Good morning friends! ☀️
This week's a slightly shorter post, as I just want to describe a useful technique/tool I have been using to better capture the things I read, watch, and listen.
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I often find myself stuck when filling out the “weekly favourites” section for this newsletter as I can’t remember what I consumed or used throughout the past week that really “resonated” with me.
I now use a “resonance” calendar (I know, it sounds cheesy). I stole this idea from Ali Abdaal, but it's a bit of a game changer, particularly if you read or watch many things on the internet.
The premise is that you simply save in some way or another all the things that have resonated with you for future reference. I save mine in notion and this is what my resonance calendar looks like.
It’s nothing particularly fancy, but has benefitted me a lot.
I also use the notion web clipper plugin for Chrome so I can quickly add things from my browser without typing things out. The screenshot below shows how this process works.
If you have trouble tracking all the things you use or consume, then I recommend trying the resonance calendar for a week or two and seeing how you get on.
Weekly Favourites ❤️
🔨 Tool — LangChain. This week, I had a hackathon on Thursday and Friday centered around GenAI. Almost everything we built was of the back-off of the LangChain Python module, which is a whole one-stop shop for everything GenAI and is very easy to get going with. I highly recommend you have a play with it and see what you can come up with.
🎙️ Podcast — From Side Hustle to Multi-Million Dollar Business with Ali Abdaal. I recently discovered the podcast “Creators Campfire,” which is about interviewing successful creators. Obviously, the one with Ali Abdaal is the one that caught my eye!
✏️ Article — How to Improve LLMs with RAG | by Shaw Talebi. For the hackathon, my team was using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to boost the performance of our LLM and solution. This article from Shaw is amazingly well-written and explains RAG in a very understandable way.
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