DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Overlapping realities

By Sébastien Dubois • Issue #60 • View online

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Welcome to the 60th edition

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We’ve hit a new milestone: 60 editions of this newsletter! 🎉

The Lab - Month in review 🧪

This month has been quite fun in the lab. In total, during the last 30 days, I made $1.6K with my different “passive” income streams.

I hit the front page of Hacker News twice, bringing 35K visitors to my blog. Then, I launched the Obsidian Starter Kit, and sold 50+ copies in 3 weeks. I kept adding content to the user guide. I wrote explanations about Zettelkasten, Atomic notes, PARA, the Johnny Decimal system, the LIFT principle, and more. And I want to add a lot more.

I’ve also sold many additional copies of the PKM library.

Those represent the biggest part of the income. The rest comes from Medium, the ads on my blog, and from the Amazon affiliate program

I’m really glad about it, and hope that next month will be just as good!

Overlapping realities

Sci-fi loves wormholes and alternate realities. But there are already alternate and overlapping realities in our minds.

Each individual experiences the world uniquely. Our senses capture different information. Our brains filter different information. Our brains memorize different information. Our brains recall different things at different times.

As it was mentioned in Altered Carbon (Season 2), “Reality is just an agreed-upon illusion”. We can try to reconcile those overlapping realities through communication, but there’s no way to superimpose those perfectly, no matter what. We are all different, and we’ll stay that way. Our reality will remain unique, even if there is an overlap with the reality of other people.

Things I've learned this month

Some of the things I've learned this month

Recent articles

The Zettelkasten method

Discover the Zettelkasten method, one of the most powerful note-taking systems.

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The Johnny Decimal system

Discover the Johnny Decimal system and organize anything with grace.

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The LIFT principle

The LIFT principle is a useful one to add to your information management toolkit. Here’s a short introduction.

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The PARA method

The PARA method is a great way to organize your digital information. Here’s a quick introduction.

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Books corner

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

emotion is constructed in the moment, by core systems that interact across the whole brain, aided by a lifetime of learning

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Quotes of the week

If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win
You don’t get 1000 fans at once. You get one fan, a thousand times

Tips of the week

How to Have the Best Year Ever! - Personal Development Life Coaching by Jim Rohn

The secret to a happy life is always within each individual. No one else can create your life for you …

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How cool is that?!

DALL·E 2

DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

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Thinking and learning links of the week

The Tyranny of the Note Taking Industrial Complex, and Other Notes on Notes - Herbert Lui

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Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

Longreads features the best storytelling on the web from hundreds of publishers. Story picks include longform journalism, short stories, in-depth interviews, and even historical documents.

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Read Something Great

Bored? Read Something Great.

Timeless articles from the belly of the internet.

Manually curated. Served 5 at a time.

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Why digital Daily Notes don't work (for everyone) - Obsidian Publish

Why digital Daily Notes don’t work (for everyone) - Powered by Obsidian Publish.

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How to Build a Personal Knowledge Management System? : SteadyLearning

What is a Personal Knowledge Management System(PKM)? PKM systems are defined as a collection of processes that a person uses to gather,…

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Tech Links of the week

What's New In DevTools (Chrome 101) - Chrome Developers

Import and export user flow as JSON, support hwb() colors, view cascade layers in the Styles pane and more.

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CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java – Neil Madden

The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this being Doctor Who, the card is really made out of a special “psychic paper”, which causes the person looking at it…

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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

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DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers

DevToys is a Swiss Army knife for developers for Windows. DevToys helps in daily tasks like formatting JSON, comparing text, testing RegExp. No need to use many untruthful websites to do simple tasks with your data.

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pw - Pipe Watch utility

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