Spare Parts

I do a lot of reading, building, and experimenting, which gives me insights. This newsletter is where I write about my best insights in a few paragraphs or less:

A couple of emails per month.

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Archive

January 2025

• Using ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode as an intellectual laxative

June 2023

• Ask me anything about reading 60+ books per year
• 110 projects, 80/20 projects, and 50/50 projects

May 2023

• Chasing other people's ace cards
• The BUS method for getting unstuck

February 2023

• The positive side of negative self-talk
• Underhead: I made an app that turns your to-do list into a life coach

January 2023

• Artificial scarcity, artificial fatigue

December 2022

• Acting out of character as an entrepreneur
• Procedures in the world
• You’re a mental athlete. Why don’t you warm up?
• DRY your code, but RIG your cognition
• Don't just manage time. Manage TEA: time, energy, attention.
• Toeing the valley
• The Zusha principle of self-development

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Performance Design

If you're into longer essays, check out my other newsletter. I publish ~1 essay a month:

• The hidden training habits of 21 world-class performers
• Increasing your practice surface area
• The leverage paradox
• You’re probably reading the wrong books for the wrong reasons
• Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects
• The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline
• The problem with big innovations
• Plan, do, learn
• Infinite entrepreneurship