Welcome to Weekly Wonderings, a newsletter exploring the journey towards Digital **Self-Actualization**: educational vtuber helping you use the internet not for escapism, but for nurturing your curiosities and passions > *realizing our meaningful potential through the synthesis of digital tools, life management systems, and humanistic philosophies* I have two fun announcements :) Here's a quick galactic overview of this edition: - [[#My exclusive presentation for the LYT Knowledge Accelerator 🚀]] - [[#Starting co-working streams ⚒️]] - [[#The power of the extended mind 🧠]] ## My exclusive presentation for the LYT Knowledge Accelerator 🚀 As mentioned in previous newsletters, I've been working on a presentation for Linking Your Thinking's [Knowledge Accelerator membership](https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/accelerator) to showcase my digital galaxy: my life operating system in Obsidian that supports me in life design, productivity, and personal knowledge management. In the presentation, I go over: - Why I use Obsidian - About my digital galaxy - The two main note types I have in my vault - The core plugins I use to achieve this - Quickadd, Metadata, Dataview - How I cultivate my ideal life and work towards it using my life solar system - How I learn, create, and retrieve information in the PKM component of the digital interstellar medium - Recent real-world examples of these systems and workflows in action Despite my experience in making YouTube videos, this was quite the challenging project 😅 During my time in school, I always felt immense anxiety about class presentations to the point of prematurely puking or begging to present to the teacher during recess. For the past few months I've been procrastinating on creating a holistic overview of my setup that's understandable for people not deep into the productivity and personal knowledge management rabbit hole. But thanks to community director Keaton's help and help from friends, I had a supportive environment to overcome this anxiety and work on a presentation I'm holistically proud of :) And with the team's approval and generosity, I can share it with you! 🙌 **[You can watch it here](https://youtu.be/F6RIGRQj7s0)** Working on this gave me immense clarity for future endeavors: - The thinking done for this presentation helped refine core notes like [[Digital life solar systems]] based on the thinking and insights I gained from trying to present the information in an understandable way - This helped me dip my toes into what streaming would feel like. I still have a ways to go before I can confidently give low-prep lectures, but it would be a fun end goal for my streaming endeavors 🤩 If you end up watching, feel free to share any feedback or thoughts! I'll most likely make a more polished version for YouTube in the near future 😎 Speaking of streaming… ## Starting co-working streams ⚒️ As part of my weekly progress [[buildspace s5]], I've been preparing for my new brand direction: streaming 🤯 As much as I want to be a perfectionist and only start streaming once I feel my personal brand and setup is more polished, it would still be a few more months until that happens 😭 Instead, I realized there was a certain type of stream that could help kill two birds with one stone, to overcome this perfectionism AND continue making progress on actualizing this vision: Co-working streams! Inspired by Atelier, the creative group I visit where they have a weekly shared space to work on passion projects, my goal with this is to have social accountability in working on my Vtuber project by having a casual time for you to do the same. If your work is mostly online or you need a dedicated space to focus, I hope to see you there :) So, what does this look like? Sometime within the next month, I'll be livestreaming my work sessions. As for specifics: The plan is to do 2-4 hour coworking sessions, with a cycle of either 45 minute work and 15 minute break, or 50 minute work and 10 minute break. During the stream, you can join me during these sessions to work on your own tasks and projects through the interactive bot (more on that when it happens!) Work time will be quietly spent focusing, but during breaks there will be time to chat. After the session, there might be additional activities done - just chatting, or winding down by playing a game 😎 I'm too lazy to do marketing and announcements, so I will instead do a soft launch and maybe a casual video on my YouTube. I also need your help and thoughts 😅 If you're interested in regularly visiting, please let me know what days and times sound best for you [here](https://www.when2meet.com/?25473508-z2tnk) by creating a username + password then selecting the times on the left. The right is the global calendar showing the overlap between everyone's schedules. Lastly you can [follow me on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/johnmavrickvt/about) to be notified of when I go live! I still am debating on whether I should host these streams on my main channel as well, or my other account. ## My new shining stars 🌟 _A place to share the new stars and constellations inside my digital galaxy_ ### Inputs #### The power of the extended mind 🧠 Pretty much finished reading [[The Extended Mind]], which was very nourishing for continuing to elaborate on my understanding of [[Ecological Psychology]] 😋 My biggest takeaways were ones that went beyond my emphasis on digital tools for self-actualization by better understanding the unique importance of our physical body and environment: - Listening to our body as forms of cognition like [[Interoception]] - How nature is scientifically proven to rejuvenate us compared to man-made environments - How our understanding of a topic can be analyzed and facilitated based on hand gestures - The various ways we leverage spatial or environmental cues to offload our memory or enhance our cognition, beyond the productive approach [[My Inputs/My Books/Getting Things Done|Getting Things Done]] and [[PKM System]]s may provide ### Notes The notes I updated thanks to the presentation include: - My new analogy on explaining my life operating system in Obsidian, my [[Digital life solar systems]] - An updated explanation of my writing process, seen in [[My writing workflow example]] ### Games I have been addicted to playing [[Strinova]]. The first day I played for 7 hours straight, which prompted me to reflect on [[My gaming hyperfixations]]. Good thing it was only a temporary beta test which ended on June 30th 😅 ## My Free Resources If you want to level up your productivity or personal knowledge management, you can check out the following free resources: 🧠 [Organize your life and knowledge by building your second brain](https://free.johnmavrick.com/code-method) 📃 [Get my FREE 4-part Obsidian beginner course with 20+ templates](https://free.johnmavrick.com/obsidian-templates) 🕸️ [Set up a powerful zettelkasten in Obsidian for learning](https://free.johnmavrick.com/zettelkasten) 👩‍🏫 [3 Days to Lecture Note Taking Mastery](https://course.aidanhelfant.com/3daystolecturenotetakingmastery?ref=JohnMavrickYT): 🤖 [Get my FREE Ultimate Guide to using AI for PKM with 15+ prompts](https://free.johnmavrick.com/ai-pkm)