The Repair Log

What I wasted my time on this week #3

Alright, you know what time it is. Holiday weekend is almost over. Here's some content to hold you over before you have to go back to work tomorrow. I organized them by category to help you sort through them quicker. Interesting For some cool 3D printed product and

Check your stats

Life is more like a video game than we think. If you’ve grown up playing them, you’ll be familiar with having certain parts locked behind your characters level. I think the same can be said for our normal lives. If you don’t increase your skills you aren’

Press Start Week 4/4: Stop waiting

Week 4, we are done. This short 30ish day project has taught me more in 4 weeks than the countless videos i’ve consumed in years. The biggest takeaway from all this has been crystal clear. “I should’ve started sooner”. The crazier part is that I almost did, and

Press Start Week 3/4: Sustain

Last week’s lesson was planing, this week taught me about planning sustainably. Because there’s a difference between getting things done efficiently and getting them done in a rush. You know the feeling, the times where 5 tasks feel like 20 and the ones where 20 feel like 5.

Press Start Week 2/4: Planning

My goal for this week was to show you guys the systems I had in place to get things done. However after some time I have noticed the flaws in my current workflow. The issues looked like this: •No progress •Running out of time •Working on the wrong thing •Lack

Press Start: Week 1/4 Overview

Ok on Monday it’ll be a week since I started this Project. So as promised here’s the breakdown w/ stats. As a reminder here are the deliverables: * 1 Short form video daily * 1 Long form video weekly * 1 Long form write up (Newsletter) * 3 Short form write-ups daily

New Project: Press Start

If you have wanted to start a creative project, but didn’t know where or how to start. This is for you. I want to share a new project with you guys. "Press Start" It's essentially a 4 Week series (Starting today). For people who want

What I've wasted my time on #2

As promised I am back with the weekly drops. And since I don't have a full write up this week I'll share a list of things I've been enjoying this week. So if you see the "What I've wasted my time

Creators to watch for in 2024

It's been a minute. But I'm back, had a lot on my plate with my real job. I happened to be on YouTube and got inspired to share things again. All thanks to these creators, so I wanted to share them with you. Here's

Good tools won't fix bad habits

The best tool for the job is the one you already have I have an interest in tools/tech, so naturally I like having the most powerful tools I can for getting tasks done. The problem is that I apply that logic even if the task is something I haven’

The skill to invest in this year

It’s teaching. I hadn’t realized this before but it’s a skill I was able to monetize (on accident) while I was a real estate agent. When I started real estate I had transitioned from fixing aircraft so I was obsessed with repeatable processes that could be learned

BRB (Recovering from recovery)

I’m typing this a day late, and I also don’t feel like I have anything to say. I think it’s partly because I haven’t stuck to my routine for a few weeks. It's definitely impacted my workflow. However I go back to normal tomorrow.

Repair Log 006: Keep it simple

Simple I read Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, and my favorite lesson out of it was Keeping things simple. (Life changing, I know). I used to overcomplicate things when I was younger. Especially when I was in charge. Thinking I was covering my bases but basically sabotaging myself and my

Quick Fix: Two for One

Today I want so share two apps I used while I was in Japan this last month. Hopefully some of these tools will be new and of use to you. Both of these are Apps, let's get started. App: Airalo For anyone traveling internationally, this app is great.

Repair Log 005: Crash and Burn

I crashed into the side of the wall at least 20 times I was trying to beat a time trial in Gran Turismo.  The Racing rig with the full steering wheel and pedals was set up in a Japanese electronics store. There wasn’t many people in the store so

Quick fix: Some eye candy for your phone.

Every time I'm in Japan I take pictures that I think would make for some nice wallpapers for our phones. Here are some from a trip to Kanazawa. A city on the west coast of Japan. The pictures are mainly from Kenroku-Ken Garden and the Kanazawa Castle park.

Repair Log 004: Start now. Later can wait.

You can either wish you started sooner, or just start now. I got tired of wishing I had started sooner. So I started in September, and once I did I’ve been seeing more benefits than negatives. The biggest one is Community. I knew others were trying to build things

Repair Log 003: Leadership lesson from gaming Online

Playing competitive multiplayer games with my cousins has taught me more about communication, leadership and team dynamics than any team building event ever did.  Throughout years of playing online I learned to better understand the 3 C’s -Command -Control -Communication For these examples I'll use Call of

Repair Log 002: What I wasted my time on this week

Obviously this newsletter is a day late. So I figured I'd share what I was doing instead of prepping for writing this. 🎮 Playing: Spiderman-2 for the PS5 I can't tell you how much I enjoy these games. They bring me back to the older games I

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Repair Log 001: Action, the antidote to procrastination disguised as perfectionism

Being a perfectionist is a great way to hinder your personal development. No, i'm not saying that you shouldn't strive for quality in what you do. What I'm saying is that you will get to a point in whatever you're working on

Tokyo Picture Gallery

I recently had the chance to visit Tokyo. Here are a few of my favorite pictures I took using my iPhone.

Reframing the fear of failure through the game “Dead Cells”

"Dead Cells" is a rogue-like game where players control a character that must fight through a series of levels, collecting weapons and equipment along the way. Each time the character dies, the player must start over from the beginning, but with the knowledge and experience gained from the