By Colby Kultgen A Life-Changing Chart, The Importance of Discomfort and A Reset Button For Your Body Read online / Read time: 3 minutes Today at a Glance: • Chart: who we spend time with• Quote: buying an envelope• Article: importance of discomfort• Tip: a reset button for your body• Event: build a $1M LinkedIn profile A chart that will change the way you see life Every year this chart finds its way back to me.I always stop to look at it, and it never fails to hit me hard.It outlines how the...
13 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Practical Gratitude, Unhealthy Optimization, and A Challenge For The Last Quarter of 2025 Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • Practical ways to cultivate gratitude• Life isn't an optimization problem• My favorite AI tool of 2025• A challenge for the last quarter of 2025• A poem I'm reflecting on A few practical ways to cultivate gratitude Hot take: "Be grateful" is terrible self-help advice. Not because gratitude isn't powerful (it is). But because this...
20 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen A List of 100 Organization Hacks, You Are Not Your Emotions, and Addiction Vs. Happiness Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • List: 100 hacks to sort out your life• Reframe: You're not your emotions• Tweet: Addiction vs happiness• Article: Don’t outsource humanity• Funny: Penguin publishing 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...
27 days ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen A Focus Cheat Code, Reverse Time Travel, and Different Kinds of Smart Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • Idea: The power of reverse time travel• Video: A focus cheat code I use daily• Tool: An AI tool to save time• Article: The different kinds of smart• Quote: A reminder we all need The power of reverse time travel We love time travel fantasies. The idea of magically getting to go back 10 years to fix that awkward moment, buy Bitcoin early, or say how we...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen How to Remember Everything You Read, The Most Underrated Productivity Hack, and Setting Baseline Joy Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • Article: Remember everything you read• Tip: Most underrated productivity hack• Tool: My favorite AI tool of 2025• Idea: The greatest skill you can develop• Funny: Had me for a second An article about how to remember everything you read To sum up this brilliant piece in 4 words: Write in your books. More specifically,...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Do This Instead of Doomscrolling, A Learning Tool I'm Obsessed With, and 65 Notes From Seth Godin Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • Article: Do this instead of doomscrolling• Tool: A learning tool I'm obsessed with• List: 65 Life Lessons from Seth Godin• Article: Why time felt slower as kids• Funny: This hit too close to home A list of media to consume instead of doomscrolling Last week we talked about "unrotting your brain". Breaking the cycle of...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen How to Unrot Your Brain, A Genius Sales Tip, and What's The Point of It All Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • Article: How to unrot your brain• Quote: The danger of distraction• Video: What's the point of it all?• Tip: A genius sales tactic• Funny: 🦜🗣️ An article about "unrotting" your brain Brain rot. It's simultaneously the funniest and most tragic term to make its way into the cultural lexicon lately. We like to make jokes, but deep down we all feel...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen The Slow Tech Movement, Don't Use AI to Write For You, and A Genius Tip to Be More Charismatic Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Today at a Glance: • Post: A case for "slow tech"• Study: Writing is thinking• Tip: How to make people like you more• Idea: Curate your inputs• Funny: How your email finds me A case for tech that does less, not more I can’t stop thinking about this Substack post I read last week: I bought my kids an old-school phone to keep smartphones out of their...
2 months ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen The Best Ideas of 2025 (So Far) Read online / Read time: 6 minutes Well friends, we’re officially past the halfway mark of 2025. Felt like the perfect time to hit pause and revisit some of the best ideas I’ve come across this year. So I opened up the archives.Reread every issue. And pulled the 10 that seemed to resonate most. Here they are in all their glory (plus a little extra commentary from yours truly). Enjoy! 1. A list of tips from 50 years of travelling I was shocked...
2 months ago • 6 min read
