# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 74 - Next steps Hello everyone! I’m [Sébastien Dubois](https://dsebastien.net), 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. You can also follow me on [X](https://x.com/dSebastien), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/dsebastien.net), and [Mastodon](https://pkm.social/@dsebastien). ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter Logo.png|DeveloPassion's Newsletter logo: lightbulb sprouting colorful idea nodes]] ## Welcome Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 One week into my new reality, things are slowly settling down. I’ve spent a ton of time keeping myself busy to avoid thinking too much. I’ve bought furniture and decoration for the house and tried to make the place look alive again. It’ll take me some more time to adjust, that’s for sure. I’ve started focusing on my plans for the rest of the year. This is the first step to help me go back into “action mode” and be productive. Building up momentum from zero once again is quite hard. But I have to accept the fact I need more time to rest and heal. I’ve decided to go on vacation in August. By the way, if you get value out of this newsletter, please consider becoming a supporter. Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The Lab 🧪 During the last 30 days, I sold 38 copies of the [Obsidian Starter Kit](https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit) ($637) and ~10 copies of the PKM Library. The 5-star ratings, testimonials, and the public sales counter are certainly helping new sales happen. Those help accentuate the momentum. I’ve extended the starter kit some more, adding new templates and pages to the user guide. There’s still much more I want to add. I’ve decided to experiment some more with the pricing. I will increase it permanently in a week or so, and I’ll rework the copy to see if it helps. The [PKM subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalKnowledgeMgmt//) now has > 400 members, which is really cool! Every time I stumble on an interesting article or discussion about PKM, I stash it away for the PKM library, but also share it in that community. ## Plan for the rest of 2022 Updating my plans was really necessary. Many things have changed since last December! I’ve achieved some of my initial goals, but I had to push back certain ideas and projects. ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 74 - Next steps - plans for rest of 2022.png]] Caption: my plan for the coming months In the coming months, my key (work) priorities are to - Keep improving the Obsidian Starter Kit, ideally adding video tutorials to the mix - Grow the number of [paid subscribers for this newsletter](https://www.dsebastien.net/tag/newsletter/) (currently: 0!) to have better financial support and ease the transition. If you don’t support me yet, please do so. I need all the help I can get! - Turn the [Obsidian Publisher](https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-publisher) plugin into reality (v1) and leverage it to migrate all my content to Ghost - Resume writing articles about PKM - Release the third book of my [Dev Concepts](https://dev-concepts.dev/) collection - Resume work on [focusd](https://focusd.app/) - Start iterating on Knowii (more on that one soon!) Yes, it *is* quite a lot. But I only have so much time to live. So I better be bold while I still can ;-) ## Ideas I've explored this week ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 74 - Next steps - notes of the week.png]] Caption: Some of the ideas I've added to my knowledge base this week Among those, here are a few cool ideas I’ve explored: - How hard it is to overcome inertia - The paradox of inertia - How our eyes are windows into the world - The fact that awareness, not age, leads to wisdom - Why bootstrapping is so interesting - How habits impact our future - The fact that information is not knowledge - The SCQA storytelling model - The relationship between self-criticism and the amygdala - The Pygmalion effect - Key management principles - And many more ## Recent articles No new articles this week. ## Quotes of the week - [[The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work]] - [[The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, I can do whatever I want today]] ## Book of the week Overconsumption is clearly one of the worst diseases of this century. How do we cure it? [[Affluenza (book)]] by [[John de Graaf]] ## Tips of the week LINK: [Fonts Ninja | Supercharge your font workflow](https://www.fonts.ninja/) LINK: [Momentum Dash: Your space for focus](https://momentumdash.com/) ## How cool is that?! LINK: [Quotes - The W. Edwards Deming Institute](https://deming.org/quotes/) ## Thinking and learning links of the week LINK: [PKM Weekly July 10 2022- Issue 026 – Curtis McHale](https://curtismchale.ca/2022/07/10/pkm-weekly-july-10-2022-issue-026/) LINK: [Obsidian Tutorial for Academic Writing | by Leonardo Castorina | Jul, 2022 | Medium](https://universvm.medium.com/obsidian-tutorial-for-academic-writing-87b038060522) LINK: [How to Organize Your Tags with I.A.R.P | by flomo | Jun, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@flomo101/how-to-organize-your-tags-with-i-a-r-p-db2f7d0f34e8) LINK: [GitHub - MohrJonas/obsidian-ocr: Obsidian OCR allows you to search for text in your images and pdfs](https://github.com/MohrJonas/obsidian-ocr) LINK: [Frontmatter vs. Inline Fields: which style of Dataview annotation is superior? : ObsidianMD](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/vvbnv2/frontmatter_vs_inline_fields_which_style_of/) LINK: [Anders Thoresson on Twitter: "I’m slowly realizing that one thing causing me friction in @obsdmd is that I haven’t fully understood how panes work." / Twitter](https://x.com/thoresson/status/1547679184494833664) ## Tech links of the week LINK: [GitHub - rust-lang/rustlings: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings) LINK: [bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers](https://github.com/bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers) LINK: [Statements Vs. Expressions](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/statements-vs-expressions/) ## Indie Hacking and bootstrapping LINK: [Stanford eCorner | Where Entrepreneurs Find Inspiration](https://ecorner.stanford.edu/) LINK: [Get more insight from Twitter](https://twemex.app/) LINK: [Write better headlines that will boost your traffic. 76](https://coschedule.com/headline-studio) LINK: [Want to Make More Money? | Revue](https://www.getrevue.co/profile/mmw?via=twitter-profile) 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