Edition #23: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years

Long term thinking, Contrarianism and Standing Out While Blending In

Compliment of the day: I appreciate you.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to publish this week. A beautiful relationship in my life ended, so I skipped last week’s newsletter to sit with my feelings.

Solo writing continues to help me process. Putting fingers to keyboard helped me clarify how I feel. To remind myself of lessons to pass onto a future self, like allowing sadness in or sunsetting a relationship.

I was on my friend’s podcast, The Drew Steg Show

My friend Drew Stegmaier has range. I refer to that as someone who’s game for almost any type of conversation. Some nuggets:

• How I think about niches and writing (like how I decide what to write on this newsletter)
• Mental models about finance (starting around 42:00)
• Online dating and my article on asking dates to split the bill
• A gem from Drew: “Don’t be mad at someone for not meditating; meditate to deal with people who don’t”

I haven’t been on a podcast in about a year, so this was fun foray back on the mic. Here’s the podcast on Spotify.