# DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links 15 Hello everyone! I'm [Sébastien Dubois](https://www.dsebastien.net/about/), your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for [DeveloPassion's Newsletter](https://dsebastien.net). Thank you for being here with me ✨ The best way to support my work is to [become a supporter](https://www.dsebastien.net/#/portal/signup). You can also [buy one of my products on Gumroad](https://www.store.dsebastien.net//?utm_campaign=DeveloPassion%27s+Newsletter&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=Revue+newsletter&ref=sebastien-dubois). Time for a new Midweek Links edition! Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## Personal development, Thinking and Learning [ Why I Quit Tana I was elated when I finally received my tana invite and I wrote about my first impressions here. I loved the tool so much that I even started a wiki at tana.wiki where I thought I would help others to learn Tana. But over the weeks, I almost stopped using tana because Tana had a learning curve. I wo… Tools for Thoughts 💭Manoj Nayak  ](https://www.toolsforthoughts.com/pages/why-i-quit-tana/)[ In Defense of the Unoptimized Life Give yourself the space to be inspired Napkin MathEvan Armstrong  ](https://every.to/napkin-math/in-defense-of-the-unoptimized-life)[ Obsidian Starter Kit Who is this for?You are just getting started with note-taking or you’ve recently switched to ObsidianYou wonder how to take smart notesYou want to know how to properly organize your notes and avoid creating an overwhelming messYou want a solid system that scalesYou wonder what Zettelkasten, the PARA… ](https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit)[ 7 Obsidian Templates to Streamline Your Notes Let your work flow. MediumDiana Demco  ](https://medium.com/@dianademco/7-obsidian-templates-to-streamline-your-notes-ab3a3c8757be)[ Concept maps — the hidden gem of personal knowledge management Facilitating associative thinking based on your permanent notes MediumRasmus Ursem  ](https://rkursem.medium.com/concept-maps-the-hidden-gem-of-personal-knowledge-management-84edc658054a) > [Charles Darwin's Note-Making Method](https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalKnowledgeMgmt//comments/11lzslw/charles_darwins_notemaking_method/) from > [PersonalKnowledgeMgmt](https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalKnowledgeMgmt//) ## Indie Hacking and bootstrapping > [7 of the key takeaways I've learned from spending nearly a decade in SaaS](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/11fzo0n/7_of_the_key_takeaways_ive_learned_from_spending/) from > [SaaS](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/) [https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-launched-an-app-3-months-ago-with-0-budget-and-less-than-600-followers-yesterday-i-sold-it-for-65-000-c06c506266](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-launched-an-app-3-months-ago-with-0-budget-and-less-than-600-followers-yesterday-i-sold-it-for-65-000-c06c506266) [How I Built a Social Network in 4 Years as a Solo-Developer](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielpirciu_heres-the-story-of-the-1-platform-for-startup-activity-7036250161991327745-7HY7) > This landing page for my newsletter is converting at 80% 🤯 > > I think the copy and design are okay. > > But here's the real reason I think it does so well.... [pic.x.com/Olu6s3ayik](https://t.co/Olu6s3ayik) > — Nick Wignall (@ndwignall) [March 8, 2023](https://x.com/ndwignall/status/1633548052656197632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## Tech [ GPT-4 We’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professi…   ](https://openai.com/research/gpt-4)[ GPT-4 Dropbox  ](https://openai.com/product/gpt-4)[ OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model called GPT-4 — and we’re slightly freaked. FuturismNoor Al-Sibai  ](https://futurism.com/the-byte/gpt-4-exam-scores)[ Is the future of computing biological? Human brains have a leg up on computers—so what’s the next logical step? Ars TechnicaDoug Johnson  ](https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/is-the-future-of-computing-biological/#p3)[ Design Debt A less commonly discussed side effect of adopting an iterative and experiment-driven design process is the incurring of something called Design Debt. This is where the cohesion and consistency of a design deteriorates over time as new experiments are run and new elements are introduced into the desi… IDEO logoAn essay by Austin Knight  ](https://austinknight.com/writing/design-debt)[ Makefiles for Web Work A set of recipes for using Makefiles for web development. Ross ZurowskiRoss Zurowski  ](https://rosszurowski.com/log/2022/makefiles)