Newsletter Week 42 | 2021

1/ Personal leverage is how you decouple your outcomes from your inputs.

You have a limited amount of resources, but you desire outputs that are much more than linear to those inputs — you want exponential outputs.

Here are 3 ways I build personal leverage.

2/ Just yesterday, I created an automation which automatically adds new items in multiple RSS feeds to my read later system.

Every time they post something new, it gets added to my system.

I made sure to be very selective with which feeds I follow.

3/ I use my programming skills to automate trivial tasks.

Python is a super easy-to-learn language for creating powerful automations.

This has also led to the creation of solutions that many other people use — for example, my Obsidian plugins.

Build leverage. Share leverage.

4/ I set up automated investing. It's set and forget.

Every month, money is pushed from my bank account to my investing account, where select index funds are bought automatically.

Automated wealth building.

5/ BONUS: I use Readwise to get more out of the books I read.

First, through daily reviews of highlights.

Second, it makes creating book notes easy. I just send them my highlights. Then, I can import them into my notes and start creating.

Massive improvement to my reading.

One pays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

 — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra