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Life Optimization
The Go Bag Principle
Labeled crates in the garage and a backpack that never gets unpacked. How to replace remembering with a system, so being ready costs nothing in a hurry.
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Work & Leadership
The Crossover Checklist
My brother ran a security company alongside a defense career until it replaced his salary. Six conditions he set before leaving, and what they ask of you.
Video
Work & Leadership
Heroic Effort Doesn’t Scale
If the work holds together because you personally catch everything, it caps at your capacity and leaves when you do. What to build instead, and a weekly review to start.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
A Review Needs Two Points
A journal that only records gives your review one point, and one point cannot show drift. What a daily review needs to compare, and one sentence to write tonight.
Video
Life Optimization
Grit Isn’t Enough: Change the Situation
Angela Duckworth’s new book argues that grit is often not enough. The situation carries more than we credit, and four parts of it are easier to change than they look.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Thinking & Learning
How to Master Hard Books with AI and Obsidian
Letting AI summarize a hard book leaves the folder full and your head empty. Here is how I use it as a tutor instead, with a free Mastery Kit prompt to start.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Link Obsidian to Zotero: My Citation Workflow for Scholars and Writers
The Obsidian and Zotero setup I use to link every note to its source, so a citation takes a keystroke instead of an hour of searching.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Thinking & Learning
The Compounding Effect of a Daily Review
Why a few minutes with your notes each day looks like nothing for months, then starts paying you back in patterns you could not have seen up close.
Video
Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Make Your Daily Review a Rhythm, Not Another Task
Anchor your review to something you already do each day and keep it small enough to survive a bad morning. That is how it becomes a rhythm instead of a chore.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Troubleshooting Your Journal and Review Practice
The weeks you most need your notes are the weeks you stop taking them. Three common ways the practice breaks down, and a gentle way to restart after a gap.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Tools & Resources
How to Add Location Breadcrumbs to Your Obsidian Notes
A small automation that stamps where you were onto each Obsidian note, so a trip log becomes something you can retrace years later.
Video
AI Agents & Automation, Life Optimization, Thinking & Learning
Your Journal Becomes More Valuable in the Age of AI
Journaling mattered before AI. But when I began using an AI assistant to help me review, synthesize, and plan from my journal, I realized I had been sitting on far more value than I knew.
Video
AI Agents & Automation, Thinking & Learning
AI Can Make You Faster, but It Can’t Replace Human Judgment | Robert Rose
Camden Bucey talks with Robert Rose about Valuable Friction, AI, creativity, and why discernment, judgment, and relationships matter in a world obsessed with speed.
Video
AI Agents & Automation, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
How I Use Obsidian, Claude, and Word to Turn Research into Writing
Obsidian holds the notes, Claude helps develop the argument, and Word is where the draft gets finished. The workflow I use to get from research to finished prose.
Video
AI Agents & Automation, Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
How I Use OpenClaw to Prevent Attention Drift (A Weekly Review Workflow)
How I use an AI agent to prompt my weekly reviews and pull me back to the goals I already chose, before a busy week drifts away from them.
Video
Life Optimization, Work & Leadership
AI Agents Changed Everything — Entry-Level Employees Now Need C-Suite Skills
What I learned deploying AI agents inside a real organization, and why the people who thrive now will be the ones who can direct and manage the work, not just do it.
Video
AI Agents & Automation, Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
AI Agents Are Here: How to Build a Virtual Team for Your Life + Work (OpenClaw, Claude, Obsidian)
My brother Kelly and I walk through Claude Co-Work, Claude Code, and OpenClaw, and what it looks like to hand recurring work to agents that run with little supervision.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Reading Your Past Self
Reading old notes is uncomfortable at first. How to meet your earlier self with curiosity instead of judgment, and take one usable insight from each review.
Video
Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Legacy & Purpose
The Mechanics of Time Horizons
Fifteen minutes a morning across three look-backs: a week, a month, and a year ago. The questions to ask at each distance, and why together they make progress visible.
Video
Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Legacy & Purpose
Legacy and Memory
Notes that are kept and reviewed become an inheritance. How a personal archive gains value with use, and what it takes to make it worth leaving to others.
Video
Life Optimization, Thinking & Learning
Intentionality in Practice
A cascade from lifetime goals down to today’s tasks, and a morning review that keeps those goals in front of you once the year stops feeling fresh.
Video
Life Optimization, Thinking & Learning
Preparedness as Peace of Mind
Your old notes are proof you have been through hard stretches before. How a daily review turns “this is unprecedented” into “I have data on similar situations.”
Video
Health & Well-being, Life Optimization
Sample Rate and the Perception of Progress
Day to day, change is too small to notice. Why the interval you review at decides whether you see real progress or mistake routine for standing still.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Building Your Capture System
The capture system that lasts is the simple one you will actually use. Why overbuilding is the usual failure, and how to start small enough to keep going.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
The Psychology of Externalization
Holding everything in your head costs you sleep and focus. What happens when you write it down, and why getting it out of your mind actually improves your memory.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
The Daily Capture
The insight that feels too obvious to forget rarely survives the day. Why writing it down in the moment is the foundation of the whole practice.
Video
Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
The Hidden Cost of Living in the Present — and How to Build Knowledge That Compounds
Living only in the present means relearning the same lessons. How reading my notes from a week, a month, and a year ago changed how I steward time and attention.
Video
Financial Wellness, Health & Well-being, Life Optimization, Thinking & Learning, Work & Leadership
Burn the Playbook: Joe Pulizzi on Building Freedom and Owning Your Path
Joe Pulizzi on leaving the standard career script, finding the Tilt only you can own, and staying consistent through the long stretch before results arrive.
Video
Life Optimization
Reclaim Your Most Powerful Hour
Reaching for your phone first thing leaks the clearest hour of the day. Why I create before I consume, and the one-page habit that protects the morning.
Video
Life Optimization
Calculate the Value of Your Time (and Buy Back Your Life)
Dan Martell’s Buyback Rate puts a number on your hour, so you can decide what to delegate, what to keep, and what deserves more of your best time.
Video
Life Optimization, Work & Leadership
The Loop That Keeps You Doing Your Best Work
Buying back your time is not a one-time fix. The audit, transfer, and fill cycle that keeps your calendar pointed at the work only you should be doing.
Video
Health & Well-being, Life Optimization
Buy Back Your Time: The New Currency of a Prepared, Purposeful Life
Most of us spend time to save money when we should spend money to save time. Why Dan Martell’s idea matters most for people whose success has used up their hours.
Life Optimization, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
The Three Horizons that Keep You on Track
Short-term calibration, a mid-range reality check, and long-term perspective. The three look-backs I use every morning, and the questions I ask at each one.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Thinking & Learning
The Capture Habit: What to Write Down Daily (And What to Skip)
I failed at journaling twice by trying to write polished entries. What to capture instead, what to skip, and a five-minute evening recap that makes it stick.
Video
Life Optimization, Thinking & Learning
The Hidden Cost of Not Doing a Daily Review
We live in an endless present, solving the same problems from scratch and forgetting lessons we already learned. The fifteen minutes of review that pay back the most.
Video
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Daily Journal Review in Obsidian: How I Use Dataview for a Smarter PKM Workflow
A tour of my Obsidian setup: a home note for quick access and Dataview queries that bring back journal entries from a week, a month, and a year ago.
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Rethinking Digital Organization: From Folders to Unique Identifiers
Folders force you to decide where something belongs before you understand it. Why I started moving to unique identifiers, and the problems that approach still has to solve.
Financial Wellness, Life Optimization, Work & Leadership
From Concept to Cash: What It Takes to Transform Ideas into Profitable Realities
Ideas are rarely the hard part of building wealth. A hunting book, an unexpected lesson about execution, and three practical steps for turning an idea into income.