Mostly Not Working: Recent Episodes
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A podcast where we talk about creativity and how to adjust and adapt when things don't work out as you had planned.
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40-sec video inspiration: https://twitter.com/RyanHoliday/status/1400120354924793859
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Original essay: https://twitter.com/mostlynotworkin/status/1391842013268561920
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Atomic essays: https://www.ship30for30.com/
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Ladder of expertise (look at the two tweets above this one, too): https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1375542109663600649
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Visualize Value's Build Once, Sell Twice: https://shop.visualizevalue.com/products/build-once-sell-twice-the-productization-playbook
Read the meta-thread: https://twitter.com/mostlynotworkin/status/1381088845849100288
- Mentor: "I can relate because I've been there before"
Provides wisdom and how to deal with living it out
- Coach: "I'll embolden you to be your best"
Provides sharpening and how to get unstuck and live to your potential
- Teacher: "I'll share what I know with you"
Provides knowledge and how to understand the content
- Facilitator: "I'll make sure we all grow together in a timely manner"
Provides a habitat and how to develop alongside others
On Deck Course Creator Fellowship: https://www.beondeck.com/course-creators
Ep4: What makes a good teacher? https://anchor.fm/mnw/episodes/4-What-makes-a-good-teacher-esvb6h
Cohort-based courses https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-rise-of-cohort-based-courses/
Listen to Episode 11 before this one https://anchor.fm/mnw/episodes/11-Hold-that-thought-evhono
No intro/outro today
A poem about communication and mindfulness
Audiogram:
https://twitter.com/mostlynotworkin/status/1385534159679016972
Reframing success and failure
How to learn and do new things, overcoming familiarities and fears
• Feasibility ↔ Failure
• Flawlessness ↔ Feedback
• Focus, Fixed state ↔ Flexibility
Process and progress vs. perfectionism
Looking forward, have faith that
• It will work out when we put a good effort forward, even if it doesn’t look feasible at first
• People are there to support you, with good feedback to discover flaws together
• You will learn new things and how to adapt, growing your flexibility
Application Questions
• What can you automate?
• How can you be more intentional?
• What are small decisions, systems, you can setup that will save time in the long-run?
Links
• Naval tweet: https://twitter.com/naval/status/1268602847471431680
• Getting-Things-Done via Notion: https://radreads.co/notion-gtd/
• PARA method from Forte Labs: https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/
• Example of 1 decision to make many others: https://tim.blog/2020/01/20/one-decision-that-removes-100-decisions/
• Visualizing how small change compounds over time: https://xkcd.com/1205/
How did this podcast get its name?
• Brief quote: https://www.airr.io/quote/5f80efdfd84c82b8da47a39e
• Longer video quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYGtvzWafc&t=1416s
• Original podcast: https://mikhailapeterson.com/podcasts/michele-romanow/
• Clearblanc: https://clearbanc.com/
Seek context 👀
• clarify 👓
• confirm ✅
• curiosity 🤔
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Challenging questions have their place 🙋🏽♂️
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To hedge or not to hedge 🦔
ADEPT: a framework for learning and teaching new ideas • Analogy: connect to something familiar • Diagram: visualize • Example: how can you see the idea in action? • Plain-English description: your turn to describe • Technical definition: the finer details Tweet thread 🧵 https://twitter.com/mostlynotworkin/status/1366180646239014915 Original article: https://betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/ Metaphor image: https://maggieappleton.com/drawinginvisibles1 Visualize Value: https://twitter.com/visualizevalue Google Chrome extension for VV: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visualize-value/ejblinjidfhnpkjbphoendgjjnhmfoee?hl=en Explorables: https://explorabl.es/ Simple Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• ACT's World-of-Work https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/interest_inventory.pdf • Ikigai http://www.forastateofhappiness.com/tag/ikigai/ • Talent stack https://www.sloww.co/talent-stack/
My initial thoughts on Clubhouse. Good reads…
• Podz & The Future of Audio https://www.notboring.co/p/podz-and-the-future-of-audio
• Clubhouse's Inevitability https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/
• You don't need video. Audio calls may be enough https://blog.capiche.fm/why-audio-calls-are-better-than-video/
• Recordings of recent "big" rooms https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwLN36NU5yiyX4ijQNE4MGQ/videos
Considerations as this show begins recording episodes: • detailed planning vs going with the flow • long and in-depth vs short and bite-sized • solo vs conversations • improving with iterations