What I Explored This Month - June 2025: An update: last post since I started my Bachelor's degree and how you can follow me on this new journey
Update: This will be the last What I Explored post as I focus on my online accounting degree (started in June!) My creative energy is shifting from this series to documenting my journey by uploading weekly videos to my YouTube channel. Follow along there if you’re curious about my journey!
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I DID
Podcast guesting and a new goal
In February 2025’s What I Explored post, I said I wanted to guest on more podcasts this year.
And I have! I was on 2 podcasts this month talking about neurodivergence and my bookkeeping business.
Now, I’m updating my ask from podcast guesting to “It would be cool to present more webinars and do a paid speaking gig.” (And so far, I have one webinar scheduled and more in the pipeline! So that ask is coming true very soon.)
Updated my websites (yes, again)
For Yellow Sky website - I made updates to better reflect what client testimonials consistently highlight: supportive and communicative bookkeeping. If you want a bookkeeper who won't ghost you OR clog up your inbox, that's me.
For my personal website - I clarified my main skill: creating options that no one offered you. I also added a navigation page to guide you through my world of content - like signs in a park.
Check out my world here: https://aneishavelazquez.com/links
WHAT I READ
How to Make Friend Soup by Madeleine Dore - I enjoyed her perspective on how to build momentum and make new friends
WHAT I CREATED
My latest blog post - The personal development I didn't know was coming: How my business changed me: (Why my intuition chose the 2000s makeover instead of the 90s one)
Accounting Degree Journey
As mentioned, I’m documenting my online degree journey with weekly videos on my YouTube channel!
It’s been a fun experience creating thumbnails that match the vibe I want to share. And harder than expected to documents my thoughts to share along the way along with my course notes. I used Notion to create a mini-dashboard to hold both course notes and my thoughts and that’s working well so far.
Here’s the first video thumbnail in the playlist:
And here’s the third video. See? I already updated the thumbnail vibe a bit:
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations these past months. I’ve really appreciated it!
What I Explored This Month - May 2025: Micro-conferences, networking goal update, and human psychology
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I CREATED
New blog post: What My Body Was Holding: What 365 Days of Meditation Revealed
WHAT I DID
WAVE 2025 - Seattle Conference
I attended Erin Pohan’s WAVE conference for women in accounting and finance. I loved that it was a one day “micro-conference” because one day meant my usual post-event “social hangover” is much less than a typical 3 day conference.
Update on Goal to Meet 50 New People
I set a goal to meet 1:1 with 50 new business owners this year to grow my network. So far, I’ve connected with 28 - more than halfway there! I really went for it in Q2 when I had momentum (and time). Now my schedule’s getting busier and I want to be more intentional about who I’m meeting next (not just any business owner anymore). So for Q3, I’m slowing down. I’m really proud of my progress so far.
My Workshop with Diversability
I gave a workshop Navigating Business Finances to the community members of Diversability. This was my second time giving this workshop. The attendees asked good questions that I’ll use to improve the workshop’s next iteration.
My goal is to iterate on this workshop until it’s unrecognizable because it’s gotten so much better, informative, and empowering than the original version.
WHAT I READ
BOOKS
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz - The customer marketing manager from the proposal and billing software Anchor, Haley Kershner, sent out books to Anchor’s customers as a way to introduce herself. Interestingly, she was also present at the WAVE conference in Seattle. I hadn’t read the book then when I met her, but I read it cover-to-cover the next day while I rested and loved it.
Every human is a magician, and we can either put a spell on someone with our word or we can release someone from a spell.
The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, free of emotional poison.
The Games People Play by Eric Berne - Another book chosen for me! One of my connection calls suggested I might like this book and she was completely right. It’s from the 60s but most of it is still relevant today. I wasn’t a fan of some parts but agreed with the overall message.
“Tell Me This” is also played in schoolrooms, where the pupils know that the “right” answer to an open-ended question asked by a certain type of teacher is not to be found by processing the factual data, but by guessing or outguessing which of several possible answers will make the teacher happy.
People pick as friends, associates and intimates other people who play the same games.
Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows & 2 more - I listened to the audiobook version of this so I don’t have any quotes ready to share.
I’ll just say: It’s an important book. Please listen to it’s lessons.
SUBSTACK
Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood by Patty Smith - A low-lift way to build community: sit in your driveway and drink coffee outside and invite people to join you.
How I Accidentally Created My Ideal Work Situation By Being A Sulky, Easily Dissatisfied So-And-So: The job I loved paid $16 an hour. So. by Yes & Yes -Another Substacker writing about money in non-finance bro ways.
Totally insane and truly helpful: The best creativity advice I've read in ages by MasonCurrey - Unconventional advice on how to get stuff done when you have ADHD. So many good suggestions. My favorite comes from the original IG thread referenced in the post.
Screenshot of IG comment: I put on upbeat Celtic music and pretend it’s the day of the big festival that only comes once a year in our quaint medieval village and everything I have to get done is in preparation for the celebration
WHAT I WATCHED
Ditch Your Old Thinking (with Roger L Martin)
I’m hooked on learning about strategy right now. This quote reminds me of the design principle “Fail fast” (a personal favorite):
Fail your way toward victory
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
What I Explored This Month - April 2025: First workshop, quit to win, strategy curious
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I CREATED
New blog post: You can have revenge or change but you can't have both: A lesson from our Southeast Asia travels
WHAT I DID
Blog updates
I created 2 new sections in my blog to make specific posts easier to find:
Thoughts from a Late-Diagnosed Autistic Woman - My thoughts and experiences after discovering I'm autistic.
What I Explored - (This post you’re currently reading!) Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
Hosted my first Financial Brain Dump (Bookkeeping body doubling workshop)
This month I hosted a beta virtual workshop Financial Brain Dump where attendees could come, learn how to create a simple bookkeeping system that doesn’t make you cry, then work on their books and get answers to their bookkeeping questions.
Workshop wins:
One attendee finished tasks for her bookkeeper
Another attendee got her Gusto payroll synced to her Quickbooks account
Will I do it again? Maybe, I actually enjoyed it more than expected. But not on a monthly basis, potentially just once a quarter.
WHAT I LISTENED TO
Beyond Margins podcast - Fresh Content Inked: A Subversive Approach to Driving More Sales By Creating Less Content - Yet another episode about simplifying marketing and sales using a content library. I’m intrigued
Hello Seven podcast - Meet The Woman Set To Make $1M Helping People Leave The USA! - I found Stephanie Perry years ago, during the pandemic early in my personal finance and digital nomad research phase. So I loved hearing her on this podcast episode.
WHAT I READ
Dirty Genes: Revolutionary Approach to Health and Wellness Through Nutritional Genetics and Personalized Plans for a Happier, Healthier You by Dr. Ben Lynch - My medical-interested mind enjoyed learning about the methylation cycle and MTHFR mutations.
My job is to give you the tools to understand how your genes are contributing to your mood and overall health. Your job is to give yourself the attention you deserve and act on what that attention reveals to you.
Just promise me that the next time you overindulge or eat a food you know you shouldn’t, you’ll enjoy it. Feeling guilty or regretful will only make your genes more dirty.
Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away by Annie Duke - Yep still reading this author’s books and enjoying her perspective on the benefits of knowing when to quit.
Contrary to popular belief, quitting will get you to where you want to go faster.
Inflexible goals aren’t a good fit for a flexible world.
Playing to Win: How strategy really works by Roger L. Martin - Strategy is my new interest so this was my favorite book I read this month.
In our terms, a strategy is a coordinated and integrated set of five choices: a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems.
Asking a single question can change everything: what would have to be true?
Best role of the consultant became clear to me: don’t attempt to convince clients which choice is best; run a process that enables them to convince themselves.
We Should All be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers - I nodded my head to a LOT of what this book said.
Set boundaries to prevent your own suffering.
If you are being nice when you don’t want to be, you’re really just lying.
We are the saviors we are waiting for. And it starts with bookkeeping. (Of course I had to quote this, I’m a bookkeeper!)
WHAT I WATCHED
As mentioned, I’m very curious about strategy and understanding it. I searched Roger Martin’s videos on YouTube to listen to and absorb his perspective on strategy. (I need that 360 view to really get a concept, remember?).
He mentions this idea often in his interviews and writing:
Great strategy is about creating a future that does not now exist
That means balancing the exploitation of what is and the exploration of what might be. All forces will pull towards exploitation of what is. A great strategist needs to resist that pull and always invest time and energy in exploration of what might be.
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
What I Explored This Month - March 2025: Books, New Blogs, and Some Quantum Physics
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I DID
I was on a panel about participating in the IRS’s VITA program to provide free tax prep services to the community! 🔗 Click to watch it on YouTube.
I signed up to American Resiliency’s new “on the ground” project to bring resiliency into the community on the ground. 🔗Watch their video to learn more
Paused my podcast - I had fun figuring out how to create it and express myself, but I want the time to focus on other projects.
WHAT I CREATED
I published a new blog post:
I grouped all my essays about being autistic into one section so it’s easy for you to see them.
WHAT I READ
BOOKS
How to Decide by Annie Duke - Loved how the book breaks down a process for making good decisions even with unknown information. “The decisions you make are like a portfolio of investments. Your goal is to make sure that the portfolio as a whole advances you toward your goals, even though any individual decision in that portfolio might win or lose.”
$100 Offers and $100M Leads by Alex Hormozi - I enjoyed the books, even if I didn’t agree with all the tactics. I did appreciate the emphasis on constantly trying and experimenting to find what works for your sales and marketing. “Real business is messy. It takes a lot to find what audiences, lead magnets, methods, and platforms work best. And you can only find out what works if you try”
You are a Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to get big things done by Sara Lobkovich - I read an advanced copy of Sara’s book and LOVED it. You can read my review here. My 2 favorite quotes:
“ The job isn’t to convince people that you’re a smart person, it’s to clarify situations so everyone can do the smart thing.”
“Data is helpful neutral information, not something to fear“
Lost Connections by Johann Hari - Loved his journey researching the cause and treatment for depression beyond anti-depressants. “What if changing the way we live—in specific, targeted, evidence-based ways—could be seen as an antidepressant, too?“
BLOGS
Keep Coming Back from “What Do We Do Now That We’re Here?” by Rosie Spinks on Substack about how to get more people (and eventually friends) into your life. I kept nodding along and taking notes from this essay.
The Substack publication Imperfect Working Order by Kira Stoops - This publication’s perspective and irreverent tone on money and taking care of ourselves is how I want to share about business finances and being an entrepreneur.
Quotes I love from her essays:
“Medicine doesn’t think money needs to make sense. So why do we? Turns out, the “rules” we thought we had to live by…aren’t rules at all. And frustrating as this realization can be, it also opens a door. Lots of doors, actually. When medical money stopped making sense, I stopped trying to make most money make sense.”
“Receiving assistance freed me up financially to try to be as well as possible, which let me contribute back more to my community—personally, and through non-profit consulting that amplified philanthropy far beyond my own personal impact. ”
“Living well, even luxuriously in places, is an act of love and rebellion.”
WHAT I WATCHED/LISTENED TO
Beyond Margins Episode #115 - I LOVED this episode about how to do sales calls without a discovery call.
Video Something strange happens when you trust quantum mechanics
One night, I went down a quantum mechanics rabbit hole and learned about the Principle of Least Action. This video reminds me of the book Thinking in Bets - something about the concept of exploring the different possibilities to choose the optimal one.
Thought: Is this how we can feel if something is “good energy” or not? Or why we get a vibe about something - do we feel the reverb of all possible paths?
Video MINI DOCUMENTARY: U.S. Vegetable Supply May Be POISONED After Lithium Inferno
This explains lithium’s harmful effects on the local area and farmland. My immediate thought was this documentary reminded me of the movie Erin Brokovich.
Interesting listen about how dopamine works, especially the point that prioritizing pain (like running a 5K or doing hard things) indirectly creates dopamine because the brain wants to balance itself.
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
What I Explored This Month - February 2025: Personal and business updates, 2025 goals, civilization, and more books
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I CREATED
MY PODCAST
Did you know I had a podcast? Well, it’s gone through a lot of changes. I started it because, well, just because I wanted to. But then felt like I needed a more concrete reason so I copied what I saw other people do: I made it a podcast to share business and life lessons. For now, my bookkeeping business Yellow Sky Business Services (another change, more later) sponsors the podcast and I mention my bookkeeping services at the end of each episode.
But the name What I Tried, What I Learned didn’t feel right anymore. Not everything I want to share is a tidy lesson, sometimes it’s an observation. So I changed the name to Invitation to Wonder. Then changed it to Patterns in Progress, the current name.
The latest podcast episode explores the business idea sparked by car trouble: What if I could create a bookkeeping review that's as clear and straightforward as a car repair report?
MY BLOG
More changes - I changed this blog’s name from Aneisha’s Substack to What I Noticed on the Way. The change was mostly because I wanted a more descriptive name for new readers to know what to expect.
My latest blog post: Tell Me Your Story and I’ll Find the Lesson: Why advice is better in a story
Due to productive procrastination, I also started a new blog under my Substack profile called The Stories We Find where I’m posting old essays and stories I wrote. I started trying to write the book idea that’s in me but got stuck, so this is my “sideways” method to keep writing and get unstuck. And it worked; I realized I was trying to write something too serious. If you know my writing voice, it’s not totally serious. We like our satire.
MY BUSINESS
The last change: I updated my business name with a DBA from Yellow Sky Bookkeeping to Yellow Sky Business Services, because I want to do more than bookkeeping.
NEW GOAL - MEET 50 NEW PEOPLE IN 2025
I have a new goal, partially inspired by Kate from Bookkeeping Side Hustle - I want to connect/coffee chat one-to-one in person or virtually with 50 new people in 2025.
This might sound strange if you know me as a quiet person, but I’m good at meeting new people. Why? I think it’s because I’m comfortable with awkwardness and I’ve been the new person so many times that I was forced to learn how to meet new people. Plus, I’ve always enjoyed getting to know new people and their background. And I’ve already chatted with 12 people so far! 38 more people to go.
DREAM GOAL - GUEST ON MORE PODCASTS
I was a guest on 3 podcasts in 2024 (link to playlist of those podcast appearances). I loved being a guest and this year, I’d love to be a guest on more.
But I don’t know what my talking points are.
Like I know I can talk about bookkeeping, but I feel like I haven’t discovered how me, Aneisha, talks about bookkeeping. And I can talk about neurodiversity but again, how do I, Aneisha talk about it, like what’s my perspective? Not sure. I know that’s important and would love to discover my talking points this year.
WHAT I WATCHED
Career Coach Mandy Just start your creative business already! the 7 (no-BS) stages of entrepreneurial growth
I found Career Coach Mandy’s channel in 2024. I love her take on the 7 levels of business. I’m on level 3 and I’ve never done level 0. (Fun fact: this channel and Goobie and Doobie’s channel inspired me to finally start my podcast.)
WHAT I LEARNED
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph Ep 54
This is a heavy video, a systems-based look at the effect of climate change and social problems on society. It’s also a discussion about the negative effects of competition on productivity and development. This matches my own research about the harmful effect of grades on student performance in school.
Acorn Land Labs Preparing for the End of Growth
Another heavy topic, but a good summary of what I’m currently learning about the limits to the growth of civilization.
WHAT I READ
NONFICTION
The Talent Code - Loved this book and learned so much about how to nurture talent.
A quote I saved: “When you're practicing deeply, the world's usual rules are suspended. You use time more efficiently. Your small efforts produce big, lasting results. You have positioned yourself at a place of leverage where you can capture failure and turn it into skill. The trick is to choose a goal just beyond your present abilities; to target the struggle. Thrashing blindly doesn't help. Reaching does.”
This quote inspired me to use ChatGPT to give me stories in Japanese and Spanish, stories just hard enough that I struggled and learned faster than just using Duolingo for practice.
The Culture Code - (Yes, same author as the book above. I like his style!) Loved LOVED this book even more and learned what makes a group great. Saved so many quotes, but I’ll share just 2:
“The funny thing is, when I visited leaders of successful creative cultures, I didn’t meet many artists. Instead, I met a different type, a type who spoke quietly and tended to spend a lot of time observing, who had an introverted vibe and liked to talk about systems. I started to think of this type of person as a Creative Engineer.”
For anyone who hates Sandwich feedback like I do - “Avoid Giving Sandwich Feedback: In many organizations, leaders tend to deliver feedback using the traditional sandwich method: You talk about a positive, then address an area that needs improvement, then finish with a positive. This makes sense in theory, but in practice it often leads to confusion, as people tend to focus either entirely on the positive or entirely on the negative.”
Women in White Coats - Interesting (and often angry-making) history about the first 3 women doctors.
FICTION
Some Like it Cold - A small-town romance featuring an autistic main character written by an autistic author → the MC is the only reason I read this since I’m not a romance book kind of person. Also I love this author’s books. (I also loved Cassandra in Reverse, another adult book with an autistic main character, written by another autistic author)
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
What I Explored This Month 1/10 - 1/31: Indigenous food, healing, and otherish givers
Originally published on Substack
I’m sharing my future works in progress, things I’m in the middle of, by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
I also decided I’m going to share these updates once a month instead of weekly. It’s easier to keep track and more sustainable so that I can also publish a regular blog post at least once a month.
WHAT I LEARNED
How to write a book
I’ve always wanted to write a book but didn’t feel that would be possible until this last year. And this month, I listened to a video from Self Publishing School about how to write a book. I actually knew these steps - I’d heard them before at a bookkeeping conference - but I liked hearing them again. It made me feel I could do this, like I could actually get the rough draft of my book done.
Video: Building Fire Resilience
This video was filmed about a month ago and, due to the LA wildfires, it felt timely. I was curious about how to build fire resilience and the specific tips did help calm my fears.
Video: Sean Sherman: Why aren’t there more Native American restaurants?
This video made me realize that I like indigenous foods. It would make sense to have them because what’s more local than the food developed by the land’s original inhabitants?
MORE ABOUT MY SPECIAL INTEREST - HEALTH OF THE HUMAN BODY
Video: Thomas Myers - Why does massage hurt?
A life-long interest has been in the human body, how it works, how our minds work, how disease works. I loved biology classes in school and read science books for fun. But I never wanted to be a doctor or a nurse. I don’t know why, but medical careers never called to me.
What does call to me is traditional medicine, being a healer. And so I read about different methods as they enter my radar and over the years learned about face massage, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, qigong, epigenetics, polyvagal theory, etc etc etc and fascia - the point of this video. Fascia trains are new for me but they make so much sense. It also reminds me of when I learned about how awful regular shoes are for our feet and anatomy (even regular running shoes, not just high heels).
Anyways, I could go on about this topic but I normally don’t outside of my close friends and family because I respect that everyone has different needs and knowledge. And the right knowledge at the wrong time can be harmful.
If you want to know more, here’s a longer video about anatomy trains:
Video: Spiral line release
I tried this stretch and omg, it finally released some of my persistent right side tightness.
Podcast: Networking & Beyond: Unlocking the Full Potential of the Nervous System with Dr. Scherina Alli
I follow Dr. Scherina Alli on Instagram and love seeing her posts about the nervous system and how she helps her patients. I enjoyed listening to this podcast and hearing more about the behind the scenes of running her practice and how she got focused on the nervous system.
WHAT I READ
Book: New Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
I saw this book recommended somewhere in one of the many homestead or homestead-adjacent threads I’ve read. It sounded interesting so I decided to read it. To be honest, none of the book was shocking - growing up Black in the US meant growing up hearing “conspiracy theories” in casual conversation - but it was good background on the US’s economic involvement in other countries.
It reminded me of another book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong that was, again, not shocking but valuable for filling in the gaps of history omitted from my AP US History classes.
Book: Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant
I saw this book recommended in a subreddit post discussing climate change. It’s a nonfiction account of a major fire that hit a Canadian city in 2016. The author explains the circumstances on the fire’s origins, and why wildfires are getting worse due to climate change.
I already knew that the oil companies knew about climate change before the 1990s. But the book detailed that they knew since 1950/60s, were researching its effects, and wanted to help at first - that was surprising to me. I enjoyed the book. The storytelling pacing reminded me of my favorite book Seabiscuit.
Book: Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant
I originally read this book before the pandemic and enjoyed it. So I decided to re-read it and found so many gems. The author uses psychological studies to show that givers, people who give without expectations, end up better off than takers. And he shows how to be a healthy “otherish giver”, and avoid being a giver who burns out.
This quote perfectly expresses my philosophy in life and business: “I want to create an experience to benefit everyone, not just me.”
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
What I Explored This Week 12/27/2024 - 01/09/2025: Paper planners, homesteading, and more Japanese music
I’m sharing my future works in progress, things I’m in the middle of, by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
And I know, this post covers more than one week. I’m keeping the title the same though, because I like consistency.
CURRENT EXPERIMENT - FIGURING OUT HOW TO USE PAPER AND PEN (AGAIN) FOR PERSONAL PLANNING
This video has good tips on how to find your experimental planner style. I’m transitioning back to paper planners for personal tasks and am looking for how to do this in a way that works for me and all my tasks.
This is another video I found helpful for my transition back to paper planners. He’s actually using paper then going to an app, but I found the way he thinks about planning projects helpful, because it’s what works for my work tasks. I plan the project, all the tasks and when they need to be done, and then schedule time to work on the project.
That’s easier for my brain and I started to do this for personal tasks in the last few months but not consistently. This video inspired me to be more consistent and actually use projects for planning.
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPIC - HOMESTEADING, OFFGRID LIVING, PRACTICAL LIFE SKILLS
I’ve watched so many videos about homesteading. My husband is really interested in it and I am too. Not sure it’s for us but I’m gathering information anyway. My brain likes to plan way way way ahead so I’m watching and looking for ways to do it that fits us. I’m not sharing all the videos we’ve seen because it’s just too many. But I like this channel because she has the same flexible and practical way of managing her life that I do. (And funnily enough, her family is going to Southeast Asia for extended travel in 2025, similar to what we did in 2023.)
WHAT I’M READING
“We should get together” book by Kay Vellos
This book is about how to make and keep friends as an adult. I was kind of done with this topic after researching it for years and years as a teenager - because I wanted to know how to make friends even back then - and all the information and advice was starting to sound the same.
But this book piqued my interest. Instead of giving advice, the author went looking for the answer to share the results of her research and what she did with it. I finished the book and my biggest takeaways were to treat friendship as seriously as a romantic relationship, be clear on what you want from a friendship, and a good friendship takes effort.
RANDOM GREAT FINDS
Crayon Advisory Behind the Scenes
Doing the Things for the Communication
Historically, the last two weeks after extension season has been a slow wind-down from extension season. Wrap up the last few returns that didn’t get done by the deadline. Update workpapers that were tossed by the wayside. Catch up on emails ignored during extension season…
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4 years ago · 1 like · 2 comments · Megan Justice
I found Megan Justice’s Substack Crayon Advisory Behind the Scenes when I checked on who liked a Threads post I made recently. (I check who liked my posts to see if I want to follow them. Sometimes I find interesting people and this was one of those times.)
Megan Justice has a newsletter looking behind the scenes of her tax advisory practice. And this article “Doing the Things for the Communication” reminded me that I want to make infographics for my clients to have clearer communication of deadlines. And it gave me an idea of what the infographic can look like, so thank you!!
Atarashi Gakko! - Tokyo calling
This is another great Japanese song. My husband heard it first and showed this to me, thinking I would like it. And I did! The music video is so fun. I caught a few references like to Dragon Ball and Godzilla and I’m sure there were more I don’t know about. And of course, I had to watch all their other music videos and songs (all great too!)
Paul Scrivens https://talentedunderachiever.com/unfinished-projects/
I discovered Paul Scrivens on Threads and his concept of World building. And it called to me, I think this is what I want to do. What I am doing without knowing.
This phrase is really inspiring me to be more me: “Track insight density instead. Which ventures consistently generate new patterns? Which combinations create the most breakthrough potential? Let these guide your portfolio decisions.”
And this phrase reminds me of my weekly snapshot of what I’m working on. This sounds like what I’m doing: “Remember, documentation serves pattern recognition, not the other way around. When capture methods feel heavy or slow, simplify them. The goal isn’t perfect records. It’s maintaining a living library of insights your pattern processor can access for breakthrough combinations.”
I’m still interested in frameworks and experimenting with making my own to clarify my thinking into clear ideas.
And what Mel says in this video reminds me of the world building that Paul Scrivens mentioned. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is but I’m sensing a connection there.
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the week. Take care!
What I Explored This Week 12/19/2024 - 12/26/2024: Health, planning, and Ado
Originally published on Substack
Backstory to this new series
I want to share more about my works in progress, what’s not finished yet, things I’m in the middle of. And most of those things start with what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
So this is my first “What I explored this week” post. Ideally this will be shared weekly but I’m still experimenting so we’ll see if that’s sustainable for me.
On to the post!
What I explored this week
I have a life long interest in health and how the mind affects the body. So I was glad to find this video because it connects more dots between trauma and why the body gets autoimmune disease. I like to get a multi-faceted view of a topic so this is like The Body Keeps the Score plus extra.
Random video find on YouTube of someone else using the idea of levels to describe how complex you can make something!! Love this. I’m not going to use Notion as a habit tracker, though, just sticking with a basic habit tracker.
Realized I need to record my personal tasks on paper and that includes my habit tracker. This video inspired me to use habit tracker on paper with a score.
Link to song on Spotify:
I discovered the singer Ado this week!
I was listening to a Japanese pop music playlist one morning to practice listening to Japanese and one song stuck out to me immediately. I looked up the artist and it was Ado.
And now I’m an Ado fan.
I’m excited because when I was first leaning Spanish, I translated and sang Spanish songs I liked. It was a fun way to learn Spanish. So glad I’ve found Japanese music I like enough to do the same thing!
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the week. Take care!