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Welcome to the 99th edition

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

This week, I have been offline pretty much all the time. The Christmas Market season has begun, and I've enjoyed meeting with family and friends 🎉

Recently I've started listening to the podcast of Naval Ravikant. And woah, I'm really having fun! Naval is super smart, and it's a pleasure to listen to his ideas.

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The lab 🧪

This week, the lab has set another record: $1600 for the past 30 days. It's obviously still thanks to the Black Friday experiments, but it's fun to see.

I've launched a new Ad campaign using Google Ads. I haven't had much success with ads so far, but I wanted to give it another try now that the Obsidian Starter Kit is more mature, has many positive reviews and testimonials. I've set a limited budget for now, and I'll adjust depending on the results.

New articles

Effective note-taking tips

Top tips for effective note-taking

Personal Knowledge Management Journal•Sébastien Dubois.

Quotes of the week

• "Making money is a consequence of making a difference in people's lives" — Arvid Kahl
• "The more one judges, the less one loves" — Honoré de Balzac

Book of the week

In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor

How cool is that?!

GitHub - f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts: This repo includes ChatGPT promt curation to use ChatGPT better.

This repo includes ChatGPT promt curation to use ChatGPT better. - GitHub - f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts: This repo includes ChatGPT promt curation to use ChatGPT better.

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Thinking and learning links of the week

Ideas That Changed My Life

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

Morgan Housel•Morgan Housel

Writing Is Magic - Marc’s Blog

Marc's Blog•Marc Brooker

The Ultimate Productivity System for Knowledge Workers: 2023 Edition

Are you looking for the single source of information on all categories of apps you need as a knowledge worker? The Ultimate Productivity System for Knowledge Workers got you covered.

Creativerly•Philipp Temmel

Bayesian search: A simple rule to find stuff you’ve lost

Bayesian search is based on a simple probability rule. It can help you find stuff you’ve lost, like your phone, wallet — or nuclear submarine.

Big Think•Tom Hartsfield

PKM Weekly Dec 11 2022 – Issue 048 – Curtis McHale

Curtis McHale•Curtis McHale

🌠 Whiteboard Canvas for Mindmaps, & a personal note

Canvas showcases and a holiday hiatus.

Obsidian Roundup•Eleanor Konik

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

The Way You Think About Value is Making You Miserable

The cheapest way to compute a value gradient is to value the present at zero

apxhard•Mark P Xu Neyer (apxhard)

What I learned in 10 years, as an entrepreneur | Hacker News

Hacker News

How I’ve Made $280k Selling Spreadsheets on Etsy

In under 2 years, this is my income on Etsy selling spreadsheet templates (Google Sheets + Excel).

Medium•Emily McDermott

Tech

Taming Names in Software Development

Good names What is a name? A name is a label, a handle, a pointer in your brain’s memory. A complex idea neatly encapsulated. A name lets you refer to “the economy” , or “dogfooding” mid-sentence without needing a three-paragraph essay to explain the term. If you think of software development as jus…

Simple Thread•Joseph Glass

Announcing SWR 2.0 – SWR

Announcing SWR 2.0: new mutation APIs and improvd optimistic UI capabilities, new DevTools, better support for concurrent rendering, and more.

SWR

Practical Python Programming

Practical Python Programming (course by @dabeaz)

practical-python

About Sébastien

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois. I'm an author, founder, and CTO. I write books and articles about software development & IT, personal knowledge management, personal organization, and productivity. I also craft lovely digital products 🚀

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