This Week
- How content has been going (or not going) lately.
- My first somatic experiencing therapy session.
- Some pics from sunsets and evening beach walks.
August 2026
| Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
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| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 8/1 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | 9/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Where In The World Was I?
- Bali, Indonesia
Metrics From The Week
Snaps From The Week
Content
Been a little behind on YouTube videos lately, focused more on outreach messages, reels, stories. And on top of that, views have been kinda mehhhh lately. Still trying to find the right balance between low friction and quality.
I finally posted the 45 min solo-podcast, I just had a feeling it wouldn’t do that well, but I posted it anyways. I was thinking about cutting it up into like 2-3 videos each as standalone videos but thought fuck it just post it, gah I hate friction.
So it’s not all sunshine and rainbows all the time.
I’ve got 3? other ramble videos recorded but not posted. And from the journaling I did this morning I think my best strategy is just 1 ramble video per week, but using that as the sandbox for coming up with ideas, then having more of the focused 8-10 min videos as proper videos. Still working on this. It hasn’t been the highest priority.
On the flippity flip, over the last ~2 weeks I made it up to about mid 130s in terms of outreach messages sent to my network for these value trade market research calls. The idea is, I learn more about their situation, and in exchange I offer a bottleneck audit – understand why they’re procrastination and help build a plan from the root.
And this is ON TOP of all the stories, reels, videos, coaching, calls, etc.
I went back and found the blog post where I had made an update on my travel blogger email outreach… The Week I Was Put In The Hot Seat And Razzed By The Group (November 26th, 2023)
90 messages in ~3 weeks at that point… I think if I remember correctly I made it to like 98 or 99 total before stopping.
And just to think of how freakin’ long those emails took… and how much friction and resistance I felt to send those…
And comparing that to now, just firing off these messages, feeling more confident, not really caring if people don’t reply.
This feeling is one of the reasons why I write these blog posts. Because without capturing things in the moment, we lose the viscerality (is that a word?) and detailedness (okay now I’m just making things up) of just how far we’ve come…
Copilot AI Agents
I discovered the Obsidian Copilot plugin I use now has an AI agents feature, you can link it to opencode which is just a locally run version or link it to a cloud provider.
And wow…
Started using that and it will grep and crawl my 6,000+ vault for notes and link things, it’s actually crazy. So that’s been fun. Created a little content idea miner agent that I can send off and it’ll look at my last week or two of notes for quotes and threads and hooks and stuff.
This has been an idea since February I believe, but I’ve resisted actually building it or setting something up out of fear of the classic software engineering scope creep 😂 It’s too easy to get stuck in rabbit holes building stuff instead of doing the actually important stuff.
Biz
All is good. Starting to hit the “what’s my actual capacity?” question… Probably gonna spend another week pushing the value trade and then we’ll see what my biz coach has in store for me next.
This content is not ready to be made public yet.
Somatic Experiencing Therapy
Did a somatic experiencing therapy session with this woman in Cemagi. Really unique and interesting, never done anything like it. Had me scanning the room, asking me about how I feel and where I feel things, super relaxing and interesting experience.
Majority positive. Nothing was crazy or unlocked or anything. If anything I felt a little like it was too difficult. I found it hard to get in touch with my felt sense with my eyes open and when I closed them she had me keep them open to “stay in consciousness.”
It also made me realize just how few times my actual nervous system feels rested and relaxed during my days/weeks. And then made me think how few people have probably ever experienced true rest and relaxation… that feeling of walking out of a 60 min massage… So many people are (my past self included) using their phones and just doing stuff in their down time and probably thinking “oh yeah I rest” like bruhhhhh you have no idea.
Social
This content is not ready to be made public yet.
Thoughts From The Week
202608120742 Morning journaling
#journal
Pagi ya. Haha I feel like these journals are gonna show me getting progressively more and more Indonesian.
Journaling at my laptop this morning. Had a nice little coffee chat with [name] this morning about our offers, immigration, rules, running events.
Anything top of mind for a video this morning?
- I'm at 3 sales of my signalos offer already! [name] is like offer is validated let's move on! Pretty sick. I'm only 4 weeks in.
- Been getting some good clips from my osmo recording calls.
- Now running into storage constraints recording all this stuff. Maybe need to clip down the raw footage into smaller clips of me just talking and then re-save so I cut out all the silence.
- The pain is clearly there, procrastinating on the work they know would get them growing.
- Call with [name] yesterday went better than I expected. Not sure what I expected. But felt really good to realize yeah maybe let's re-work the Priority Lock again, then realize ah there's this "opening the box" behavioral pattern that we uncovered, he's doing followups first thing, but then also running this morning brief and then that sometimes flags things, client message comes in.
- We know the priority, are we _protecting_ the priority. Are your actions reflective of your goal stack.
- My neck is really sore today, not sure what happened I must've strained it yesterday doing something.
- [...]
- Something about beliefs. I've got this note as a thread I want to explore [[202607310923 Everything about Beliefs]]. I really want some time, some permission for myself to just learn, research, organize information, like what I did with [[202607300918 🧍♂️ Everything about Human Motivation]] that I left half-done.
- Talking with [name] last night, got the sense he was put off by my value trade message and just though it was so interesting. I also just heard so many sentences that sounded like beliefs he's holding on to that just don't serve him. I mean ever since that day I met him in the sauna I was like bro he's holding himself back so much it's crazy...
- "it's hard to make money online" (or something like that), talking about being hard to make enough money, get clients, just from online work - [...] - he was saying something about working for a company, it's easier and more consistent and stable than trying to do his own thing.
- this idea he had of building an app scanner, built it, then looked at existing apps online, found the top one, this guy super active on twitter, said like 5mo ago he's getting one client per day, $30 per scan, and he's super active, and [name] is like eh I think there's not really good opportunity there. I was just thinking well maybe if you changed how you're offering this, like make it a service not just a self-service tool.
- It's just crazy how we're held back by our own beliefs. And this comes back to what [name] was asking me, something like how
- [name] - "how to see objectively when something comes into my mind, how to see what is actually true or maybe a belief, limiting belief... and some actionable steps on how to do that and how to actually get to those roots"
- Makes me want to start workshopping this [[202607310923 Everything about Beliefs]] but let's see what else is coming up first
- Mmm the pattern from yesterday's Tribal Solutions [[202608111602 Transcript - Tribal Solutions]], [name] working on steps 2, 3, 4 instead of the one right in front of him. [name] did this as well. [name] as well.
- The customer is always right. Need their feedback, doesn't matter what we think. The problem is our ego gets in the way thinking we know better. And also customer feedback is actually more of a feeling problem because you're basically exposing yourself and your creation, what if they reject it, don't like it, so us perfectionists would rather keep fixing bugs and making it better rather than getting feedback.
- The ICP version of this? It actually maps pretty well to [name] too, working on client delivery, because it's just right there, it's a quick thing, sees progress, "let me just fire this off" "it could be better" "why would I let it be unoptimized" want certainty everything is good before responding, wants to show engaged.
- And the fear underneath this, that he actually _visibly_ responded to was "making a mistake..." this idea of launching a campaign as requested, then having to go back to them and say "ah actually this isn't working" and the response or imagined response of "aren't you supposed to be the ads expert?" He literally started laughing about this.
- Also related to beliefs, just how powerful our mind is and the stories and rationalizations that we come to. I think story + rationalization is like one level up from Beliefs.
- Anything else on the domepiece?
- Feeling super focused.
- [...] ya :)
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What’s Next?
Still mostly locked in. Feeling quite focused. Still building.