What’s the one thing you can do to make everything else easier or unnecessary? What would you look like as a Japanese cartoon character? What’s the best donut you’ve had?
Journal: The first 8 weeks of Active Recall
“Honestly when do you ever get a chance to sit like this across from someone and talk to them for three hours without checking your phone? Without anyone coming into the room? Without anyone interrupting you with something you have to do or some place you have to be?” — Joe Rogan Want to create […]
Designing your life
Still figuring out a publishing schedule but I’m thinking we’ll do Fridays for the audio. A week later, we’ll update the post with more detailed show notes. Every Friday there will be audio for that week and detailed show notes for the previous week. We’ll see though! We’re talking about some principles from Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. 0:00 Show intro […]
The Ugly First Draft
Ann Handley calls it The Ugly First Draft (TUFD), Anne Lamott’s friend calls them the down draft, Anne Lamott calls them shitty first drafts, Tim Ferriss aims for two crappy pages, and Mike Birbiglia says its his throw up pass.
Wired to Eat
We aren’t close to peak condition on any of the four pillars described in Wired to Eat: food, fitness, sleep, and community. But we can still talk about it!
Looking back, looking forward
(Check us out on iTunes!) 0:00 • ARWGF 9: Looking back, looking forward 4:55 • We’ll be talking about goals 16:49 • What’s been your favorite episode so far? 26:55 • Lead measures and lag measures 40:49 • activerecall.co @activerecall @walteramedia
Podcast notes: The power of gratitude with The 5-Minute Journal
A lot of planners help you plan your work so that you can make it efficient and free up time to squeeze in more work so that you can make it efficient and free up time to squeeze in more work so that… The 5-Minute Journal helps you start your day with gratitude. Pat Flynn […]
Picking activities
Some Creative Pages will turn into full posts. This one seems like a pretty good outline for a full post. I’ve been reading about writing again. After listening to a bunch of Psychotactics stuff I’ve started reading content by a few copywriters. I started with The Brain Audit by Sean D’Souza (who makes Psychotactics) then I […]
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Creative Pages: Morning Creativity Routine version 2.0
Here’s the first of what I’m going to call Creative Pages — aka the Morning Creativity Routine version 2.0: Notability: I’ll write and draw whatever comes to mind. Sometimes I’ll use a template. Evernote: I’ll paste that page in and write about it. Sort of like what this post is. I can make these in […]