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Finish What Matters debuts Monday. This is your last chance to pre-order at only $9.99.
David Kadavy is author of Finish What Matters; Mind Management, Not Time Management; & Digital Zettelkasten.
Finish What Matters debuts Monday. This is your last chance to pre-order at only $9.99.
Do you feel like you have too many ideas? It’s hard to focus on one because it feels like you might be missing out on the others.
That’s why I use an Idea Triage spreadsheet. It helps me sort and filter my ideas according to risk, reward, work, and more. Using the concepts from Finish What Matters, I ask myself things like: keep on reading »
In 2017, I challenged myself to email a chapter a day for 30 days. The response led me to write a whole trilogy.
As I finish the trilogy, I’m making that original draft available for the first time ever (30k words, ~130 pages) to anyone who pre-orders the Kindle edition of the third book. keep on reading »
In 2017, I decided I needed to get serious about shipping creative work.
So I challenged myself to send an email a day for 30 days. I wrote a draft of a book I’d call Getting Art Done. Some of you OGs might remember this graphic: keep on reading »
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Revenue for the second quarter of 2026 was:
Q1’s revenue was $11,155.
Q2 profits were:
Q1’s profit was $8,081.
This article originally appeared on Maximum Reverie »
Two questions that don’t seem related, but are:
This article originally appeared on Maximum Reverie »
In 1513, Raphael was making a fortune essentially as a more-reliable Leonardo. At thirty, Raphael had already done his best work. Leonardo, in his sixties, was just across the courtyard, still working on the Mona Lisa. keep on reading »
This article originally appeared on Maximum Reverie »
The man who published 500 left 150 unfinished – and that’s just the beginning. His unique paper trail provides clues on how creative works get done (or don’t).

I published three new articles on Substack this week:
As of today, I have been alive for 47 years. Here is everything I’ve learned: