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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Next steps

By Sébastien Dubois • Issue #74 • View online

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Welcome to the 74th edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

One week into my new reality, things are slowly settling down. I’ve spent a ton of time keeping myself busy to avoid thinking too much. I’ve bought furniture and decoration for the house and tried to make the place look alive again.

It’ll take me some more time to adjust, that’s for sure.

I’ve started focusing on my plans for the rest of the year. This is the first step to help me go back into “action mode” and be productive. Building up momentum from zero once again is quite hard.

But I have to accept the fact I need more time to rest and heal. I’ve decided to go on vacation in August.

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The Lab 🧪

During the last 30 days, I sold 38 copies of the Obsidian Starter Kit ($637) and ~10 copies of the PKM Library. The 5-star ratings, testimonials, and the public sales counter are certainly helping new sales happen. Those help accentuate the momentum.

I’ve extended the starter kit some more, adding new templates and pages to the user guide. There’s still much more I want to add.

I’ve decided to experiment some more with the pricing. I will increase it permanently in a week or so, and I’ll rework the copy to see if it helps.

The PKM subreddit now has > 400 members, which is really cool! Every time I stumble on an interesting article or discussion about PKM, I stash it away for the PKM library, but also share it in that community.

Plan for the rest of 2022

Updating my plans was really necessary. Many things have changed since last December! I’ve achieved some of my initial goals, but I had to push back certain ideas and projects.

My plan for the coming months

In the coming months, my key (work) priorities are to

Keep improving the Obsidian Starter Kit, ideally adding video tutorials to the mix
Grow the number of paid subscribers for this newsletter (currently: 0!) to have better financial support and ease the transition. If you don’t support me yet, please do so. I need all the help I can get!
Turn the Obsidian Publisher plugin into reality (v1) and leverage it to migrate all my content to Ghost
Resume writing articles about PKM
Release the third book of my Dev Concepts collection
Resume work on focusd
Start iterating on Knowii (more on that one soon!)

Yes, it is quite a lot. But I only have so much time to live. So I better be bold while I still can ;-)

Ideas I've explored this week

Some of the ideas I've added to my knowledge base this week

Among those, here are a few cool ideas I’ve explored:

How hard it is to overcome inertia
The paradox of inertia
How our eyes are windows into the world
The fact that awareness, not age, leads to wisdom
Why bootstrapping is so interesting
How habits impact our future
The fact that information is not knowledge
The SCQA storytelling model
The relationship between self-criticism and the amygdala
The Pygmalion effect
Key management principles
And many more

Recent articles

No new articles this week.

Quotes of the week

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work — Oprah Winfrey
The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, I can do whatever I want today — Morgan Housel

Book of the week

Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back

Overconsumption is clearly one of the worst diseases of this century. How do we cure it?

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Tips of the week

Fonts Ninja | Supercharge your font workflow

Speed up your design process! Try fonts discovered on websites directly in any design software

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Momentum Dash: Your space for focus

Bring inspiration, focus and productivity to your start page.

momentumdash.com • Share

How cool is that?!

Quotes - The W. Edwards Deming Institute

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Thinking and learning links of the week

PKM Weekly July 10 2022- Issue 026 – Curtis McHale

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Obsidian Tutorial for Academic Writing | by Leonardo Castorina | Jul, 2022 | Medium

Obsidian is a powerful note-taking app that I use on a daily basis. In a previous article, I wrote about how to set up Obsidian for Productivity, specifically for scientific research: In this…

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How to Organize Your Tags with I.A.R.P | by flomo | Jun, 2022 | Medium

Each tag is not born equal. Some tags may become the main trunk(e.g. #marketing, #design), while the others may become the branches (e.g. #MarketingManagement). A few flomo users may be concerned…

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GitHub - MohrJonas/obsidian-ocr: Obsidian OCR allows you to search for text in your images and pdfs

Obsidian OCR allows you to search for text in your images and pdfs - GitHub - MohrJonas/obsidian-ocr: Obsidian OCR allows you to search for text in your images and pdfs

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Frontmatter vs. Inline Fields: which style of Dataview annotation is superior? : ObsidianMD

I discovered Obsidian about a week ago, and I haven’t been able to find a definitive guide online about which style is preferable. Since I’m still…

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Anders Thoresson on Twitter: "I’m slowly realizing that one thing causing me friction in @obsdmd is that I haven’t fully understood how panes work." / Twitter

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Tech links of the week

GitHub - rust-lang/rustlings: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!

Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code

github.com • Share

bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers

Curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools and much more

github.com • Share

Statements Vs. Expressions

One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we’ll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us solve practical problems.

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Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

Stanford eCorner | Where Entrepreneurs Find Inspiration

eCorner is your guide to entrepreneurship & innovation from Stanford University. Explore videos, podcasts and articles on bold ideas and evidence-based research.

ecorner.stanford.edu • Share

Get more insight from Twitter

Twemex is a browser extension for Twitter that guides you effortlessly to the best content.

twemex.app • Share

Write better headlines that will boost your traffic. 76

Write better headlines that drive maximum traffic in Headline Studio. Start for free and access tons of headline recommendations and resources in one tool.

coschedule.com • Share

Want to Make More Money? | Revue

Want to Make More Money? - Get free access to exclusive finance tips, wealth building strategies, investing guides, and much more….

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