Today’s world is overloaded with so much good information all over the internet. But how do you manage and keep track of that information?The problem of today is not finding the information you need but it is a problem of how to filter, learn and store the content which adds value to you. There is so much information and content all over that it’s really easy to get lost and waste a few hours.

Too Much Information

When you are spending time on LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, Youtube, or something else, look for opportunities to learn. Ask yourself:Does this post/video add value to me? Do I want to remember it?Do I want to see more content from this creator?If any content adds value, save it digitally using a note taking app or Google/Notion.

Every Minute You Spend Online Is an Opportunity to Learn!

The content you consume can be divided into 2 categories:<ul><li>Text Content</li><li>Video Content</li></ul>Content consumption can be divided into 5 categories/tags:<ul><li>Computer Science</li><li>Productivity</li><li>Startups</li><li>Finance</li><li>Writing</li></ul>These categories/tags are the same across different services, like Google or Notion.

A Digital Note-Taking System Setup

Text content includes Kindle, Medium, Web Articles, etc.Video content includes youtube, online conferences, etc.Taking notes while watching videos online is very important. Think it this way: You know there is an awesome video about a topic that you watched in past. You want to review it for some work but don’t have enough time. If you had created notes while watching the video it would have been a matter of a few seconds. Because watching videos takes 10+ minutes but browsing through content with images and notes takes less than 2–3 minutes.

Handling Text And Video Notes

When you create your notes. You have context about what the notes are about so it takes less time to review. If you read some notes written by another person they won’t be the same as the ones you create yourself.Information overload is real. There are all kinds of information Good, Bad, Right, Wrong, etc. The content we consume directly impacts our personality as well as our knowledge. So, it is important to follow people who inspire you to grow and become better. And in order to not forget the good content you are consuming, you must save it somewhere and review it regularly.

Review Your Notes

The problem of today is not finding the information you need but it is a problem of how to filter, learn and store the content which adds value to you. There is so much information and content all…

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How Do I Deal with Information Overload?

<ul><li>Most people perceive phone-snubbing as harmful but continue to do it.</li><li>We tend to think our own phone use during an interaction affects others less than their phone use affects us.</li><li>People attribute more positive motives to their own phone use than to others' use.</li></ul>

We Keep Checking Our Phones While Socializing: Key Points

People often complain when others are distracted by cell phones — spouses not fully listening to each other because they keep glancing at their phones, a couple on a dinner date at a restaurant with their phones on the table, friends hanging out together all immersed in their phones. Yet despite how much we complain about the distraction of cell phones, we continue to allow ourselves to succumb to it. New research explores why we "phub" (short for "phone snub") others, despite disapproving of the practice.

Phubbing(Phone Snubbing) And The Lure Of Distraction

Research on phubbing suggests that the negative attitude many people have toward this behavior is justified. People tend to <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Roberts-21/publication/315342898_Phubbed_and_Alone_Phone_Snubbing_Social_Exclusion_and_Attachment_to_Social_Media/links/59cd0f07a6fdcc1be7229dd5/Phubbed-and-Alone-Phone-Snubbing-Social-Exclusion-and-Attachment-to-Social-Media.pdf">feel excluded and their mood suffers</a> when they're being ignored in favor of someone's phone. And frequently being phubbed by a romantic partner creates <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/close-encounters/201510/phubbing-when-checking-your-cell-hurts-your-relationship">conflict and leads to lower relationship satisfaction</a>. Phones are also <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/691462?fbclid=IwAR0-mde6yvYaCJ7XS9hhHeMEzdy6VR40bwqHdhiYbCzCsexJBxqrzYx-MZ4&">distracting</a>, making it difficult for people to fully attend to whatever else is going in their environment.

The Downside of Phubbing

<ul><li>Positive personal reasons: Finding the phone use more enjoyable or interesting than the interaction with the other person, or using the phone for something important or time sensitive.</li><li>Positive social reasons: Showing the other person something on the phone, or using the phone in a way that related to the conversation.</li><li>Negative personal reasons: Avoiding boredom, discomfort, or other negative feelings.</li><li>Negative social reasons: Dislike of the other person, or being upset with the other person.</li></ul>

Reason Phubbing Keeps Happening

Recognizing that we have this <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/bias">bias</a> may help us avoid it. Research suggests that making yourself more aware of this bias and considering how it may be operating when you're using your phone can help you to see how your phone use may be negatively affecting others. And since you're likely to view your own phone use more positively than the other person does, this is a reminder to think about how you may be perceived by the other person before you pull out your phone.

How to Avoid the Bias

Research examines why we engage in a behavior we know is socially undesirable.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Why Do We Let Our Phones Interfere When We Socialize?

At the 1968 Olympic Games, Dick Fosbury jumped over the high bar backwards. Until then, every Olympic high jump athlete had gone over forward. However, within eight years, 90% of high jumpers were going over the bar backwards, and today, every high jumper uses the "Fosbury Flop." The biggest leaps forward for athletes are discovering an idea or concept that changes the game itself. This means not using the same patterns as everyone else.

The Fosbury Flop

Make a list of all the initiatives you are using or considering. Then ask if you are successful, what impact will it have on your objectives? Divide them into the following categories: <ul><li>Waste of time: These are difficult and have little impact. Direct your energy to other activities.</li><li>Tactics: Easy to execute, but not very impactful. Do these, but don't make them a priority.</li><li>Winning moves: Easy to execute and very impactful. Direct your attention to these.</li><li>Crazy ideas: Wild ideas that might look crazy to others and are difficult to execute. Spend some time considering if these are feasible.</li></ul>

Identify and enhance your strengths

Olympic swimmers always swam to the wall, grab hold, and kick off to turn. In the 1936 Olympics, sixteen-year-old Vande Weghe developed an advantage by introducing a flip-turn, a smooth flip underwater to maintain momentum. He held the advantage for about a year until others started copying his method. Expertise and conventional rules can hold us back by repeating what has worked in the past. Instead, approach your initiatives with a beginner's mind. Imagine you are approaching it for the first time, then find unique solutions.

Design for continuous improvement

The best athletes and coaches use technological advancements to gain an edge. For example, new spikes on cleats help sprinters to run faster. But the immediate performance gain is just the first step. Technology also opens the door to revise commonly-held approaches on how something is done. Dick Fosbury could only jump over the high bar backwards after the thick cushioned landing pads had been introduced a few years earlier.

Leverage new technology

The flip-tun stayed the same from 1936 to 2015. Then Ryan Lochte attempted a new style of turning where he would remain on his back much longer, earning him multiple gold medals. If you play the game the way you've always played, you will get the result you've always expected. To improve your outcome, change how you approach the game. Develop a habit of seeking new approaches while looking past accepted solutions.

Train your mindset to attempt new techniques

The biggest leaps forward come when an athlete discovers a new idea or concept that alters the game itself. This means not following the same patterns that everyone else is following. You can do this, too.

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Habits of successful Olympians you can use to be more competitive at work

<ul><li>Almost all overnight successes took years of grinding behind the scenes before the pieces clicked into place</li><li>Every great business idea starts with the belief in one’s own self, but that alone isn’t enough</li><li>Once you have a good idea you have to move forward with the process of validating that idea with concrete evidence</li><li>Your belief in what you sell will take you much farther than a desire for profit</li><li>If all you care about is profit, there are easier ways of making money than being an entrepreneur</li></ul>

Key Quotes: Seven Terrible Traps That Entrepreneurs 

“A lot of times seeing something new and exciting is easy to go toward because it’s new and exciting. When you get into the grind, and you’re actually in the inner workings of this business that you once said yes to, well, that starts to become a drag”

Oftentimes, we give up right at the inflection point.

<ul><li>Every great business idea starts with the belief in one’s own self, but you can’t just stop at pure belief </li><li>Once you have a good idea you have to move forward with the process of validating that idea with concrete evidence</li><li>Dive deep into discovering what the problems, and the pains, and the concerns are, of your target audience. And this means yes, doing some research upfront.</li></ul>

Bias And Assumptions

<ul><li>The most cost-effective method of diving deep is simply having conversations with your target market to see if they like what you’re thinking about.</li><li>On the flip side, some people are too cautious and will research their market without taking decisive action thinking that they must prepare for every possible scenario</li><li>The biggest lessons often come from being in the field rather than strategizing plans from the armchair.</li></ul>

Deep Diving: The Details

Just-in-time learning means allowing yourself to only learn about the things and get excited about the things that are related to the next thing that’s on your list.To avoid missing out on lucrative opportunities, bookmark those ideas for later and after your current goal, you can delve into them.In most cases, you’re not going to go back to them. By the time you’re ready to move on to something else; guess what? There’s even better and newer material that comes out.

Just In Time Learning

The time you save by outsourcing tasks to people who are more efficient at it will make you more money than the money you save by doing it yourselfYou have to understand that your time is precious and that there are likely other and more important things to do.This applies to non-business related activities too. You may not even realize the time you’re spending on social media every day, every week until you have the numbers staring at you.For example, If you hire someone to take care of the administrative tasks you can free up time to focus on expanding and being even more successful.

Doing Everything On Your Own

Comparison is incredibly useful in discerning different experiences and lessons other people have learned, but not when it’s used for negative purposes.When you get involved in a business community, especially in the beginning, you may wonder why you’re not as successful? Avoid that sort of thinking.Every single person is at a different point in the journey of their life.We need to be comparing ourselves to ourselves yesterday, to ourselves last week, to ourselves last month.

Comparisons With Others

How are you improving and getting better each day?You don’t have to go from amateur to master immediately; a 1% improvement every day will lead to exponential results.

One Percent Every Day

<ul><li>Entrepreneurs don’t have a true ‘clock-out’ time and that’s why it’s mandatory to enforce it yourself.</li><li>Even supremely confident entrepreneurs who view themselves as unstoppable machines must recognize that machines must be maintained or they break down.</li><li>This doesn’t mean you can’t occasionally put the pedal to the metal when the time calls for it though.</li></ul>

Overclocking Yourself

Mistakes And Traps That Entrepreneurs Fall Into

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7 Terrible Traps Entrepreneurs Fall Into (And How to Get Out of Them)

Many people are too terrified to go to the gym because they're afraid of being judged by other people, but the reality most of the time is that nobody really cares.
If you're able to push yourself to get past through the discomfort for a couple of sessions then soon after you'll be changing your perspective of the gym.

Don't Be Ashamed

If you can find a reason to exercise, then it would greatly help you get motivated to keep fit and healthy.
For many, they work our for the aesthetics; while for some they exercise for their family. It depends on what works for you!

Find a Personal Incentive

When we go to the gym feeling super pumped and excited to work out, it's tempting to go on a full-throttle fitness kick, but doing so is counterproductive. It's not realistic and you probably won't be able to keep up after that session or two.

Don't Overdo It

If you dislike running or find weight lifting boring, then don't do it. Doing something you don't find personally enjoyable won't help you get back into anything.
Find something you like and start there. It will also help build your confidence and this goes hand in hand with motivation.

Find Something You Enjoy

There are many ways to exercise without going to the gym. Exercise is not just about weight lifting and running on the treadmill.
Going on a walk regularly is exercise. Getting up and moving around more is exercise.

Don't Obsess About The Gym

Incremental gains can be really motivating. It could help you gain more motivation if you write down your progress and see it often.
Among others, you could also motivate other people with it. Learn to understand what motivates you and work on that.

Measure Your Progress

Take workout sessions that are manageable and don't overcommit. It's better to have shorter sessions than bulking in classes and then eventually dropping out. 
Your workout needs to be consistent and realistic, otherwise it gets overwhelming.

Be Consistent and Be Kind To Yourself

The pandemic has left many of us feeling tired, out of sorts and beaten. But it is possible to get your exercise rhythm back. Here’s how

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Do what you love – and take it easy: how to get back lost fitness and motivation

<ol>
<li>Choose produce that isn't bruised or damaged.</li>
<li>Keep produce away from raw meat and anything similar to it in your grocery cart.</li>
<li>Use a separate cutting board for prepping raw produce. Never place cut-fresh produce on surfaces or plates that have held raw meat and anything similar to it.</li>
<li>Store pre-cut and highly perishable fresh fruits and veggies in the fridge with a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit or 4.44 degrees celsius.</li>
</ol>

Produce safety doesn't stop at washing

<ul>
<li>Increases your intake of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants;</li>
<li>Helps manage blood pressure;</li>
<li>Reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke;</li>
<li>Prevent some types of cancer;</li>
<li>Lowers risk of eye and digestive problems; and</li>
<li>Support mental health including reducing psychological distress and improving optimism.</li>
</ul>

The Benefits of Having A Produce Rich Diet

Maybe you've heard of using vinegar for washing your produce and as much as I'd want to believe that it is better than using cold tap water for washing produce, there really isn't much difference when you wash your produce with or without vinegar solution.

Vinegar for washing produce

<ol><li>Wash your produce thoroughly under cold running water. For firm produce such as cucumbers, scrub it clean with a produce brush. NEVER wash with soap or detergent.</li><li>Dry your produce with a clean cloth towel or paper towel to further remove bacteria that may still be present on the surface.</li></ol>If the product has a sticker or a label that says that it's been pre-washed or if it's ready-to-eat then you may eat the produce without further washing.

Washing your produce properly

<ul><li>To rinse away soil, microbes, and pesticides;</li><li>Microbial pathogens can be found on produce such as E.coli, salmonella, and bacteria that cause norovirus; and</li><li>Pesticide residue is linked to negative health effects. For women, dietary pesticides may lower their probability of pregnancy and live birth.</li></ul>

Reasons why you should wash your produce

You know you should clean your fruits and vegetables, but do you know the best way to do it? Find out here.

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This Is the Right Way to Wash Your Fruits and Veggies, According to Science

<ul>
<li>Take a bite of your chocolate and have your tongue spread the melting chocolate all over your palate and notice the feeling of what we can compare to a symphony.</li>
<li>The front notes, middle notes, and the afternotes of the chocolate will liven your experience.</li>
<li>Some chocolates may lead with acidity and follow with fruitiness and earthier tones.</li>
<li>The only way to build your chocolate savoring skills is to buy more chocolate and keep on tasting.</li>
</ul>

Savoring Chocolate: Taste

Try to notice the texture of your chocolate. Is it smooth? Gritty? Is there texture? Rub your fingers on the chocolate and feel it.
Some chocolates that are silkier have more cocoa butter in them and those that have a rough feel might have been stone-ground.

Savoring Chocolate: Touch

When you snap the chocolate in two, we don't often think about it, but it gives us a peek as to how the chocolate was tempered.

Savoring Chocolate: Sound

Cocoa has more than 600 aroma compounds that range from bright, tart berries to sweet floral noted. 
You'll be stormed by scents as you open your chocolate bar and even more so when it melts on your tongue and wafts through your nose and the back of your throat.

Savoring Chocolate: Smell

<ul>
<li>Unwrap your chocolate bar and look at it. </li>
<li>Cocoa beans are diverse and can vary in color from reddish to dark brown. Sometimes your chocolate may have a whitish discoloration but this doesn't mean that your chocolate went bad. </li>
<li>Cocoa beans have a very high fat composition and sometimes the fat crops up to the surface.</li>
</ul>

Savoring Chocolate: Sight

Making (and tasting) chocolate is an art. In this episode, a cocoa expert guides us through the world of chocolate and how you can appreciate it to its fullest.

How To Savor Chocolate Like A Cocoa Expert  : Life Kit

<ul>
<li>Nutritionism is not the same as nutrition. It is not a scientific subject but an ideology.</li>
<li>Ideologies are ways of organizing large areas of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions.</li>
<li>For nutritionism, the widely shared but unexamined assumption is that the key to understanding food is the nutrient; foods are essentially the sum of their nutrient parts.</li>
<li>This means that to live in this ideology of eating unseen nutrients (unlike food, we don't see nutrients) you need lots of expert help.</li>
<li>Nutritionism is good for the food business but no so much for us.</li>
</ul>

The Rise of Nutritionism

Nutritionism divides nutrients in food into healthy and unhealthy ones: good nutrients and bad. This ideology has a hard times making a qualitative distinctions between foods. 
Fish, beef and chicken become in this case just delivery systems for varying quantities of fats, proteins and other nutrients are on their scope. In the same way, any qualitative distinctions between processed foods and whole foods disappear when your focus is on quantifying the nutrients they contain.

The Continual Battle of One Nutrient Over Another

<ul>
<li>From whole foods to refined: a change toward increasingly refined foods (mostly carbohydrates)</li>
<li>From complexity to simplicity: the industrialization of the food chain has involved a process of chemical and biological simplification</li>
<li>From quality to quantity: not only we’re eating a whole lot more but we’re getting substantially less nutrition per calorie than we used to.</li>
<li>From leaves to seeds: leaves provide a host of critical nutrients a body can’t get from a diet of refined seeds.</li>
<li>From food culture to food science: the industrialization of food is deliberately undermining traditional food cultures everywhere.</li>
</ul>

The Industrialization of Eating: The Essential Transformations

To escape the Western diet and the ideology of nutritionism, we have only to stop eating and thinking that way.
<ul>
<li>Instead of stressing over nutrients, just avoid any food that has been processed to such an extent that it is more the product of industry than of nature.</li>
<li>The surest way to escape the Western diet is simply to depart the realms it rules: the supermarket, the convenience store, and the fast-food outlet.</li>
</ul>

Getting Over Nutritionism

<ul>
<li>Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food</li>
<li>Don’t eat anything that is incapable of rotting</li>
<li>Avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, hard to pronounce unpronounceable, more than five in number, and that include high-fructose corn syrup</li>
<li>Avoid food products that make health claims; a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food</li>
<li>Shop the edges of the supermarket and stay out of the middle. In most supermarkets, processed food products dominate the center aisles while fresh food line the walls</li>
<li>Get out of the supermarket whenever possible and go to a farmers’ market. </li>
</ul>

Eat The Food

<ul>
<li>Eat mostly plants, especially leaves</li>
<li>Eat as many different kinds of plants as possible as they all have different antioxidants</li>
<li>Plant foods—with the exception of seeds—are less energy-dense so you’ll likely consume fewer calories</li>
<li>We don’t need to eat meat—with the exception of vitamin B12, every nutrient found in meat can be obtained somewhere else</li>
<li>If you eat meat, buy it in bulk and freeze it. Freezing does not significantly diminish the nutritional value of produce</li>
<li>The greater the diversity of foods you eat, the more likely you are to cover all your nutritional bases</li>
<li>Eat well-growth food from healthy soils: look for food that is both organic and local</li>
<li>Eat wild foods when you can</li>
<li>Eat according to the rules of your traditional food culture</li>
</ul>

Eat Mostly Plants

<ul>
<li>Pay more, eat less. Better food costs more. </li>
<li>Eat until you are 80% full. It takes 20 minutes before the brain gets the word that the belly is full. Eat slower and consult your sense of satiety</li>
<li>Eat meals. Snack less</li>
<li>Do all your eating at a table and try not to eat alone</li>
<li>Serve smaller portions on smaller plates</li>
<li>Use glasses that are more vertical than horizontal. We tend to pour more into squat glasses</li>
<li>Leave healthy foods in view, unhealthy ones out of view</li>
<li>Leave serving bowls in the kitchen rather than on the table to discourage seconds</li>
<li>Eat slowly. “Slow” in the sense of deliberate and knowledgeable eating</li>
<li>Cook and, if you can, plant a garden. The food you grow yourself is fresher than any you can buy.</li>
</ul>

How to Eat

'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.

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In Defence of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

The excessive consumption of sugar is linked to an increased risk of poor health outcomes such as:
<ul>
<li>heart diseases;</li>
<li>type 2 diabetes; </li>
<li>weight gain;</li>
<li>higher blood pressure;</li>
<li>inflammation and many more.</li>
</ul>
It's not recommended to consume sugar that is more than ten percent of your daily calories from added sugar.

Excessive Sugar Intake

Your body is never without sugar. Even on the days, you don't "eat" sugar, your body still produces sugar, only in a different complex form.
Everything you eat - from fats to protein - will break down into sugar once we eat them. Sugar can come in the form of glucose, fructose, sucrose, or lactose.

Sugar Comes in Many Different Forms

The best approach to quitting sugar is to eat it when you want it. The more you allow yourself to consume the foods that you feel are addictive, the more they tend to lose their excitement.
The main reason as to why we "crave" and look for sugar or feel why we're addicted to sugar is often during the times when we restrict ourselves from having it. The bottom line is to have it when you want it and to eat meals that contain all three macronutrients to dull constant sugar cravings.

A Better Approach To Quitting Sugar

Those who advocate for "quitting sugar" make arbitrary rules by listing down which foods are okay to eat and the ones that they are going to avoid.
However, this then becomes a slippery slope because there's no standard to what a sugar detox entails. As time goes on, the lack of an agreed-upon definition of a sugar detox will only further misinterpretation.

Sugar Detox Rules Are Vague

While it's true that excessive sugar intake has been linked to poor health outcomes, it's virtually impossible to stop eating sugar completely. Here's what you need to know about what happens when you stop eating sugar.

What Really Happens When You Stop Eating Sugar—and Why It’s Not a Great Plan

Altered states of consciousness can only be defined if there is an understanding of an ordinary state of consciousness. 
While scientists can't agree on a clear definition, altered states of consciousness are nevertheless essential to understanding the human mind.

Ordinary and altered states of consciousness

<ul>
<li>Excessive dancing, meditation, and mind-altering plants were used in ancient civilizations to modulate the activity of the mind.</li>
<li>In 1892, the term "altered states of consciousness" was used to refer to hypnosis.</li>
<li>William James introduced the scientific investigation of mystical experiences and drug-induced states into the field of psychology.</li>
</ul>

Modulating states of consciousness

<ul>
<li>Pharmacological. These altered states include short-term changes caused by psychoactive substances, such as LSD MDMA, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, and alcohol.</li>
<li>Psychological. Hypnosis, meditation, and music can lead to altered mental states.</li>
<li>Physical and physiological. An altered state of consciousness is achieved through sleep, where dreams dissociate one from reality.</li>
<li>Pathological. A traumatic experience causing brain damage can lead to an altered state of consciousness. Other sources include epileptic or psychotic episodes.</li>
<li>Spontaneous. Daydreaming and mind wandering can cause altered states.</li>
</ul>

How Do I Deal with Information Overload?

Why Do We Let Our Phones Interfere When We Socialize?

Habits of successful Olympians you can use to be more competitive at work

7 Terrible Traps Entrepreneurs Fall Into (And How to Get Out of Them)

Do what you love – and take it easy: how to get back lost fitness and motivation

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