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Talking through some ideas for future threads aka pulling loose connections between MMA and making things online. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Just watched the dunk contest and some lessons for content creators came to mind. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Book notes about "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Okay we hit RECORD again finally. Kicking off 2021. We talk about some of our goals Fitness goals Creation goals Personal goal We'll be making videos in 2021 and sharing our progress as we go. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Just turning the mic on and recording to start to kick the rust off this whole podcasting set up. Let's goooo — talking about moving to SF, the MacBook Air M1, and the Oculus Quest. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

We've played a good amount of Magic: The Gathering in our lives so we talked about some life lessons from playing it. Books mentioned: High Output Management by Andy Grove A Fighter's Heart by Sam Sheridan The Power of Moments by the Heath Bros. Podcasts mentioned Tim Ferriss & Derek Sivers (2015) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...

[02:09] "We Don't Need Roads" note [06:51] "Apprenticeship Patterns" note [10:46] "Every Tool's a Hammer" note This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Books we talked about (some Active Recall CLASSICZ) "The Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday "Stillness is the Key" by Ryan Holiday "Grit" by Angela Duckworth This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

This week I'm talking about " Hackers and Painters " by Paul Graham. "Do Things that Don't Scale" - Paul Graham's essay. " When you only have a small number of users, you can sometimes get away with doing by hand things that you plan to automate later. " "Revenge of the Nerds" - Paul Graham essay. That Tim Ferriss & Derek Sivers thing about  The Magic of Thinking Big: "And, it’s also one of those...

Corrections: Messed up Ethan Suplee's name (I said 'Sharplee'). Sorry about that. Check out his episode with Kevin Smith .  This week I'm talking about BJ Fogg's " Tiny Habits ". If you've ever heard the advice of "if you want to build a habit of flossing your teeth, make the habit flossing one tooth", then you've been influenced by some of BJ Fogg's work. I go over some of the concepts covered in...

[ 0:49 ] An internet recommendation rabbit hole ending with Michael Jackson and Prince and starting from JJ Redick and Bill Simmons (Learn about the Staples Center replica court that a very rich person has in Bel Air) [ 6:47 ] How do you deal with overplanning? [ 9:04 ] How many episodes will it take to hit your stride? ("Traffic Secrets" by Russel Brunson) [ 11:34 ] How do you figure out what you...

This week, I'm talking about Ben Bergeron's book " Chasing Excellence " === If you have Netflix and also don't like reading: check out The Redeemed and the Dominant . I watched this midway through and you get some of the behind the scenes. How do you write an entertaining nonfiction book? I definitely wanted to keep reading. The narrative is following two of his athletes as they compete in the 201...

Here’s the second episode of The Notepod. This is another book notes episode. Each episode might be about a book. I’m still figuring it out but wanted to get started with consistency. Which sort of relates to the book this episode is about, “Rebel Without a Crew”  by Robert Rodriguez. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

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We're back (and probably need to stop starting every episode with "we're back for real this time!") talking about  Work Clean , one of our favorite books from last year and maybe a top-10 all timer. Some concepts we talk about from the book Daily plan Clean as you go First actions This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...

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Sections Start, stop, continue (with the podcast) 3 book quotes from some of my favorite books in 2019 Ranking the books I read in 2019 and a sort of top 10 Active Recall 2019 Reading List The 10 books I mentioned from 2019 Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Linchpin:...

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From Save the Cat: Go back to Blockbuster (boy, are they tired of you by now) and check out the 6-12 movies in the genre of the movie you’re writing. Sit and watch as the beats of these films are magically filled into the blanks of the BS2. (BS2 being the beat sheet — check out an example beat sheet for The Martian .) I was listening to a podcast with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (I thiiink it was...

Shocking rule : Start with an adult worksheet This is the worksheet that I created: Links * Creative Processing (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Collaboration & Friendship / Seth Rogen + Evan Goldberg, Comedy Duo — Seth and Evan talk about growing up learning to write together. They talk about how some of the jokes that ended up in Superbad were pretty much written when they were 13. They started making spo...

Quote from What You Do is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz about shocking rules: Here are the rules for writing a rule so powerful it sets the culture for many years: It must be memorable . If people forget the rule, they forget the culture. It must raise the question “Why?” Your rule should be so bizarre and shocking that everybody who hears it is compelled to ask, “Are you serious?” There are two mor...

I need to write a pre-amble for this initial set of issues: I wanted to write a year’s worth of daily newsletters in November, channeling the spirit of NanoWriMo. These first 17 issues were recorded on Nov 2nd and Nov 3rd. I guess if I keep it up with this system then I need to consider that the release of an issue will always be some time after I actually recorded things. If I actually did finish...

In the spirit of NanoWriMo, I tried doing a burst of writing this weekend. I “wrote” 17 posts. Which by the end of it mostly meant that this is what I did: * Outlined a topic * Recorded 5 minutes of audio talking about the topic Now I’m going through each episode and writing some notes and scheduling them for the rest of the month. Here’s an example outline from one of the episodes I recorded this...

We're talking about "Atomic Habits" by James Clear   Previous episode: 63: "Atomic Habits" https://activerecall.co/atomic-habits/   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

We talk about "Finish" by Jon Acuff https://www.amazon.com/Finish-Give-Yourself-Gift-Done/dp/1591847621 Great book with tips about finishing work I'm good at starting, bad at finishing . I don't usually have writer's block, but I certainly have finisher's block. By that, I mean that I'm able to outline and outline and outline a bunch of ideas. And even get to drafts of things. But then actually fi...