By cheerful.egg • May 10, 2026
Why build a second brain? I’ve been maintaining a personal notes system for most of my life on Evernote. The idea was to capture the useful things...
By cheerful.egg • May 5, 2026
I spent the Labour Day long weekend setting up an LLM Knowledge Base. The basic idea was to use AI to build and maintain a personal knowledge base for...
By cheerful.egg • April 19, 2026
I stood at the squat rack, barbell loaded, trying to do math. 45 lbs on each side, times two, plus the bar… Is that 135? 140? I could never get it...
By cheerful.egg • March 31, 2026
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By cheerful.egg • December 21, 2025
I rolled my eyes when I first heard about Hyrox. To my pragmatic Singaporean brain, Hyrox was the perfect midlife crisis scam. You pay $200 for the...
By cheerful.egg • October 5, 2025
I have a friend who manages the customer contact centre for a large MNC. Last year, senior leadership issued him a directive: Make sure everyone uses...
By cheerful.egg • September 18, 2025
We’ve all read the advice on crafting a good AI prompt: Define your persona, give it a task, and describe your context and format. In theory, this...
By cheerful.egg • September 7, 2025
Have you heard of a Second Brain? In the world of productivity, it refers to a personal knowledge database for capturing, organising, and retrieving...
By cheerful.egg • August 17, 2025
When I started investing in 2011, the landscape was brutal for small investors like me. You had two crappy options: pay ridiculously high management...
By cheerful.egg • August 10, 2025
It was enlistment day in the Army, and I was feeling as grim as you’d expect. We’d just left our families behind, facing 2.5 years of...
