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I Was Wrong: Stop Color-Coding Your Kindle Highlights
I color-coded Kindle highlights so AI could sort them. I was wrong. Now I just highlight, and AI files quotes, ideas and to-dos into my Tempo shelf.
Skip the Budget App: A 10-Minute Monthly Money Report
It's the first of the month. Five steps, one plain-text page, and the sums work themselves out. No spreadsheet, no plugins needed.
6/ A Quarter Just Ended — Which Means You Just Finished a Year
Twelve weeks is a year — so one just ended. A Yearly Reflection and a Mind Sweep close it, before you set the next. Most people skip both.
5/ The Year Has a Lie Built Into It: There’s Always Next Year
A twelve-month goal never feels urgent. Treat twelve weeks as your whole year and ’later’ vanishes — four fresh starts, four finish lines.
4/ Close the Month Before You Start the Next One
A month shows the shape no single week can. Close it with three honest questions before the next one starts — or it starts blind.
3/ Without These Ten Minutes on Friday, Every Week Starts From Zero
A ten-minute Friday reflection is what makes each week build on the last — so you’re not just busy, you’re getting better at your own life.
2/ A Busy Day and a Good Day Are Not the Same Thing
You can answer thirty messages and touch none of what mattered. Three outcomes a day, one aimed at the week, is how you tell them apart.
1/ Most Weeks Don’t Get Planned. They Just Happen to You.
The fix takes two minutes on Monday: decide the three outcomes that would make it a good week — before the week decides for you.
I Carried a Moleskine for Years. Then I Switched to Plain Text.
For years my routine lived in a Moleskine. Every morning, three things I wanted to get done. Every Friday, a short reflection. Every month…
