#58: Goodbye, 2021

Getting Simple

Podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing highlights of 2021, and why you should start writing in public.

2020 has been an incredible year in many ways. Yet I didn't expect COVID to be as present in 2021 as it was in 2020, honestly. Wherever you are, I hope that you're staying safe and healthy and can be, at least, in contact with your close friends, even if you can not spend time with them in person. Join me as I revisit my achievements in podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing over the past year. Happy new year!

Links

• Freediving podcast
• Freediving posts: First Impressions, How to prevent your diving mask from fogging up, Otovent & The Diving Reflex
• Luis Ruiz interview on video · Huge thanks to Daniel Natoli from Peripheria Films for making this possible.
• Live stream playlist
• Bytes series - StyleGAN, NFTs & Digital Art, and The Black Box
• Machine learning networks - Pix2Pix, StyleGAN & Pixel2Style2Pixel
• On writing: One Word per Day, 600 days of practice, Why should you write?, Are you writing enough?, and the Writing habits podcast episode
• Nono’s Substack
• Most-visited stories of 2021

Books

• So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Originals by Adam Grant

People mentioned

• Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo
• Daniel Natoli · Peripheria Films
• Aziz Barbar
• Adam Menges
• Andrew Witt
• James Melouney & Selene Urban
• Mike Gabour
• Luis Ruiz Padrón
• Héctor Ruiz
• Cristóbal Valenzuela
• Nate Peters
• JR from Insisting Simplicity
• Leo Cremonezi
• Jordan Gray
• Kevin Kelly · Books
• Tim Ferriss · Books
• Cal Newport · Books
• Adam Grant · Books
• Seth Godin · Books

Chapters

• 00:00 · Intro
• 00:15 · Start
• 00:41 · Achievements
• 01:07 · Live stream
• 02:55 · Podcast
• 03:18 · First full video interview
• 04:25 · Bytes
• 05:05 · Freediving
• 05:53 · Building a recording studio
• 08:13 · You should write a blog, in public
• 11:39 · Removing creative friction
• 12:40 · Most-visited stories of 2021
• 15:26 · I would love to hear from you
• 15:44 · 2022
• 18:19 · Outro
• 19:23 · Thanks

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