Janus is a God of beginnings, passages, and many other things, but I look up to him as an inspiration to make wise decisions.

Janus is said to have two faces, one looking ahead and the other looking behind. With both faces, he could look simultaneously into the past and the future:

While this attribute often portrays him as a God of change, I see it as a reminder to draw from our past experiences while making future decisions.

With one part of us looking ahead into the future possibilities and the other learning from our past mistakes, we could make educated decisions that have a better chance of bearing fruit.

We make hundreds of decisions each week. Some in haste, others more deliberate. And while not every decision requires scrutiny, some do — especially the major ones.

Remembering Janus and his ability to peek into the past and the future helps us slow down, reflect on our past mistakes, and avoid repeating our previous blunders.

Keep this short analogy in mind the next time you make a significant decision.

It'll help you make informed decisions.

Last week, I announced I've been working on a premium membership for a while, and it's time I let you in on a few more details.

With the membership, I'll introduce new groups of posts on Hulry as a limited or ongoing series on specific themes.

The first one is called Back to Basics where I'll take you through the ins and outs of the stock Apple apps on your devices.

Stock apps like Notes, Reminders and Mail are powerful but often dismissed too quickly in favour of shinier third-party options.

Use them well, and you'll have a suite of well-crafted apps on all your Apple devices that'll work from simple to advanced use cases.

Whether you already use these apps or not, this series will introduce you to features and workflows that you might have never heard of but could fit well into your work. You'll learn something new.

I'm writing the first post in this series. It's on Apple Notes. I'll tell you more in the next few weeks as things progress.

Now, let's move on to the rest of this newsletter issue: