I was happy to see a few days ago that the notification popped up to let me know Readwise now had an integration to Obsidian. I had been using another 3rd party plugin which did work, but it wasn’t the best.

Since discovering Readwise and the Zettelkasten method I have found it truly life changing with how I take notes. I used it with Notion, when I was using it. However; once I tried Obsidian — I quickly understood that it was ok to have more than ‘1 app for everything’. …

I read a lot, and a lot of what I read — I want to take notes. Though I have physical books, I tend to primarily read via ebooks or audiobooks. I thought I would write down a step-by-step article on my process of dealing with books. So here is my note workflow on books.

Step One: For physical books, see whether there is an electronic version and when I can, use that instead.

Step Two: Depending on whether it is fiction or non-fiction will depend on whether I read it on my kindle or listen via Audible or Libby…

I grew up in the era of computers. Specifically, computers being in classrooms. As someone who has only use of one hand, and whose writing is not the greatest — computers made my life a lot easier.

Because of my stroke, I only have use of my left hand. I also had very messy handwriting — so much that instead of having to do a writing test to get my pen license, I was just given one.

With a pen, my writing improved greatly. Though my writing was still messy, it was a little bit easier for the teachers to…

I think that because I am a direct result of advancements in medicine and technology, that is one of the reasons why I have wanted to look into the history of open-heart surgery. I think it may also be because I am someone who is interested in history.

Nevertheless, the leaps and bounds that cardiac surgery, especially open heart surgery has made, especially within the last 100 years are truly life-saving. According to an article by Ali J. …

During the number, Non-Stop in Hamilton, Aaron Burr steps into the spotlight:

ALEXANDER JOINS FORCES WITH JAMES MADISON AND JOHN JAY TO WRITE A SERIES OF ESSAYS DEFENDING THE NEW UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ENTITLED THE FEDERALIST PAPERS. THE PLAN WAS TO WRITE A TOTAL OF TWENTY-FIVE ESSAYS, THE WORK DIVIDED EVENLY AMONG THE THREE MEN. IN THE END, THEY WROTE EIGHTY-FIVE ESSAYS, IN THE SPAN OF SIX MONTHS. JOHN JAY GOT SICK AFTER WRITING FIVE. JAMES MADISON WROTE TWENTY-NINE. HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY-ONE

Non-Stop — Hamilton

It wasn’t until I learned the story behind how Lin-Manuel Maranda started reading…

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My first response while watching this movie was, what the fuck? how the fuck? But by the end it was satisfying and made me think. Ryan Renolds plays Jerry, who at first seems like an upbeat man who suffers from severe hallucinations in his day-to-day life. These hallucinations cause him to frequently converse with his dog Bosco and his cat Mr Whiskers, who manipulate his actions and beliefs. …

TW: Domestic violence, suicide, unspecified mental illness

With the current mice plague that is happening in Australia, it is worth remembering the last one — and the “Thallium Craze” that swept the Sydney suburbs post World War II. In total over 100 people were poisoned. Yet, there are three particular cases that were played out in the papers, these were the cases of Yvonne Fletcher, Caroline Grills and Veronica Monty.

Yvonne Fletcher

In 1948, Yvonne was a young mother of 25 years of age, who had 2 children. Although she lived in what was known as ‘the slums’ of Newtown — you…

This is not a game review; however for context, We Happy Few is a action-adventure survival horror game. Set in England in an alternative WWII timeline set in the 1960s. It is a first-person perspective game that allows you to play 3 characters in this world, that interact with each other.

The characters, in the order I played them are; Arthur Hastings, Sally Boyle and Ollie Starkey. You can play characters in any order but I found the order I played them in a good introduction.

As a writer, I love good storytelling — and this game doesn’t disappoint. One…