By Colby Kultgen

A List of 100 Organization Hacks, You Are Not Your Emotions, and Addiction Vs. Happiness

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A list of 100 tiny tricks to sort out your life

This is one of my favorite articles of the last couple years.

​The Guardian crowdsourced useful organization hacks from readers and compiled a list of the 100 best.

As a generally unorganized person, I found this incredibly helpful.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Read the full list here.

A helpful reframe about emotions

I saw this on Substack and loved it.

There's a big difference between feeling your emotions and being your emotions.

The former is healthy.
The latter, not so much.

Because when you start saying things like “I am anxious” or “I am lazy,” you're not just describing a passing state.

You're telling yourself a story about who you are.

You're turning a temporary feeling into a permanent fixture of your identity.

And the more you repeat this story, the more it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A small shift in language helps break that loop.

P.S. Anxiety disorders are real (I know from experience). This reframe doesn’t solve that, but it can still help.

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A tweet that changed my life (seriously)

You may be wondering:

"Colby, why are you sharing a tweet from 3 years ago?"

Well, cherished reader, it's because this simple idea has turned into one of the most important rules of thumb I live by.

Basically, If fewer and fewer things are making me feel good, that’s usually a red flag.

Not necessarily that I’m “addicted” to something, but that I’m probably leaning on something in a way that’s not healthy.

Huberman expands on this tweet by saying:

This idea is also at the heart of Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke (a fantastic book).

Her research shows that when we rely too heavily on quick dopamine hits, our brain’s baseline actually drops.

Over time, we need more stimulation just to feel “normal” (pretty much the textbook definition of addiction).

The antidote?

Leaning into effortful, meaningful activities.

An article worth 10 minutes of your time

This excerpt comes from an article called Nobody wants a robot to read them a story.

I'm sure you can guess what it's about.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I like using AI.

The last thing I want is for this newsletter to become some kind of anti-tech rant.

That’s not the point.

But I do think with any new technology, it’s important to pause and ask:

AI can help us multiply our abilities.

But if we hand over too much, what will be left that's truly ours?

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Have a great week!

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