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Central Pacific Update

Life updates from the Pacific islands, plus what I've been building and learning.

Sep 23, 2025

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ConvoCards Launch Retro

Thoughts and learnings from launching a new app.

Nov 22, 2024

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Cooking for Hackers

How I'm optimizing my cooking process and organizing my recipes.

Apr 8, 2024

Year in Review - Hawaii, Health, and Projects

Thoughts on living in Hawaii for the past year and recent projects

Mar 20, 2024

Organizing Notes in 3D with AI

Using machine learning to automatically organize notes by meaning and exploring them in a browser 3D interface

Sep 27, 2023

Analyzing Coffee with Data Science + ChatGPT Code Interpreter

Uploading a dataset about coffee and using ChatGPT to automatically clean the data, understand insights, and generate cool charts.

Jul 27, 2023

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GPT-4 and ChatGPT in the Logseq OpenAI Plugin

Adding GPT-4 and ChatGPT to my Logseq OpenAI plugin, comparing usage costs, and looking at the best new features of GPT-4

Mar 15, 2023

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Newsletter 11 - Moving to Hawaii and Fitness Routine

Some thoughts on moving to Hawaii and what I'm doing to improve my fitness

Feb 17, 2023

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Newsletter Issue 10

Logseq GPT-3 OpenAI popup, YouTube captions plugin updates, and migrating to Substack

Feb 1, 2023

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Logseq GPT-3 OpenAI Popup

A new popup interface for running custom GPT-3 commands in Logseq.

Jan 31, 2023

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Newsletter Issue 9

New features for the logseq openai plugin and my thoughts on why Large Language Models are interesting

Nov 26, 2022

Headphone Eye Mask

How I use a Bluetooth headphone eye mask to sleep better

Nov 7, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 8

Integer Sum Formula, Donald Knuth on Email, and Werner Herzog

Aug 23, 2022

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How to manage projects in Logseq

How can we organize complex tasks that involve multiple steps over multiple days in Logseq?

Aug 21, 2022

Notetaking with NLP and AI

Using GPT-3, embeddings, and other AI tools to organize and search your notes.

Aug 21, 2022

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New Website on Logseq Hugo

I've remade my website using Logseq and the Hugo static site generator.

Aug 19, 2022

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Launching my new Logseq-powered website, algorithm analysis techniques, the five-minute journal practice, Richard Hamming's advice on doing important research, and the release of Stable Diffusion AI image generation.

Aug 10, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 6

I wrote a simple introduction to algorithms and why they're important and a short guide to my current logseq-projects template.

Jul 17, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 5

Algorithms Bootcamp and the Elon Musk Controversy

Jul 10, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 4

This newsletter is a deep dive on using the latest AI techniques for knowledge management and a tutorial on using Logseq for task management.

Jul 3, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 3

This week, I wrote a few guides. I released a new plugin to download captions from YouTube directly into your notes to help you study videos. I also include some productivity tips and fun artwork created by OpenAI’s DALL-E image generation technology.

Jun 26, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 2

Intro to using AI to take notes and examples from of the community using the logseq openai plugin

Jun 19, 2022

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Daily Highlight Productivity Technique

Pick one thing each day that matters most. A simple technique that cuts through endless to-do lists.

Jun 17, 2022

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Newsletter Issue 1

Launching my newsletter, public graph, and logseq gpt3 AI plugin

Jun 12, 2022

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AI Powered Notetaking with the GPT-3 Logseq plugin

I've started using GPT-3 to create text summaries, outlines and perform many other AI-powered tasks directly within the Logseq notetaking app using a new plugin I developed.

Jun 4, 2022

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Python Setup with pyenv and poetry

How to set up a Python project with the latest tools and best practices

Feb 13, 2022

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How to Take Smart Notes

By focusing on what is interesting and keeping written track of your own intellectual development, topics, questions, and arguments will naturally emerge without force.

Feb 8, 2021

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Why Clojure?

What makes Clojure interesting and well suited for modern software development?

Sep 30, 2018

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Central Pacific Update

ConvoCards Launch Retro

Cooking for Hackers

Year in Review - Hawaii, Health, and Projects

Organizing Notes in 3D with AI

Analyzing Coffee with Data Science + ChatGPT Code Interpreter

GPT-4 and ChatGPT in the Logseq OpenAI Plugin

Newsletter 11 - Moving to Hawaii and Fitness Routine

Newsletter Issue 10

Logseq GPT-3 OpenAI Popup

Newsletter Issue 9

Headphone Eye Mask

Newsletter Issue 8

How to manage projects in Logseq

Notetaking with NLP and AI

New Website on Logseq Hugo

Newsletter Issue 7

Newsletter Issue 6

Newsletter Issue 5

Newsletter Issue 4

Newsletter Issue 3

Newsletter Issue 2

Daily Highlight Productivity Technique

Newsletter Issue 1

AI Powered Notetaking with the GPT-3 Logseq plugin

Python Setup with pyenv and poetry

How to Take Smart Notes

Why Clojure?