Breaking News This Week 👀 Where to begin! Every administration change comes with it a slew of updated policies, orders, and plans... but this week was exceptionally volatile. If you're anything like me, you may have found this week to be overwhelming and a bit (a lot) anxiety-inducing. If you're anything like the people I've been polling all week, you may have decided to shut out most of the news to protect your own sanity, regardless of your political views. Information overload + an inability

1 Month of MonetizationIt's been 1 month since I monetized my YouTube channel 🎉. What a surreal month, watching my NotebookLM video pass 40,000 views and my Obsidian For Beginners & Automatic Inboxes & Indexes videos get over 12,000 views. In my last entry, I talked about how I felt I was on the hedonic treadmill, recalibrating my expectations along with my happiness levels at each successive & successful video. I had reached 1000 subscribers and was focused on reaching 4000 watch hours; the...

Finding My Groove In 2024: 1000 YouTube Subscribers ✅ I took the first six months after quitting my job as an IP lawyer and patent agent to focus on recalibrating. I spent hundreds of hours researching current technology, including artificial intelligence, trying to craft a plan into the future to ride the wave of change I saw coming, writing newsletters along the way. After 6 months, I felt as though I had a good grasp on the key technologies I needed to understand in order to walk the path I..

Welcome back to Cultivating, an extension of Recalibrating that takes a look at the latest growth of my digital garden 🌱 This week, I decided to expand on My Obsidian Starter Kit to help people interested in learning Obsidian ✨ This starter kit goes from 0 to 1, helping you get started in a practical and intuitive way, helping you build the foundation of your second brain 🧠 Obsidian is note-taking software that allows for Bi-Directional Links between ...

This Week in Recalibrating: A New Chapter Welcome to Cultivating 🌱, a new segment of the Recalibrating Newsletter 🧭🧠✨ While I have had an incredible time building up Recalibrating over the last year, I have realized that long-form (3000-6000 word) blog posts are not sustainable for me to write every week while I build out the rest of my ecosystem. My solution: Cultivating 🌱 an extension of my digital garden highlighting my learnings since the last update.

In recent weeks, there has been a huge change in the way people in web3 mint their work. NFTs have gone from a "free mint" meta to a "low cost" meta, largely driven by the smart contract upgrade to Zora and the introduction of Rodeo Club contracts (by Foundation). This change has sparked controversy between collectors, creators, and consumers. This controversy is unfortunate because there are few enough people in the world that value digital assets as it is 😔. We need to get aligned on how t...

The Value of Token-Gating Hi! It's been a few months since I last wrote on Paragraph and I very much appreciate your patience and support ...

Welcome to my entry for the Farcaster Writing Hackathon ✍✨The purpose of this hackathon is to help educate and raise awareness of Farcaster and the f...

This week I ran an experiment: Read Write Earn Own (RWEO)I thought to myself, how can I become a better writer AND help more people understand the co...

Worldbuilding 🌍 ✨For the first time in my life, I am excited to build on social media 🌐No more bait-and-switch social media platforms, nerfing my r...