Briefly speaking: I am a note-making addict. I write/sketch all the time, and effective visual language is essential in my daily routine (both personal and professional). I have two primary use cases: * creating notes just for myself - as a contribution to my evergrowing knowledge base * collaboration with others,...
Disclaimer #1: Typically I publish my book reviews on Goodreads, but quite recently they've totally screwed up the procedure for adding new books, so my request is enqueued w/o reply for over a week now. That's why I decided to post the review here. Disclaimer #2: Nearly all the...
I do a lot of diagramming these days. Visual collaboration is extremely important in my daily (architect) job, especially for remote communication when direct, face-to-face interaction is a rarity and exception (instead of being a rule). When it comes to visual modeling, I identify three categories of tools: * 100% manual...
After one year of nearly 100% remote work, I've decided to arrange myself a new seat. It doesn't sound like something particularly exciting (almost everyone has some sort of an ergonomic chair, but we rarely talk about what we sit on, right?). However, I believe that my choice was so...
Dunno about you, but no one, ever taught me how to take notes properly. I mean - theoretically, it's not a big deal. You listen, you pay attention, you write down the most critical information and potentially underline or highlight stuff that has especially caught your attention, for whatever reason....
Attention! It's one of those posts that are written merely for self-reflection, not to share anything breakthrough-ish (or pretending to be such). It's gonna be personal, I mean it. You have been warned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was an odd year. Pretty much nothing went as planned. No-one could have imagined apriori...
