# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 86 - Procrastination 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 🤩 This week, I completely failed to focus on my goals. The only progress I’ve been able to make is continuing to read the [[The E-Myth Revisited (book)]], which feels exactly like what I needed to read to move on to the next state of my entrepreneurial journey. The thing is that I know exactly why I’m procrastinating. I’m lacking the confidence to get in front of the camera and start recording. And it’s insane how many excuses my mind can make up for me and how it manages to push me away from what really matters so that time gets wasted with random/silly things. But I won’t let procrastination stop me for too long. Day after day and week after week, I’ll keep pushing to get this done. I just have to accept the fact that it takes time to get started. Meanwhile, I’m learning what I can about video editing with Adobe Premiere. **I really need your help**. If you get value from this newsletter, please consider [becoming a supporter](https://dsebastien.net). You’ll be able to join the curious minds private community and meet like-minded people while enabling me to keep creating content. If you prefer, you can also [buy one of my products](https://www.store.dsebastien.net//) or [buy me a coffee tea](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dsebastien). Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The Lab 🧪 The revenue that the lab generates seems quite stable at the moment, at around ~900/month, all income sources put together. This is quite nice, as it pays for the car loan and gas. The lab has been very quiet this week, as I haven’t found much motivation to try new experiments. I’ve spent quite some time working on the Obsidian Publisher plugin and made a bit of progress. The plugin isn’t ready for prime-time, but can now publish new articles and keep track of important information like the ID and URL of the created posts. My next step is to handle the update scenario. After that, I’ll make sure that images and links are handled as well. Once I get there, I should be able to migrate my blog over to Ghost. It’s taking me a long time, mainly because I haven’t developed much in the last few months, so it takes a while to get back to it. Software development is always at the frontier between fun/exploration and frustration. Each step of the way, there are countless traps we can fall into, and those can quickly lead to a lot of wasted time. Going down rabbit holes is always interesting as it always leads to new learnings and discoveries, but is also a productivity killer. We can often spend hours fixing the most insignificant issue. Or spend hours solving a trivial problem because we failed to find the easy way out. ## Latest Articles No new article this week. ## Quotes of the week - [[The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed]] - [[Get comfortable asking smart people dumb questions]] ## Book of the week Full collection of [[Paul Graham]]'s essays: https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays Actually, not a book, but Paul Graham’s essays are well worth a read! ## Tips of the week [Part 1 — Using Templates and Templater in Obsidian to Automate Your Workflows | by Kara Monroe | Sep, 2022 | Medium](https://iwannabemewhenigrowup.medium.com/part-1-using-templates-and-templater-in-obsidian-to-automate-your-workflows-2d25e9e5a851) Templates are powerful tools for automating workflow and helping you get more done with more ease in any application. They are especially powerful as a workflow support in Obsidian. In this series of… [PatchCleaner - safely clean your windows installer directory | homedev - software development out of the box](https://www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner) Safely remove all orphaned patch and installer files from your windows installer directory in one easy click ## Thinking and learning links of the week [Obsidian Plugin Stats](https://obsidian-plugin-stats.vercel.app/most-downloaded) Statistics about Obsidian Plugins. New, trending, favorite Obsidian Plugins. [PKM Weekly Sept 25 2022 – Issue 037 – Curtis McHale](https://curtismchale.ca/2022/09/25/pkm-weekly-sept-25-2022-issue-037/) [The Complete State of PKM for 2022](https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/articles/the-state-of-pkm-prologue) [Stop note taking. Start note making: Learn the NoMa Method](https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=3&list=PL3NaIVgSlAVKOhP6NfEOuOcWwXAQXCrPS&v=SAsZDg2l1R0) [Color FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Color](https://poynton.ca/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html) [2,000 kanji. 6,000 vocabulary words. In just over a year.](https://www.wanikani.com/) ## Tech links of the week > My talk from [#ng](https://x.com/hashtag/ng?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)-conf on WebApps at Scale looks into how we got here and what kind of challenges lie ahead.[https://t.co/LAHyP98RW7](https://t.co/LAHyP98RW7)[pic.x.com/CfC4Nmy1Ty](https://t.co/CfC4Nmy1Ty) > — Miško Hevery (Builder.io/Qwik) (@mhevery) [September 2, 2022](https://x.com/mhevery/status/1565762368050671616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [GitHub - extrawurst/gitui: Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀](https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui) [GitHub - ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH: ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand](https://github.com/ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH) [Online UUID Generator Tool](https://www.uuidgenerator.net/version4) ## Indie Hacking and bootstrapping [Andy Cloke Shares How He Grew Data Fetcher - a No-Code Tool for Airtable - to $8600 MRR](https://founderbeats.com/andy-cloke-shares-how-he-grew-data-fetcher---a-no-code-tool-for-airtable---to-8600-mrr) [Listen to founders who are 10 steps ahead of you, not 1000](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/listen-to-founders-who-are-10-steps-ahead-of-you-not-1000-ed7a31e9a2) > "Bro you can't execute on every idea you have" > > Yes, you can. > > Execution is not limited to building a billion dollar company out of it. > > Write about it. > Create something. > Contemplate. > Throw it in the trash. > > That's the only way you will open up room for more. > — DAN KOE (@thedankoe) [September 17, 2022](https://x.com/thedankoe/status/1571096886584512513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [35 Legit Apps that Pay You Real Money [Make $500+ Per Month]](https://themillennialmoneywoman.com/apps-that-pay-you/?utm_campaign=out_earn_inflation_with_these_35_apps&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=2022-09-15) [I'm Adam Wathan, I created Tailwind CSS and built a multi-million dollar business around it. AMA!](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/im-adam-wathan-i-created-tailwind-css-and-built-a-multi-million-dollar-business-around-it-ama-3c0732f724) [How to Keep Working When You’re Just Not Feeling It](https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-to-keep-working-when-youre-just-not-feeling-it) 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