I'm Liwen, a technologist and business geek based in London, UK. I work in tech innovation at one of the UK's largest media companies. I have just completed my Executive MBA study at Imperial College London Business School, where I enjoyed Economics, Corporate Finance and Entrepreneurship way too much. 🚀
learning new skills in adulthood has become essential in today's knowledge and tech-driven world. To achieve more without burnout, we need to re-discover how to learn. Here are some that helped me through my Executive MBA study along with a full-time job for the past two years.
Taking notes in your own words forces you to think deeply about the ideas beyond the passages. To truly understand an idea is not the same as to merely comprehend the written text itself. The translation process is the essence of note-taking. It integrates the newly-learned idea with your existing knowledge network.
Email is a primary communication medium and I wanted my email system to be able to read, archive, delete and draft my emails offline, store emails as plain text files, search emails across multiple accounts, link emails to my TODO items or notes directly, have powerful search options, find emails instantly, even with hundreds of thousands emails, and more. How do I do it?
Emacs comes with a package called EasyPG. It provides an interface for GnuPG-based operations in Emacs. It can operate on regions and files, seamlessly integrating with dired and org-mode. This post demonstrates how to set it up to make GunPG operations in your daily workflow effortless and keep your information safe online.