Hi. I’m Stepa Mitaki. Morning Walk is a personal weekly newsletter where I share some musings on tech, working on startups, productivity and some nerdy stuff.
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🗞 Not much today
This week has been pretty crazy. I had some hectic issues at work I had to take care of and some personal errands as well. At some point, I realized I hadn't had that feeling of a very stressful morning at work for quite some time. I guess it's valuable to experience that once in a while. I haven't even paid much attention to the news this week, which has been a very rare case for me since February 24th.
I would usually push myself to work on Morning Walk and Carial despite that, but I decided to take it easy this week. Lots going on, and I can't find time to comprehend it properly. I'm slowly switching most of my attention from the war towards the activities I'm more familiar with to stay sane. On a nerdy side of things, I'm experimenting with one new habit around time management. I'll share it with you in the coming weeks if that goes well.
Several months ago, I joined a private Slack community of Lenny’s Newsletter that its paying members are offered as a perk. I’m not such a heavy user when it comes to participating in the communities and joining lengthy discussions. I did my part back in 2002-2005 with first web forums and later with LiveJournal communities (oh, the good old days). However, one of my answers was featured in a Community Wisdom email from Lenny two weeks ago. That was a pleasant surprise.
👓 Things I've been reading/watching/enjoying
Digital Care Directory
If you’re like me and into the health tech market, you’re going to love this one. A place where you can find new care providers sorted by their speciality, delivery model and targeted demographic. A lot is happening in digital care!
John McPhee’s Slow Productivity
A great reminder that you don’t have to work crazy hours to be productive and successful. In many cases, it’s the opposite.
By any reasonable standard, McPhee is productive. He’s published 29 books, one of which won a Pulitzer Prize, and two of which were nominated for National Book Awards. He’s also been penning distinctive articles for The New Yorker since 1965. And yet, he rarely writes more than 500 words a day.
How to be held back by schleps and egos
And another one around the idea of your mindset towards work.
It’s often the unpleasant work that leads to big breakthroughs and successes.
There is an inverse correlation between how much you value your time and how much “luck” you encounter (i.e. noticing opportunities around you and capitalizing on them).
That’s it for today. Thanks for reading. This post is public so feel free to share it.