Workflow • Michael Uloth

Goals

📺 I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals for the New Year • 11 minute video by Ali Abdaal about what convinced him that goals are actually useful and not detrimental

Habits vs. Tasks • The Sweet Setup explains why habits are generally more useful than goals 📖
Book Review: Atomic Habits • Miguel Crespo 📖
Atomic habit building with ChatGPT • Mike Crittenden 📖

📖 Squarknote #5 • Article by Susan Fowler Rigetti explaining how she uses monthly todo notebooks to achieve her goals

📺 Scaling Yourself • 56 minute video by Scott Hanselman about the necessity of letting go of most things and focusing on the few that matter most
The Ownership Matrix (What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed) – The Sweet Setup • Have you ever looked up the dictionary definition of “overwhelm”? It’s actually pretty intense: bury or drown beneath a huge mass defeat completely give too much of a thing to someone. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, then perhaps you feel as though you have been given too much. In fact, you’ve been given so much that […]
How I think about solving problems - Human Who Codes • The five questions I used to help me decide, prioritize, and solve problems.
Do Less | Hidden Brain Media
Addition vs Subtraction - by Molly Graham - Lessons
Impact effort matrix: Prioritization made simple - LogRocket Blog

📺 The magic of Textexpander • 9 minute video by Marie Poulin showing how she uses Textexpander to quickly output text she repeatedly needs

🧰 git-standup • Command line tool by kamranahmedse that reminds you what you did on the last working day

Take simpler notes!
For years, I used a sophisticated combination of three Notion databases to track all my research and writing. It was highly successful at collecting links to things I’d read. But had a negative impact on actually writing. I spent far more time organizing my notes and the relationships between them than actually new content, let alone publishing it.
I switched to an old school single folder of markdown files and my writing and publishing took off.
Post drafts and notes side-by-side in the same folder
Posts distinguished from notes by having a date property in their frontmatter
File names prefixed by topic (and any subtopics)
Copilot super helpful with inserting repeated patterns (e.g. inserting author names, emoji format indicators, etc)
Obsidian:
- You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins • Christian Lempa 📺
- The Top 4% of Obsidian Plugins • Linking Your Thinking 📺

Use an RSS reader to consume all blog and YouTube content in one place in the order and with the UI you prefer
Feedbin:
- use tags to organize feeds by their general category (e.g. “news”, “fitness”, “coding”)
- Use saved searches to curate more specific topics you’ll be interested in for a little while
- Use manual searches to research topics you’re interested in one time
- Star items it makes more sense to consume later (need more time, need to be able to play sound, want to take notes, currently busy, etc)
- Use app email address to sign up for newsletters so they’ll go to your rss reader instead of your inbox
  - Alternative: Newsletter subscriptions via RSS | Harry Cresswell • How to get newsletters out of your inbox and into your RSS reader.

FOCUS – How to Achieve the Superpower of Laser Focus - YouTube • August Bradley 📺
fantastic; rewatch and take better notes
Decide what matters most
Decide when I’ll do what matters most each day (and protect that time block)
Squeeze all other stuff around it in the remaining time (none of it is as urgent as it seems)
Decide what matters most ahead of time (the night before, before the week begins, etc)
Remove distractions (take an inventory of them and remove them)