(Caption: First attempt at creating a thumbnail, likely only in 720P resolution, let’s go with it for now XDD. Image source: Ernest.)

The originally planned holiday trip was canceled at the last minute, so why not get up early and do some reading? I had been holding onto Paul Graham’s long essay How to Do Great Work. Coincidentally, I came across a high-quality Chinese translation 【如何做出偉大的成就】 shared by Michael Chou, the founder and chief editor of Daodu.tech (科技島讀). So, my reading for the morning was decided on this piece.

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(Illustration: A cat is required for happy learning, right? Let’s cats lead the way XDD Image source: Photo by hp koch on Unsplash。)

Volunteers of AWSUG Taiwan have always enthusiastically discussed how to lead newbies to get started with AWS more smoothly. Recently I organized all the AWS learning resources that you often discuss and some (unpopular?!) learning ideas that I found into an single article to share with you.

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(Illustration: Slide title cover. Image source: Ernest.)

At the AWS Community Day Taiwan 2023 conference organized by the community, I aimed to address two key aspects. Firstly, to break down the complex and vast amount of AWS product information for attendees who might be overwhelmed by the information or struggling to find direction. Secondly, I adapted the content from a 10-minute presentation at the 4/19 Generative AI Meetup to a 20-minute version. Through examples, we introduced the importance of Frameworks and Foundations, and further presented five tools for organizing knowledge. These tools were integrated into the Ernest PKM IIDEE or Amazon Working Backwards frameworks. Lastly, I took this opportunity to record the session.

I extend my gratitude to Amy Lee, the organizer of AWS Community Day Taiwan 2023, and to Eric and Wyne from Track A for their invitations. I also thank the enthusiastic volunteers and sponsors at the event, which made the second edition of AWS Community Day Taiwan vibrant and energetic. It truly serves as a blessing for AWS enthusiasts and developers alike.

For more details about the expansion of the personal knowledge system, you can read more in-depth in my article 👉 Ernest PKM. In addition to organizing human thoughts, this version includes integrating human-computer collaboration and breaking down historical context.

The significance of historical context is emphasized, echoing the words of Werner Vogels (Amazon.com CTO) at AWS re:Invent 2020:

“Technology always moves forwards, but sometimes it’s good to look back, to look at where we came from, to understand our foundation.” – Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO at AWS re:Invent 2020

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Introduction

Since moving my blog from GitHub Pages to Amazon S3 + Amazon CloudFront, the deployment time and webpage loading time have been greatly reduced.

Even for long articles like Ernest PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) Workflow, the webpage loading time can still achieve DOMContentLoaded < 650 ms and Load < 2.5 s. The deployment time has been significantly reduced from an average of 10-13 minutes on GitHub Pages build to less than 1 minute when there are no image changes.

However, this led to another issue of managing and deciding the CDN cache expiration period.

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✳️ Introduction

(Initial version on 2023-02-16)

Since childhood, probably elementary school, I’ve been fascinated by notebooks, enjoying recording numbers, temperatures, times, the number of pigeons on the neighboring building outside the window, and how long it takes for them to fly around and return to their pigeon house, etc.

As I grew older, I’ve always regarded notebooks as tools for recording, memorizing, and quick review. However, I felt that they didn’t match my workflow, whether at work or at home. In recent years, I’ve been better at integrating them into my workflow and documenting my current Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) process. This workflow is derived from the various shares of many people who are smarter and more focused on PKM, Smart Notes, and other areas than me.

This workflow may not be suitable for everyone, but I hope that by sharing these ideas, we can spark conversations and discussions that help us, and even our next generation, reduce the time spent exploring and improve learning or work efficiency, ultimately contributing to society or humanity.

AI, Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Google Bard, Amazon Titan, Auto-GPT, and other models and artificial intelligence tools can handle some tasks for us, but they also operate following a certain process. If we can master the idea of process design, I believe we can still make a difference in society and organizations. Let’s encourage each other.

(Updated to 2023.25 version on 2023-04-19)

Originally, I thought the Ernest PKM series of articles would be updated once a year, but in just a quarter of a year (0.25 year), various AI thoughts and products have descended like meteorites, prompting a forced industry upgrade.

Since the GPT version numbers have evolved from GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, to GPT-4, Ernest PKM has also undergone a minor upgrade, integrating both human brain and AI (MLOps) workflows, resulting in the Ernest PKM 2023.25 version. I chose to publish it on 4/19 Generative AI Meetup to share and interact with old friends and new acquaintances whom I haven’t seen for a long time.

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Today, while I am sorting out the draft of the newly released Ernest’s Personal Knowledge System Workflow (2023), I found some exciting news. Alan announced on the Discord channel that Heptabase is entering the mobile space for the first time, launching the Heptabase Quick Capture mobile app. It is released on both Google Play and Apple TestFlight.

You can quickly capture ideas directly on your phone and record them in the Heptabase Quick Capture mobile app, and then it will be sent to the Heptabase Card Library. For more details, please refer to the “2️⃣ Inbox” section of Ernest’s Personal Knowledge System Workflow (2023).

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👉 This article has been updated. Click here to go to the latest version

Since childhood, probably elementary school, I’ve been fascinated by notebooks, enjoying recording numbers, temperatures, times, the number of pigeons on the neighboring building outside the window, and how long it takes for them to fly around and return to their pigeon house, etc.

As I grew older, I’ve always regarded notebooks as tools for recording, memorizing, and quick review. However, I felt that they didn’t match my workflow, whether at work or at home. In recent years, I’ve been better at integrating them into my workflow and documenting my current Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) process. This workflow is derived from the various shares of many people who are smarter and more focused on PKM, Smart Notes, and other areas than me.

This workflow may not be suitable for everyone, but I hope that by sharing these ideas, we can spark conversations and discussions that help us, and even our next generation, reduce the time spent exploring and improve learning or work efficiency, ultimately contributing to society or humanity.

AI, Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Google Bard, Amazon Titan, Auto-GPT, and other models and artificial intelligence tools can handle some tasks for us, but they also operate following a certain process. If we can master the idea of process design, I believe we can still make a difference in society and organizations. Let’s encourage each other.

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(Illustration: AWS re:Cap Events, re:Invent 2022 Watch Party Taipei. Image source: Credits to Tammy.)

Initing

Today I am honored to be invited to participate in the re:Invent 2022 Watch Party in Taipei, one of the AWS re:Cap series events in Taiwan. Saw a lot of old friends and made a few new ones too :)

Share the personal experience of physically logging into Las Vegas to participate in re:Invent 2022 last month, share the thinking behind why you should physically participate in AWS re:Invent 2022, how to efficiently absorb 4 keynotes totaling 7 hours, etc.

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I saw the 海總理’s tweet earlier mentioning Readwise Reader which can directly generate subtitles from YouTube videos and found out that this reading tool was open for trial. I couldn’t wait to throw all the articles in Instapaper to try it out.

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Initing

My personal interest outside of work is to immerse myself in a large, complex, and clueless flow of information, and to clarify my thoughts by decomposing and integrating them. On the other hand, various supports from the global AWS Heros Program. Not only to being able to immerse myself in the news stream of the AWS re:Invent - an annual developer conference - for a whole week, you can also talk closely with more than 200 AWS Heroes from different perspectives, viewpoints, and professions around the world. These full harvests, on the return flight, apart from thinking about where to go to visit the ginkgo night view and eat sushi (oops, wait, this is not to write a travelogue…), my mind is full of trying various ways to link and organize, this article is one of them.

This article Think in Context: Highlights of AWS re:Invent 2022 Keynote x4 focuses on:

• From 7 hours, 4 keynote speeches, and 4 aspects, how to observe the layout of AWS?
• From the different roles of “leadership, branding, public relations, marketing, product, technology, engineering”, how to divide the work and digest each keynote speech?
• After extracting information, how to integrate it back into corporate strategy and product development?

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