Tag: Ultimate Guide
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How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens) – Book Summary and Notes
This book transformed my relationship with note-taking. It’s the best (English) introduction to the Zettelkasten (slip-box) method.
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How I Think About Goals
Hey friends, I recently had a conversation with Ben Hardy, author of the book Personality isn’t Permanent. He’s a psychologist who teaches and writes about self-improvement, willpower and other fun stuff. During…
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The Value of Saying Yes
Hey friends, I’m on a road trip to Scotland with the boys this weekend, and so this week the newsletter is a guest post from Lili who emailed me with…
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The Power of Clarity
Hey friends, Quick plug before we get into the meat – very excitingly, I’m speaking at the Teachable ‘Share What You Know‘ Summit (22-24th Sept), an online event about entrepreneurship…
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A Simple Trick to Beat Procrastination
Hey friends, As you know, I’m all about finding little hacks and mindset shifts that boost my productivity and help me live a happier, more intentional life. One that my…
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How to Build a Second Brain
Hey friends, In March 2019, I shared the concept of Building a Second Brain in this newsletter. I’d just discovered the field of Personal Knowledge Management and I was excited to dive into it. I’d…
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A Week of Unemployment
Hey friends, This week has been my first full week of unemployment. From Monday to Friday I haven’t had anything I needed to do, I could wake up whenever I wanted, I…
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Learn in Public, It’s Great
Hey friends, Because I’m practising self-care and taking a break (read: feeling lazy), this week’s issue is a guest post from my friend Yath. He took my up on my standing…
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3 Nice Quotes
Hey friends, I came across 3 quotes this week that I liked. The first two are from Jeff Bezos’ opening statement for the anti-trust hearing thing, and the third is…
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The Power of the Weekly Review
Hey friends, One of the staples of productivity is doing a Weekly Review. It involves taking a bit of time to look back on your week, reflect on how things went, close…
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Why I Skipped Last Week’s Email
Hey friends, Last Sunday, for the first time in 117 weeks, I skipped an issue of this newsletter. Here’s how it happened. I’d been chatting to my friend Khe Hy…
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The Top of my To-Do List
Hey friends, This week I stumbled across a fantastic, very short blog post from Paul Graham called The Top of My Todo List. It references the famous book The Top 5 Regrets…