Enjoyment Work
— a Digital Garden 🌱

A Digital Garden: Capturing my daily thoughts and progress, as well as curated ideas with unique synthesis—a personal zettelkasten.

A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Learning

Type: How-To | Type: Post | #Creativity #Inspiration #Habits

One of the most effective methods to understanding the materials that you’re studying is to be passionate about them. This is the beauty of MOOCs — the idea that you can pick and choose to learn exactly and only what you want to. Don’t jump into a new study without having a plan for it. Whenever...


A Glorious Example Post

Type: Example Posts | #Jekyll #Markdown

Howdy! This is an example blog post that shows several types of HTML content supported in this theme. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Sed posuere consectetur est ...


Markdown Syntax Preview

Type: Example Posts | #Jekyll #Markdown

Philosophy: Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. W...


Getting Unstuck for Creatives

Type: How-To | #Creativity #Inspiration #Habits

Taking a novel approach to life and breaking routines. Okay, let's be real. I've found myself totally trapped in the habitual daily acts that've sprung up thanks to COVID-19, and I'm sure that I'm not alone in that. The lack of travelling different places, meeting new people,...


6 Ways to Achieve New Things

Type: Post | #Goals #Habits #Inspiration

Getting back on your horse, no matter how many times you’ve fallen off. Project Journal Bar In my last post, I talked about the struggles and failures I’ve faced the past few years. I’ve been thinking about how to tackle my short-comings and problems to solve a single, relatively-simple issue ...


Creating a Contingency Plan

Type: Guides | #Planning #Productivity #Writing

Failure is Important Last month, I had the idea to write an article each day for the month. How long did that last? Only five days. No matter how you look at it, that is failure. And it’s not just about the fact I didn’t manage to beat the challenge, it’s more about the principle of the matter. ...


My Writing Process

Type: Guides | #Productivity #Planning #Writing

Five Steps to Go From Brainstorming to Completed Work Let’s get down to the bare bones to start with: Prepare yourself and focus. Brainstorm and allow yourself to have bad ideas. Outline a thesis. Draft and edit. Cut the non-essential. Now, let’s expand on these ideas… Today is the third day of...


Disrupting the Attention-based Economy

Type: Essays | #Productivity #Habits

When you wake up in the morning and get out of bed — or even before you get out of bed — what’s the first thing that grabs your attention? Whatever it is, it’s going to be responsible for your first thoughts of the day. Throughout the rest of your day, you’ll be faced with a bombardment of distra...


The Duality of Purpose and Work

Type: Essays | #Purpose #Inspiration

PART ONE: HAVING FAITH IN GRAND DREAMS. Understanding the why of the work is the most important thing that’s needed when starting out. It’s so easy to become discouraged when you’re in the the thick of the weeds, when you need to do difficult or tedious. Motivation and discipline to do such work ...


(Sample Essay) Informational Hazard - Thinking Before Consuming

Type: Post | #Practical

Information is probably the single most addictive substance, even more so than heroin in it can give you the kick even before you have consumed it, let alone waiting for the system to digest it. And what is more interesting is, the quality and the content(in chemist-speak, the composition, and th...


Introduction to Enjoyment work

Type: Post | #jekyll #theme

Enjoyment work is a highly functional jekyll-based theme that combines the best of different worlds (atleast tries to 😅). It is a minimal and distraction free theme that strives to provide maximum value all without holding back on any essential features that a user would benefit from or would des...


Exploring the features of Enjoyment work

Type: Post | #test

Introduction Essentiality is the heart of any good software, and this theme is designed to ensure that I don't add things that I won't use on a daily basis or not have things that would be important for my personal usecase. It has been designed carefully to get rid of all the feature cre...


How-To Setup Enjoyment work

Type: test | Type: Post | #jekyll #theme

This is going to be a super simple post about how to setup and use this theme for your own website. Usage Q. What will it look like when I am done setting it up? This is what it should look (minus the exact essays ofcourse): Now without further ado, let's get started! Setup Prerequi...


How to use Enjoyment work features on your website

Type: Post | #jekyll #theme

Welcome to this feature usage tour. This is going to be another short post that describes how to use all the fancy features we saw in [[Exploring the features of Enjoyment work]]. So without further ado, let's get started. The default features All the default jekyll markdown features are ma...


Example Page to View Markdown Rendering

Type: Post | #markdown

Philosophy: Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. W...