By Colby Kultgen Build Your Own University Course, The Time Will Pass Anyway, and How to Remember Everything You Read Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's get right into it. 1. A short essay that I found inspiring credit: @diewithoutregrets There are two things I want to dig into here. The first is already in the piece. The second is something I...
11 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen 63 Principles for Life, Do it For The Story, and Elfing Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's get right into it. 1. A list of 63 life lessons I enjoyed - Principles by Nabeel S. Qureshi Sometimes I think these “life lesson” lists are fool’s gold. Shiny and fun to read, but lacking any real substance. This one is not like that. I...
18 days ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen Habits With a High Rate of Return, You Might Be An Otrovert, and Antislop Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. 1. A list of habits with the highest rate of return Habits that have a high rate of return in life: - sleeping 8+ hours each day - lifting weights 3x week - going for a walk each day - saving at least 10 percent of your income -...
25 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen I Built A Brain Dump Tool, Emotions That Don't Exist in English, and The Goal Is To Experience Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Today's newsletter is sponsored by Perplexity. 1. I built a brain dump tool! - try it here I'll be honest. Sometimes when a potential sponsor sends me their product, it really doesn't live up to the hype....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen How to Enter Side Doors, The Ultimate Longevity Checklist, and Your AI Slop Bores Me Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. 1. I'm back from Peru!! me and the homies I just took my first real break from work in 5 years. Yes, you read that right, 5 years. Sure, I've taken other trips during that time. But my laptop always came with me. Which...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen My 10 Favorite Things of 2026 So Far Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! I don't mean to shock you, but we're already a third of the way through 2026. Seems like the perfect time for a list! So I racked my brain and pulled together 10 things that have genuinely made my life better so far this year. I hope they make yours better too. 1. This $30 whiteboard for tracking my goals Early contender for my best investment of 2026. I cannot stress this enough: write...
2 months ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen 14 Questions to Ask If You're Stressed, How to Get Luckier In Life, and The Sudoku Packing Method Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. No fluff, just the good stuff. This edition is brought to you by our friends at Shortform. jumpscare warning As I was writing this, I realized I've been using Shortform for nearly 5 years(!) While pretty...
2 months ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen A 168-Hour Template, The Fig Tree Dilemma, and a Reddit Post That Made Me Cry Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Here is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. 1. A spreadsheet to find out where your time is really going - The 168 Hours Template Last week, I asked what you guys wanted to see more of in this newsletter. The top response? Productivity tips (feet pics were a close...
2 months ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen The Odyssey Plan, Napping is Good For You, and One of The Coolest Things On The Internet Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Before we get started, I have a small request: Reply to this email telling me ONE thing you'd like to see more of in this newsletter. Productivity tips, AI tools, YouTube videos, feet pics, interesting articles. You name it. Feedback is what helps me make this a banger every week. 1. An exercise I wish I'd done 10 years ago This post from...
3 months ago • 2 min read
