DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Personal Organization System

By Sébastien Dubois • Issue #76 • View online

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Welcome to the 76th edition

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

July is already behind us. CRAZY! I hope you all had a great month and managed to survive, rest and thrive 🎉

Looking back, I’m really proud of how I’ve managed to deal with my recent challenges. Now that the transition has happened, things can only improve, moving forward. Next month I’ll take some well-deserved rest, before coming back to continue my entrepreneurial journey ☀️

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Personal Organization System

My current focus is on bringing clarity back into my life. It’s a costly but very useful exercise to do every once in a while.

The first step for this was reviewing my goals for the year. This forced me to prioritize my goals.

The second step was to create a list of all the areas and activities I want/need to spend time on:

Different areas and activities

This helped me see everything at once.

The next step was to calculate my available time and decide how much of it to allocate to each area and activity:

Repartition of my time across different areas/activities

The output is a simple spreadsheet. This serves as the input for the next and final step of the process. This already brings a lot of clarity about how I want to spend my time.

The final step is to create a weekly planning distributing all those hours across the week. Some time blocks are obvious, like driving the kids to school. Those are the constraints. Others require more attention because all activities are not compatible with each other. There’s a rhythm to find, an equilibrium between deep work, time off, and physical activity.

I’m still busy preparing that for myself. I have more constraints than in the past, but that’s a fact of life. As it progresses, constraints keep adding up :p

The Lab - Month in review 🧪

This month, the Obsidian Starter Kit has continued to be my most successful infoproduct so far. I sold 33 copies (~$600). The PKM Library still sells, but I haven’t spent time much time on it recently and haven’t made any marketing efforts. I sold 8 copies ($160).

I’m going to test a few things in the coming months:

Add coupons for the other PKM product (e.g., -25% coupon for the PKM Library if you buy the Obsidian Starter Kit). Both products are complementary, so this should be appealing to potential customers
Add a way to buy both products at once from the sales page of each
Add an hour of personal coaching as an optional buy for the Obsidian Starter Kit
Add video content (optional buy) for the Obsidian Starter Kit
Launch offers with a reduced prices for a short duration

I think those ideas should help me make some more sales and be beneficial for my customers. Win-win!

On other news, I’ve decided to resume my YouTube channel project in September. No more delays! I’ll get ready in September and start publishing first videos then.

In September, I’ll also resume my work on Dev Concepts and will focus on releasing the third book as soon as I can. I’ll also start working on the PIM Starter Kit. Reply to this mail if you want to be a beta tester and finally get your information organized 🚀

I've taken quite a lot of notes this month 😂

DALL-E

A few days ago, I received access to the beta of DALL-E. And woah, it is so cool! Here are a few pictures I generated for this newsletter using DALL-E

https://labs.openai.com/s/xBj7Y5QIRxVZp0tLOHJKFIlm

https://labs.openai.com/s/b6ZqAdtTyGAtvNCHmICCsqi6

https://labs.openai.com/s/uy5QKIOF38FSLcn4NBb1qjZt

https://labs.openai.com/s/kW0vyjdi7E3o14zgHHNRW6PP

Just look at this one! “a stained glass depicting a gamer playing mario on a nintendo nes”:

https://labs.openai.com/s/gT0rGADxue8WeEOr92OTFyTt

I’ve also made a few attempts to generate scary illustrations of Cthulhu (H.P. Lovecraft), but those were comically bad.

https://labs.openai.com/s/oJsJ1EGSyZHVdESZXjC8ACzL

https://labs.openai.com/s/vie1zfiRNLDRXLq5pLxa98NX

Even though it’s far from perfect, there’s so much potential for this technology!

When I think about writing essays, I immediately think about how an editor plugin integrated with DALL-E could be used to quickly generate/insert relevant images based on simple textual descriptions embedded in the essay. This would be so much smoother than my current process, which is just a completely different activity, taking me out of the flow of writing.

I’m sure there are tons of business opportunities around DALL-E. Especially given the fact that DALL-E doesn’t have the rights over the generated art!

Recent articles

No new articles this week (I know, I know 😂)

Quotes of the week

“It’s impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows” — Epictetus
“If you think without writing, you only think you’re thinking” — Leslie Lamport

Book of the week

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

A nuanced and original chronicle of the evolution of the human brain. It reveals how the brain’s development of a self becomes a challenge to nature’s indifference and opens the way for the appearance of culture, a radical break in the course of evolution.

amzn.to • Share

Tips of the week

How to take things less personally | Psyche Guides

Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A CBT therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits

psyche.co • Share

How cool is that?!

Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini

Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, is an AI model that can draw images from any text prompt!

www.craiyon.com • Share

The DALL·E 2 prompt book

Your description for this link…

pitch.com • Share

Thinking and learning links of the week

PKM Weekly July 31 2022 – Issue 029 – Curtis McHale

curtismchale.ca • Share

Marginalia Search - browse:random

Discover awesome resources. Makes me think of the good old days of StumbleUpon

search.marginalia.nu • Share

Brain Surgeon REVEALS How To Heal Trauma & DESTROY NEGATIVE THOUGHTS! | Dr. Rahul Jandial

www.youtube.com • Share

MOOC: Effective Decision Making: Dealing with Business Complexity | TU Delft Online

Learn how to solve complex problems in a business environment using analysis-based decision making.

online-learning.tudelft.nl • Share

MOOC: Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making | TU Delft Online

In this MOOC you will learn how to solve complex problems with analysis based decision-making and solution designs.

online-learning.tudelft.nl • Share

Tech links of the week

MOOC: Quantum Cryptography | TU Delft Online

Join this MOOC to learn how quantum communication provides security that is guaranteed by the laws of nature.

online-learning.tudelft.nl • Share

GitHub - ar-nelson/spartan-schema: Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with Typescript inference

Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with Typescript inference - GitHub - ar-nelson/spartan-schema: Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with Typescript inference

github.com • Share

Java Modules in Real Life

Many Java projects (by some counts, over half) run on Java versions that support the module system and Maven Central offers over 4.200 modules. If you think …

www.youtube.com • Share

PyAlgoViz - Home

Repository of Computer Science algorithms, written in Python, with visualizations written in Python as well. The animations run in the browser, and algorithms can be developed, saved, and shared from the browser

pyalgoviz.appspot.com • Share

The Visual Studio Code Server

Securely connect to and develop on any remote machine with the VS Code Server private preview.

code.visualstudio.com • Share

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

Justin Welsh's Secrets To Make $200,000 , Add 100k Twitter Followers, & Get 30k Emails In 5 Months

📌 Download our FREE, 13,000-word ultimate guide to start writing online: https://startwritingonline.comIn this week’s Digital Writing Compass Interview, we …

www.youtube.com • Share

MOOC: Business Model Testing | TU Delft Online

Learn how to stress test your business model to help you anticipate change and harness your business model’s success.

online-learning.tudelft.nl • Share

MOOC: Product Design: The Delft Design Approach | TU Delft Online

Product Design: The Delft Design Approach is a structured approach to help designers to tackle complex design challenges: from formulating a strategic vision, to developing and selecting meaningful proposals for products and services.

online-learning.tudelft.nl • Share

All those email marketing acronyms and more.

The email marketing glossary you always wanted. Look up those pesky, confusing acronyms and make your life easier with this handy guide.

emailmarketingglossary.com • Share

My Side Project Rocks – Share your early-stage side projects to the world!

Post your side projects in early-stage, share them to the world, and get valuable feedback from your first users.

mysideproject.rocks • Share

Project Ideas – Future Fund

ftxfuturefund.org • Share

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