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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...

Organization/Personal Information Management

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 ...

Advanced Operating Systems/How-to

Squeezing the most out of your study sessions (midterm and final exam preparation)

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Matt Chung

Why publish my studying techniques? This semester, I manage to pull off an A not only for the midterm and final exams, but for the class as a whole. My intentio...

Embrace the mess. Source: https://proofbranding.com/shitty-first-drafts/
Writing

Neil Strauss’s 3 pass writing technique

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Matt Chung

Three passes World class writers sit down and pour out beautiful prose in a single sitting, right? That’s the image I image I held in mind for many years ...

Advanced Operating Systems

Giant Scale Services – Summary and notes

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Matt Chung

Introduction We’ll address some questions like “how to program big data systems” and how to “store and disseminate content on the web in...

Advanced Operating Systems/Featured/Writing

Free E-book: Advanced operating systems (AOS) refresher course – summary and study guide

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Matt Chung

Click here to download “Advanced OS refresher course – summary and study guide” I compiled my various blog posts from the advanced operating s...

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...

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