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Our App is Live!

Published 22 days ago • 3 min read

I’m thrilled to share something we’ve been working on for months: our very own mobile app is LIVE 📱🚀

Built in partnership with Circle Plus, our app gives you a direct line into our community of over 10,000 members, right from your phone.

It’s clean, simple, and designed to make engaging with our work easier and more seamless than ever.

The moment you log in, you’ll unlock our free PARA Method mini-course.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by digital chaos, this is the perfect place to start.

10x Your Meetings with These 5 Simple Changes

I’m sharing the 5 meeting strategies I’ve refined over the past decade to help you run meetings that actually get results.

You’ll learn how to…

  • decide if a meeting is even necessary
  • prepare (without overprepping)
  • stay fully present and still take notes
  • and make sure every meeting ends with clarity and follow-through

I’ll also show you exactly how I use Otter.ai, my go-to AI meeting agent, to streamline the entire process.

Permission to Ignore My Productivity Advice

My AI clone on Delphi has been out for a while now, and the backend analytics revealed a surprising pattern: my audience seeks explicit permission to ignore certain productivity advice.

People were framing questions like "Is it okay if I don't organize my notes according to PARA?" or "Can I skip the weekly review if it doesn't work for me?"

Here's what I want you to know: I hereby give you permission to actively ignore or disregard anything and everything I teach.

Don't take my methods—or anyone else's—as absolute truth. CODE, PARA, Progressive Summarization are starting points, not commandments.

Your life is unique. Your brain works differently. Your circumstances change daily.

Try what resonates. Experiment boldly. Keep what serves you and confidently discard the rest. There's no productivity police coming to arrest you for customizing a system to fit your actual needs.

The best productivity system is the one you'll actually use—even if it's "wrong" by someone else's standards.

Action step: Pick one productivity rule you've been forcing yourself to follow. Experiment with ignoring it this week and see what happens. Reply and tell me what you discovered!

Join a Free Live Journaling Session

I want to extend an invitation from my friend Jo Franco to a free journaling session this Saturday, May 31st, from 12 - 2 pm ET.

Jo is the founder of the global journaling movement, JoClub, a polyglot, a Netflix Travel Host, and a speaker at last year’s Second Brain Summit.

This free session will help you use paper and pen as tools to reconnect with yourself, plan your aligned path, and script your dream life.

The theme of this event is “Journaling 101: How to use journaling to transform your life.”

Remi Owadokun (JoClub Facilitator) will take you on a thought-provoking journey, providing tools, science-based evidence, and prompts to help you start journaling.

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​Brain.fm is a powerful companion for any serious writing or deep thinking work.

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