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Welcome to the 121th edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

This week, I took some time off. And (tried) to recharge my batteries. I haven't really succeeded (my back reminds me I'm getting older 😂), but it was a fun week anyway.

Alright, let's gooooo 🚀

The lab 🧪

This week, I've decided to raise the price of the Obsidian Starter Kit by at least 30%. I've announced the price change n Twitter, and will adapt it in a few days. Now's the latest possibility to get it at the current price.

I haven't made progress on Knowii, but I've finally made up my mind about making it open source. The source code of Knowii is now available on GitHub, under the terms of the AGPL 3.0 open source license. This is a strong move towards building this project in public. I made this decision for multiple reasons:

• I've been an open source advocate for the longest time, and I want to take every opportunity I have to contribute and make the world a better place with free software
• Knowii will be a safer bet for everyone with the source code available. Anyone will be able to take over if the project ever gets abandoned. Also, anyone will be able to contribute and help improve the platform
• People who don't want to pay will be free to set up their own instance and do whatever they want with it

I'm a strong believer in Open source, and I want Knowii to follow the footsteps of other projects such as Ghost. The open source license I've chosen supports commercial use, modification and distribution, but requires all source code modifications to be made publicly available.

On other news, I made $770 with my Indie projects in the last 30 days. I'm sad that I've lost one paid subscriber for the newsletter. Hopefully, more of you will subscribe and help me keep going ❤️

New articles

I've published an article about the value of atomic notes for note-taking and note-making.

The value of atomic notes

Atomic notes are a key element of PKM success. Here’s why

Sébastien Dubois•Sebastien Dubois

Quotes of the week

• "Just because you have impostor syndrome doesn't mean you aren't incompetent"
• "Like many other things, boldness is not innate. It is a skill that can be acquired and practiced"

Book of the week

The Extended Mind outlines the research behind this exciting new vision of human ability, exploring the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and examining the practices of educators, managers, and leaders who are already reaping the benefits of thinking outside the brain

https://amzn.to/3o1AaRm

Thinking and learning

The Zettelkasten Method of Note Taking Mirrors Most of the Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Old school EdTech is new again?

BoffoSocko.com•View all posts by Chris Aldrich

Human Thinking vs Parser Thinking - Danny Su

How Humans Think About Code vs How Parsers Think About Code

Danny Su

GitHub - bramses/chatgpt-md: A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian.

A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian. - GitHub - bramses/chatgpt-md: A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian.

GitHub•bramses

My Obsidian Setup — My Notes and My Theme settings

How do I manage my PKM notes and what theme I’m using

Obsidian Observer•Nuno Campos

Category Theory Illustrated - index

index

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

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https://www.fastcompany.com/90875084/chatgpt-prompts-for-startups

Do Success Stories Cause False Beliefs About Success?

University of Pennsylvania Homepage•Emma Arsekin, Computational Social Science Lab

Hypertext Montage

What is the shape of hypertext? Hypertext resists the single linear narrative. Thoughts, also, resist the single linear narrative. They exist as something more like a hyperdimensional cloud of associations.

Subconscious•Gordon Brander

Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X.

I’ve been building websites since I was 10 years old and I’ve started multiple companies along the way. I write about Startups, Shopify, and the entrepreneurship journey.

Leteyski

I had a 37K YouTube audience, and that’s what I earned and learned

I reached 2.6 million views and 37K subscribers on Youtube before I decided to quit.

ILLUMINATION•Anastasia Petrenko

Tech

Why KPIs Don’t Work; And How To Fix Them

Improving KPIs Requires A Shift To 21st Century Management

Forbes•Steve Denning

How we code is changing

Is hand coding becoming a thing of the past?

Deus In Machina•Diego Crespo

How to start a React Project in 2023

A list of React starter kits (Vite, Next, Astro) which help developers to start a React project in 2023…

logo•Robin Wieruch

Push notifications are now supported cross-browser

web.dev•Thomas Steiner

AI

ChatGPT is Really Good at Roleplaying

ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying as strange and unusual characters with minimal prompting.

Varun Ramesh•Varun Ramesh

‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology could pose a ‘more urgent’ threat to humankind than climate change

“With climate change, it’s very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this it’s not at all clear what you should do,” Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters.

Insider•Ryan Hogg

r/ChatGPT

r/ChatGPT: Subreddit to discuss about ChatGPT. Not affiliated with OpenAI.

reddit

ChatGPT: How to generate prompts for Stable Diffusion - Stable Diffusion Art

Can ChatGPT generate high-quality prompts for Stable Diffusion? The answer is yes. But you will need special methods to tease them out. Once you learn how to

Stable Diffusion Art•Andrew

Exclusive: Linguist says ChatGPT has invalidated Chomsky’s ‘innate principles of language’

An American linguist, Daniel Everett, has criticized Noam Chomsky’s argument about “innate principles of language,” emphasizing that ChatGPT has demonstrated how a language can be learned without any hard-wired principles of grammar.

Tehran Times

GitHub - mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion: Bringing stable diffusion models to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support.

Bringing stable diffusion models to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support. - GitHub - mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion: Bringing stable diffusion models to web browser…

GitHub•mlc-ai

About Sébastien

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois. I'm an author, founder, and CTO. I write books and articles about software development & IT, personal knowledge management, personal organization, and productivity. I also craft lovely digital products 🚀

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