# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 60 - Overlapping realities Hello everyone! I’m Sébastien Dubois, your host. You’re receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion’s Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ If you enjoy this, please forward it to your friends 👍. If this email was forwarded to you, then don’t forget to subscribe and become a supporter ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter Logo.png|DeveloPassion's Newsletter logo: lightbulb sprouting colorful idea nodes]] ## Welcome to the 60th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 Welcome to all the new readers ❤️ We’ve hit a new milestone: 60 editions of this newsletter! 🎉 ## The Lab - Month in review 🧪 This month has been quite fun in the lab. In total, during the last 30 days, I made $1.6K with my different “passive” income streams. I hit the front page[ of Hacker News twice](https://www.dsebastien.net/tag/newsletter/issues/developassion-s-newsletter-it-s-later-than-you-think-1128037), bringing 35K visitors to my blog. Then, I launched the [Obsidian Starter Kit](https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit), and sold 50+ copies in 3 weeks. I kept adding content to the user guide. I wrote explanations about Zettelkasten, Atomic notes, PARA, the Johnny Decimal system, the LIFT principle, and more. And I want to add a lot more. I’ve also sold many additional copies of the [PKM library](https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/pkm-library). Those represent the biggest part of the income. The rest comes from Medium, the ads on my blog, and from the Amazon affiliate program I’m really glad about it, and hope that next month will be just as good! ## Overlapping realities Sci-fi loves wormholes and alternate realities. But there are already alternate and overlapping realities in our minds. Each individual experiences the world *uniquely*. Our senses capture different information. Our brains filter different information. Our brains memorize different information. Our brains recall different things at different times. As it was mentioned in Altered Carbon (Season 2), “Reality is just an agreed-upon illusion”. We can try to reconcile those *overlapping realities *through communication, but there’s no way to superimpose those perfectly, no matter what. We are all different, and we’ll stay that way. Our reality will remain unique, even if there is an overlap with the reality of other people. ## Things I've learned this month ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 60 - Overlapping realities - New notes this month.png]] Caption: Some of the things I've learned this month ## Recent articles Discover the Zettelkasten method, one of the most powerful note-taking systems. LINK: [[Boost Your Creativity With The Zettelkasten Method (Article)]] Discover the Johnny Decimal system and organize anything with grace. LINK: [[Organize Anything With The Johnny Decimal System (Article)]] The LIFT principle is a useful one to add to your information management toolkit. Here’s a short introduction. LINK: [[Organize Everything With The LIFT principle (Article)]] The PARA method is a great way to organize your digital information. Here’s a quick introduction. LINK: [[Organize Anything With The PARA Method (Article)]] ## Books corner Emotion is constructed in the moment, by core systems that interact across the whole brain, aided by a lifetime of learning: LINK: [[How Emotions Are Made (book)]] ## Quotes of the week - [[If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win]] - [[You don’t get 1000 fans at once. You get one fan a thousand times]] ## Tips of the week The secret to a happy life is always within each individual. No one else can create your life for you … LINK: [How to Have the Best Year Ever! - Personal Development Life Coaching by Jim Rohn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVOBsS6ECY) ## How cool is that?! DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. LINK: [DALL·E 2](https://openai.com/dall-e-2/) ## Thinking and learning links of the week LINK: [The Tyranny of the Note Taking Industrial Complex, and Other Notes on Notes - Herbert Lui](https://herbertlui.net/the-tyranny-of-the-note-taking-industrial-complex-and-other-notes-on-notes/) Longreads features the best storytelling on the web from hundreds of publishers. Story picks include longform journalism, short stories, in-depth interviews, and even historical documents. LINK: [Longreads : The best longform stories on the web](https://longreads.com/) Bored? Read Something Great. LINK: [Read Something Great](https://www.readsomethinggreat.com/) LINK: [How to Build a Personal Knowledge Management System? : SteadyLearning](https://www.reddit.com/r/SteadyLearning/comments/twoucq/how_to_build_a_personal_knowledge_management/) ## Tech Links of the week Import and export user flow as JSON, support hwb() colors, view cascade layers in the Styles pane and more. LINK: [What's New In DevTools (Chrome 101) - Chrome Developers](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-101/) LINK: [CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java – Neil Madden](https://neilmadden.blog/2022/04/19/psychic-signatures-in-java/) LINK: [Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust](https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust) LINK: [DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers](https://devtoys.app/) LINK: [pw - Pipe Watch utility](https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/pw/about/) LINK: - [[10 Essential Knowledge Management Methods Every Professional Should Master (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/10-essential-knowledge-management-methods-every-professional-should-master/-every-professional-should-master// LINK: - [[Why Obsidian is All You Need - From Simple Notes to Complete Productivity (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/why-obsidian-is-all-you-need-from-simple-notes-to-complete-productivity// LINK: - [[The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Obsidian (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-obsidian// LINK: - [[Knowii Community]] - https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/knowii-community ## Related - [[Overlapping realities]]