# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 126 - 40 Hello everyone! I'm [Sébastien Dubois](https://www.dsebastien.net/about/), your host (I'm on [Twitter](https://x.com/dSebastien)). You're receiving this email because you signed up for [DeveloPassion's Newsletter](https://dsebastien.net). Thank you for being here with me ✨ ## Welcome to the 126th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 I turned 40 yesterday. As I write this edition of my newsletter, I have been roaming the earth for 14600+ days. It seems that it's a pivot age and a big source of anxiety for many people. It's not really the case for me. I see life as a river. I'm just going along the path like everyone else. And "milestones" such as this one aren't that meaningful to me. Instead of worrying about something I can't control, I prefer to focus on what I can influence, such as my financial freedom and my happiness in general ;-) Apart from that, I worked some more in the lab! Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The lab **🧪** As my [PKM coaching](https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/pkm-coaching) sessions have great success, and as many of the people I coach also seem to enjoy the [Obsidian Starter Kit](https://obsidianstarterkit.com), I've decided to put more priority on my video course. I've prepared the course outline and shared it [on Twitter](https://x.com/dSebastien/status/1668978904453767168). This course will be an upsell for the starter kit. Once I release this, I will work on additional ones: - One dedicated to Obsidian - A broader one only focusing on PKM ideas, concepts, workflows, etc My goals are simple: - provide more value to everyone interested in Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) - help more people discover PKM - improve my flywheel - increase my revenue It's also a way to force myself to hit the Record button more often, as I'm still struggling with video. I didn't find enough time to work on Knowii this week. ## New articles I've published two articles this week. The first one is about the value of gratitude: [Be grateful for the small things too](https://www.dsebastien.net/be-grateful-for-the-small-things-too/) In the second one, I explain how I use my daily notes to capture information, as well as my knowledge ingestion process: [How I use daily notes](https://www.dsebastien.net/how-i-use-daily-notes//) ## Quotes of the week - The future of work is spending more time with family — Adam Nathan - The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new — Socrates ## Book of the week One book that I want to read soon is [Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software](https://amzn.to/3Xd0ZPs) by Steven Johnson. ## Thinking and learning How cool. Apparently, [the Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/). [ Advice Expires The internet’s a living, breathing, professional self-help platform. If advice on how to run your company isn’t coming at you 280 characters at a time on Twitter, you can hear it on a podcast, read it on a Substack, or get it right here on your LinkedIn feed. There’s hardly a CEO, an entrepreneur, o…   ](https://world.hey.com/jason/advice-expires-d37374e6)[ Great Writing is Invisible Helping the hallucination Nat Eliason's NewsletterNat Eliason  ](https://blog.nateliason.com/p/great-writing-invisible)[ The new academy: modern intellectuals are writing their best ideas on Substack Welcoming Richard Dawkins to Substack Substack ReadsClyde Rathbone  ](https://read.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-substack-new-academy) > [What is your book-reading workflow?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten//comments/13y5ww6/what_is_your_bookreading_workflow/) > by > [u/noobinPython](https://www.reddit.com/user/noobinPython/) in > [Zettelkasten](https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten//) ## Indie Hacking and bootstrapping [20 Best SaaS Books on Starting a Profitable Software-as-a-Service Business in 2023 - Stratoflow](https://stratoflow.com/best-books-on-starting-a-profitable-saas/) Real sad news from Dagobert this week: [Shutting down our startup after 5 years](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/shutting-down-our-startup-after-5-years-b12228c020) I love the approach of Rosie Sherry: [Rosie Sherry on LinkedIn: I'm going for less is more.](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rosiesherry_im-going-for-less-is-more-shipping-every-activity-7074305646828900354-Thy-) > In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon: > > 💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year. > > What are the generation-defining stats of today? > > I'll post a few to kick things off... > — Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) [March 8, 2022](https://x.com/stephsmithio/status/1500986096745779200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## Tech [ My Take on a Unified Theory of Reactivity Misko shares a view on reactivity in Javascript web apps. With years of industry knowledge and a look at how some frameworks use reactivity, he uncovers how reactivity works today and what its path forward might be. Builder.io  ](https://www.builder.io/blog/unified-reactivity-theory)[ GitHub - nativefier/nativefier: Make any web page a desktop application Make any web page a desktop application. Contribute to nativefier/nativefier development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHubnativefier  ](https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier)[ All Your Licensing Are Belong To Us^W You Keygen, a software licensing and distribution API, goes open source. Keygen  ](https://keygen.sh/blog/all-your-licensing-are-belong-to-you/) A new Web standard for payments: [W3C advances technology to streamline payment authentication](https://developer.chrome.com/articles/secure-payment-confirmation) ## AI [openai-cookbook/techniques_to_improve_reliability.md at main · openai/openai-cookbook](https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/techniques_to_improve_reliability.md) > I learn better visually than through text. > > Luckily, ChatGPT can now help visual learners learn 10x faster. > > Here's how to turn ChatGPT into a perfect tool for visual learners: [pic.x.com/6oJBF1yrWS](https://t.co/6oJBF1yrWS) > — The AI Solopreneur (@aisolopreneur) [June 13, 2023](https://x.com/aisolopreneur/status/1668594376384163840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [AlphaDev, Text-To-Music Generation and more...](https://www.promptingguide.ai) Prompt injection attacks are going to hurt: [https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/05/gpt4-vulnerable-prompt-injection-attacks-causing-misinformation.html](https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/05/gpt4-vulnerable-prompt-injection-attacks-causing-misinformation.html) 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