Messages
7/18/2023
14 : 34
Farewell
Taking down the Knowledge Worker
9/17/2022
18 : 14
How to Read Well
There is a fair amount of irony in me giving advice about reading because it wasn't until my mid-twenties that I actually read a book cover to cover. In school, I never read any assigned reading.
5/26/2022
15 : 44
Find Out Where Your Attention Goes
How to make the invisible visible by performing a demand analysis.
5/24/2022
15 : 54
Must-Read Books 📚
Reclaim Your Ability to Focus: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Digital Minimalism: Choosing a
5/21/2022
14 : 14
Scare Yourself Enough to Change
How to make your screen time scare you into changing
1/20/2022
16 : 4
How do you plan your day?
What personal productivity system do you use to keep a handle on life? What have you used in the past? And what has stuck the longest and why?
1/15/2022
15 : 14
Escape your inbox
10 lessons from Cal Newports “A World Without Email"
1/1/2022
15 : 14
Books I read in 2021
and why you might want to consider reading them too
12/18/2021
15 : 14
Note-taking became a full-time job, so I stopped
Why I take dumb notes instead of smart ones
12/15/2021
18 : 44
I'm back!👋 AMA
Just writing books and recording YouTube videos was a terrible idea… 😅 I paused the newsletter to focus on completing Reclaim. It worked, sorta…
11/5/2021
14 : 14
How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian book & video course launch 🚀
Boost productivity, improve thinking, and reduce information overload.
10/23/2021
14 : 14
Write books, record YouTube videos
Shifting my focus to create what I consume.
10/16/2021
14 : 14
Artificial mastery
Mistakingly applying technology patterns to human learning
10/9/2021
14 : 14
What do you do about the “app problem”? 🤔
App overload, having too many tools, and too little time.
10/2/2021
14 : 14
Relevance is a skill
Improved by the deliberate practice of note-taking. 📝
9/25/2021
14 : 14
Connection dependency
Internet used to be a "nice to have" now it's basically a utility.
9/18/2021
14 : 14
Work is infinite, time is finite
Find time by taking inventory of it.
9/11/2021
14 : 14
A slow life isn’t unproductive. It’s an appreciated one.
I've been sprinting for so long that I nearly ran past the summit. As I ran up this first and daunting mountain of accomplishment it was impossible for me to notice the beauty of the climb. Now
9/4/2021
14 : 14
Feeling stressed, unfocused, irritable, and overwhelmed by life? 🔥 😞
Information Overload could be the cause.
9/2/2021
14 : 14
Knowledge cycles ⭕
Why learning should be agile