🤯Unknown Unknowns #122 - Happy New Year!

I’ve been a little inconsistent sending these out lately, but going to be more regular going forward.  I like the idea of concept of “taste” that I talked about last issue.  I’m planning on exploring how it shows up in life over the next few weeks.

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📝 Writing of the Week:

I’ve been writing unpolished, around 100-word mini-essays.  Just reflections on ideas from podcasts or things on the news.  Here are the latest:

1️⃣ Do Things That Suck
2️⃣ Credibility
3️⃣ Losers
4️⃣ Ego and Decisions

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🔍 Discoveries:

Louie Bacaj and I wrapped up our latest cohort of Newsletter Launchpad.  There were a bunch of great newsletters that came out of it.  Below is a sampling of a few of them.  I believe that newsletters are the easiest way to go from consuming to creating.  It’s the easiest way to express your creativity and develop your taste.

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Fabio Oliveira

- writes about corporate innovation at

Innovation Reflections

2️⃣

Krish

- writes about open-source GitHub repositories at

Git Checkout!

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Antonio

- writes about his life learnings at

Antonio’s Substack

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Raju Mandapati

- writes about improving his life at

Be Extraordinary

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Daniel Londero

- writes about home automation at

Smart Home Automation

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Prince

- writes passion and art at

S-P-A-M

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Saikalyan Akunuri

- writes about the stories that have impacted his life at

Sai's Substack

8️⃣

A Faruk Gonullu

- writes about his life experiences at

Good Explanations

9️⃣

Alex Pillow

- writes about creativity, fitness, and side hustles at

theClubHouse

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BookishAutoDidact

- writes about insights from life and books at

BookishAutodidact’s Substack

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David Solé

- shares his indiehacker journey at

David's Indie Hacker Journey

12.

Bill Prin

- shares his journey growing a poker product at

Road To 10K MRR

13.

Miche Priest

- shares her journey and projects, including Unstuck in 15 at

Started on Tolkien

14.

Sam Jamieson

- shares his attempts at becoming happier, healthier, and wiser at

Sam’s Newsletter

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💡 Idea of the Week:

So, a couple of weeks ago I said a cool idea would use AI to transform your voice.  Well, Tony Dinh created an app to do just that!

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💬 Quote of the Week:

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

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🏴‍☠️ Something Fun:

If you love philosophy and The Princess Bride

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/529

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/529

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Leaving you in peace,

Chris