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Navigating Life’s Journey Through Journaling: My Personal Practice in 2025

In this blog post, I want to explore why I started journaling and what I see as the benefits of journaling about my life and my journey…

Mar 24

The Bullet journal key used in my own bullet journal

Mar 24

Navigating the Intersection of AI and Zettelkasten — My personal journey — The Computer &…

This isn’t the first time I have considered how Artificial Intelligence interacts with my Personal Knowledge Management system. However…

Mar 17

An image of the Obsidian co-pilot plugin responding to a question about my thoughts on using Artificial Intelligence with my Zettelkasten. Just based on the information in my personal Obsidian vault

Mar 17

Key Takeaways from The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur — The Computer & Technology Network

Last year, I read a fascinating book that attempts to define technology. This is a fundamental definition for someone who writes a lot…

Mar 3

An image showing the cycle of technological innovation

Mar 3

The Power of the Focusing Question: My biggest take away from The One Thing by Gary Keller

One of the best non-fiction books, let alone productivity books, I have ever read is The One Thing by Gary Keller. This is due to two…

Feb 28

An AI generated pie chart showing the 80/20 rule that states 20% of what we do will have an 80% impact on our outcomes.

Feb 28

How I use Notion to manage my content schedule

I have recently written a Medium post on how I schedule my content. In this post, I will explore how I have set up and managed my content…

Feb 3

A screenshot of my Notion content schedule in Notion Kanban view.

Feb 3

Five takeaways from effortless by Greg McKeown

At its heart, Greg McKeown's book Effortless is about making it as easy as possible to determine the most effective ways to achieve what…

Jan 30

Jan 30

How I use my content schedule to manage my work.

Seated at the heart of my content creation system is my content scheduler, which enables me to track what content I’m planning to publish…

Jan 23

A screenshot of my current content schedule in Notion as of January 2025.

Jan 23

Why I developed a habit of Periodic Planning and Review

In this post, I want to explore why I carry out our regular periodic planning and review. I thought it was worth exploring further as I…

Jan 16

An image of my Obsidian template for my weekly planning and review

Jan 16

Should we leave Social Media and start blogging?

I have wanted to write this article to argue the benefits of owning your own blog. Even though blogging is currently considered to be out…

Dec 26, 2024

A screenshot of my technology and computing blog home page

Dec 26, 2024

The dual role of technology — Bridging or widening the Exponential gap

In September 2024, I published a blog post which asked if we are living in an exponential age. In this post, I want to explore how…

Dec 23, 2024

The dual role of technology — Bridging or widening the Exponential gap

Dec 23, 2024

Why I decided not to change my writing strategy

I have been doing my annual review and asking myself the big question from Garry Keller's one thing to help me determine what I want to do…

Dec 5, 2024

An image of a Robot writing its journal in a library

Dec 5, 2024

Syncing notes between Readwise and Google Notebook LM — The Computer & Technology Network

In this guide, we will explore the syncing of notes between Readwise and Google LM. Before I do initial testing of the process, I wonder if…

Nov 25, 2024

Readwise export highlights screen which allows you to export your highlighted notes to a large number of note taking applications.

Nov 25, 2024

Why I decided to update my file structure in Obsidian — The Computer & Technology Network

In this post, I’ll share my recent experiences updating and modifying my file structure in Obsidian.

Nov 11, 2024

A screenshot of the current folder structure in my Obsidian vault.

Nov 11, 2024

My flow of ideas. How the content I consume leads to the content I publish

I have been reading Bob Doto's A System for Writer, a book on how having a Zettelkasten can help writers generate and develop their ideas…

Nov 7, 2024

An AI generated image of an Android listening to a podcast while typing a blog post

Nov 7, 2024

How Obsidian transformed my daily journaling practice — The Computer & Technology Network

Keeping a journal is an attempt to prevent your past from being completely erased by the sand of time. It allows you to record what…

Oct 21, 2024

A robot updating his journal in a library. This image was generated by AI.

Oct 21, 2024

Why I Wish I Had Read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations When I Was a Teenager

I read Marcus Aurelius's Meditations when I was 52, and even 18 months later, the underlying Stoic Philosophy still impacts me at times. It…

Jul 18, 2024

Jul 18, 2024

How writing helps me to clarify and sharpen my thoughts in 2024

I started writing my blog ctnet.com in October 2020 during the height of the Covid pandemic. Blogging has, in part, led to me looking at…

Jul 11, 2024

A pen writing onto paper

Jul 11, 2024

Review of Manna

Why is a Computing and Technology blog reviewing a science fiction book? I’m reviewing Manna because it raises some fundamental questions…

Jul 4, 2024

A chat between myself and Bing chat showing its response to a query regarding Boolean algebra

Jul 4, 2024

My new writing routine was devised after reading mind management, not time management

I recently wrote an article on my key takeaways and lessons from Mind Management, not Time Management, by David Kadavy, which I have linked…

Jun 27, 2024

My current creative work schedule which I try to fit in with my full time work schedule.

Jun 27, 2024

Why are the dates of the British and US elections significant?

If you consider both British and American history the dates of both the British General Election and the US presidential elections are on…

Jun 20, 2024

Polling statation sign and way in direction sign

Jun 20, 2024

Sean Barnes

Sean Barnes

I have been writing for my computer, technology and gaming blog CTNET for the last four years. At the moment I have a deep interest in AI, note taking and PKM's

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