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Gateway to heaven. By Emiliano Castellano.

Hey there,

When was the last time you felt nostalgic about an experience and smiled?

I still feel happy whenever I remember my holiday in Europe back in 2019.

Experiences give meaning to our lives and pay us back in happy memories.

But:

We get so caught up in work that we forget to take the time out to experience something new.

So:

Here's a process that helps you understand how eventful your life is and how you can optimise it to have more soul-touching experiences before you die:

When you compare the score for the last two years of your life, you can understand if you're increasing your experience score every year or just busy chasing money.

My experience score for the last 3 years has fluctuated.

But, I'm planning to make this year more eventful than the last few with the help of this framework. 🤞

Try it out.

Need some help in brainstorming experiences you want to have? Here's a list.

P.S.:- Thanks to everyone who supported my Book Summaries project by pre-ordering a copy. I got 39 pre-orders. 😍 If you missed out last week, you can still get it here at a low price.

Now, grab a coffee, sit tight, and enjoy this week's issue:

Book to Read

Die with Zero

You can't take your money with you when you die. Learn how to utilise your money to gather life-changing and memorable experiences that'll give meaning to your life.

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Apps & Services

AirBuddy ➔

Bird's eye view of your Apple devices

AirBuddy is a macOS menu bar app that lets you keep an eye on the battery levels of all your Apple devices such as AirPods, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, iPhone, iPad, and more. Similar to your iPhone, you can have a popup on your MacBook every time you open an AirPods case near it. You can also share your connected devices across your laptops with a single click. Costs a one-time $9.99 fee.
Timestripe ➔

Plan your days, months, and life

Timestripe brings a fresh approach to planning. With a view called Horizons, you can plan goals for today, this week, a month, a year, or your entire life. This approach helps you plan ambitious goals for your life and then break them into actionable tasks that you can tackle in a year, a month and a day. Free to start, and then $99/year for unlimited access. I'm working on getting you a discount code for the Pro plan. Stay tuned for next week's issue.
Email Meter ➔

Keep track of your emailing habits

Email Meter brings you a unified dashboard of all of your emailing statistics — fastest reply time, average reply time, when you usually send emails, and more. You can use this tool to run an audit of how you spend your days with email. While Email Meter gets access to your Gmail account, they can't read your emails. They can only read your email metadata such as time, sender, etc. Free for basic stats.
Planyway ➔

Calendar and timeline view for Trello

Planyway lets you set up timeline and calendar views for your Trello board. This helps plan due dates for your tasks and have a bird's eye view of everything on your roadmap. You can also connect your Google Calendar to bring your events into the timeline or the calendar view. Use Jira instead of Trello? Planyway has got you covered.

Taking the Shortcut

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Switch to your next workspace in the Slack app.
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Interesting Reads

You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup ➔

18 min read

Startups are touted as the rose-covered path to getting ridiculously rich. Although that does happen sometimes, startups are filled with burned out and underpaid employees with no clear goal for the future. After working in startups of all sizes, I agree that working at startups is not for everyone.
The Weekly Review ➔

17 min read

Weekly reviews are excellent for reflecting on your current week's overall performance so that you can adjust and plan 1% better for the upcoming week. On top of this, a weekly review allows you to clean up tasks that aren't relevant anymore but sitting on your list for some time. Learn how to do a weekly review with this guide.
How to Learn Faster: An Improved Feynman Technique ➔

8 min read

The Learn, Present, Critique Method of learning new things looks intriguing and solid. It allows you to review your learning from a 3rd-person perspective and correct errors along the way. Try this technique the next time you're learning a complex topic.
There are 5 kinds of clutter — which one is filling your life? ➔

8 min read

We usually associate clutter with either physical or digital. But, clutter can be found everywhere — your mind and your soul too. And these types of clutter are the ones that hit you the hardest. Want to live a more relaxed life? Identify the various forms of clutter in your life and sort them out.
6 Financial Rules That Are Destroying Your Mental Health ➔

8 min read

I've been saying this for a long time. Not all packaged advice or rules will plug and play with your life. Everyone's goals are different, and you have to tweak advice to your liking. This blog post illustrates some of the widest known financial advice you can break to live a more fulfilled life.

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