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In your mind you already have a no. So ask. (opens the original)
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→ The HookSo it is summer, the kids again in a summer camp :), and my weeks look a bit different.More time to read. More time to keep on learning. More time to sit with amazing founders.The ones I met this month are doing things I still cannot fully explain. One is making new cells synthetically. Another is generating a magnet in their lab. Really thinking big, and I love that.For me the whole point of this newsletter is to bring you into those rooms. What I am learning, and the part you only ge
Why I went silent for three weeks (and what changed) (opens the original)
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→ The HookSo, three weeks without a newsletter.I was at Camp Judaea in North Carolina with the kids, and the wifi up there was great, which took away my only good excuse :) Half of those weeks I was still working, and the other half I volunteered at the camp. Both halves were full.Something had to come off the list, and the newsletter is one of the thigns I had to let go. For me this is the part missing from most of the productivity advice I read. Sometimes maintaining the balance means dropping
I fed a year of coaching notes to an AI. It caught what I could not. (opens the original)
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→ The HookI had a year of coaching notes somewhere. That is the honest version. It took me a while to even find where they were.After every session I would think, amazing session. Then life fills up, and a week later I could not tell you what we actually worked on.A few months later I pulled all of it into one place. I put it into NotebookLM and asked the tool to find me a pattern.It came back with one line. Every time my system was actually working, my instinct was to add something new to it.My
I said “yeah, yeah, yeah” and I was not listening. (opens the original)
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→ The HookI used to do this a lot. Someone is telling me about a hard meeting they had.I am already going: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had exactly the same thing.”Or they mention they started running, and I jump straight in. “I run every morning, let me tell you what works for me.”I cut them off. I am not listening. I am waiting for them to finish so I can say my thing.They feel it. Nobody says it out loud, but what they hear is that I am not interested in them.I practiced catching it. I do it far less
The meta habit, the caveman prompt, and a podcast I have not announced. (opens the original)
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→ The HookA very busy stretch. The kind of week where the calendar fills itself.In the middle of it, I spent the mornings at summer camp with Mika, Ori and Dan.The camp was never in question. The run was. On the busy days it is the first thing that falls.In the evening I gave it five minutes. Not to feel bad about it. To understand what blocked it.Subscribe now→ Staying Relevant: The Outer GameDevelopers are passing around a GitHub project this week
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