The more open loops you have running in your mind the more stressed & overwhelmed you feel A common misconception is that you have to finish the task to close the loop You don’t & often you can't! Another way to close a loop is to write it down (so you can revisit it later)

The average CPM of our YouTube channel over the last 3.5 years is $43.90 ($517,955 in earnings divided by 11,787,356 views, times 1,000) This seems to be much higher than the average CPM across social media platforms of $6.06 as of the end of 2023 Here's what I don't

Is the situation actually complicated, or are you making it seem that way to avoid the simple decision that demands real courage?

"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." –Zora Neale Hurston

"Only a vision of the whole, like that of a saint, a madman or a mystic, will permit us to decipher the true organizing principles of the universe." –Karl Schwarzschild

Do you know of any good content related to "annual reviews" you can recommend to me? I'm hard at work on my new book on the topic of how to perform a holistic life review as a yearly ritual for personal growth, and would love to know what good ideas are already out there It

"Introverts have wide-open information channels, causing them to be flooded with stimulation and over-aroused, while extroverts have tighter channels, making them prone to under-arousal." Explains a lot 🤷🏻‍♂️ –From Quiet, by Susan Cain

okay follow-up question: what's the current meta on note-taking? i've got a million tabs open and i'm trying to take notes in workflowy which is an okay default option but wondering if i should go back to roam? check out obsidian? there's gotta be something good

There was a time I didn’t think the beauty of a workspace mattered I was wrong

My favourite personal development course I keep going on about is AOA’s Connection Course (VIEW). I’ve done it 10+ times and it keeps improving every aspect of my life. Three years since I first took it, here’s my attempt to synthesise why. AMA. 🧵

Favorite part of living in Mexico so far: Being able to afford live-in help who makes 3 nutritious, homemade meals per day Walking in and seeing this every day is a greater luxury to me than fancy cars, private jets, or 5-star hotels

Posting in your family group chat is content creation as far as I’m concerned

Just realized what’s so profoundly different in small town Mexico: No one’s in a hurry Not in traffic. Not at the grocery store. Not waiting in line. Not ever Everything is just assumed to take as long as it takes, and everyone is patient with each other What a concept

Please stop using Speedtest by Ookla to test your internet connections and download speed Instead try speed.cloudflare.com It has no ads, no slimy cookies or ad tracking, and much better internet diagnostics for testing WiFi and network performance

Mexico City is the Paris of the 21st century

More than two years ago our designer Maya P. Lim mocked up this poster for a Second Brain conference as an example Now we’re less than one month away from kicking it off!