Reading list for April 8, 2021
The “before” story (aka before I hopefully manage to shed some of this fat)
Brainstorming possible MMA threads
Fungible name, non fungible sentence
Reading some crypto books
Drumline, approval from a distance, and playing without reading (PCxCP vol. 7 of 52)
Justin Timberlake, Zuck, and making things cleaner (PCxCP vol. 6 of 52)
Hobbits and moving slowly to move far (PCxCP vol. 5 of 52)
Interstellar and figuring out the time warps to avoid (PCxCP vol. 4 of 52)
What is NBA Top Shot? (Remove the game, remove the shoes)
Tony Stark and starting with a bang but going through a cave (PCxCP vol. 3 of 52)
Inception and realizing your superpower (PCxCP vol. 2 of 52)
The Joker plans a lot, you don’t always have to (PCxCP vol. 1 of ????)
Do the same thing (for beginners and experts)
“Think Again” (Reading Log 2/23/21)
Batch shallow work, mega batch the deep work
Procreate how-to video outline
Midnights with Booster (Ramblings vol. ???)
Reading Ramblings: “How to Get Rich” by Felix Dennis
Video log – How to design your environment (for better habits)
Video log – How to stay creative (when low on time)
Midnights with Booster
Notes on visual notes (as I try to learn in public)
Book Notes: “The Practice” by Seth Godin
Ramblings (December Damage Control #1)
Notecards and ideas for the next 5 posts (or next 2 posts)
Simplification (when aiming to write every day)
The phrases of habits
How not to save $40
Writing, starting from a spreadsheet (sort of)
Actually getting up when waking up (and the steps I took to prep for it)
Posting just to post
The numbers just don’t matter to people who are going by a “You can just feel it” metric.
Advice to Steve Kerr: Bring a lot of stuff (Reading Log: “The Victory Machine”)
Reading log: The hot hand vs. The gambler
Podcast Note | Sahil Lavingia: Minimize surface area to maximize polish
Podcasting Log: Aaaand we’re back
73: “Magic: the Gathering” life lessons
Podcasting Log: Zero to 18m audio (in 90 minutes)
Podcast Note | The Ready State Podcast: “S1EP7: John Berardi”
Podcast Note | Shea Serrano: Grit and central points
5 tips for writing daily (and mayyybe publishing)
Ramblings (on a timer)
You know something that’s worth teaching (so share your knowledge)
3 ways I use Shortcuts for writing with my iPad (and iPhone)
Why does Ronnie Coleman still Lift? (Joe Rogan Experience)
Why is acting so easy? (Jimmy O. Yang)
How do you lose a whole bunch of weight? (Kevin Smith)
Why is television a good thing? (Rob McElhenny)
The Notepod #3 – “Chasing Excellence”
How all these pieces might work together
Reading Log: 9 takeaways from Mark Hunt’s “Born to Fight”
The Listener #8 (by the Notepod (by Active Recall (by Francis (typing at his computer(but sometimes talking to it so a robot can turn it into text)))))
Village Global’s Venture Stories: Unbundling Journalism with Chris Best of Substack
Notes: “Hyperfocus” The College Info Geek Podcast
Notes on Quentin Tarantino 2014 Interview with Robert Rodriguez pt 2
Notes on Quentin Tarantino 2014 Interview with Robert Rodriguez
iPad Writing Apps: My favorites for different use cases (and why I use Shortcuts for pretty much everything)
Kevin Hart (Ozark motivation) x Brian Koppelman (Stoke the flame)
The Notepod #2 – “Rebel Without a Crew”
untools
Joe Rogan: Doing the thing
The Notepod #1 – “The Fighter’s Mind”
Reading Log: The Fighter’s Mind
Free writing an outline for a solo episode
71: “Work Clean”
Spider mines and more
Ramblings: Fighters, new archive page, and random links
Writing down a schedule (Steps toward fixing my focus)
What’s on my desk (setting a 25 minute timer in Figma)
Ideas that changed your life (but from Starcraft)
Against the Rules Presents: Michael Lewis in Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg
Tobi Lütke: Building lings, hydras, mutalisks (and Shopify) | Podcast Notes
Book Notes: “That Will Never Work” by Marc Randolph
Outline for a video about the iPad Magic Keyboard
Ramblings: Magic Keyboard first impressions
Bill Simmons on developing your voice as a writer | Podcast Note
What to do if you can’t type an apostrophe
BJ Fogg: Build tiny habits with positivity | Podcast Note
A 1-hour tinkering goal
Small motion test
Workout Log (04/15/2020) — Molting
One issue with writing right in the editor
iPad Journal (March/April 2020)
Workout Log (04/09/2020) — Warzone
Workout Log (4/8/2020) — Black belts for presenters, selling Cobra Kai at a basketball court, and mac ad slots in high school
Workout Log (4/7/2020) — Tiny Habits and Cobra Kai
Workout Log: 2020-04-06
Workout Log (4/2/2020) — The joy of movement (even when stuck indoors)
Procreate and the cutting room floor
Note to Self: Goals April 2020
This setup worked super well
Note to Self: Places I’ve used the iPad in the first week
Note to Self: Posts to Update
Thing #1 that I did with my iPad Pro: Drew short animations for this blog (March iPad Journal)
Short retro on my unfinished iPad Journal video
Notes to self: Trimming silence in Logic Pro X
Notes on “EP 364: How to Build a $113 “Minimalist” Home Gym” (The Pat Flynn Show)
Just picked up The Great Mental Models 2
Notes on “Jimmy Kimmel in Quarantine, Shaq and Kobe, and TV’s Future”
Michael Lewis and Malcolm Gladwell (2016)
Reading log: “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea”
Conan O’Brien: Note to self, tomorrow you’ll eat nothing (Podcast note)
iPad Journal: thoughts for the next video
Read, Listen, Watch: Rebel Without a Crew, Hatching Twitter, The Joy of Movement
Like yesterday, but on an iPad
Writing about finishing (again) (again)
Jason Calcanis: Read the last two chapters first (Podcast Note)
Walter and Francis, talking about returns, talking about books
Book Log: “Next” by Michael Lewis
How I use my iPad Pro (January 2020) — Getting back to it
Jocko Willink: Detach
Warming up the gear (and top 10 books of 2019)
Write jokes the way a photographer shoots
Reading Log: Pocket Full of Do
Reading Log: Work Clean
Lean toward learning and meaningful relationships (Adam Grant on the Tim Ferriss Show)
Do the simple thing first (whiteboards don’t scale and that’s okay)
An example disagreement (between very smart people)
Leash yourself (to turn values into actions)
Find the medium that you’ll be most consistent in
Plan right in the editor (how an editorial calendar is helping me be more consistent)
Create before you consume (and maybe stop consuming some things altogether)
October Book Stack Progress
Journaling toward stillness
Mission: take this turkey to the editor as fast as possible
Book Notes: “Indistractable” by Nir Eyal
Removing friction
Improving my solo episodes
Podcast Notes – “My First Million”: Don’t make lists
Video: Book note – Adam Savage’s “Every Tool’s a Hammer”
Back to basics (and writing in the editor)
67 – “Finish” — PAO: Mr. Perfect cutting food in a kitchen with an invisible cloak on
Podcast Notes: Start winning, become passionate (Ramit Sethi)
66: “Quitter”
Analog conversations and digital detoxes (Cal Newport on “Hurry Slowly”)
Podcast Notes: Thomas Frank on building up College Info Geek
The 5 Ms, explained with quotes from ‘Rounders’
Podcast Notes: John Skipper and the early days of ESPN.com
F04: Walk, Listen, Talk — “Digital Minimalism”
Podcast Notes: Jim Collins on rating your days (Tim Ferriss Show)
Podcast Notes: Hasan Minhaj (The Dave Chang Show)
Chris Paul: Team dinners (JJ Redick Podcast)
John Wooden walked a lot
Book Notes – “Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality” by Anthony de Mello
How to change the voice in your head: Seth Godin
Seth Godin: Write in public, change your brain
Be a demanding reader (and listener)
Joe Rogan: Podcasting as an art form
You don’t have a choice (Yes you do!)
Atomic Habits, Chrono Trigger, and making time your ally or enemy
63: “Atomic Habits”
How to follow-through on projects (re-frame, remove reasons, and start moving)
Trace, freehand, and then draw from memory
Play pick-up basketball, sell your company to Amazon for $13 billion
Jason Fried: No one should listen to me about how to start a business
David Goggins: Things I don’t want to do
Weekly Deck — Issue 001
Working undercover or just tracking books: Keep it simple
Podcast note: How to beat writer’s block
Podcast note: How to tell better stories
Book Note: The Bullet Journal Method
Coffee, espresso, and bullets (The Bullet Journal Method x Hasan Minhaj)
Thrashing
How to End a Bad Habit (Book note for “Atomic Habits”)
Book Notes: “This is Marketing” by Seth Godin
Use nature’s eyes (or the Hubble telescope) to remember your insignificance
Atomic Habits: Initial Impressions
Podcast Notes: Chase Jarvis and Tim Ferriss
Newsletter 00X: Books finished, books in progress
Newsletter 000: If I had a newsletter
Weaving my finisher hat
Focus on two minutes (Podcast Notes: James Clear)
Write in the editor Vol. ?
Oh give me a hell yeah (a calm yeah works also)
Practice directing your attention
Kobe Bryant: Every day math
Read more books (until you need to read fewer books)
JJ Redick, Hasan Minhaj: Negative Motivation
Elon Musk on Joe Rogan’s podcast
What’s your hiding place? (Book notes for Jon Acuff’s Finish)
Book Note from “Creativity, Inc.”
Trying out a bullet point routine
Prioritize information with these 3 questions (Book note for “Visual Intelligence”)
Notes from “The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly”
Look at your summer after high school (and work those things back in)
IGTV C4D: Make something daily (and share it!)
iPad apps for presentations (and videos)
51: Grit revisited
Find Your Flow (Day 5): Pose-able figure
Find Your Flow (Day 4): Draw a Box pt. 2
Find Your Flow (Day 3): Draw a Box
Find Your Flow (Day 2): Omega Red pt. 2 (of 2)
Find Your Flow (Day 1): Omega Red pt. 1 (of I think 2)
Finding my flow (in 30 minutes each day)
Notes on “The Power of Starting Something Stupid”
A case against flow
Life Lessons from Watching Videos of Jim Lee Drawing
You’ve got 2 seconds, what advice would you give to a new graduate?
Write right in the editor (in this case it’s Evernote)
Describe Your Restaurant in a Single Sentence (Dave Chang and “Perennial Seller”)
Handle Your Distractions (Especially if the distraction is Mr. Fuji)
The best backpack for the gym (Spoiler: it’s the GORUCK GR1)
Be like LeBron (and take a walk)
It’s okay to be bored (and even worth practicing)
Get to the bottom of it (and then work up to your life’s purpose)
A non-master class on writing (based on Steph Curry’s MasterClass course on basketball)
It’s not them. It’s you. (Even if it’s actually them.)
Will you remember this a week from now? (How about a year from now?)
Prune your garden (even if you don’t have an actual garden)
Decide what you aren’t (even if you haven’t decided what you are)
Write right (in the editor)
Have a vision (even if it isn’t to save humanity)
Focus on What Won’t Change
Wear a uniform (But don’t tell anyone)
We are a nation obsessed (Chuck Klosterman IV)
34: How to build good habits and end bad habits
33: How to deal with setbacks (according to Mario and Ryu Hayabusa)
How do you build anything? One chunk at a time
35: And we are back
What’s inside those money bags?
The illusions of feelings
Covers for upcoming videos
32: How to practice (according to games)
Pivot to video (Newsletter issue 3)
31: Musashi and How to Stop Worrying
Day-tight Compartments
Resolutions (Newsletter issue 2)
How to find the best way to practice
30: Resolutions, Subtle Art, Arcade Games
Learning about generalism
Some kettlebell notes
Review your beliefs (your future self will thank you!)
Kicking Things Off (Newsletter issue 1)
Posting some training notes
Know who you are
Tell good stories (even for nonfiction!)
Plug-ins, greasing the groove, and keeping it simple
Some lessons from buying a bunch of infoproducts
Pause the Cassette Now
29: P-Rex and a return to The Magic Window
28: Tribe of Mentors
Book Notes: Four Seconds
Stories we believe in
Book Notes: Basketball and Other Things
Utility of fiction
Notes after making a video about two Mr. Harts
Book Notes: The Creative Habit
27: The Magic Window
I started reading “City of Thieves” by David Benioff
Talent vs. Hard Work (An animoji fox’s perspective)
Why you shouldn’t say you don’t care what other people think (Notes on things by Chuck Klosterman)
How to succeed as a writer (What I’ve learned by reading Bill Simmons)
26: Someday we will vlog like bosses
How to tell your friend they probably shouldn’t pursue their dream anymore (Podcast Notes for Stone Cold and Brendan Schaub)
25: Podcast recommendations, don’t leave your shopping cart in the parking lot
24: Edit Better
Book Notes: This Book Will Teach You How To Write Better
23: The Power of Moments
My Year of Running Safely
Brain bruises and the power of words
Sympathetic links between ideas
Whoa!
Are you picking the right goals? (And my quick foray into competitive Counter-Strike)
Outline: Creativity creates creativity
22: We Can’t Make This Up
None of these look like Kevin Hart
The power of the first day on the job
SHAKE IT UP
21: Not Caring What Other People Think is a Superpower
20: Barking up the Wrong THREE
19: Barking up the Wrong Tree, Again!
Daily creativity: First, through writing
Cardio Sucks book note: A little bit at a time
I just finished reading Ed Latimore’s book
Book reaction: The Forever War
Some questions for myself
How to post more (by writing less!)
18: Primal Branding
17: Better Than Before
16: Made to Stick
15: Talent is Overrated
14: Shoe Dog
13: The First 20 Hours
12: The One Thing
Journal: The first 8 weeks of Active Recall
11: Designing your life
The Ugly First Draft
10: Wired to Eat
09: Looking back, looking forward
Podcast notes: The power of gratitude with The 5-Minute Journal
Picking activities
08: More podcast recs for your head top
Creative Pages: Morning Creativity Routine version 2.0
How to live as an artist: 1000 fans, 10000 readers, but it all starts with ten
07: When did you realize wrestling is fake?
Video: Book notes for “Barking up the Wrong Tree” by Eric Barker
Sketchbook: Working on a publishing schedule
Sketchbook: Planning different time scales and appropriate books
Sketchbook: Will Ferrell*
06: Creative Confidence
Morning creativity routine: The Great Courses
Sketchbook: my favorite apps
Sketchbook: morning routine
My morning creativity routine
AirPod first impressions
iPad Journal: A Notability time lapse
iPad Journal: An intro
Starting this site a little too early
Steal like an artist, show your work, Bruce Wayne, and Batman: Austin Kleon & Chase Jarvis — Sketchnotes Video
05: The Obstacle is the Way
Make it easy, sustainable, and consistent: Tim Ferriss and Chase Jarvis — Active Recall Sketched
Pull-ups for your brain, studying effectively, and skill before passion: Cal Newport and Pat Flynn — Active Recall Sketched
Have fun, help others, and meditate: Lessons from Drama and Lewis Howes — Active Recall Sketched
04: The Slight Edge
03: Barking Up the Wrong Tree
02: Grit
01: Flow
Activities — Do you enjoy it? Does it go toward your goals?