Welcome to the 138th edition

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

This week, I've started preparing for my move. It happens on the 22, and we still have tons of things to sort, pack, etc. There's also a ton of boring administrative details to take care of. And if that wasn't enough, I'm also putting a big project in production with one of my clients. Phew. I'm going to be tired for a while 😂

But it's all for the better. New place, new city, new life. Change is GOOD 🎉

Unfortunately, given that I'll be moving on the 22, I might not have time to prepare next week's newsletter. But worry not, I'll get back to you as soon as I possibly can!

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Alright, let's gooooo 🚀

The lab 🧪

This week, the lab has hit a new high. In the past 30 days, my projects made >$2350. This is epic, and happens just in time, as I need to buy furniture for the new home 😂

Here's a little breakdown:

• Obsidian Starter Kit: $930
• Obsidian Starter Course: $850
• PKM Coaching: $250
• PKM Library: $115
• Gumroad affiliate sales: $130
• Medium: $50
• Newsletter: $32
• Dev Concepts: $27
• IT Concepts Wall: $10

I'm also super thrilled that the Obsidian Starter Course is so successful. The feedback I've received so far is really positive. I need to gather testimonials and add those to the product page!

I have updated my Website recently:

• I've updated my "Uses" page, listing the tools I rely on: https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-01-27-my-current-indie-hacking-toolkit
• I've created a "Now" page, inspired by Derek Sivers' idea: https://www.dsebastien.net/now/

On other news, I have bought a teleprompter to help me record better videos. I chose the following: Neewer X14 Pro. I'm really happy about it: easy to use, accompanied by a nice app and a remote. Works great!

New articles

I've published a mini essay about journaling, mostly reusing content from my previous newsletter edition: https://www.dsebastien.net/theres-a-lot-more-to-journaling-than-what-most-people-think

Quotes of the week

• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely — E. O. Wilson
• Either you run the day or the day runs you

Thinking and learning

Obsidian 1.4.10 is out, with tons cool new improvements and bug fixes for properties: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.10/

Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)

Improvements Editor - Empty lines before the frontmatter block are no longer allowed. Previously this was supported by some parts of the app and ignored by othe…

•Obsidian

I've recently discovered a cool online course for Capacities, created by Beth: https://toolacademy.xyz/learn-capacities/

Capacities Made Simple

Learn how to take advantage of Capacities and how it works from beginner to advanced.

•Tool Academy

A free introduction to Obsidian:

Using Heptabase to boost your language learning efforts:

Heptabase: Your New Ally in Language Acquisition

Optimizing Language Learning with Heptabase: A Comprehensive Guide

•Personal Knowledge Management Journal Clayton Miller

The Components of a Personal Knowledge Management System

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the process of collecting, organizing, and making sense of knowledge. It involves using app and content primitives to manage information. Content creation leads to processing, and that guides the capture method. The processing cycle repeats further, culminating…

•Nerdy Momo Cat

My Ultra-Simple PKM-System (2023)

… that helps me to make a new video by myself every single day

•Medium Oscar Lagrosen

How to use note-taking for crystal clear focus

This productivity hack comes with an asterisk, explains note-taking guru Tiago Forte.

•Big Think Tiago Forte

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

Making money on Medium:

Anthony Vicino on LinkedIn: Three months ago I started creating a different type of content for… | 235 comments

Three months ago I started creating a different type of content for LinkedIn... Since then I've gained 25,000+ subscribers. Here's what I did in 3 steps: 1.… | 235 comments on LinkedIn

•LinkedIn Anthony Vicino

Bootstrapping 6 Products to $35K Monthly Revenue (June stats)

Hey Indie Hackers! Every week, I send a marketing Case Study from a profitable Solopreneur. Today I want to share with you the recent issue with Nick, w…

•Indie Hackers Sveta Bay

AI

GitHub - Stability-AI/StableStudio: Community interface for generative AI

Community interface for generative AI. Contribute to Stability-AI/StableStudio development by creating an account on GitHub.

•GitHub Stability-AI

AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work

Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio tells the BBC he did not realise AI would develop so fast.

•BBC News Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor

About Sébastien

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois (you can follow me on Twitter 🐦).

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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