Prefer to read this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: Obsidian FINALLY Shipped a Kanban View for Bases. Hereās What You Need to Know. For the last couple of years, Iāve been managing my creative projects in Obsidian using a couple of community plugins and a little bit of duct tape. So when Obsidian 1.14 shipped a native Kanban layout for Bases last week to Catalyst supporters, I got real excited. Iāve wanted this view ever since Bases first shipped. Unfortunately, itās...
13 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
Prefer to read this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: Why You Have Trouble Following Through on Things You Say Are Important. Back in June, I attended an Immunity to Change session led by Cat Mulvihill at Jay Clouseās Lab Offline event. Then last week, Cat joined David & me on the Focused podcast to talk about her Momentum Formula and the roadblocks that keep us from following through on what we say is important. Somewhere in between, I was finally able to overcome one...
20 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
Prefer to read this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: The point of planning isnāt the plan you follow but the clarity it gives you when you canāt. Last week did not go as planned. On Monday night, I got a phone call from my sister-in-law while I was still at soccer practice. āDonāt freak out, butā¦ā Ok, I wasnāt freaking out before, but now I kind of amā¦ āRachel was playing with the kids in the yard, and she broke her leg.ā I was at the soccer fields 30 minutes away. But...
27 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
Prefer to read (or listen to) this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: You donāt have a creativity problem. You have an idea portfolio problem. You might know David Perell as the creator of Write of Passage or the host of the How I Write podcast. But he also describes himself as an angel investor in companies focused on creators, productivity, and the future of education. Recently, he was on the Nathan Barry Show (How to Stand Out as a Writer in the Age of AI), where he...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
Prefer to read (or listen to) this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: Before you let AI into your notes, make sure it knows the rules. My vault is over a decade of thinking. Book notes, sermon prep, podcast ideas, half-formed thoughts Iām still working out. Letting an AI loose in there can feel a little like handing a stranger the keys to my house. To be clear, I was never afraid that Claude would read my notes. I was worried it would change them. Those are my thoughts,...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 6 min read
Prefer to read (or listen to) this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: You didnāt lose your creativity. You were trained out of it. In the late 1960s, NASA had a real problem. They were trying to put a man on the Moon, something that had never been done before. To do so, they needed engineers and scientists who could solve problems no one had ever seen before. Being smart wasnāt enough. They needed to be inventive. So they commissioned a researcher named George Land to...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 7 min read
Prefer to read this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: In the Age of AI, Taste is the Moat I was listening to a fantastic recent episode of the Nathan Barry Show with David Perell (creator of Write of Passage and host of the How I Write podcast) last week when he named three reasons people struggle with writing: They donāt have any good ideas. They have good ideas, but lack the courage to say them. They donāt know how to write. The first one is an input problem, and...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 6 min read
Prefer to read (or listen to) this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: If the tool you want doesnāt exist, you can just build it Last week, someone in The Library (my paid PKM community) pointed me to a tweet by the co-founder of the Craft Mac app about a new quick capture feature theyāre teasing in beta: Viktor PĆ”li @viktor_pali Quick entry is coming soon to @craftdocsapp! Wherever you are on your Mac, just open it and capture your thoughts instantly - with full keyboard...
2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
Prefer to read this newsletter in your browser? Click here. š” The Big Idea: A Healthy Vault Isnāt a Tidy One; Itās One That Actually Helps You Think When did you last open a note in your vault just to think? Not to organize, not to file, not to tag. Whenās the last time your vault surprised you with a connection youād forgotten you made? If youāre drawing a blank, it may be a sign that your Obsidian vault is in need of some TLC. It happens. Most people eventually fall into the same trap when...
2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 9 min read