By Colby Kultgen The 10 Best Things I Read in 2025 Read online / Read time: 6 minutes I read so many great things in 2025. Articles. Tweet threads. Essays. Interviews. It was a struggle trying to narrow them down to 10, but here's what made the cut. I hope they're as useful to you as they were to me. Enjoy! 1. The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking by Shane Parrish I'm not exaggerating when I say this article changed my life. I think about it at least once per week (often more). The key...
9 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Read online / Read time: 5 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I usually share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries from the past week. Today’s issue is going to be a little different. I’ve put together a 2025 Personal Year-In-Review exercise for you—something to help you reflect, learn, and plan for a stronger year ahead. In partnership with Wispr Flow: My favorite productivity tool of 2025 Out of every productivity I tried in 2025, one...
16 days ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen 10 Ideas That Changed My Life in 2025 Read online / Read time: 6 minutes Well friends, we've officially made it to the end of 2025. That means it's time for cozy sweaters, eggnog, and deep personal reflection. I spent a lot of time this week thinking about the ideas that shaped me most this year and, in the spirit of giving, I wanted to share them with you. Here they are in all their glory (plus a little extra commentary from me). Enjoy! 1. Choose slow dopamine This idea...
23 days ago • 5 min read
By Colby Kultgen How to Remember Everything You Read, 42 Things Everyone Should Learn to Do, and The Best Twitter Thread of 2025 Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A tweet about the most underrated skill in work I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Developing a bias for action is one of the most valuable...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen Google Maps Has Better Self-Talk Than You, Short-Form Video is Making You Dumb, and The Power of Your "Default State" Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A self-talk reframe everyone should hear Entrepreneur Coral Santoro on rethinking failure: You ever notice when you take a wrong turn on Google...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen 102 Lessons From 102 Books, Shohei Otahni's Goal-Setting Method, and The Coolest Photograph You'll Ever See Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A goal-setting method used by the best baseball player in the world If you don't know who Shohei Ohtani is, he's basically the Michael Jordan of baseball....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen 7 Habits That Actually Changed My Life, How to End Your Extremely Online Era, and The Mexican Fisherman Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. 7 small habits that have actually changed my life This week, a friend asked me an interesting question: Which one habit has had the biggest impact on your life?...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen Hey friends. Welcome to 1% Better! The newsletter where I usually share the 5 best things I find each week. But this week's issue will be a bit different... 10 priceless lessons on my 34th birthday 🎂 It's my birthday! Well, actually, it was on Saturday, but for the sake of this issue, let’s pretend it’s today. This past year taught me more than I ever expected. So today I want to share the 10 lessons that have made the biggest impact on me over the last 365 days. Let’s dive...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
By Colby Kultgen A Tool to Double Your Typing Speed, How to Rebuild Your Attention Span, and 12 Ways to Engineer Luck Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. An article about rebuilding your attention span 🚨 Shameless plug alert. My latest Substack article is live: How to rebuild your attention span (without quitting the...
2 months ago • 4 min read
