Jonathan Courtney

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day. A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on. The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine. And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday. It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

Your calendar is a confession.

❗️Meta's smart glasses could be banned in Germany and the rest of the EU. Hamburg data protection commissioner Thomas Fuchs, Meta's lead regulator in Germany, says his office tested the glasses, found the recording LED too easy to miss, and concluded that filming people in public with them breaks data protection law. It is already issuing fines. His verdict: a camera disguised as an everyday object is illegal to sell or own in Germany. Only the Bundesnetzagentur can order that ban; it is reportedly reviewing. France's CNIL warned about the whole category in May, and the European Data Protection Board's report on smart glasses is due this summer.

Phones used to be small and actually useful. Not giant doomscroll machines. We’re turning it back.

Gonna have to start trying this while hiking. Been doing it all wrong Pro gammer tip right here

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The best wearable is... the one you're already wearing. Excited to announce Granola for Apple Watch. Launching today⌚️

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Everyone building a product with no audience has the same job: Turn strangers into customers. Here's the simple breakdown: Ads: - Buy traffic on Facebook, TikTok, or X - Money in, attention out - Fast. Best if you're funded. SEO: - AI tools will write the whole strategy and pick the articles for you - Supplement with $50-$60/week of Google ads - Slow. Takes 3 to 5 months. Content: - One tiny niche show aimed at the exact people you want to work with - Episode 90. 100+ videos. Some pull 300-400 viewers. - Funnels buyers to your product every single week. Getting customers costs money or it costs time. You pick which.