Falling Through My Systems
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
This late post is a nice springboard into something I’ve been thinking about throughout the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, when I was still commuting to work, I had a fair number of systems to help me get stuff done. My commute to work helped me film daily vlogs, listen to books, and think about big ideas for blog posts and Stay Awesome vlogs. When we started working from home, those outputs began fading. Now, I feel behind on my blog posts, I *maybe* film a personal vlog once every two weeks, and Stay Awesome has been put on an indefinite hiatus until Jim and I get some extra headspace bandwidth to ..read more
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Writer’s Block and Bad Writing
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
According to Seth Godin, there is no such thing as writer’s block. He’s been on my mind recently, not just because I listen to his regular podcast, but also because he’s doing the book marketing circuit on the podcast shows I typically listen to. As of writing (November 3rd), his latest book was just delivered to my door. From what I understand, Seth’s belief is that writer’s block is a function of our desire to not ship bad work. Instead, we hold out until a good idea arrives and we work on it. His advice to overcome “writer’s block” is to constantly write regardless of how bad you think it i ..read more
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Paying to Be Upsold
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
After a bit of a hiatus, it’s time I dust off my keyboard and get to work. I attended a digital summit last week organized by a reputable platform. I’m going to deliberately keep this post’s detail vague because I’m not upset by being upsold to the point of it changing my opinion about the platform or the purpose of the summit. On the other hand, it clarified a few things about the nature of online business that I thankfully only paid a few bucks to learn. The summit was meant to bring together content creators to discuss the business of making money online. I’ve flirted with this idea, and I ..read more
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Friday Round-up – July 31, 2020
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
Here is my round-up list for the week ending on July 31st: Reflection – Writing Daily, But Posting When Ready | Derek Sivers I started this blog for two reasons – because I wanted a public way of practicing what I was learning at the time, and to force myself to write consistently. I decided posting once per week was a manageable target, and I’ve been relatively successful for the last few years. Recently, I’ve added the Friday Round-up as a way to force myself to write more and to share interesting content I stumble upon. When I added the Friday posts, I questioned whether it was worth puttin ..read more
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Enough Blog Words to Fill A Book!
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash I’ve hit a couple of milestones recently. For instance, last week I hit a nice big milestone in Duolingo when I hit 600 consistent days of doing lessons. View this post on Instagram 600 consecutive days of micro-lessons in German on Duolingo. I'm not saying I could carry on a conversation, but I think I have half-decent reading comprehension. #duolingo #achievement #streak #language A post shared by Ryan Huckle (@rhuckle) on Jan 23, 2020 at 6:19am PST I wouldn’t say I’m particularly fluent in German, but during my trip in October of last y ..read more
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Citing Your Sources
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay  While reading a post from A Learning A Day, I thought I’d keep the irony train rolling by linking to Rohan’s linked post from Derek Sivers about the perceived need to quote an idea’s source.  Specifically, I wanted to respond to this point: 2. School teaches us to reference. But we’re not trying to impress a teacher anymore. And every unnecessary fact dilutes our point. I often reflect on the learning objectives I expect to achieve in a course lesson while teaching.  I try to parse out the meaningful things I want students to lea ..read more
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“The Same Fifteen Academic Studies”
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
Despite my rant a few weeks back on the podcast-book marketing relationship, there are a few authors I will check out when they appear on podcasts I’m subscribed to.  For instance, Ryan Holiday just released his new book and is out promoting it to various podcast audiences. He appeared on Rolf Pott’s podcast, Deviate, and had a conversation about what it’s like to write a big idea book.  Towards the end of the episode, he makes an off-hand remark on getting ideas from recently published books, and how he chooses not to do this because it tends to result in recycling the same academic ..read more
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Falling Through My Systems
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
This late post is a nice springboard into something I’ve been thinking about throughout the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, when I was still commuting to work, I had a fair number of systems to help me get stuff done. My commute to work helped me film daily vlogs, listen to books, and think about big ideas for blog posts and Stay Awesome vlogs. When we started working from home, those outputs began fading. Now, I feel behind on my blog posts, I *maybe* film a personal vlog once every two weeks, and Stay Awesome has been put on an indefinite hiatus until Jim and I get some extra headspace bandwidth to ..read more
Visit website
Writer’s Block and Bad Writing
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
According to Seth Godin, there is no such thing as writer’s block. He’s been on my mind recently, not just because I listen to his regular podcast, but also because he’s doing the book marketing circuit on the podcast shows I typically listen to. As of writing (November 3rd), his latest book was just delivered to my door. From what I understand, Seth’s belief is that writer’s block is a function of our desire to not ship bad work. Instead, we hold out until a good idea arrives and we work on it. His advice to overcome “writer’s block” is to constantly write regardless of how bad you think it i ..read more
Visit website
Paying to Be Upsold
A Paramedic's Notebook
by ryanhuckle
3y ago
After a bit of a hiatus, it’s time I dust off my keyboard and get to work. I attended a digital summit last week organized by a reputable platform. I’m going to deliberately keep this post’s detail vague because I’m not upset by being upsold to the point of it changing my opinion about the platform or the purpose of the summit. On the other hand, it clarified a few things about the nature of online business that I thankfully only paid a few bucks to learn. The summit was meant to bring together content creators to discuss the business of making money online. I’ve flirted with this idea, and I ..read more
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