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How to Self-Host Comments For Your Static Blog Using Commento on AWS EC2
Introduction If you’ve built a static blog from scratch or using a static website generator such as Hugo, you’ve probably recognized that they feel a little empty without dynamic comments. To enable users to comment and have discussions on your posts you’ll need to set up a separate comment service and embed it into your blog posts.
Commento is a great open-source, ad-free, lightweight, privacy-focused solution for hosting comments on a blog.
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Personal Knowledge Management
What is Personal Knowledge Management? Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is a conceptual framework to organize and integrate information that we, as individuals, feel is important so that it becomes part of our personal knowledge base. It is a bottom up approach to knowledge management, and a response to the idea that knowledge workers need to be responsible for their own growth and learning,
More recently, PKM has been conceptualized as the process by which we build a second, digital brain to augment our own biological one.
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On Balancing Critical Thinking and Group Dynamics
“Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.” — Charlie Munger
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller
“A critical requirement is learning how to filter feedback. Not all of it is useful. The more quickly you learn to identify good feedback and accept and incorporate it, the more progress you will make toward what you want to achieve.
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Challenges In Adapting My Cashflow And Networth Excel Workbook To Tiller
Background Unsurprisingly, Tiller’s Foundation Template organizes transaction and account data slightly differently than I had been in my existing spreadsheet. In order to integrate cleanly with Tiller and avoid having to manual massage data every month or implement complex, extraneous Excel logic to transform the Tiller data into the format my spreadsheet needs, a revamp of my spreadsheet was in order. For additional motivation, Tiller’s Builder Rewards program provides incentives for users like me to create high quality Excel templates.
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Using A Margin Loan To Help Finance A Down Payment
Are you looking to buy a house and currently have a large investment portfolio? Do you want to finance the house down payment without liquidating your investment portfolio or are looking to take on more loan risk than the bank is willing to provide? Maybe taking out an alternative loan alongside your mortgage is for you. You can even deduct the interest on the loan if you do your accounting correctly effectively reducing the loan interest by your marginal tax rate.
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The True Cost Of A Down Payment
A common question asked by home buyers is how large of a down payment they should make on a new home. There are many opinions and rules of thumb out there on the internet, but few concrete calculations projecting the differences in costs for each down payment scenario and fiscal parameter assumptions. Of course, for many home buyers, considering how much to put down on a house is a luxury they can’t afford and will simply be looking to buy a home with as little down as possible.
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How To Retrieve Correct Highlights From An Amazon Kindle
Background eBook highlights are selections of text from the ebooks that you want to save and access later. Passages containing things like quotes, stories, interesting information, key points, etc. are all common reasons to highlight. Ebooks from different manufacturers each have their own means of handling highlights. This article is focused on the Amazon Kindle eReader.
Problem After we finish highlighting our books we need to export the highlights so that we can access them on a more convenient device like a computer.
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Cashflow and Networth Analysis Workbook
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Overview The Cashflow and Networth Analysis Excel Workbook was designed to help you better understand your personal finances by providing detailed insights into your spending, income, assets, and liabilities over time, and by making your progress towards financial independence visible using powerful data visualizations.
The workbook was designed to integrate seamlessly with Tiller as an extension to the Tiller foundation template but it also functions as a standalone workbook for anyone who wants to import their data through other means.
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Your Money or Your Life Book Summary
Introduction We say money can’t buy happiness and the best things in life are free, but honesty requires that we look deeper. Our behavior often tells a different story. We think we work to pay the bills, but we spend more than we make on more than we need to impress people we don’t like, which sends us back to work again in an endless cycle. Do we come home from making a living with more life?
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