January 21, 2025: How to Remember Everything You Read

“Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.”

― Peter Drucker

Hi friends,

We hand-picked 3 good pieces of content for you to highlight this week. We hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives.

📚 3 Good Recommendations

Do It Your Way
by Morgan Housel (2 mins)

• Success is Personal: The ultimate success metric is achieving what aligns with your unique goals and personality, rather than imitating others whose goals differ from yours.
• The Danger of Conformity: Talented individuals can falter when forced to follow rigid structures that don’t suit their style or intuition, as demonstrated by writers who lost their creativity under corporate rules.
• Tailored Approaches Work Best: Whether investing, spending, or pursuing goals, the best strategies align with your personality and skills, fostering fulfillment and personal benchmarks rather than external validation.

Forcing Yourself to Do a Task vs. Letting Yourself Off the Hook
by Leo Babauta (3 mins)

• Beyond Two Choices: People often default to forcing themselves to complete a task or letting themselves off the hook, but there are alternative approaches, such as practicing self-care, seeking inspiration, asking for help, or finding playful, creative ways to engage with the task.
• Understanding Tendencies: Awareness of personal tendencies—whether to avoid tasks or to push through them—can help identify patterns that lead to negative outcomes like burnout, overwhelm, or self-judgment, allowing for a shift to healthier strategies.
• Cultivating Aliveness: Instead of coercion, tasks can be approached with a sense of play, connection to a deeper purpose, and support from others. This transforms work into an opportunity for engagement and vitality rather than mere obligation.

How to Remember Everything You Read
by Justin Sung (26 mins)

• Balanced Learning System: The video outlines a system focused on consumption (absorbing information) and digestion (processing it into long-term memory). Overemphasizing consumption leads to forgetting up to 90%, stressing the need for proper digestion.
• PACER Framework: Information is categorized into Procedural, Analogous, Conceptual, Evidence, and Reference (PACER) types. Each type has tailored retention strategies, such as practice, analogy critique, mapping, and rehearsals using tools like flashcards.
• Efficient Learning Tips: Focus on digesting critical knowledge with targeted methods, balancing consumption and digestion to maximize retention and learning efficiency.

📣 Community

• 🟩 Glasp Referral Program:
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• 🟦 Coming soon - Obsidian Plugin:
  We’re developing the Glasp-Obsidian plugin, allowing you to export your highlights from Glasp into Obsidian seamlessly. Stay tuned for the public release—we'll keep you updated!
• 🟨 Released Glasp API Beta:
  We’re excited to announce the beta release of the Glasp API! This gives developers powerful tools to integrate Glasp's features into their apps and workflows. Learn more about how to get started and explore the possibilities here.
• 🟥 Glasp Talk with Nathan Lands:
  Glasp Talk features intimate interviews with luminaries, revealing their emotions, experiences, and stories. The guest, Nathan Lands, is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and visionary in the tech industry. Nathan is the co-host of The Next Wave Podcast with Matt Wolfe and HubSpot and the founder of Lore.com, a techno-optimist AI newsletter read by over 20,000 innovators, offering insights and forecasts on the transformative potential of AI.

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❤️ Gratitude

We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!

• Japan startup founders build Silicon Valley network one meal at a time on Nikkei Asia
• Free AI SEO Tools: The Ultimate Guide for 2025 on Agile Digital Agency
• Massimizza la tua produttività con Glasp Social Web Highlighter (Massimizza la tua produttività con Glasp Social Web Highlighter) on Deep Learning Italia

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We hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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