SOAK #9
This week on Soak: Vacations, Info Product, Web3, Structures, and Shortcuts
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Hey friends!
All good?
I was on vacation for the last 2 weeks, which means lots of beach days and long walks with the family.
There aren’t many things I rather do than hiking with my GF and our son. There’s always a lot of fun, silliness, a bit of learning, and many pictures. 😍
Aren’t they lovely? 😀
Onwards!
Quick recap on this week’s edition:
Info Product
Web3
Structures & Systems
Shortcuts
1. 🧽 What I’m Soaking In
I’m building my first info product!
As I was writing a note on my PKM system about the Creator Economy, it started to get super detailed so I decided to diverge into a side project.
Based on a lot of articles, online courses, books, and my own experience, I’m creating an e-book about the Creator Economy and how to be part of it.
It’s a step-by-step manual on choosing the right goals, fields, platforms, and tools for a successful entrance into The Creator Economy.
It’s interesting because I’m writing it and putting it into practice at the same time, so basically if I can successfully launch the e-book and make some sales, it will mean that the material works and it may be useful to others.
It’s the Self Fulfilling Prophecy at its best! 😎
I’m planning to launch it on Gumroad by the end of the year, and I’ll be sharing some snippets along the way on Twitter, so any feedback will be highly appreciated!🙏
2. 💣Recommendations
I'm not a Web3/Crypto/Blockchain kind of person.
My experience with crypto was a 10X return on a 10 dollars investment I made in 2017. I cashed out in 2021.
I kept watching people talking about Web3 but never knew what was that all about.
Then I stumbled upon this thread from Misha and I recommend everyone to read the papers, especially if you aren’t interested in this stuff.
I'm still not a Crypto guy, but now I understand a lot more about what’s going on (and I’m only halfway through the papers).
3. 💭Something to Think About
I can’t express how much this idea has impacted me in the last couple of months.
I have known for a long time that the quest for perfectionism is just procrastination in disguise, so I knew that overthinking and overplanning were harmful to execution.
But this idea adds an extra layer:
Not only can it be harmful to force structure into a system, but that system is not yet worthy of structure!
This idea is based on Gall's Law:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
John Gall - Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
Basically, if we increase the complexity too soon, we are dooming a system to fail.
Focusing too much on the How and too little on the What made me fail more times than I would like to admit.
Have you ever fallen for this mistake?
4. 🦊 80/20
Work smarter, not harder. 80% of the results, with 20% of the work.
Shortcuts & hotkeys are sexy af, right?
If you use Google tools, constantly opening new docs can become a tedious task, and steal precious time of your day. Do this for a quicker alternative.
Open your browser (Cmd/Ctrl+T), and type the following:
doc.new - Open new Google Docs file
sheets.new - Open new Google Sheets file
slides.new - Open new Google Slides file
cal.new - Open new Google Calendar entry
To complete this short list, a fix for those annoying moments when you want to select a browser tab but you close it by mistake. Just hit Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T and the last closed tab is once again opened. Keep doing this for as many tabs as needed.
🏁Finish Line
And that’s it for this week’s edition.
From this week on, SOAK will enter your inboxes every Tuesday, because I think weekends are overrated. 😁
Thank you for doing this with me, I hope I’ll see you next week!
-Danny