Nik Spyratos
@nikspyratos
Thanks for sharing! I'll have to look into the Happy film and that 12 things process.
It's a slower life, and maybe not going to make us mega rich, but that isn't the only desirable outcome in the end!
Thanks for sharing!
I guess that's part of my question overall - what's the line between delayed gratification and flat out living an unsatisfying life?
I think it'll be different for everyone, but it takes very deliberate introspection to find it.
Good question - inherently, delayed gratification implies some level of dissatisfaction while going through that process. I'm also bad at compartmentalizing things, so when my job wasn't ideal that led to other parts of my life not going so well. So, I always felt somewhat dissatisfied with my life when working in Corporate America. Not to the degree where I felt my entire life was shit (and I did like parts of my job), but that feeling was always there.
It was however a conscious decision to "embrace the suck" as they say in the military and remain at that job for a while and stack money so that I could lead a different life eventually.
I'm with you on not being able to compartmentalise well.
Part of the human condition is always to be slightly dissatisfied with things, so that never truly goes away. Compromise is another word that often comes up here - you can almost never have everything going well at once; sometimes some life aspects just have to fall aside for a time.
True, even with indie hacking there are aspects I'm dissatisfied with (lack of social interaction during the day being a big one - attempting to fix that by moving to a digital nomad hub where I can surround myself with people building bootstrapped startups). There are always negatives with each decision, just trying to optimize for a better ratio of good stuff to negative stuff
Markdown IMO is still the best for that - even Notion acknowledges that given its interface works very well with (and is partly based on) Markdown.
Obsidian also has plugins that are stored per-vault so you can enhance your setup with things like kanban boards, data tables/spreadsheets, etc.
Are you sharing docs externally? In other words, do you need the SSG at all?
For personal use local markdown files + preview is a much easier workflow. VS Code with the Markdown All In One extension is more than enough (if you don't already want to use Obsidian).
It's all private, but I have a mix of journals, project logs, work experience, random thoughts, etc. I like having an interface that lets me quickly review, filter, and collate
Markdown IMO is still the best for that - even Notion acknowledges that given its interface works very well with (and is partly based on) Markdown.
Obsidian also has plugins that are stored per-vault so you can enhance your setup with things like kanban boards, data tables/spreadsheets, etc.
I think lots of the competition are pretty good, I've tried Clickup and Coda. However it really boils down to what specialty features you need and if you need multiple users. For just yourself, I second Obsidian. Bonus is it has the Publish paid feature so you can publish notes on the internet, either publicly or lock the site with a password.
That's really interesting, and a nice simple approach to Purchasing Power Parity which I didn't even talk about in the OP.
By the way, I forgot to mention there are services out there that calculate the GDP difference in real-time and provide the cost to individual visitors (most auto apply coupons to adjust the base price), but checking and adjusting prices every quarter is more than enough. 🙂
For personal writing I moved from Revue to Substack when Revue shut down.
Beehiiv looks good. I personally avoid them because one of their growth marketers cold emailed about my personal newsletter to my work account, which I found extremely unprofessional. I don't want to reward that behaviour.
One app I'm keen to try out going forward is MailCoach, as it seems solid & affordable. It's also run but Spatie, a big name in the Laravel world, so I know their Laravel support will be good. So it seems like the best of both worlds for non-techies and Laravel devs alike.
I've seen this from the freelancing side. Having a network and community of peers helps quite a lot.
I'm with you on not being able to compartmentalise well.
Part of the human condition is always to be slightly dissatisfied with things, so that never truly goes away. Compromise is another word that often comes up here - you can almost never have everything going well at once; sometimes some life aspects just have to fall aside for a time.
True, even with indie hacking there are aspects I'm dissatisfied with (lack of social interaction during the day being a big one - attempting to fix that by moving to a digital nomad hub where I can surround myself with people building bootstrapped startups). There are always negatives with each decision, just trying to optimize for a better ratio of good stuff to negative stuff