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Chase Jarvis and the Myth of the Self-Made Creator
Next month's book is The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. Join the book club to get all the posts.
This month we read Never Play it Safe by Chase Jarvis. Jarvis' premise is that the best stuff in life lives just outside your comfort zone1. While comfort isn't bad, and can lead to a good life, it may not be the best that we can do for
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/09/28/chase-jarvis-and-the-myth-of-the-self-made-creator/
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Bridging Analogue and Digital Notes
The Obsidian Note Codes plugin does an interesting thing to bridge your digital and physical notes by producing a 4 letter code for a note which you can write down to reference that note in a notebook.
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/09/22/briding-analogue-and-digital-notes/
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There is no “perfect” task system
Brent Simmons addresses the mirage of the perfect todo system.
But it’s not around the corner. It’s really not. There’s no perfect system for anybody. All of these apps are pretty good, and you may find one fits you better than another, but you’re not ever going to make it the perfect system for you. Even if you started from scratch and wrote your own, you’re no
https://curtismchale.ca/2021/04/07/there-is-no-perfect-task-system/
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Never Play it Safe – Chase Jarvis
While part of my is always inspired by these types of books they also seem to be extreme examples of survivorship bias. We only hear about all the people the author has met, and sometimes coached, that succeeded by following the ideas the author is writing about.
https://curtismchale.ca/book/never-play-it-safe-chase-jarvis/
Artemis – Andy Weir
In this book we follow Jasmine (Jazz) on the Artemis colony on the Moon. She's a smuggler and generally gets up to shenanigans involving smuggling and in this book some sabotage.
