
3-2-1 Thursday newsletter - James Clear

Substack notes:
Your reader's struggles, not your expertise. Shared Notes focus on problems your audience faces. Notes showing off how smart you are rarely connect.
Simple, extracted ideas, not complex methodologies. Your job is to pull out straightforward insights that anyone can understand.
Understanding of problems before solutions. When readers th
... See more“CODE”—Capture; Organize; Distill; Express.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
distill your notes down to their essence.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
How to build a system of information-gathering to get an ROI on time spent
From the Forte Labs Newsletter:
How to read this newsletter:
You'll always find different topics and different content formats (e.g., video, blog posts) in this newsletter. That's intentional.
But for some, that can feel a bit overwhelming.
I want to assure sure: You absolutely
... See moreFinally, I’ll go through my headline and edit out as many tiny connecting words as possible. Less is more.
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
This process of deliberate reflection resulted in the creation of his 3-2-1 newsletter—three ideas from James, two quotes from others, and one question for the reader to ponder—a much shorter format that has now amassed millions of readers.