Coke 094 How to Write a Newsletter with Obsidian

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I’m happy xiao , welcome to the 94th issue of Coke , I have these stories to tell you this week:

David Perrell shared two stories that I will never forget.

The first one is about the photographer. One time David organized a team party and hired a photographer to take pictures. It may be due to inexperience or shy nature, the photographer did not teach everyone how to stand and pose. More often, he politely said, just do whatever you want. This made David very annoyed, he felt that he paid you to come, you should teach us how to do it, this is your profession, your responsibility, “easy-going” can only make this photographer very amateur.

The second story comes from a captain. As a child, David once went into the cockpit to watch a plane take off. Luckily, there was a thunderstorm. The captain asked the terminal to change the route before takeoff to avoid the lightning storm ahead. The terminal refused, instructing the captain to maintain the established route and let him take off. The captain didn’t compromise and continued, “Yes, but I won’t do it. We’ll stop here and wait, or you promise me to fly 040.” A minute later, the terminal accepted his request, so The plane took off in a direction to avoid the storm.

What can we learn from this? Politeness, moderation, and wall riding may protect oneself from conflict. But only the conviction and persistence are the performance of professionalism and courage. The team needs a responsible leader, the family needs a responsible backbone, and the community needs people who dare to speak the truth.

What was your response when people wanted you to be the captain?

In the last issue of ” Coke “, I mentioned a mysterious project and asked readers to “don’t click on this link.” From the later data, a total of more than 300 people clicked the link .

I used the reverse psychology of readers. Reverse psychology refers to persuading the other person to take the opposite action B when you want to achieve goal A. In Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom”, Tom was punished by his aunt for painting the wall, and was seen by other friends. Tom pretended that painting the wall was a privilege and did not let others interfere, and he succeeded in making others not only for him Paint the walls and pay him.

If you didn’t win, don’t go back and click on that link.

Divided into the following three steps:

create template

Every Saturday, whenever I finish writing and release a “Coke” issue, I will use the “QuickAdd” plugin in Obsidian to create a new template for the next issue. You can see that my email format contains some fixed items like the letterhead and footer, “quote of the week”, “what did I post”, and most importantly, three or four short stories. With templates, you can know what you need to write and what is missing.

collection method

The next 6 days were my days of collecting ideas. Whenever I come across an idea that I really want to tell you, I’ll just open the template for the next email and fill in the idea in the field for writing a story. If there are good ideas, but I’m not sure if they’ll be written, I’ll put them in a daily note and tag them with “idea/newsletter”. If it’s Friday and there aren’t enough topics to write about, I’ll look to this hashtag for inspiration.

fill-in-the-blank writing

Writing is not scary, what is scary is facing a blank sheet of paper . Fortunately, I have spent 6 days preparing, waiting for me is not a blank sheet of paper. Generally speaking, Friday afternoon is the time when I write emails (I drank too much yesterday, and I got up in the morning to write this issue). I would find a quiet place, put on my headphones, clock a Pomodoro, open iA Writer, and start writing in my template. The reason why it is called fill-in-the-blank writing is because the content I want to write is ready, and all I need to do is fill in the blanks under the subheadings.

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In the first episode of the podcast, my first recording since I renamed the podcast ” Happy Thirty Minutes “, I shared a tragic investment failure and how I painted the cover of this podcast.

Let me quote myself.

Why do we like to record what others have said and written sentences? Because a quote is an idea. This idea may validate our experience, it may blow away our fog, it may change our position, it may cause us to act. I have recorded a lot of quotations in the note-taking software. In the next issue of Coke, I plan to select the ten most exciting so far this year and share them with you.

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