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Hey everyone, If we’ve had a conversation recently, you probably know that I’m working on building an audience online (which is part of why I started t…
Peter Elbaum
Aug 2
Hey everyone, When I’m thinking about doing something that would be good for me, but I don’t want to actually do it, I usually tell myself (or my wife,…
Peter Elbaum
Jul 26
Hey everyone, I’ve been listening to former Disney CEO Bob Iger’s book The Ride of a Lifetime this week, and it’s yielded many helpful insights about w…
Peter Elbaum
Jul 19
Hey everyone, This week I was listening to Maria Konnikova on the Longform podcast (summary below), and she mentioned an interesting strategy for getti…
Peter Elbaum
Jul 12
Hey everyone, In agile software development, we have the concept of a “retro,” which is short for retrospective. At the end of every two-week sprint, t…
Peter Elbaum
Jul 5
Hey everyone, I’ve been reflecting recently on the concept of an “overnight success,” and I think, with very few exceptions, they basically don’t exist…
Peter Elbaum
Jun 28
Hey everyone, I’ve been thinking a bit this week about the idea of a “comfort zone.” I’ve found that through the pandemic, I’ve tricked myself into thi…
Peter Elbaum
Jun 21
Hey everyone, In the past couple months, I’ve started to notice that I’m distracted fairly consistently throughout the day by the same set of things: m…
Peter Elbaum
Jun 14
Hey everyone, I’ve written in the past about Ali Abdaal, who is one of my favorite YouTubers. He mentions fairly often that he thinks everyone should l…
Peter Elbaum
Jun 7
Hey everyone, If you’ve been following along with the newsletter, you know I’ve been reading D.T. Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace lately. This …
Peter Elbaum
May 31
Hey everyone, I came across two interesting pieces of content this week, both related to the second-order effects of the pandemic. The first was an int…
Peter Elbaum
May 24
Hey everyone, This newsletter is supposed to cover “code, money and self-improvement,” so I thought it was time to start writing on personal finance. I…
Peter Elbaum
May 17
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