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  Reading list for April 8, 2021
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  The “before” story (aka before I hopefully manage to shed some of this fat)
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  Brainstorming possible MMA threads
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  Fungible name, non fungible sentence
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  Reading some crypto books
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  Drumline, approval from a distance, and playing without reading (PCxCP vol. 7 of 52)
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  Justin Timberlake, Zuck, and making things cleaner (PCxCP vol. 6 of 52)
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  Hobbits and moving slowly to move far (PCxCP vol. 5 of 52)
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  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)
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  Tony Stark and starting with a bang but going through a cave (PCxCP vol. 3 of 52)
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  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. ???)
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  Reading Ramblings: “How to Get Rich” by Felix Dennis
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  Video log – How to design your environment (for better habits)
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  Video log – How to stay creative (when low on time)
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  Midnights with Booster
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  Notes on visual notes (as I try to learn in public)
• Book Notes: “The Practice” by Seth Godin
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  Ramblings (December Damage Control #1)
• Notecards and ideas for the next 5 posts (or next 2 posts)
• Simplification (when aiming to write every day)
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  The phrases of habits
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  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
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  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
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  Podcast Note | Sahil Lavingia: Minimize surface area to maximize polish
• Podcasting Log: Aaaand we’re back
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  73: “Magic: the Gathering” life lessons
• Podcasting Log: Zero to 18m audio (in 90 minutes)
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  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)
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  Ramblings (on a timer)
• You know something that’s worth teaching (so share your knowledge)
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  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)
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  The Notepod #3 – “Chasing Excellence”
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  How all these pieces might work together
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  Reading Log: 9 takeaways from Mark Hunt’s “Born to Fight”
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  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)))))
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  Village Global’s Venture Stories: Unbundling Journalism with Chris Best of Substack
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  Notes: “Hyperfocus” The College Info Geek Podcast
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  Notes on Quentin Tarantino 2014 Interview with Robert Rodriguez pt 2
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  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)
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  The Notepod #2 – “Rebel Without a Crew”
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  untools
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  Joe Rogan: Doing the thing
• The Notepod #1 – “The Fighter’s Mind”
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  Reading Log: The Fighter’s Mind
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  Free writing an outline for a solo episode
• 71: “Work Clean”
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  Spider mines and more
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  Ramblings: Fighters, new archive page, and random links
• Writing down a schedule (Steps toward fixing my focus)
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  What’s on my desk (setting a 25 minute timer in Figma)
• Ideas that changed your life (but from Starcraft)
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  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
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  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
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  A 1-hour tinkering goal
• Small motion test
• Workout Log (04/15/2020) — Molting
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  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
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  Workout Log (4/7/2020) — Tiny Habits and Cobra Kai
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  Workout Log: 2020-04-06
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  Workout Log (4/2/2020) — The joy of movement (even when stuck indoors)
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  Procreate and the cutting room floor
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  Note to Self: Goals April 2020
• This setup worked super well
• Note to Self: Places I’ve used the iPad in the first week
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  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
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  Notes to self: Trimming silence in Logic Pro X
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  Notes on “EP 364: How to Build a $113 “Minimalist” Home Gym” (The Pat Flynn Show)
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  Just picked up The Great Mental Models 2
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  Notes on “Jimmy Kimmel in Quarantine, Shaq and Kobe, and TV’s Future”
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  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)
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  iPad Journal: thoughts for the next video
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  Read, Listen, Watch: Rebel Without a Crew, Hatching Twitter, The Joy of Movement
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  Like yesterday, but on an iPad
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  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
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  How I use my iPad Pro (January 2020) — Getting back to it
• Jocko Willink: Detach
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  Warming up the gear (and top 10 books of 2019)
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  Write jokes the way a photographer shoots
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  Reading Log: Pocket Full of Do
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  Reading Log: Work Clean
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  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
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  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)
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  Thrashing
• How to End a Bad Habit (Book note for “Atomic Habits”)
• Book Notes: “This is Marketing” by Seth Godin
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  Use nature’s eyes (or the Hubble telescope) to remember your insignificance
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  Atomic Habits: Initial Impressions
• Podcast Notes: Chase Jarvis and Tim Ferriss
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  Newsletter 00X: Books finished, books in progress
• Newsletter 000: If I had a newsletter
• Weaving my finisher hat
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  Focus on two minutes (Podcast Notes: James Clear)
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  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”)
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  Notes from “The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly”
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  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)
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  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”
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  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?
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  Write right in the editor (in this case it’s Evernote)
• Describe Your Restaurant in a Single Sentence (Dave Chang and “Perennial Seller”)
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  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)
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  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)
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  34: How to build good habits and end bad habits
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  33: How to deal with setbacks (according to Mario and Ryu Hayabusa)
• How do you build anything? One chunk at a time
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  35: And we are back
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  What’s inside those money bags?
• The illusions of feelings
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  Covers for upcoming videos
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  32: How to practice (according to games)
• Pivot to video (Newsletter issue 3)
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  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
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  Review your beliefs (your future self will thank you!)
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  Kicking Things Off (Newsletter issue 1)
• Posting some training notes
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  Know who you are
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  Tell good stories (even for nonfiction!)
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  Plug-ins, greasing the groove, and keeping it simple
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  Some lessons from buying a bunch of infoproducts
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  Pause the Cassette Now
• 29: P-Rex and a return to The Magic Window
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  28: Tribe of Mentors
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  Book Notes: Four Seconds
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  Stories we believe in
• Book Notes: Basketball and Other Things
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  Utility of fiction
• Notes after making a video about two Mr. Harts
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  Book Notes: The Creative Habit
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  27: The Magic Window
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  I started reading “City of Thieves” by David Benioff
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  Talent vs. Hard Work (An animoji fox’s perspective)
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  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)
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  26: Someday we will vlog like bosses
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  How to tell your friend they probably shouldn’t pursue their dream anymore (Podcast Notes for Stone Cold and Brendan Schaub)
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  25: Podcast recommendations, don’t leave your shopping cart in the parking lot
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  24: Edit Better
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  Book Notes: This Book Will Teach You How To Write Better
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  23: The Power of Moments
• My Year of Running Safely
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  Brain bruises and the power of words
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  Sympathetic links between ideas
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  Whoa!
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  Are you picking the right goals? (And my quick foray into competitive Counter-Strike)
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  Outline: Creativity creates creativity
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  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
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  21: Not Caring What Other People Think is a Superpower
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  20: Barking up the Wrong THREE
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  19: Barking up the Wrong Tree, Again!
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  Daily creativity: First, through writing
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  Cardio Sucks book note: A little bit at a time
• I just finished reading Ed Latimore’s book
• Book reaction: The Forever War
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  Some questions for myself
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  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
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  11: Designing your life
• The Ugly First Draft
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  10: Wired to Eat
• 09: Looking back, looking forward
• Podcast notes: The power of gratitude with The 5-Minute Journal
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  Picking activities
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  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
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  Sketchbook: Working on a publishing schedule
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  Sketchbook: Planning different time scales and appropriate books
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  Sketchbook: Will Ferrell*
• 06: Creative Confidence
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  Morning creativity routine: The Great Courses 
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  Sketchbook: my favorite apps
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  Sketchbook: morning routine
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  My morning creativity routine
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  AirPod first impressions
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  iPad Journal: A Notability time lapse 
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  iPad Journal: An intro
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  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
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  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?