Dickie's Digest - Prof. G, Cloud Kitchens, and Transitions
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I hope your 4th of July celebrations included the perfect mix of fireworks, beers, and some classic American fare. Still working on finding that perfect mix myself — if how I feel today is any indication, I still haven’t found it.
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Alright — onto the Digest. This week we have:
☑️ How I’m Fixing My To-Do List
🍳 America’s Ghost Kitchen Future
🎹 My Current Go-To Focus Playlist
🎧 Four epic podcast episodes
🥃 Two much-needed chasers
Let’s dive in!
Have an epic week!
Dickie
☑️ Lost in Transition: How I’m Fixing My To-Do List
This week I wrote about the three things I’m doing to fix my to-do list. I’ve found I’m able to get individual tasks done, but it’s moving from one to the next where things start to fall apart. So I’m doing three things to stop getting lost in transition:
Making each to-do a very specific action with a low start-up cost
Grouping creative to-do’s in the morning and analytical to-do’s in the afternoon
Splitting my daily list up into “have-to-do” and “nice-to-do” lists
You can check out the full essay here. If you give any of them a try, let me know!
🍳 (Long Read) America’s Ghost Kitchen Future
The restaurant industry is in flux. Razor-thin margins, limited capacity, expensive delivery fees, and food supply chain disruptions are just a few things on restaurant-owners minds. This New Yorker article profiles the rise of Ghost Kitchens — internet-optimized pop-up kitchens that live only in the cloud. It also explores how the experience of living in a city is changing, optimizing for more and more convenience. Is the pick-up and delivery-only way of operating going to stick? Is Amazon going to put Amazon-Go’s on every NYC street corner? And can you create a new Cloud restaurant every week, based on local demand?
🎹 My Current Go-To Focus Playlist
On my quest for the perfect playlist for focused work, I think I’ve found it. It’s the ideal mix of slow, melodic piano with the occasional lo-fi instrumental beat thrown in. It also has 121 songs, so it never feels repetitive. Check it out here.
🎧 This Week in Podcasts
This week I took notes on four podcast episodes, which you can find on my Twitter. The newest show I am really enjoying is the Prof. G Show, a weekly tech and business run down with NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway. Each episode runs about an hour and recaps business news, interviews someone thoughtful, and ends with a Q&A “office hours” section.
Noah Kagan Presents | Lessons Learned From $10 Million in Revenue
Mastering the Attention Economy | Mental Coaching and Performance
📚Kindle Highlight of the Week
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
From Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, which I listened to on Audible. Click here to get 50% off an Audible membership for the next four months!
🥃 Chasers
We should spend more time doing research like this
Watch Joey Chestnut slam 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes
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