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Hey Everyone! Welcome to all the new faces around here. 👋 This week I got chased by Zebra while walking my dog in a local nature reserve. Also, I’ve been focussing on waking up early. Over the past 3 – 4 months, I have gradually moved my wake-up time from 6:00am to 5:00am. Here is a great tweet by Thomas Frank on why you Shouldn’t wake up earlier: There’s nothing special about getting up early. It’s just easy for...

Hey everyone, welcome to the 30 people that have signed up since the last newsletter. I haven’t been very good at releasing this newsletter for the past few weeks. I am sorry 😂Life’s been busy and I needed a break. Quite a bit has happened in the past few weeks. Two weeks ago I participated in the Midmar Mile. It’s the worlds largest open water swimming event. I am going to be talking more about...

Hey everyone, I hope you are well. There have been 5 awesome people that have joined us since last week. Finding Adventure in your backyard I’ve been watching a lot of Beau Miles, he’s an Australian adventurer and outdoorsman. One of his foremost philosophies is finding adventure around you. This is a guy that has run 700km+ across the Australian alps and kayaked 2000km around the southern tip of Africa. Recently in the spirit of...

Hey Everyone, as usual welcome to all the new faces around here! There have been 11 new subscribers since the last Round Up! If you don’t know me my name is Ross and you’re subscribed to this newsletter because you downloaded my obsidian.md guide or you subscribed on my website. Either way, it’s great to have you and I hope you stick around. This newsletter is a weekly newsletter where I do a round up...

Hey Everyone, as usual welcome to all the new faces around here! There have been 10 new subscribers since the last Round Up! If you don’t know me my name is Ross and you’re subscribed to this newsletter because you downloaded my obsidian.md guide or you subscribed on my website. Either way, it’s great to have you and I hope you stick around. This newsletter is a weekly newsletter where I do a round up...

Hey Everyone, as usual welcome to all the new faces around here! There have been 15 new subscribers since the last Round Up! If you don’t know me my name is Ross and you’re subscribed to this newsletter because you downloaded my obsidian.md guide or you subscribed on my website. Either way, it’s great to have you and I hope you stick around. This newsletter is a weekly newsletter where I do a round up...

Hey everyone, Welcome to all the new faces around here. This week I am writing to you from Somerset West, South Africa. If you don’t know me my name is Ross and you’re subscribed to this newsletter because you downloaded my obsidian.md guide or you subscribed on my website. Either way, it’s great to have you and I hope you stick around. This newsletter is a weekly newsletter where I do a round up of...

Hey everyone welcome to this weeks of The Round Up! And welcome to the 8 new people who have subscribed since last week’s issue. I am currently writing to you from the tiny town of Colesberg, South Africa. Louise and I are taking a two day road trip to Cape Town to spend some time with family for Christmas. Here is a picture taken from our hotel: If you don’t know me, my name is...

Hey Everyone, As usual welcome to all the new faces around here! This is going to be a short one, but it’s packed with content. I finally bit the bullet and got an Instapaper + Readwise Subscription. It’s expensive here in South Africa. But, it’s going to be worth it because it’s another tool in my content consumption/creation toolbox. My Obsidian Workflow I did an overview of my obsidian workflow! In the video I cover how...

Hey Everyone, as usual welcome to all the new faces around here. Since I’ve published my guide to Obsidian.md markdown I’ve seen 10% growth in the Round Up Subscribers week-to-week. The amount of visitors my website gets has also increased by 100% since I published that silly guide. If you’re one of those people and you’re here for the obsidian.md content, I am sorry to disappoint you but I don’t actually create that much content...

Join The Newsletter The following is an excerpt from The Round Up, a somewhat frequent newsletter that I send out. SubscribeI won’t send you spam. Unsubscribe at any time. Built with ConvertKitHey everyone, As usual, welcome to all the new faces around here. Since I posted my obsidian markdown guide there has been a massive influx of new subscribers. So, if you’re one of those people, welcome. I’ve also seen some growth on my YouTube...

## Join The Newsletter The following is an excerpt from The Round Up, a somewhat frequent newsletter that I send out. SubscribeI won’t send you spam. Unsubscribe at any time. Built with ConvertKitHey everyone, Welcome to all the new faces around here! It’s really encouraging to see this newsletter growing. One of the ways you can support me is to share this link with a friend who may enjoy this newsletter. Today we are going...

Hey everyone, It’s been a while since I last wrote a newsletter, and since then there have been a whole bunch of new subscribers (20% increase!). So, if you’re new, welcome! The fact that you’re spending some of your free time to read something I wrote is a huge compliment! Photography – It’s complicated In 2005 I picked up a digital camera for the first time. My dad bought a cheap digital camera for family...

Hey everyone, hope you’ve all had a cool week. Here is another picture I took on honey moon almost 6 months ago! I think it’s pretty cool. | | | — | What do you do? We all get this question from time-to-time. When I get asked this question, I struggle to answer. Not because I don’t know. But rather because my answer is probably not what people are expecting. My Job description is quite...

Hey Everyone, This is the 20th edition of this newsletter! Thank you for reading and bearing with my ramblings. Also, I have started posting to Instagram again, I thought there is no point in taking pictures if you’re not sharing them. I took this one 5 months ago when I was on honey moon: | | | — | ​ Founders Experience All my life, I have struggled with insecurity and impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome...

This email newsletter was going to be over 1000 words. I’ve written those words out, but I am not happy with how they come together as a whole. So, after some thought I’ve rewritten the idea simply. I’ll release the full thing as a blog one day when I can muster the motivation to finish it. Before I get started on that, here is some stuff I’ve been working on: Obsidian.md guide for beginners Obsidiam.md...

Hey everyone, Recently I decided to quit coffee for 30 days. I was drinking 5 – 8 cups of coffee a day. I was no longer getting that kick that caffeine is supposed to give you. During my caffeine fast I realized that it is a lot more sustainable to create a habit when you do it slowly. It is easy to feel like it’s necessary to create multiple habits at the same time. Many of...

This won’t be the first time that I am writing about Elon Musk. There is a good reason for this. Like many other technology nerds, I am infatuated with Elon’s ability to approach some of the worlds largest problems systematically and methodically. In a recent interview Elon spoke to Tim Dodd about the 5 Manufacturing Principles that govern the way that SpaceX approaches the development of the Starship. Before I outline the 5 principles, I think it’s important...

It’s been almost a month since I sent out the last email regarding this caffeine experiment. If you’re not familiar with what I am talking about, I did a 60 day experimentto figure out if caffeine was hurting the quality of my sleep and productivity. Experiment Month Here is a break down of how my 30 days without caffeine went: [July 12 –Day 1] – I woke up craving coffee, as you’d expect from a caffeine addict....

Why am I quitting coffee? On the 5th of April 2021, I got married. It’s made me think more about time optimisation and energy management. You see, when I was single, it was ok for me to go into an intellectual coma with little interaction with anyone for 4 days in a row. Now, I share my life with someone else. I am happy with that. In fact, I welcome and cherish it. Marriage is...

Hey Everyone, Today marks almost 4 weeks since I started this silly Caffeine experiment. I’ll speak more about that later on. I’ll also be talking about the future of what this newsletter may look like. It’ll likely change quite a bit with each edition going forward. Caffeine experiment update I am trying to figure out if Caffeine is hurting my sleep and productivity. To do this I am tracking the following metrics on a daily...

Hey Everyone, welcome to this week’s edition of The Round Up. A weekly newsletter where I share interesting ideas, videos, podcasts and other things that I’ve found on the internet. The goal of this newsletter is to be the most interesting thing that you have in your inbox. If I am not achieving this please let me know how I can make it better by responding to this email. I am quitting coffee I’ve heard a...