To motivate these people, you would use both sets of Influencing Language. For example, "I would like you to think through what needs to be done and just go do it." ^ref-32121 +- Location: [660](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=660) + +--- +## Highlight + +The authors noted that if entrepreneurs answered the Away From questions, they received much lower funding on average but if they shifted the focus to "Promotion" strategies and used goal-oriented (Toward) language, the results were very different. ^ref-1366 +- Location: [1060](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=1060) + +--- +## Highlight + +A great hint for all entrepreneurs looking for funding: if asked a problem-focused question by investors, start briefly with how to avoid the problem and then quickly shift to how you will achieve your goals. ^ref-16461 +- Location: [1062](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=1062) + +--- +## Highlight + +Gottman also found that showing contempt for a partner is the number one reason for breakups. Again, the reaction to us from our partner is an essential factor in the success of the relationship. (External) Showing kindness even when in a fight is what binds people together. (External) ^ref-15647 +- Location: [1436](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=1436) + +--- +## Highlight + +Why are there so many upgrades to your favorite software package? A consultant friend summed up the software problem: "Not enough time to do it right once, but all the time in the world to fix it." ^ref-17801 +- Location: [1660](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=1660) + +--- +## Highlight + +Creators and users of technology approach technology quite differently. Eye tracking studies[21] show that most users still use the "F-shape" when they are scanning a webpage, which is a visual Procedure. Developers, who are not typical end users, tend to scan all over the page at high speed, in a movement more like this: ^ref-11461 +- Location: [1674](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=1674) + +--- +## Highlight + +I recommend keeping your goals and targets in mind, as well as the issues and problems you need to address, and regularly check in to see if you are meeting them and if what you are doing (this month, this week, today, this hour etc.) will do the most to move you ahead. ^ref-53878 +- Location: [2103](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=2103) + +--- +## Highlight + +If you are concentrating so hard on what you are doing, such as texting, that you don't notice what is going on around you, then you are in Self mode. ^ref-49113 +- Location: [2218](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=2218) + +--- +## Highlight + +It is important to ensure that you do not leave someone in a negative state. Reminding them of situations associated with their positive Criteria will help shift them into a more positive frame of mind. If they seem to still be distressed, you may also have them change seats to help them get out of the negative state. ^ref-31557 +- Location: [2282](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=2282) + +### Note +The idea of having someone change seats when they feel distressed is interesting. This psychological "trick" might be helpful in many situations and promote trust. + +--- +## Highlight + +An Incompetency Attack has nothing to do with one's real level of competence, which may be excellent. It is a strong, emotionally-based belief of one's incompetence, usually felt by someone with a Feeling Pattern in that Context. ^ref-34001 +- Location: [2302](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=2302) + +--- +## Highlight + +According to Rodger Bailey, most of the population at work has the Choice Pattern (70%). This means that when faced with a difficult or troublesome situation they will first have an emotional response. As a manager you can assist by helping these people disassociate themselves from their feelings, if appropriate, by helping them change perspectives. There are a couple of ways to do this. You can distort time by asking them: "Can you imagine what we'll think about this situation two years from now?" You can have them see it from someone else's viewpoint: "I don't think our customers will care much about this." Or you can have them view the whole thing from the outside: "If you were a fly on the wall when this happened, what would you notice?" With Feeling people, you will probably have to practice your conflict resolution and mediation skills. To maintain their motivation, give them tasks that they can get passionate about. As they are working, watch for signs of distress and overload of tension. These people are the most likely to suffer from stress-related illnesses because they feel stressed more often than people with the other Patterns. Feeling people may overreact, particularly in tense or conflictual circumstances. It would be useful for them to learn how to dissociate or cool off. ^ref-38881 +- Location: [2332](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=2332) + +### Note +This is important to recognize because this is how I tend to feel, especially at work, when these situations arise. + +--- +## Highlight + +When faced with a highly intense reaction from an employee, create rapport by raising your tone to almost the same level as his while saying something positive or surprising: "I'm so upset about you being upset, that I am ready to tear my hair out!" Saying something like that will get their attention, so that you can then channel their energy toward a more productive path. ^ref-55178 +- Location: [2343](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=2343) + +### Note +I'm not sure raising your voice is necessary here, but empathizing and connecting/understanding is important. + +--- +## Highlight + +Inertia can be a powerful force and people get used to having problems or being unhappy, appearing to have little appetite or energy for heavy lifting to get out of a negative situation. ^ref-48263 +- Location: [3368](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=3368) + +--- +## Highlight + +The NLP Outcome Strategy Questions Conditions for a well-formed outcome What do you want? STATED POSITIVELY what you want instead of what you don’t want Who? When? Where? SPECIFIC CONTEXT test: one clear image How will you know you’ve got it? VERIFIABLE what you will see, hear, feel Who does your objective depend on? What resources do you have that will enable you to get your objective? How does what’s happening now, indicate what you could do now? ATTAINABLE you are able to initiate and maintain your objective yourself What is important about your objective? How does it reflect who you want to be? WORTH THE TROUBLE your objective is sufficiently motivating so you’ll actually do it Is this what you really want? it respects your values What would happen if you got what you wanted? ECOLOGY your objective respects the whole system you function in. What do you get out of the present situation that you want to be sure to keep? What do you risk losing? What would be the consequences on your environment (colleagues, department, family, job, future etc.) of getting what you want? your objective preserves the desirable aspects of the present situation. ^ref-43748 +- Location: [3408](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07PVSR2J4&location=3408) + +---