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2020 year in review

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

Survival First things first: I’m grateful for surviving this difficult, weird and straight-up dystopian year. 2020 was the absolute worst; although the year wil...

Writing

Two memorable quotes from Ira Glass’s interview

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Matt Chung

While perusing Aaron’s Swartz’s blog, I stopped and read his post titled “Writing A Book: Part 2”. In this post, Aaron swoons over Ira Glass’s unparalleled stor...

COVID19/Life

Just a thought: On working from home

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Matt Chung

Like almost everyone else working remotely due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, I struggled with adjusting to the work from home situation, more than I could’ve...

Writing

Reader expectations and three dimensions for emphasizing writing

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Matt Chung

Fred the dog beater Look at the above example, the four sentences. Now, take each of those sentences and imagine you poll an audience of 100 people, asking them...

Writing

You should NOT always prefer active over passive voice

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Matt Chung

Like many other aspiring authors, I’m always sharpening my writing skills, dozens of writing books (including one of my favorites: On Writing by Stephen K...

Writing

Want to improve your craft of writing? Imitate!

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Matt Chung

There are no shortcuts to becoming a great writer. As Stephen King says, great writers need to read a lot and write a lot. But that’s not enough. Nope. I’...

Life/Parenting

To fading memories

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Matt Chung

One silver lining of COVID-19 is that I’m working remotely from home and despite the constant interruptions, I’ve grown to appreciate situation. I’m...

Notes/Organization/Writing

A short review on Zettlr (open source Zettelkasten app)

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Matt Chung

I serendipitously stumbled on another Zettelkasten desktop application called Zettlr. Perusing the online forum over at Zettelkasten.de, I had noticed that at l...

Personal Development

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...

Organization

Tagging my personal information management (PIM) with key/value pairs as key words

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Matt Chung

Generally speaking, there two ways people store their digital assets. Some file their digital assets— PDF documents, images, videos, bookmarks and so on — into ...

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Empathetic bridger of tech workers to their purpose, self, and community.

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