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Day 73 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/how-to-get-started-on-daily-writing-1636719340140

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-goal-setting-advice-you-can-give/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/night-writer-or-day-wordsmith-8f47dd0a2461

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/283305160365920/?d=n

💼 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonleowsg_writing-teaches-me-activity-6864906355992600576-_Vuc

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Daily Writing Notion doc

🐦Twitter engagement

I don’t know what came over me today but I finally did it –

I did my first illustration sketch.

Ever since I saw the illustrations by @OzolinsJanis on Visual Twitter, I was hooked. I love his style, and it’s something I’m emulating right now, before I find my own style.

I’ve always said consistency over intensity, for writing and for creative work. But sometimes the opposite is true, and when inspiration hits, you got to just go for it.

Would I sketch again after today? Probably. I hope so. Should I make it a habit streak thing? Not now, not this week. Yet. Or ever.

I just want to enjoy this first.

Just follow my curiosity.

And see where it leads me.

What do you think?

Day 72 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/forget-goals-just-follow-your-energy-1636634670524

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-deal-with-your-haters-people-that-hate-everything-you-say-write-or-do/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/tracking-your-personal-growth-with-hybrid-data-8ff182990d48

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/282704273759342/?d=n

💼 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonleowsg_7-workspace-hacks-of-highly-effective-writers-activity-6864552409725837312-Xrsv

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Daily Writing Notion doc

🐦Twitter engagement

I used to think about sleep quality—how well I sleep, how rested I feel when I wake—as shaped by what I did at night when I sleep. But through this experience, I’m truly realising that sleep quality is more about what we do in the day than at night.

Really. Sleep is so simple. Health is so simple. All the little things you do add up. The best part: fixing the little things is easy. One thing at a time.

Day 71 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/why-track-monthly-goals-1636534284858

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-develop-and-maintain-motivation-to-write/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/set-goals-not-for-the-person-you-are-now-but-for-the-person-you-will-be-50fd20456aa3

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/281982573831512/?d=n

💼 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonleowsg_11-productivity-hacks-to-make-your-daily-activity-6864129502713409537-KLSi

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Daily Writing Notion doc

🐦Twitter engagement

🎟 Offered 11 free accounts to like-minded Twitter friends, 8+1 agreed so far!
- Trying something counterintuitive - giving away free accounts to selected Twitter frens. Not freemium, so I continue to prevent spam. And I get more users but not too much - helps the product (feedback, word of mouth). If you can’t get them to pay, give it away for free!

Whenever you think the market is saturated
Just remember
Someone invented a pancake with ridges

Somebody also invented a potato chip…
With ridges

Somebody also invented fries, with ridges

Now that I’ve seen this 3 times, I’ve reconsidered
No, these ideas are not dumb
Ridges increase surface area, enabling the waffles, fries & chips to carry more fat & crisp than their predecessors
This is actually gluttonous innovation

– @alexfeinberg1

Day 70 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/mindful-writing-1636413375784

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/When-talking-about-starting-a-daily-writing-habit-what-do-you-write-about/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/the-via-negativa-way-of-optimization-b1bb57bb4ce5

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/281503923879377/?d=n

💼 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonleowsg_how-to-make-daily-writing-easy-preparation-activity-6863818711455932416-IUyA

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Daily Writing Notion doc

🐦Twitter engagement

🎟 Offered 11 free accounts to like-minded Twitter friends, 8 agreed so far!

Day 69 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/progression-not-perfection-1636350262274

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-Develop-a-Daily-Writing-routine/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-balance-1a4d33344f6f

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/280939230602513/?d=n

💼 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonleowsg_how-to-find-time-to-write-everyday-activity-6863366088181346304-mxUI

💣 HN engagement - 2 karma points now!

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Daily Writing Notion doc

🐦Twitter engagement

@dvassallo came up with a good list for those making the switch from predictable arenas into unpredictable games:

Hard work → Trial & error
Focus → Many things at once
Optimization → 80/20 rule
Consistency → Intensity
Avoid distractions → Embrace randomness
Practice 10,000 hours → 10,000 bets
Goals → Stay in the game
Efficiency → Slack in the system

I do foresee much difficulty having to re-wire my reflexes from the past four decades. But that list is instructive. I can start work on it one by one.

Day 68 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/writing-is-freeing-be-it-good-or-bad-1636238616830

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-not-take-feedback-seriously/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/7-habits-of-highly-ineffective-amateur-writers-32188516d712

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/280221007341002/?d=n

💼 1st post in LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonleowsg_how-to-motivate-yourself-to-write-everyday-activity-6863004407739621376-uJMT

💣 Started engaging on HN

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Daily Writing Notion doc

🐦Twitter engagement

My 20-month old son is now the proud owner of his own .com domain. Probably the youngest internet real estate owner ever!

Yeah because that’s what good fathers do 🤣

Day 67 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/what-is-the-biggest-small-thing-you-can-do-today-1636155302320

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-set-goals-to-become-more-productive/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/self-improvement-doesnt-require-self-loathing-bb89a61ff585

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/279641664065603/?d=n

💣 Started engaging on HN

✍️ Posted on Catalin Pit's Notion doc for Daily Writing 100 words/day
https://twitter.com/catalinmpit/status/1456594056151191556

🐦Twitter engagement - trying out new tweet templates

“When chance plays a big role, the definition of sanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result” – @dvassallo

Doing the same thing over and over is insanity, yes, but only in predictable environments. Because the environmental inputs are always the same, so we can’t expect different outputs. That’s the caveat no one mentioned, ever.

So in stochastic environments, doing the same thing over and over is not insanity, but sanity.

So consistency won’t work in such environments. 1% compounding won’t work. Routine and rituals won’t work. Like in marketing. Like in entrepreneurship.

Read that again.

And again.

Burn it into your mind.

$5k MRR?

I can find a job that tops that. Easy.

What $5k MRR really means though, is freedom.

The intangible is the true value.

No job can top that.

It’s been 10 months of sleep biohacking. I started my sleep biohacking goal on 4 Jan, and started waking up ~4am and tracking my sleep about 1 month later, on 3 Feb. Here’s 10 lessons I learned along the way:

1/ Sleep is the first mover
2/ Sleep well is mastering the basics well
3/ Switching chronotype is possible
4/ It takes months to transit to a new chronotype
5/ Getting >90% sleep score is possible
6/ Social accountability really works
7/ Knowing my sleep baseline
8/ Sleep is a collective thing
9/ Sleep data should serve us, not define us
10/ It’s never about sleep