Dan Bartlett

🙇‍♂️ Meditation, wisdom & full-contact living 🥊
➡️ Coach, bodyworker & 2x tech founder
🚀 Founder @AlmanacDocs/@blazeaiapp & @GoCardless alum
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[Dan Bartlett @danbartlett_uk]

What's working: it surfaces connections across notes I'd forgotten I wrote. What's not: the urge to keep restructuring the folder instead of putting it to good use.

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I gave Claude access to my 7,500-note Obsidian vault. It needed a "Polaris" folder to orient—my goals, values, writing style, current projects.

Does it need to know I love croissants and hate Maroon 5? Unclear. I put it in anyway.

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p.s. I'll also be developing some more potent programmes for burnout and dissociated meditators. DM me if you're interested in early access.

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Five years ago, I started shaking in meditation. I thought something was wrong.

I didn’t know it was the beginning of something transformative.

I didn’t know anyone could shake like this.

And I sure didn’t think I’d spend a year learning how to teach this to others.

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Are you interested in reconnecting with a more spacious, less highly-strung version of yourself? As of today, my practice doors are open! I’m offering sessions in-person, in Bristol, and globally over Zoom.

https://t.co/0IZ0Rlze7R

#tre #bodywork #somatic #healing

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It will happily let you stare at it as long as you like, doing no work at all.

My advice is to open it once at the start of the day, manually write down what you need to do, and then close it.

The work starts when the app closes.

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Your Todo app is the perfect way to procrastinate.

You can plan your life ad infinitum, with praise and sexy UI transitions.

You can add tags and maybe even let uncle AI tag some things for you... before you have to go through and redo it all.

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Don’t get me wrong. I use a Todo app. It’s convenient and especially useful for saying, “remind me to do this on Thursday.”

But your Todo app will praise your inaction.

It will encourage you to add unnecessary detail.

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How do you know if you're investing wisely in your productivity setup? I suggested one question in my latest newsletter to help you figure it out: https://t.co/1rvfgg49qw

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In my 2 decades of building products, teams and companies, I’ve also cycled through all of the Todo apps: Todoist, Things, Workflowy, Reminders, Notion, a complete second brain (🤮), bullet journals, Obsidian, random pieces of paper...

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The systems that worked best were ephemeral. They were adapted to my current hurricane of obligations. 6 months later, they felt rigid and redundant. That's ok. It means they served their precise focus, instead of becoming a time-wasting obsession.

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For those who suspect their Read-It-Later queue is a lie

https://t.co/WLshQkDy0A

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https://t.co/BTZjEG72Cf

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Reflections on 100 days of publishing something new.

The good, the bad and the meh ⬇️

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The difference some space can make:

https://t.co/4760886x3y

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The feedback I hear most when facilitating TRE sessions is that a little space can make a big difference.

This is easy to overlook if you focus exclusively on “pain-reduction”