Summary
- Coffee, boba, and food – my faves
- Adding structure to my (second) brain
- Highlights from driving Oregon’s Pacific Coast Highway
- Meditating at one of the most beautiful places
September 2022
Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
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28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 9/1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 10/1 |
2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Where In The World Was I?
- Portland, OR
- Pacific Coast Highway (Oregon)
Back to 📍Portland
I dropped back by Portland for a couple days of errands and chillin’ before the next leg of the trip 👀 You can probably guess what’s next since Portland is on the way.
Coffee Shops
- Symposium Coffee – the place where I booked my oil change
- Ava Roasteria – the place where I looked into structure ideas for my second brain
- Coava Coffee Roasters – the place where I added a TON of structure to my second brain
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Boba
After a week in the forest, BOY was that first sip good. I was looking forward to that.
- Sharetea – the place where I went with the “underrated” boba
- Royaltea – the place where I watched in disbelief as my milk boba was made with just Kirkland brand whole milk and half-and-half… 😧 I thought it was more complicated than that 😅
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Food
- Hero Sushi & Sake Bar – the place with the fried lobster sushi; WOW that was good
- Grassa – the place with the BBQ mac pasta 😍
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Journal Updates
I’ve been wrestling with a bunch of ideas around being able to produce more “static” content within my journal, to be able to synthesize ideas together with more structure. In essence this a scaling issue. I’ve been just blasting content into my journal for two years with little higher-level structure. There’s really no good way to be able to collect and synthesize ideas and concepts together (i.e. structure) into something useful.
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I went down a rabbit hole of looking into adding a folder structure to my Obsidian vault, but then I reread this article about layers of structure from Zettelkasten.de, A Tale of Complexity – Structural Layers in Note Taking. It’s almost like someone else has already encountered this scaling issue… duh, lol.
The key concept I took away was making use of “hub” notes – centralized notes that link out to others, like the hub and spokes in a bike wheel. So, I spent a good 4-5 hours just grinding away at adding a bunch of these hub notes. This is the result (the hub notes are the bright white ones):
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It’s hard to see much of a difference in the graph view, but having a hierarchy through notes makes a big difference.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Zettelkasten method, I’d recommend starting here: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/. It’s changed my life.
Van Preventative Maintenance ✅
Everybody loves preventative maintenance
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Not Just Any Walk In The Park
For some reason this walk just felt different. The sun was out, the weather was just spectacular, people were out and about. I just felt this overwhelming sense of gratitude and happiness just strolling around the park. Life is good 🙂
Driving The Pacific Coast Highway
A bucket-list item. Here are some highlights so far
Cannon Beach
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Tillamook Creamery
Like THE Tillamook… The ice cream was incredible.
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Newport Farmers Market
One of those U-turn stops 😅. Picked up some fresh fruit and produce. It’s amazing how much of a difference fresh/local makes in the flavor…
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The Pacific Coast From Above
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My First-Ever Full Rainbow
The absolute VIBRANCE of this rainbow(s) was incredible. A double rainbow peeked out for a bit.
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Meditation At Sunset
What an incredible place to meditate. I just felt so grateful to be there.
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Driving, driving, driving
Just a reality check, between all those 👆 is a LOT of driving, mostly just boring, but occasionally you get out to the coast and it’s a bit more interesting. Driving for hooours has been quite tiring!
It’s all worth it though. I’m feel incredibly grateful to be out here. I swear the pacific coast changes you…
What’s next?
I’m currently in 📍Brookings, OR (southwestern corner of the state). By next weekend we should get into some redwood forests 😍👀
You are really getting into a groove with these updates. Your photos are OMGOSH spectacular. And we love the coffee/fave drink reviews. (PCH in a convertible at sunset is still on my BL. Thanks for keeping my dream alive.) Drive Safely. 😊