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Tiago Forte

29 days

The inaugural Second Brain Summit is coming to LA in October 2024! Learn the skills they never taught you in school... From your favorite creators in productivity, creativity, and personal knowledge management

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Tiago Forte

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3 months

I saw a TikTok a few weeks ago that genuinely changed my life Here’s the gist: At every moment in a conversation, you always have only two choices: 1. Ask something about what they just said 2. Relate what they just said to something about yourself Doing less of option #2 in…

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3 years

I almost invested in Coinbase in 2013 except I had no money and no connections and had never heard of bitcoin or coinbase

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4 years

You can’t compete with someone who is having fun

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I cannot overemphasize how much everything is made up and there are no rules

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3 years

Our financial advisor recently sent us details on starting a 529 college savings account for our son Using standard projections from today’s costs, the proposal calculated that his 4-year college degree will cost $738,000 All we have to do is save $1,600/mo for 18 years WTF

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2 years

We received an offer to translate my book into a language called Marathi I wasn’t sure it would be worth it for some obscure Indian dialect… Then I looked it up – 90 million native speakers, the 10th most of any language on Earth 🤯 India is unfathomably huge

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2 years

It's finally here!

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4 years

Wanted: notetaking app with The simplest 30% of Roam’s features The aesthetics of Notion The ubiquity of Evernote The ease of capturing of Things The free form drawing of OneNote Wrapped in a stable, mature business model and mainstream-oriented brand

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2 years

My reaction seeing my book in a store for the first time

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4 years

I got a book deal!!! 🧠🔥🧠🔥🧠🔥🧠🔥 I couldn't be happier to announce that I've signed a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster @simonschuster for my book Building a Second Brain! Here's the full story:

I Got a Book Deal for Building a Second Brain! - Forte Labs

I couldn’t be more proud to announce that I’ve signed a six-figure book deal with Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, to publish my book

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4 years

1/ This article from @guardian on "South Korea’s millionaire, celebrity schoolteachers" is the perfect case study of what's going to happen in online education around the world As usual, the future is already here, in Asia

Fast earners: South Korea’s millionaire, celebrity schoolteachers

Obsessive ‘cram school’ education culture has given some tutors pop-star profiles and wealthy lifestyles

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Put depression on your to do list so you never get to it

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4 years

My parents just told me they thought every weekly email I send is only for them, because I address it “hey folks.” They got on my email list a few years ago and from that point forward thought I wrote them an update every week about what I’m up to 😂😂😂

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7 years

1/ You can tell what is constraining someone in life by who they judge

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2 years

Organizing my business, personal life, and creative work in @NotionHQ is one of the most powerful things I've ever done. Here’s how I do it + get my free Notion template (thread)

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3 years

It’s alive!!! 300 pages with my advice on digital notetaking. Coming to bookstores in 9 months

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3 months

Digital Notetakers! Here's a 3-step method & ChatGPT prompt to help you beat information overload: • Find your pressing problems • Decide on your Open Questions • Never miss crucial information again Want my Info Filter Framework? Like & reply with 🧠—I’ll DM it to you

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3 years

Don’t trust anyone over 35 giving any kind of life advice if they don’t have kids

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4 months

End of year = Annual Review time I can summarize the essence of my Annual Reviews as: Discovering what you truly want for your life, again and again, in more subtle shades and deeper layers each time Doing an Annual Review is simple - here’s a few questions to get you going:

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3 years

The American dream is to buy a home The Latino dream is to buy your parents a home

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4 years

Thinking of starting my own fund where I pay founders to not start new note-taking apps

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4 years

Learning is the ultimate form of procrastination

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2 years

It’s alive!

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2 years

The Evolution of Man(uscript)

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5 years

The most important paragraph I've ever read on modern education. I'm stunned Via @soenke_ahrens

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3 years

In my experience, if you complete just ONE meaningful, concrete piece of work each day, no matter how small, you are in the top 10% of most productive people If that piece of work is in any way evergreen and reusable, easily top 1%

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3 years

I hate blogs that remove publication dates. Yes I understand you think your writing is 100% evergreen but you’re robbing me of one of the most important pieces of contextual information. Terribly unfriendly to the reader

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3 years

Manuscript is complete! 60,000 words, more than a year of writing Now let the editing begin...

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3 years

Seeing my son’s instant fascination with large trucks and construction vehicles almost from birth has changed my mind: there’s no way this is socially conditioned. Some things are hardwired into the genes

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4 years

How to launch a product with zero risk in 5 steps: 1. Publish content 2. Build an email list 3. Ask them what they want 4. Build it 5. Sell it to them

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

5 years

Most people starting out are worried about quality, when they should focus on quantity. Publish something every week for a year, and then you'll just start having insight into what you should be creating, in what form, how, and why

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Tiago Forte

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2 years

Ladies and gentlemen… My book Building a Second Brain is a Wall Street Journal national bestseller! It’s time for the world to take note

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

3 years

Average entry level salary in the U.S.: $40,153 Average revenue generated per 1k YouTube views: $4 10 million views gets you an entry level salary

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4 years

The busier life gets, the more of your time needs to be spent doing "meta-work" (the work of defining what needs to be done, how to do it, by when, and by who) Most people do the opposite and drop the meta-work, which is like trying to find your destination by driving very fast

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4 years

How to get 80% of the value of a Second Brain with 20% of the effort: 1. Save notes from the books you read 2. Write summaries of those books

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4 years

Everything you want to achieve in life requires you to get used to its opposite If you want to be smart, you have to get used to feeling dumb If you want to be strong, you have to get used to feeling weak If you want to be wealthy, you have to get used to feeling poor

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4 years

It's slowly dawning on me that for nerds, thinking is a form of entertainment. Thus they don't want it to be simpler, more actionable, more impactful. They want it to be as elaborate and impressive as possible. Thus they prefer thinking tools that are baroque and complex

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

4 years

I highly recommend having Secret Long-Distance Mentors These are inspiring ppl who you’ve decided in your mind are your mentors, without telling them which would be awkward I have about 15 of them most of whom I’ve never met in person

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

3 years

I don't know of a higher purpose to life than working on interesting projects with cool people

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1 year

As far as I can tell, breathwork is 3x more effective than meditation After 2 weeks of daily 10m breathing exercises I feel about the same level of benefits (less anxiety, more peace of mind) as 6 weeks of daily 15m meditation I use the Wim Hof guided breathing video below 👇

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4 years

Being too open-minded is very stressful. Anything could be true! Anyone could be right! At any time or place! It's too many possibilities. You have to be a little closed-minded to have any peace

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Tiago Forte

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2 years

Update on the notetaking hype cycle - @tana_inc rapidly becoming the new "it" app - @obsdmd being dethroned by even cooler kids - @RoamResearch leaving trough since it can't go any lower - @NotionHQ going mainstream via NYC billboards - @evernote surfing plateau as always

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Tiago Forte

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2 years

Pro tip: edit your writing when you’re tired because that is much closer to your readers’ state of mind

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Tiago Forte

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4 years

The secret to marketing, and I’m 100% serious, is to not do it very well. That way you are charmingly, endearingly incompetent and constantly build up reserves of trust and goodwill from all the value you’re leaving on the table

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Tiago Forte

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2 years

For anyone in Bangalore 🇮🇳, you can pick up my book at The Bookworm on Church Street!

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Tiago Forte

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3 years

Notetaking helps you master the past Meditation helps you master the present Productivity helps you master the future The modern trifecta of self-realization

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Tiago Forte

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5 years

If you can't write, make an outline If you can't outline, make a list If you can't list, summarize sources If you can't summarize, highlight passages If you can't highlight, just read If you can't read, rest

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Tiago Forte

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8 years

Reading a book these days is like an act of war against the attention-industrial complex

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1 year

What's the most underrated productivity tool? IMO, a simple calendar

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Tiago Forte

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7 months

Procrastination is a silent message from our brains that: 1. We don't have enough clarity to complete a task 2. It just doesn't serve a deep enough purpose

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Tiago Forte

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5 months

Great use case for ChatGPT Vision: transcribing handwritten journal entries (or any other piece of handwriting) into digital text I first tried Apple iOS' built-in text recognition, but it only recognized about half of the words as text at all Then I tried the Readwise app,…

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3 years

Does anyone else have a spouse that leaves things like this? Found both of these just now and I’m losing my mind

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3 years

If you want to destroy someone’s creativity, remove all their constraints

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Tiago Forte

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4 years

If you don’t forgive your parents, you become them

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4 years

Every single aspect of life gets easier when you know how to write well. It’s the closest thing to a life cheat code

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

4 years

A much better idea than a shorter working day or 4-day workweek is a shorter working year. With 1-3 months off. Optimizes for peak intensity instead of consistency. Basically what the Europeans figured out a long time ago

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Tiago Forte

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1 year

When I see beautifully polished Notion dashboards... I always think of how the energy needed to make it look perfect could have been used to move a project forward There are diminishing returns to making something look nice

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3 years

Am I missing something or is Clubhouse like the worst thing ever

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

2 years

It’s not your job to work more. It's your job to create systems that work more for you.

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

4 years

Every internet-related market is in the first .1% of its ultimate potential You’re not late. You’re absurdly early. We’re still in the prehistoric times of the internet

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Tiago Forte

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1 year

1/ My hot take on the Twitter saga: What we are actually witnessing with Elon's takeover of Twitter is a major schism within the dominant ideology of the modern world: The Californian Ideology Let me explain 👇

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Tiago Forte

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7 years

1/ I'm increasingly convinced that THE most important thing in productivity is to end every cycle with a clear milestone or deliverable

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Tiago Forte

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1 year

Nothing you consume can go on your resume Only things you create

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

7 months

Unbelievable I've long noticed that people tend to have around 10-15 personal projects they're working on at any given time Little did I know there's research that just that number is essential for maintaining a sense of purpose and fulfillment

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Tiago Forte

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2 years

Don't listen to audiobooks on 2x speed Instead, buy 2 sets of airpods, put one pod from each set in each ear, connect them to separate devices, and play 2 audiobooks at 2x simultaneously BOOM Welcome to 4x learning

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

3 years

Making work remote without also making it asynchronous only makes it worse. You get the isolation of working alone without the benefit of control over your schedule

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@fortelabs

2 years

There's a secret to radically improving your productivity: It’s called a Weekly Review. I’ve spent years testing, tweaking, and refining my Weekly Review. The results of all these experiments is this simple, 5-point checklist:

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2 years

Notetaking apps used by the 1,300 current students in our course as their “second brain”

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4 years

1/ I see a lot of ppl starting education businesses these days, whether they want to or not, and whether they call it that or not Here's the best 4x4 for thinking about the online education landscape I've found so far

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3 years

Which one of these do you grab off the shelf?

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4 years

I’ve reached all my professional goals. All work from here on out is for fun

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@fortelabs

4 years

Some happy news in these dark times: @TheLaurenValdez and I are pregnant! Due mid-October [New project: Pregnancy] [New area: Child] [New resource: Parenting] [Move to archive: Free time]

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Tiago Forte

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6 months

I'm a big proponent of creating personal rules to simplify everyday decision-making and free up mental bandwidth Here are 7 rules I've developed for myself around task management:

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@fortelabs

3 years

My advice to almost every creator: you’re being way, WAY too strategic Until you’re making a million dollars on the internet you’re in beta Take all the time & energy you’re spending strategizing and iterate as fast as you possibly can Every piece of content is a shot on goal

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3 years

A paradoxical thing about people who consistently choose the most high leverage activity is their efforts have a rough-edged, half-assed quality Because polishing things to perfection is a low leverage activity

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

2 years

The countdown has started! In exactly 100 days, my book Building A Second Brain launches. To celebrate, every day for the next 100 days, I will tweet one exclusive never seen before quote from the book. Join the countdown!

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@fortelabs

3 years

“Happiness is simply the absence of desire…It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state.” – @JamesClear

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@fortelabs

3 years

The best decision I’ve made recently is to add delays to everything: -no email gets answered for 48 hrs -no meeting gets scheduled before 1 week out -no project gets launched w/ < a month notice I paradoxically end up moving faster because frivolous stuff gets eliminated

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4 years

"I'm sure if I buy this new iPad, then my creative potential will finally be unleashed. I need that second generation Apple Pencil to really be able to express the subtlety of my vision"

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@fortelabs

2 years

Don't pride yourself on how many books you read. Pride yourself on how many ideas from those books you've implemented in your life and shared with others.

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@fortelabs

4 years

Elite knowledge workers will increasingly be like pro athletes: 1. Clear on and off seasons 2. Highly specialized training regimen 3. Dedicated team of coaches and trainers 4. Vastly unequal pay 5. Recruiters and scouts will scour the globe for them How else?

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

1 year

2 rules for consuming content that changed my life: 1. I'm only allowed to save new content to my read-later app (not consume it immediately) 2. When I want to consume content, I have to choose from what's in my read-later queue Try it for yourself!

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

3 years

The next big mainstream philosophy trend after Stoicism will be the exact opposite: Feeling every emotion deeply and fully, letting each one flow through and rock you to your core, like a flash flood stripping you bare of every fear so you can taste everything life has to offer

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

5 months

ChatGPT is revealing how much of our workday is dedicated to rearranging trivial bits of text into slightly different configurations The point is not how intelligent AI has become, but how utterly banal and pointless most human work is

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

2 years

In other news… We are expecting our second kid! A baby girl this time due in November @TheLaurenValdez is *literally* building a second brain

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5 months

I'm proud to present the latest iteration of my Digital Productivity Pyramid! This is my ongoing attempt to create a Grand Unified Theory of Productivity that ties together all the various productivity tools and concepts into one overarching model of how humans create value in…

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

4 years

Here's the truth

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@fortelabs

4 years

I found my dad’s old art notebooks from when he was traveling Europe at 19

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3 years

I spent my whole life looking down on normies leading a suburban lifestyle, 2.5 kids, white picket fence, doing normie things like watching TV, taking the kids to school, feeding the dog, etc. Now I consider it the highest achievement

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@fortelabs

4 years

I recommend hiring a personal assistant when you can pay them $20/hr for at least 20 hrs/week That’s 80 hrs/mo X $20 = $1,600/mo or $19,200/yr So the question is, could you generate another $20k/year in income if you had 20 extra weekly hours back? If yes, hire an assistant

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1 year

I’m feeling a broad loss of motivation for many projects and goals that used to excite me due to what I’m seeing with AI It’s not fear of AI apocalypse, or fear that I’ll lose my job, or anything like that…

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@fortelabs

3 years

The new american dream is being a cute couple with good videography skills and starting a youtube channel where you get paid millions to film scenes from your daily life

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@fortelabs

4 years

Online course idea: how to make friends in your 30s

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2 years

It exists! I’m at the stage where the document is titled “final_final_FINAL” Only tiny typos left to fix

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@fortelabs

3 years

Levels of relationship commitment: 1. Acquaintance 2. Friend 3. Boy/girlfriend 4. Spouse 5. Read their newsletter

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5 years

The decline of Facebook groups is having interesting effects. There is truly no default for online communities anymore. I’m seeing lots of fragmentation, experimentation, and innovation in the space as people scramble for solutions

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@fortelabs

4 years

Me and @TheLaurenValdez are expecting the newest member of our family any day now. Due date is Oct. 10, but he could come anytime Let the new chapter of our lives begin!

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4 years

If you can figure out how to get people to consume your content for free, you’re 80% of the way there to being able to sell it. Attention is far more scarce than money

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4 years

Deliver negative feedback via DMs, and positive feedback via quote tweets

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