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Mia Chae Reddy, Ph.D.'s avatar

Hi all! This is my first post of the challlenge. In light of the tariffs, I wrote about what buying “American” really looks like from the perspective of a beauty brand founder. https://open.substack.com/pub/miachaereddy/p/made-in-america-kinda-sorta-not-really?r=hgone&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Mia Chae Reddy, Ph.D.'s avatar

Hi all! This is my first post of the challlenge. In light of the tariffs, I wrote about what buying “American”/ really looks like from the perspective of a beauty brand founder. https://open.substack.com/pub/miachaereddy/p/made-in-america-kinda-sorta-not-really?r=hgone&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Nir Hindie's avatar

Incredible story about the Anand Project - a rural India communication satellite project that shows why artists and engineers should work together.

https://nirhindie.substack.com/p/innovation-begins-with-listening?r=4n3al

Juan Gonzalez's avatar

Hey everyone.

Here's my post for the first week of the month.

"If you don't use it, you lose it"

https://open.substack.com/pub/juanfrank/p/please-dont-lose-it?r=8jmbv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Deb Burns's avatar

Hi Everyone, This is the very first post of my new publication, which is a result of doing Yana's Quest. I would love to know in the comments if it resonates. Feedback is so important. I will return the favour.here's mine: https://inthetrenches130.substack.com/p/third-time-lucky-the-story-of-this

Have a great week!

@robopulp's avatar

I'm trying to figure these things out myself.

Deb Burns's avatar

Hi 👋 can you be more specific about what you’re trying to figure out?

@robopulp's avatar

How to take my content as a means to steer people to my Substack.

I'm mostly happy with it, just not sure how to add hooks and CTAs that are effective and not pushy.

@robopulp's avatar

This is a neat piece of writing.

It seems like we fear not boredom, but when boredom drives us to look within. We're afraid to look there, though that is where the answers are.

Jara Dekker's avatar

Thank you Rob!

It was a pleasure to write.

And I agree, most do fear what boredom might bring to the surface from within, I also think currently there is so much focus on efficiency, accomplishment and optimization on time and output, anything that isn't considered to be "productive time" has a bad rep. Even if in the long run it is where the answers are and makes everything easier.

'Slow down to speed up' is a popular thing to say, but to actually live it makes many uncomfortable.

@robopulp's avatar

I agree! And interestingly enough I happen to be going through such a phase where I look at the thing I have to in a particular and ask myself donall these things really need to be done today?

Till recently I was indulging the feeling of crossing off a lot of things off a list. Now I'm saying does this even need to be in a list.

And there's push against that, but intuition tells me to keep doing it.

Jara Dekker's avatar

What a fun experiment.

I often ask: What is the 1% of today?

(inspired by the book Atomic Habits).

We do indeed tend to get caught up in "how much can I cross off the list today" rather than what is the priority?

(another fun fact, if you look at the etymology or priority it never had a plural until the 20th century. Because it was about the one thing coming first/being more important).

Enjoy playing around with editing the list and enjoying the space that that creates!

@robopulp's avatar

Thank you for sharing that factoid, Jara. I love little items like that. It looks like prior to the 20th century people did a few things that accomplished big things. I would even venture that with the appearance of the first corporations were the originators of the plural, and of ideas like multi-tasking.

I never read the book Atomic Habits, but I caught a summary and loved the idea of tiny improvements over time. If we can temper ourselves and ignore virality we can apply this to social media growth also.

Thank you for the kind wishes. Have a wonderful day.

@robopulp's avatar

Happy Sunday everyone!

Talking about a thing dissipates the potential power of the thing to happen.

Operate in silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robopulp/p/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=u2uyb

Deb Burns's avatar

What about "practice in public 🤔"

@robopulp's avatar

Practice in public, but don't talk about practicing in public😉