Format

Newsletter

Platform

Substack

Started

November 2019

Posts

21

OVERVIEW

Inner Monolog is where I write about mental models and unpack the thoughts of thought leaders like Naval Ravikant and Kapil Gupta. Rawness is authenticity; raw plus polished is a medium-rare mind. It began in November 2019 as a near-daily writing habit, modeled on gppls daily but with words instead of songs.

ALL POSTS

• February 6, 2025Steve Jobs: "Everything in This World is Made Up"

  By people who are no smarter than you

• January 7, 2020why Kapil Gupta says it's all a scam

  reflecting on Kapil Gupta's interview on the Crazy Wisdom podcast

• December 17, 2019iterate like a startup
• December 16, 2019what is the magical effect of nature and music on creativity?

  and what does our subconscious, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Albert Einstein have to do with it?

• December 12, 2019your reality vs my reality

  most of us are just wrong

• December 10, 2019podcasts and music are destroying your idle time

  think more clearly by turning down the volume

• December 6, 20193 reasons to search for your programming soulmate

  thoughts on "The Friendship That Made Google Huge" from the New Yorker

• December 5, 2019making music in public

  the isolated past of music making and it’s public future

• December 5, 2019desire is suffering

  suffer wisely

• December 4, 2019looking at freedom from a new vantage point
• December 2, 2019be your own therapist: a challenge

  using meditation to become your own therapist

• December 1, 2019how to find the best 100 books

  for outperforming 20-somethings building a foundation for the digital age

• November 30, 2019more naval quotes
• November 28, 2019how naval reads a book

  reading to satisfy genuine curiosity

• November 28, 2019hangouts to discuss physics

  and how that reflects this whole pursuit of knowledge

• November 27, 2019how to effortlessly write a blog post

  that effortless flow like a stream

• November 25, 2019live-tweeting is so 2017

  how to use discord voice to transform your communication

• November 24, 2019Kanye's visit to Lakewood from my eyes

  the Jesus is king experience

• November 23, 2019building a house on a stone foundation
• November 21, 2019What even is inner monolog?

  step into my medium-rare mind

• November 21, 2019rawness is authenticity. raw + polished = medium-rare mind