I m incredibly proud to announce we ve signed our first two non English foreign publishing deals for my upcoming book Building a Second Brain
The book will be available in China and Taiwan both with major non fiction publishers who have worked with many of the top Western authors to have their
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every fad diet and nutrition philosophy has one problem in common: they all ask you to mistrust the signals coming from your body, and to instead place your trust in an external authority. Even if the diet succeeds, you’ve…
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” —Gustav Flaubert “We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.” —Sir Thomas Browne “The ability to ‘fantasize’ is the ability to survive. It’s wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many…
We ve just signed our first international book deal to publish Building a Second Brain in the United Kingdom
The initial wave of pre orders in the United States has turned publishing heads around the world and my literary agency has reported a surge in interest and enthusiasm for BASB in multiple countries
Last week I asked you to be among the very first people to pre order my new book Building a Second Brain and boy did you deliver
The book quickly climbed the bestseller charts in the early morning hours last Tuesday hitting the 1 spot in all 3 of its categories on Amazon
It s not every day that 4 years of nonstop work hinges on one moment
But today s one of those days
I ve dreamed of writing this email for many years and I can officially say it
You can now pre order Building a Second Brain
It was the fall of 2005 I was a 20 year old student at Saddleback Community College near my hometown in Orange County California
Over the previous year I had exhausted nearly all of my college savings by attending one of the most expensive universities in the country in faraway Washington D C
I can hardly believe it but my manuscript is officially in production and pre orders for my book Building a Second Brain BASB will open in just TWO WEEKS on Tuesday Nov 16
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I recently hosted Dan Charnas, author of the book Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-en-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind (affiliate link), for an in-depth conversation about the most interesting, impactful principles from his work. Dan takes us on a fascinating journey through his career in the music business, as one of the first…
Octavia Estelle Butler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, CA. Known in her early years as “Estelle,” she was raised by a single, widowed mother who worked domestic jobs to make ends meet. Painfully shy and introverted from a young age, Estelle became an easy target for bullying at school. Her shyness combined with slight…
Many of the case studies I share about how I use digital notes involve major writing projects, because that is the most challenging kind of project I use my Second Brain for. But there is a different kind of use case that is just as meaningful: everyday life challenges. Challenges like troubleshooting the wifi at…
I recently joined David Duncan to discuss his new book The Secret Lives of Customers which teaches the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework using the intriguing format of a detective story. The basic premise is that consumers “hire” a product (or service) to perform a certain “job” for them. I’ve used JTBD in my own business to figure…
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