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Top 5 Zettelkasten.de forum posts

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Matt Chung

I’m obsessed with personal information management (PIM) and as I learn more about the discipline, one concept continues to repeatedly crop up: Zettelkaste...

Graduate School/Personal Development/Thinking out loud

Failure: I want more of it.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Matt Chung

Students in the Georgia Tech program collaborate with one another — and collaborate with professors and teacher assistants — through a platform called Piazza. B...

Life/Mentorship/Personal Development/Self-Improvement/Thinking out loud

20s for education, 30s for experience, 40s for career.

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Matt Chung

In my mid twenties, I was blessed to receive some of the best career, and quite frankly, life advice. During that period of my life, I was working as a director...

Personal Development

Don’t break the (writing) chain … has been broken

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Matt Chung

This week, my cumulative “write every day” streak has been broken (almost 2 months of consistent writing every day), thanks to one of the roughest w...

Life/Mentorship/Self-Improvement/Writing

Quotes from “My life story” by Veritasium

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Matt Chung

During some down time this evening, I watched the below YouTube video clip filmed and produced by Veritasium and I absolutely loved hearing about his journey, e...

Personal Development

Distancing oneself from a difficult problem

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Matt Chung

I fixed a silly bug just now and wrote working code that can pin multiple virtual CPUs to the physical CPUs. Identifying the bug in my code was another classic ...

Advanced Operating Systems/Algorithms/Data Structures/Personal Development

A snapshot of my understanding before beginning project 1 (scheduler, memory coordinator)

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Matt Chung

Project 1 was released last evening at 08:59 PM PST and this morning, I decided to start on the project by reading through the overview and get the lay of the l...

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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/31

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Matt Chung

Yesterday Most interesting part of yesterday was a 1 on 1 video Chime chat that my co-worker scheduled with me. What started off with me stepping through our co...

Personal Development

A No-Excuses Guide to Blogging – Excuse #5 – “I don’t want to be wrong”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Matt Chung

Many people (including myself) fear that we will be perceived as a fool if we publish on a post blog that contains a mistake, a public mistake. Nobody wants to ...

Personal Development

Waiting for one day …

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Matt Chung

“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.” Scott Adams I agree with that Scott Adams wholeheartedly. I also think this rule can...

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