I wrote this blog as a guest post for Eric Golban’s Blog. What is the Pomodoro Technique? The Pomodoro Technique is a time management technique invented by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980’s. “Pomodoro” is Tomato in Italian. It was named after the Tomato Kitchen timer that he used to time his work sessions. Each work session comprises of 25mins of working followed by a 5min break. What are the 5 steps in the Pomodoro...

With over 600 plugins at the time of writing this article, Obsidian.md users are spoilt for choice when it comes to plugins. Many of these plugins are super niche. So here are the ones that I find most useful, and perhaps, you will too. All of these plugins can be downloaded from the “Community Plugins” section in Obsidian, but I have included the link to the GitHub repository anyway to give credit where due. Advanced...

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Ross Griffin Podcast This episode is brought to you by The Round Up, my very own newsletter. The round up currently has over 300 subscribers and is growing very rapidly. The round up focusses on Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement and Productivity. Every week I share somethng I have found on the internet, a though of my own or a synthesis of the two. Sign up to The Round Up. Joel Griffin is a Writer, Director and...

When I find something that I am interested in, I tend to be a very passionate person. When I was 10 I picked up a digital camera for the first time and I have been interested in photography ever since. When I was 12, I started playing drums. Later on in my teen years I picked up coding and got into web development, this has led to my current fill time job as an eCommerce...

Part I Breaking News Some poeple will tell you that the term “Breaking News” came from before the internet. When we still used the print press, breaking news was important enough to “break” the already set type to accommodate the story: Before the internet, the final draft of the newspaper would be fixed in a case for printing. Casing was only done once the news was finalized yet under rare circumstances when some changes were...

Hey Everyone! Welcome to all the new faces around here. 👋 This week I got chased by Zebra while walking my dog in a local nature reserve. Also, I’ve been focussing on waking up early. Over the past 3 – 4 months, I have gradually moved my wake-up time from 6:00am to 5:00am. Here is a great tweet by Thomas Frank on why you Shouldn’t wake up earlier: There’s nothing special about getting up early. It’s just easy for...

Hey everyone, welcome to the 30 people that have signed up since the last newsletter. I haven’t been very good at releasing this newsletter for the past few weeks. I am sorry 😂Life’s been busy and I needed a break. Quite a bit has happened in the past few weeks. Two weeks ago I participated in the Midmar Mile. It’s the worlds largest open water swimming event. I am going to be talking more about...

This is a guest post by Eric Golban Resting This past Saturday I participated in a day of rest which meant: no working no physical activity no cooking no technology including phones, laptops, etc. In Judeo-Christian religion, this is also known as keeping the sabbath. However, I didn’t do this for religious reasons, but rather for spiritual ones. A part of me also did it for research purposes, curious to see what benefits it may...