Memory Repository 🧠

I’ve been wearing the same outfit every day and barely anyone noticed

Task Stacking: A Way to Make the Most of Limited Time

Why I’m Starting a Substack Alongside Memory Repository

Large Language Model AIs Are Tools, Not Thinkers

3 Life Lessons I Learned Playing Animal Crossing When I Was a Child

An Easy Inbox Automation to Save Time, Energy, and Reduce Decision Fatigue

MacroFactor: The First Nutrition/Calorie Tracking App That Actually Impressed Me (not affiliated)

Why Proton Drive Struggles With Lots of Small Files — And the Fix That Saved Me Weeks

In Search of a Minimalist Wallet that Carries Coins

How I Practice Gratitude With a "Max-Lazy" Gratitude Journal

7 Tips For Designing Clear and Visually Appealing Informative Posters

Scanning Documents of Sentimental Value

How to Calculate How Much You Are Willing to Pay For Expensive Purchases If You Can Afford It but Are Very Frugal

The Unhealthy Problem With Greens Powders & Drinks

It took Me 5 Years to Finish the SCP Management Game Lobotomy Corporation

Drifters, Dreamers, and Doers

My Daily Recurring Task Productivity System (for Adapting to Hospital Work and Evening Postgraduate Study)

A Pet Peeve about Laundry Detergent

Automated AI Calendar Timeblocking: The Newest Module in My Automatic Decision System

6 Steps to Stopping and Preventing Nose Allergies: A New Home Guide for Individuals with Allergic Rhinitis

How Coffee Works as a Stimulant, Explained in 1 Minute by a Pharm Graduate

How to Build an Automatic Decision System to Minimise Time Spent Thinking, Save Mental Energy & Leave More Time for Actual Important Work

I Can't Help Someone Not Willing to Help Themselves

Why Students Fail to Achieve Their Goals Despite High Productivity and Hustling (and the Simple Solution)

The Most Influential Book I've Read on Online Writing (Plus a Free New Ebook)

The Most Important Thing Students Are Never Taught in School (and It's Destroying Their Time, Health, and Hobbies)

How I Wrote a Thesis as a Pharmacy Student in 7 Days by Procrastinating—and Won an Award

How to Organise Your Pharmacy School & Side Hustle Projects to Make Continuous Progress, Eliminate Overwhelm, and Prioritise What Matters

My Sleep Paralysis Experience

Realising How Tired We Are

Why You Should Make Purchase Decisions Slowly

Scheduling Leisure Activities Dampens Enjoyment (and the Solution to This)

Getting Started Takes Just Two Minutes

Gym Motivation: Holding the Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym

When Can Shiny Object Syndrome be Helpful?

Humans Are Terrible Estimators – How To Make Better Time Estimates

Importance of Pleasantness and Convenience in Formulating Habits – Pancakes for Lower Cholesterol

Align Undesirable Actions with Your Goals – Reasons to Sleep Earlier

Time Budgeting - Becoming aware of how we spend our time

Designing Good Passwords in 2022

The Five Balls of Life

Your Attention Span is Shorter Than That of a Goldfish. Or is it?

Note your daily goals in your task manager

How to easily finish up old projects

Writing something that lasts forever

Teach a student how to learn, and they will learn for a lifetime

The best method of knowledge capture is the laziest option

Loneliness rivals smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity in negative health impact

The Marshmallow Challenge – How frequent failing increases success

The Human Advantage – Generational Teaching and Archiving

Making Things Pleasant

The Solution to Spreading Yourself Too Thin

The Infinite Library

Don't design the perfect system before using it

The Selection Shadow - Why we still age

How to frame avoidance goals for success

Reducing friction to zero

More resolutions and commitments, never less

Facts in a time of excessive information

Are you successfully sticking to your New Year's resolutions?

Fearing our first pieces of work

How to stick to a habit

Write publicly for well-researched and thought-out writing

The power of free and detriment of loss aversion

"Who am I?" - A question to ask for long-term planning

Writing as a way to de-stress

It's so easy to keep scrolling on social media

Is Ego Depletion Real?

The Hedonic Treadmill - Why we can never be constantly happier

Making commitments publicly for accountability and for like-minded people to join you - 100 Days Of Code (kind of)

Role of QR Codes Entailing Genetic Tests and Medical Records

Work off a calendar for efficient work

Spreading your goals and priorities too far apart, and next theme: Laser Focus

Out Of The Quarantine 8: Isolation Encourages Creativity Tasks?

Out Of The Quarantine 7: UV Light Exposure and Ageing

In The Quarantine 6: Conscious forgetting

In The Quarantine 5: Would you delete haunting memories?

In The Quarantine 4: Plastic-consuming bacteria

In The Quarantine 3: Present Happiness vs Future Happiness

In The Quarantine 2: Gaining an hour is a delightful feeling

Quarantine Journal #1 - Stroke

Culture vs Strategy in Performance

NFTs and blockchains for vaccines

Write down your readings if you think they are potentially anywhere remotely useful

Extension thought: Increase the number of events you take part in to lengthen perception of time

Did the pass year pass quickly or slowly?

We perceive decades to pass faster as we age, but only until our 50s

A footnote that I forgot about - Why it's important to write down your thoughts

Surround yourself with inducers, not inhibitors

Delayed Gratification vs Intentional Resting

What is the preferred knowledge accumulation direction? Breadth vs Depth

Life after COVID-19, and antimicrobial resistance

Project sustainability and life sustainability

Aligning the values of your current self with your future self

How long does it take to feel better after grinning?

Exam time musings: People sleep later near or during exams; Alarms for lazy selves

I jump from a task manager to a time blocker when completely overburdened

Past Paper Analysis Method for Choosing Flash Card Subjects

Initiating Active Recall Cram Study

Chronic Stress and Depression may induce brain neuron death - Antidepressants may reverse this

I tried out a triphasic sleep schedule

Facing Overcommitment / Overburdening - Forecasts are Inaccurate

Broken snooze sleep is worse than no sleep

Trends in how I spend my time

Smile to improve your mood, even if it's a fake one

Should we document and retain unhappy events in a journal?

Recording how we spend our time; What is a meaningful activity?

Get enough calcium (and vitamin D) and exercise to prevent osteoporosis

The gratifying "rush" from solving a problem

Identify your process bottlenecks

Working past bedtime is taking out a time debt from your future self, paid with interest

Task managers bring order, a place to start, and sets your priorities straight

Writing forces you to read

Add sufficient detail to notes for your future self

Writing down my daily packing list

Notes have to be re-discovered to be useful to your future self

Informed decisions and intentional actions

Capturing shower thoughts

Make your work and habits public for accountability

Proofread with text-to-speech for a nicer experience

Appreciating the opportunities we get - "I get to..."

Practice is the best way to learn - How to learn Photoshop

"Studying" as part of this blog

What leads us to drop habits - How to avoid dropping habits

Do non-iron clothing cause cancer?

Buy non-iron clothing to save ironing time

Balancing on the thin line of taking opportunities vs. avoiding overburdening

Go fast, go alone; Go far, go together - Lessons from founding an organisation

Maximise Your Fails

Simplicity saves time and cognitive effort

Note down your source for your future self when reading and otherwise consuming

Imposter Syndrome - Stifling 'Luck'

Deadline Pressure for Insane Productivity - The Fastest I Ever Work and Write

Dissertation and Thesis Length by Major

2020, a Special Year for Growth

The more I don't want to do something, the faster I get it done

Appreciating Rest - Consistency is Key

Helping yourself too far into the future

Productivity by Procrastination - Tapping into the Unconscious Mind

Write to be more aware of your priorities and mental state

Avoid meetings like the plague - And how to have better meetings

Listed.to Multi-person Digital Gardens

Human Longevity (Short version)

Choosing between fork roads: Clinical Practice or Research

Current Commitments and Future Satisfaction

Variation in the rate of task appearance leads to overburdening

Tertilely Year Planning

Emptiness, and Important but not urgent

'Too busy' or 'don't have time' to do something

Time Tracking - 10% of my time is unproductive consuming time

Write down what you consume, or lose it

Stroke and Time

We choose to do things - Role of Wording

Block out your time to increase productivity

Modify your environment to modify your behaviour

Search your desktop, don't dig through folders

The Cross Section of Purpose - Finding Ikigai

Say No Unless Certain Yes

Spending time with my family and partner - Is that procrastination?

It's okay to procrastinate and not work sometimes

Spending your time with all the time in the world

Write down what you want to accomplish each day for better productivity and focus

Progress Indicators are Important for Motivation

Maximise Your Luck

Intrinsic Motivation vs Extrinsic Motivation

It's Okay to Switch Apps

Single-task, Don't Multitask

Choosing What to Wear and What to Buy Generates Decision Fatigue

How to Beat Procrastination - Getting started is always the hardest

Just open the email, don't waste time prioritising

Don't always go for the cheapest option - Time, money and opportunity cost

Weigh the cost of something with time, not money

Your current writing can be used in the future

Allowing yourself to forget allows rediscovery and for new connections to be made in the future when you need to

Write for Better Thinking and Less Mental Exhaustion

Your Brain Forgets; Your Notes Cannot

Why I write everything down