Most books you see at airports or on bestseller lists don't deserve to be read.

Many others are marketing schemes or blog posts stretched into a book.

Here are 12 books with the actual substance to change your life: 1. Man's Search for Meaning

Written by a survivor of the holocaust who explores the nature of suffering and meaning. An inspiring book that demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit.

Our relationship with time can be a skill in of itself. Past — Thinking backward to empathize with history & culture and feel how things were different, what parts of it to cherish & what to discard.

I decided to stop lurking & take Twitter seriously around 6 months ago.

Grateful for a place to share ideas & to have grown from 900s to 7.1k since then.

Learned a lot about Twitter's algorithms over this period.

Sharing 1 tip to grow your Twitter per every 2 likes 📈 🐦 All your reach on social media is dependent on Network effects.

If you're below < 2k followers most of your tweets should be helpful replies to other larger accounts.

Don't be a "reply guy" tho. The audience of a large account can tell & the large account holder my block u.

An Annual Review Tech-Stack makes the process a lot easier.

The tools support the habits you want to cultivate in the long-term and provides tracking to help you manage and experiment with systems that can make your life better.

Here's a list of tools I've used 🧵 I'm experimenting more with writing with my voice when I go through writer's block.

Using Audio Transcription

Prepared for next years reading before I finished this year's target, which I just crossed 🏁

The turbulence of this year had crushed my focus & my procrastination levels are at an all-time high.

Still, we default to our level of training & planning.

https://twitter.com/juvoni/status/1340857646774169601?s=20

I've already purchased 2021's books and organized the sequencing that would be ideal to read based on length, category and seasonality.

Journaling is the practice that cultivates the skill of introspection, awareness, and intuition.

It's also the cheapest form of therapy closest to working out.

✍️ Here are different types of journals you can utilize. 1/ Empathy Journal: Writing the story of other people, imagining their experience and viewpoint.

Integrating this kind of journal helped me move away from "I" and "Me" and closer to "You" and "We" or a specific person.

Training me to mirror the emotions of others as a skill.

An exercise to read more & better quality books is to select books you want to read the year prior.

I go through recommendations, problems, passions, & general interests to select impactful & moving books.

Here are 30 books 📚 I've researched & hope to read in 2021. Psycho-Cybernetics

An exploration of mindset, success & identity.

I want to read this to work on altering negative thought patterns I've compounded over time and want to make happiness more of a habit.

goodreads.com/book/show/2881…

We crowdsourced a list of common obstacles & pitfalls for Generalist & Jack of All Trade types 🚧

Now Let's crowdsource solutions ✅

If you've overcome one of these problems tell how us 🏁

👇🧵 1/ Doing everything yourself instead of delegating.

Growing up with little resources, I trained myself how to learn through observation & deduction, as I rarely had access to the actual resources to do the learning.

What looks different zoomed out is very similar zoomed in at the smallest detail; First-Principles. I think in pictures primarily & build a library of abstractions in my head.

If you can think abstractly I'm pretty confident you'll learn concepts faster than people who are not comfortable with abstractions and have more learning flexibility.

Working on a generalized learning/skill tracking, planning & development framework that's maintainable within PKM tools.

Maps across the following:
Skills
Knowledge
Information
Habit
Mindset

What are some examples of how you think about organizing your learning/skills? I'm exploring the Taxonomy around these areas. It is very graph-oriented but will probably start at the table design level.

i.e for Programmers

Computer Science > SWE > Front-End > Javascript > React > UI Component Design

Computer Science > SWE > Back-End > Javascript > Node

Questions that I ask myself when & after reading 🤔📚

What did I like?
What did I dislike?
What do I disagree with?
What was surprising?
What ideas or statements changed my belief?

1/ Question for you: What question would you add❓ 2/ What problems are discussed?
What questions does the book try to answer?
What questions does the book answer well?
What can I teach from answers?
What did I learn from the answers?
What questions does the book fail to answer?

Introducing the B.A.G.E.L 🥯 method for progressive meaning-making with highlights/flags for the books you read.

- B. Big Idea 🔵
- A. Antagonism 🔴
- G. General Noteworthy 🟡
- E. External Reference 🟠
- L. List of Notable Ideas 🟢

Make your reading more fulfilling 📚🧵 You give additional meaning to the pages you highlight when you use post-it flags or colored highlights beyond yellow.

Benefits:
- Quick
- Non-Destructive
- Context w/ Meaning
- Skimmable
- Intentional Reading
- Progressively summarize a book, by giving it a shape via colors.

Economics & Freedom are inseparable.

Institutions peek into & manage the fate of your life & it gets harder to see how these powers operate & how decisions are made that affect us.

A few books shed light.

The incentive to understand economics is the desire to be free. 🧵 1/46 2/ To see why things are the way they are, Follow the incentives.

𐃏 @RoamResearch in-directly teaches how to think like a Scientist & Philosopher by directly framing writing as Knowledge Cartography

🗺 Mapmaking via Writing to think & discover the paths to knowledge.

🧱 Using blocks as the paths & boundaries.

🌎 To understand the territory. Roam is a Writing & Thinking Tool that lets you outline, reference, connect, search, discover, and remix chunks of thought & information.

Current Overview of Areas I track in my @NotionHQ

Each Area Page is an Action oriented Dashboard unique to the features of that area.

An Area is collection/category of activities, stages & events managed and cultivated over time. My Nutrition area for example is where I have table, galleries & notes related to my nutritional health, like my meal plans, supplements, eating principles or dietary notes.

Maps of knowledge are a valuable tool in navigating domains of information at a glance.

A good map:
- Titles & Categorizes
- Shows Scale & Relativity
- Orients Direction
- Uses Symbolic identifiers

Here are some great maps by @DominicWalliman creator of Domain of Science. 🗺 Map of Science

The Drama of the Gifted Child - Adaptation to what's missing.

My values, behavior & character have like a feedback loop or spiritual resonance molded to want I feel is missing in the world.

Filling in a void on a meta-level.

We all have a role to play. Free-will is fuzzy. I have molded to what I believe the world needs:

1. We need more leaders.
2. We need to be more in-service of each other.
3. We need to remember that we are a part of nature.
4. We need to think of our actions beyond stage one. (Second-order effects)

My Skill Domain Journey 🦊

1. Sales (Direct Selling)
2. Design (Print, Graphic, UX)
3. Business (Economics, Finance, Marketing)
4. Software Engineer (Front-End, Mobile) [Current - 6yrs]

So much time has passed that I forgot my first skill was selling. I think that's why my friends thought I would be on youtube not twitter.

I built a significant amount of communication, public speaking & Emotional Intelligence skills, very strong in-person presence, and charisma.

The Esketit Matrix

🧭 A compass for opportunity decision making.

The Tools:
Explore
Exploit
Escape
Experiment

Search for an Entrance or Exit.
Extract Value or Information.

Focus to set scope or specialize.
Diversify to de-risk or learn from options.

Let's get Luck-E.E.E.E Explore your options within a set of criteria.

Targeted learning & seeking with minimal commitment or allocation of resources.

Building a personal @RoamResearch PhD

Going where few advanced users can go 2/

All this is True & I'm very grateful.

At the same time, I see my parents experiencing ageism & trouble getting back into the work force. So I've become a dependency & primary source of their income.

I can only take so much risk, because I am their last line of defense.

https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/1305879901975740416

They are still at least 5-10 yrs away from being eligible for social security.

Even then, early on the job injuries forced them to dip into 401k and borrow from a future that was already thin.