Dickie's Digest - Trying something new
Hey my friends, happy Sunday.
I’ve been writing the Digest for 65 weeks now. And I think it’s time to mix it up a little bit. So I’m trying a new format.
The new goal for the Digest: be more respectful of your time and attention than any other newsletter. Every week, you can expect to find five fresh links, each summarized under 240 characters. I’ll also resurface last week’s most popular link and one tweet of the week. I’ll mark each link as a 🧵,📖, or 🎧 depending on the content type.
My money-back guarantee: it will take no more than five minutes to read and you’ll find something worth clicking in every edition.
One quick announcement: it’s the last day to enroll in the next Ship 30 for 30 cohort. We’re at 325 members for this one, it’s going to be electric.
Now let’s get into it.
🧵 ✍🏼 Building a writing habit with the four laws of behavior change. My most popular thread to date. Atomic Habits from James Clear changed my life. And in this thread, I broke down how you can use the four laws of behavior change to build an intentional writing habit.
📖 💸 How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis. Currently reading after recommendations from Shaan Puri, Andrew Wilkinson, and Sam Parr. Every time they mentioned it, they’d say “Get over the cringy title and start reading it. It’s one of the most practical and no-BS books out there.” I’ve been hooked from the first page.
🎧 🔮 Tim Ferriss with Naval Ravikant and Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin. The first time I've ever heard Vitalik Buterin speak. He gave a compelling first-principles argument for Ethereum as a "decentralized" internet. With the rise of DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs, I'm diving a bit more into the Ethereum space. Naval is a tremendous interviewer as well.
🧵 💪🏼 Seven takeaways on writing and personal growth. Bryan Ho put together an incredible thread summarizing the main talking points on my appearance on the Louis and Kyle Show. Consistency, compounding, writing online, making mistakes, consideration vs. attention spans, and building relationships with big thinkers - this one was good.
🧵 📈10 competitive advantages you can start developing today. A pure-signal thread from Sahil Bloom. 10 competitive advantaged: intellectual curiosity, comfort with discomfort, simplifying when others complicate, high tolerance for failure, low time preference, antifragility, presence, relentless consistency, noise cancellation, and being yourself. A pretty solid framework if you ask me.
🔥 Last week’s most popular link: The Observer Effect with Tobi Lutke, Daniel Ek, and Marc Andreessen
That’s it for this week. As always, I appreciate your time and attention. Shoot anything you find interesting this week my way.
And what did you think of the new format? Let me know by replying directly to this email.
Have an epic week.
Dickie
