Lifelog

A 2nd compilation of all the tiny Twitter hacks I learned and love.

Part 1: https://golifelog.com/posts/tiny-twitter-hacks-i-learned-and-love-1640567252125
Part 2: https://golifelog.com/posts/tiny-twitter-hacks-i-learned-and-love-part-ii-1642293081196

- had been tweeting benefits of writing for creators but very little practical, actionable tips on how to do it. Decided to start tweeting more how to tips, frameworks, writing prompts, etc
- decided to switch to using tld.rip instead of Typeshare for my scheduled posts, since it has auto-RT (which I can set to 13h post-tweet)
- tld.rip also has swipe files which are great, and I can build my own swipe file too
- considering doing 1 high quality thread per week for all 52 weeks of the year
- changed progress bar back to yellow and grey emoji squares to bring some colour back to my profile page

Did some research on whether it's normal to wake up once at night. So it's actually common!

- continuous sleep experienced in childhood/teens is not typical for adults
- most people wake 2-3x during the night
- historically, humans don't sleep 8h. The terms "first sleep" and "second sleep" is hundreds of years old.
- industrialisation / electric light made waking activity encroach further into the night
- we wake in night due to sleep cycles, a normal sign of body's internal clock and sleep mechanisms working well

https://sleephub.com.au/wake-up-at-night/

Try this goal setting exercise:

Instead of a typical goal that starts with “I will do X…”, phrase it as “I want to see what happens if I…”

I love the slightly different spin on the usual goal-setting frame. Just a change of a few words, and they invite a vastly different way to think and plan for your goals:

Instead of being definitive and specific, you leave things open.
Instead of setting hard metrics, you entertain possibilities.
Instead of setting it to be attainable, you leave room to expand as things unfold.
Instead of being realistic, you dream big and think about the future you want.
Instead of arbitrarily setting a hard deadline, your time is flexible.

- retweeting older tweets on schedule provides material for new tweets too. Don't be afraid to rehash old content in new ways - rephrase, expand, add in new learnings

Perhaps I was too enthusiastic with my Fit AF goal.

Or perhaps I was really too sedentary for the past two years.

But I injured my left Achilles tendon on Tuesday. And I’m not even sure how I injured it.

Now I’m limping along. I can walk, but forced to slow down.

Injury is feedback.

Injury is a body’s whisper wrought into a scream over time.

Listen, for god’s sake.

- started posting a Lifelog link for my 5am wake time tweets, to distribute it even more

Cultivating joy is so underrated, and something I want to do more of. The first step is to be aware of what brings me joy in work and life, so writing it down is a good first step. Knowing them means I can try to repeat them more often. Even better, write down what doesn’t bring me joy. Removing joy inhibitors is also a great way to cultivate joy!

https://twitter.com/jasonleowsg/status/1480449339839459330

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My next product will be a boring product, a sweaty startup.

No need to be innovative, disruptive or cool.

Something emotionally unimpressive
But empirically profitable.

Here's why:

//thread//

1) Go to a review site like Yelp or Google Maps.
2) Mystery shop: Call services like plumbing, washing, cleaning, landscaping. - @CSMikeCardona
3) Mature to less mature markets. - @ClimbRideRunner
4) Usual SaaS suspects - website builders, form builders, job boards, web scraping
5) Biz with recurring income (like a regular done-for-you service) or sells consumables (leading to repeat purchases) - @Kon_Theo
6) Go hyperlocal. - @fannin_seth
7) Look up Microacquire / Flippa for SaaS biz ideas - @VicVijayakumar
8) Excel is every SaaS’s competitor but also muse
9) PDF forms that you got to download, sign and send back
10) Replace in-person physical trips

My perfect morning routine:

⏰ 4:45am wake
🧘🏻‍♂️ Meditate
☕️ Coffee
✍️ Write
🏃‍♂️ Run
🥪 Breakfast
🚿 Shower

My tweet swipe file is adding up real fast! Need a good Notion template for it asap!

I keep coming back to this idea recently – create a boring product for a well-understood problem within a saturated market.

Something emotionally unimpressive but empirically profitable.

Some obvious benefits here:

• It’s a well-understood problem, so no need to guess if people will pay for it.
• It’s a saturated market, meaning there’s definitely demand for it.
• It’s boring, so unlikely that you’ll get competition from the smarter folks.
• Not so bleeding edge that nobody understands it, so less risk and marketing is easy.
• Sweaty entails even less people/competitors are inclined to do so.
• Not tech-savvy means I can get some advantage by bringing in some tech to automate the space

Right now, this, year, I just want to make good profit and a good living off of it. Create a comfortable life for my wife and kid, and my parents.

It’s boring yeah.

But nobody’s going to say that when you make $10k every month off it.

Going back to build mode in 2022!

If I can biohack my way to better weight, diet and sleep, I can do it for stress too right?

That said, I do have some habits that help with stress:

• Meditation
• Mindfulness
• Exercise
• Writing
• Sleep

So how should I proceed if I do choose this mission? I can imagine more research in these areas:

• Music
• Stoicism
• Exercise
• Laughter
• Supplements
• Taking walks
• Get biofeedback
• Natural remedies
• Removing stressors
• Journaling exercises
• Swimming in the sea
• Tiny deep breathing exercises
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Better time/work management
• Examining my values/narratives
• Social support with family/friends

Exploration mode to come!

I’d been working on my Fit AF habit of showing up for a 15min short run round the block every Monday morning at 7am, and so far so good.

But the part of me is getting impatient.

I feel like I’m not getting enough reps in for the habit.

Think about it: a weekly habit just gets 52 reps in 1 year. Just FIFTY TWO?! But a daily one gets 356 reps – that’s 7 times more.

Will I truly ingrain this Fit AF habit by just 52 reps in 1 year?

Will it ever get from “I got to do this” to “I enjoy doing this”, from just doing it weekly?

Will it truly move the needle and have a positive impact on my health?

I just received a $4.08 payout from Medium!

Look at the month-on-month payout trajectory so far:

Sep - $0.18
Oct - $1.60 ⬆888%
Nov - $2.30 ⬆144%
Dec - $4.08 ⬆177%

Looks like I can break even on the Medium subscription ($5 per month) soon!

OK so this is getting more serious now. What started off as a laughably small amount of payout money ($0.18) in September had now grown 2266% after 4 months!

All my fears, concerns, aspirations and wishes in the form of open questions for the year ahead:

• Will I live up to the year with alacrity?
• How long will I take to hit $200 MRR?
• Will I ever hit $5k revenue in my life?
• Will I ever make enough money off my products to support my lifestyle and family?
• What other products can I make?
• What other products do I want to make?
• What’s my next big thing?
• What’s my next product for tech for good?
• Do I still have what it takes to create something profitable and popular?
• When will I embody a wealth mindset?
• Do I have what it takes to get rich?
• Will I be able to grow my savings back to what it was?
• When will I finally get over myself about investing?
• Will I ever nail my sleep to 90% consistently?
• Can I ever get back to a fitness level of my 20s or 30s?
• How do I bring familyhood to the next level?
• When will things go back to normal?
• When can we travel again?
• What’s my spiritual path like ahead?
• Will I ever go on retreats again?
• When will I finally feel like I’m thriving, not surviving?

It’ll be great to review these questions from time to time, and especially at the end of the year! Looking forward.

Onwards.

- went with my inspiration and randomly launched a new year promo - 50% discount for 5 months
- going thematic - specialist vs generalist conversation seems to interest people, so my 3rd day in a row tweeting the same theme for my 4pm indie hacking tweet

Some musings about how surprising it is that so much of sleep is social, and how learning to negotiate the social contract of sleep will be a gamechanger.