If there is one thing worth committing to, it's your education. Whether it's doing well in school, reading a new book, or learning a language, taking the time to sharpen your noodle is the wisest investment you can make.
"Finished Article Number 45 - It took me three days to finish it - since it was a difficult concept to grasp - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/sbusiness-analogy-045-the-full-stack?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Only 5 more articles are left - I will be able to complete them in the next 5 - 10 days. I will be able to close this project by the end of this month or the first week of November at the earliest. To finish this I should quickly replace the harder articles with easier ones that might be down the line. The emotional writing is faster than planned writing. If I get emotional about a topic it is easier to write about , If I can find someone making a mistake live I will be able to write about that faster."
"Today I read for 30 min and took notes on Chapter 5 on the Magic of Thinking Big…felt like I wanted to do more but this was stimulating to engage the book more intentionally "
"I am getting through all my messages quickly now, which is a positive; it means I'm more consistent with my responses. It creates the other issue of needing to find other people to reach out to. So I'm going to go back through my messages and follow up with folks who expressed some sort of interest in the past. I'll start there and figure out the next step. "
"Ele falou agora uma coisa bacana, sobre grupos pequenos serem um bom lugar pra trocas, mesmo que no início sejam estranho. Grupos pequenos são mais acolhedores, menos assustadores, e fica mais fácil falar dos problemas "
"Tô lendo aqui. O livro falou uma coisa bacana, sobre se mover, andar, dançar etc, que isso pode ajudar bastante quando nos sentimos sobrecarregados. Eu já sabia, mas achei bacana reforçar "
"I just finished article number 44 - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/business-analogy-044-astrologer-and?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Only six more articles to go and I should be able to finish them in the next six days - I will be able to close this project before hand, and I have decided not to trouble myself with the distribution of the book, instead I will only invest my efforts in searching for a publisher, if no publisher is interested, I am not going to pursue it myself and I will keep writing the next 50 articles in a more slower manner over the years, I will not push them as hard as I am pushing them right now. The articles can marinate for the next few years if requried, but I am not going to do digital marketing or push them into the social media, yes distribution is critical but that is what what I have stated out this project for, distribution must be taken up as a separate project.
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"Ok this is going to sounds REALLY dumb, but I finally started responding to messages on my phone. I had a mental block around it for some reason -- getting over it will help me be more responsive to messages that come in! Yay progress!"
"Just finished articled 43 - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/business-analogy-043-complexity-bias?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Only seven more articles to do, and I have two weeks to finish this."
"Today is my first day reading text in Spanish. I have the choice of reading a short passage, article or book. Right now I'm going to start out with short passages. Today I read " do you know the right time to exercise?". It was simple to read as it's A1 level. I chose to start with A1 level because I'm not used to reading long texts in Spanish. In this text, I learned new words like animar and matutino. Animar means to encourage while matutino means morning. "
"Just finished 42nd Article - only 8 more to go. in the next two weeks to close the project - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/sbusiness-analogy-042-frequency-illusion?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"
"I completed 41 articles - 42nd article is in progress, I will be able to complete 9 more in the next 9 days and finish this project by the end of this month"
"Completed article number 41 - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/business-analogy-041-the-finest-sculptor?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Now left only with 9 articles - Planning to complete by the end of this month and close this project - 12 days to go and nine articles left - I need to publish one article a day - to reach the target."
"Thursday, October 16th - Responded to all new messages, and definitely enjoying the process now. I'm getting more comfortable and finding approaches that feel good for me while also putting the conversations into a good frame. Now my thoughts are, what else can I do now to get more conversations started?!"
"Finsihed article number 40 - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/business-analogy-040-the-poison-king?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Only 10 articles to go and would only need 3-5 weeks more to complete this project and then start working on a project to find a o publisher"
"Wednesday, October 15th - Responded to the new messages that have come through -- not a ton. It's a reminder to go through and follow up with past contacts and see what's shaking. I could spend an entire day doing outreach, and I really should think about that... Nothin' but messaging folks. "
"Tuesday, October 14 - I caught up with all my missed messages from the past few days. I'm upset that I missed that time, and I'm also grateful that it feels so much easier to respond to messages. I'm still figuring all of this out, but I'm committed to plugging away until I get it right. "
"I just finished one more article - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/s-business-analogy-038-the-tree-of?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Also finished one more article today - https://open.substack.com/pub/businessanalogies/p/business-analogy-039-captains-killing?r=3az3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Only 11 articles left - I need to complete them in the next 6 weeks to be successful - I need to write two articles per week, and I need only 5 more weeks to finish this at this rate. I might be able to complete this project in time."
"J’ai terminé le livre Nudge par R. Thaler. Une centaine de page lu
J’ai également continué de lire le livre de Fabien Plivard, Mémoire vous avez le pouvoir. Plus d’une 30 de page lu "
"10/8 高市早苗當選自民黨黨魁,台日關係將會如何變化
Constructing Influence: The Political Economy of Luxury Megaprojects
Beneath the Surface: The Geopolitical Implications of Shifting Deep Sea Mining Regulation"
"This week felt harder! I was running out of things to say and wondering — I feel like a kid myself, so what can I teach my future child? I started being more honest and sharing true feelings instead of feeling like I had to teach them something. "
"I only need to complete 13 more articles, I have started articles that usually would have become road blocks to move ahead and find conceptual clarity better once the conceptual clarity is found the rest is easier to sort, most of the time it is the concepttual clarity that is lacking, I think it would be wiser to write the articles with conceptual clarity and then try to find the case studies or thought experiments and we can keep the story finding to the last, we can always do that once we have conceptual clarity it gives us the abiltiy to map the right story against the right concept, For example i mapped a story. - The Two Cats and the monkey to Anti Network effects but realized that it is more about dollar auctions and divide and conquer or use run away competition or conflict to your advantage. also known as conflict arbitrage and more importantly - this once concept now split into 8 different concepts related to marketplaces and systems across various phases - like cold start - tipping point - critical mass - network effects - anti network effects, chicken and egg, unfortunately all of them are unique, I thought all of them are the same concept, since the concept itself blew up all the stories become irrelevant too!
Anyway, I still have 13 more articles to go, and it would take me 13x2 = 26 days, i.e., one more month, or a maximum of 13x4 = 52 days, or close to two months. But either way, the book should be completed before December 1st, 2025, and then I would have to start reaching out to publishers.
No matter what happens i.e. whether i reach 50 articles or not I have to wrap this up by the end of this year, and it can't go on forever."
"Did another morning session before work. I'm going to work on doing a morning session and an evening session today to increase my output. It feels good to start the day working on my business tasks. "