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Weekly Reset #1 — Get Your Reps In
👋 Hey there,
Welcome to Weekly Reset, an email newsletter where I share with you my reflections from the past week to give you one thought, tip and tool to improve your focus and creativity.
🗝️ Key Idea: “Get Your Reps In.”
I was listening to a past episode of The Ground Up Show, and they were discussing how “you have to do a bunch of shitty work before you will do good work. It’s about getting your reps in.”
We often don't do things for fear of them being bad, but if we change our mindset to "at the beginning it will be bad, we just need to work through the bad period," then it's much easier to get started.
The email is my shitty work, and me getting my reps in. If you have ideas for how to improve it or things you would like to see me discuss in the future, hit reply and let me know. I would love to hear from you.
🪄 Tool of the Week: SuperWhisper
This handy Mac app wraps OpenAI’s Whisper protocol into a convenient menu bar app for transcribing your speech. You can launch it with a single keystroke, speak to your Mac and everything you said will be transcribed and then pasted into your current app. The transcription happens locally on your machine, and doesn’t even require internet. I find it really handy for exploring ideas in Obsidian, writing an email, or creating JIRA tickets at work (which I hate doing). When using SuperWhisper I deliver much more context and detail than I would if I was typing everything by hand.
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Brandon
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