Where I'd start
How to Organise your Life - Building a Second BrainA walkthrough of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain and its Capture, Organize, Distill, Express method. Key ideas: file notes by which project will use them, not by topic, run slow-burn projects in parallel, and a note only matters if you turn it into something.A source of inspiration for my Notion system, where different areas keep track of progress and projects. It helps me make meaningful progress without feeling behind.
12 Productivity Myths Wasting Your TimeAli pushes back on common productivity advice with nuance, like action creating motivation and goals that are close and personal, not only SMART. Key ideas: reframe I have no time as it is not a priority, and read to explore a topic or to apply it.
21 Life Lessons I've LearnedLessons from 2021 drawn mostly from books, from Die With Zero to the gap and the gain. Key ideas: explore the first 37 percent of your options and then commit, and think of the week as 112 waking hours to spend deliberately.
Why I Left Medicine... ForeverAli explains why he left medicine after two years as a doctor, using five reasons people work: money, fun, helping people, purpose, and status. Tools like the gravestone technique and an ideal ordinary week showed that teaching fulfills him more than clinical work. Key ideas: fulfillment from teaching at scale, a financial safety net, and the journey mattering more than the destination.Changing careers isn't the end of the world, and so much is possible even when the people around you doubt it.