sup friends 👋🏼,

no long intro’s, one quick thought - if you haven’t watched The Hundred-Foot Journey, you definitely should. A great film about mastery, figuring out what’s important to us and taking risks.

let’s roll straight into it 🙂 

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/1 “Learn the Lesson, Leave the Event”

This quote came at a good time - recently I was at a point of indecision with a pretty important event in my life, and needed to hear this.

We need to continually improve our decision-making framework.

Just because we make a great decision, doesn’t mean our decision-making process was the best.

And just because sometimes things don’t work out, doesn’t mean our thought process was the worst to reach that decision.

We must realise we’re not going to make perfect decisions all the time, but what’s important is that we continue moving forward & taking action.

/2 NotebookLM

Late to the game on this, but man is NotebookLM powerful.

I came across the origin story through a post by a designer at Google Labs, and i’m amazed.

You can submit a bunch of text and it can turn itself into a podcast with two people talking to each other about the content.

A few takeaways:

1. There’s a heavy focus on building with your customers, not just for them

2. Mapping the customer experience and then reverse-engineering how to make things easier is

3. Last thing…just try it, it’s wild: http://notebooklm.google/

/3 Action > Motivation

/4 You’ve Got Time

While I believe we have time, AND we don’t have time, I liked this story & piece of advice.

TLDR - we have time to focus on the little details.

/5 63 Principles for Living

A classic ‘X number of things I’ve learned about life post’ that I’m a sucker for.

Here’s a few I enjoyed:

• Fun is underrated. The best and most creative work comes from a root of joy and excitement. You can feel this in your body.

• Environment matters a lot; move to where you flourish maximally. Put yourself in environments where you have to perform to your utmost; if you can get by being average, you probably will.

• Do things fast. Things don’t actually take much time (as measured by a stopwatch); resistance/procrastination does.

• Figure out what your primary focus is and make progress on that every day, first thing in the morning, no exceptions. Days with 0 output are the killers. (Tyler Cowen)

• Once in awhile, put away all concepts you read about online and reason “up” from the base of your experience and what you’ve seen and done. (e.g. What were some of the best decisions you made? The worst? Why? Can you apply those lessons now? etc.)

• Scrolling and reading too much drowns out your inner voice.

Full post here.

That’s a wrap - let me know your favourite link 🙂 

Till next week,

Fahim ✌️