Heyaa
Have you ever felt like dead/alive without any particular change in situation?
Iām feeling right now. Alive, I mean.
Not for the week or the last two days. Right from nowā¦ Sunday, 17.39 hours
Right when I opened this blank doc to write. Why? No idea. Nothing specific happened.
Although, on a second thoughtā¦ It feels like something did change right at this moment. Writing this. Yes, thatās what changed.
You know, for the last few days, I have been managing four projects simultaneously. Of these, two are personal projects. Have been publishing one blog daily to Book Blabber and arranging the metadata of my Lazy Writer articles for better presentation.
I have been publishing book recommendation articles of influential people like Gaur Gopal Das, Mukesh Ambani, Seth Godin and so on.
Bing has been mighty helpful in data collection. I have been using it for searching, of courseā¦ podcasts, interviews and other links.
And it also helps me analyse the data available. Here, I asked Bingās Copilot AI tool to find me all the books mentioned in the podcast transcript.
Bing Copilot comes in-built with Microsoft Edge. Have been using it for 3 years almost, so I never had to transition to using the browser.
Iām using it also for client work when needed.
Like when I was looking for the most popular startup industries in Toronto for a project, I couldnāt find any answers. I was getting lists of growing/funded startups, though. On one such large list, I asked Copilot to categorise those startups into the industries they belong to.
Voila! Bing listed the startups accordingly. I checked a few manually, and the list made sense.
So, AI is definitely helping me save time.
Recently, I also tried the automation feature available in CopySpace. Itās like chaining several chat prompts and running them one after one.
And it generated a 5000-word article, in the format I wanted, in the style I needed, and with the approximate word limits I mentioned. With one click. In like 5 minutes.
Took me 5-6 hours (spanned over 3 days) to set it up. It has some 45-50 instructions to run in the sequence.
Will be using this feature in my personal projects. But I do need to ātrainā it for each use case.
Letās see how soon I can set everything up.
Apart from that, I started working on a dropped project again. Client project. (That startup industries research was for that project only)
So, a good start to 2024. Who knows whatās else in the bag?
This newsletter is the only thing thatās not a project I have to do. Itās something I want to do, every week. And as I write this on Sunday, 17.39, I can be myself for the next hour or so.
Iām doing some reading, too. These days, Iām busy with ReWork. Didnāt know its written by the founder of Basecamp.
Thereās this point I liked in the book. It was about not growing. Not expanding, I mean. If youāre happy with the stage youāre in, as a team of one (or five), stay like that.
Just because everyoneās multiplying doesnāt mean you, too, have to.
Another thing I loved is: Plan just enough. Planning is good, but donāt plan so much that the execution seems overwhelming. You can plan as you go.
Will put out a summary of the book, hopefully, by the end of the month. Making notes.
You know, a good thing that happened because of my book blogging thing is Iām getting free ebook deals. Plenty of them.
You can say itās the side effect of starting the book group.
I didn't know what to share apart from spamming the group with memes and book reviews. So, I started seeking book deals.
And since last week, I have started receiving plenty of free Kindle books in my inbox. In the last six weeks, I have amassed around 200 free ebooks on my Kindle.
Of these, I have read less than ten, perhaps. Maybe only five. My reading speed has slowed.
I feel so like Roomba cleaners these days. Turning a new direction at every obstacle.
I am forgetting to do things right while on them. And itās happening when Iām in my early 30s. I wonder what I will be 5 years from now.
While writing this newsletter, I had to take a break. To edit a doc.
It was an old article, a year-plus-old I was checking earlier today. I noticed two missing words, which I forgot to correctā¦ within the next moment.
Made the changes now.
Coincidentally, two days ago, I had a dream. I saw that one of my published articles had many typos. Punctuation errors mainly.
I donāt remember the content. All I remember is a mobile screen of my content. Periods instead of questions, commas instead of periods, no spaces after periodsā¦ and so on.
So, yeah, like a Roomba. Lots of processes to handle without a structure.
I was talking to a friend recently about this thing only.
And right while chatting, I was reminded of an incomplete landing page that I accidentally closed earlier, forgetting about it a moment later.
And thatās the reason why, nowadays, I try to keep all documents (that I have to work on during the day) open. If not, Iāll remember them only when checking my to-do.
Things are weird for me. 2024 seems suspenseful.
Am I old already?
I donāt know if this is how being an adult feels. If you have some experience, maybe you can tell. Help me.
Bidding adieu. Enjoy your day. Live long and prosper.