Nic Yap

Nic Yap

@NicYap

Writer and illustrator. Shares interesting stuff in Glasp.

Joined Nov 28, 2021

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The Stoic Way to Find More Time in Your Day

forge.medium.com/the-stoic-way-to-find-more-time-in-your-day-91b5439019d7

Stoicism
Productivity

Sep 9, 2022

11

How to Position Yourself as an Expert If you have no Experience

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4oDHKVYOSk

Work
Advice

Sep 9, 2022

Mimetic

www.briantimar.com/notes/mimetic/mimetic/

Human Behavior
Advice

Sep 8, 2022

20

How To Launch Your Art Career in 2022 (seriously)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6mbCPEtX8g&list=PLoo0DnvsjPWJPLgh_zDDBmNlrbFIlnjso&index=5

Advice
Work
Art Business
Marketing

Sep 3, 2022

Selective ignorance: cultivating intentional knowledge in a chaotic world

nesslabs.com/selective-ignorance

Learning
Knowledge

Sep 3, 2022

26

The Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs

jamesclear.com/professionals-and-amateurs

Self-Improvement
Book Excerpt
Learning

Sep 1, 2022

10

What Every Successful Person Knows, But Never Says

jamesclear.com/ira-glass-failure

Creativity
Motivation

Sep 1, 2022

6

【1時間イラスト上達法】たった3つの手順で、簡単に絵が上手くなります!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8ovi5hkpY

Illustration

Aug 30, 2022

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/

Advice
Work
Philosophy

Aug 25, 2022

57

Personal values: how knowing yourself can guide your actions

nesslabs.com/personal-values

Self-Improvement
Understanding Yourself

Aug 25, 2022

22

FAST Writing - David Perell

perell.com/note/fast-writing/

Writing

Aug 24, 2022

14

How to Stop Lying to Ourselves: A Call for Self-Awareness

jamesclear.com/stethoscope-self-awareness

Self-Improvement

Aug 24, 2022

9

Why generating “1,000 true fans” is a lot harder than it looks

medium.com/the-business-of-content/why-generating-1-000-true-fans-is-a-lot-harder-than-it-looks-62588ccf68b9

Creator Economy

Aug 24, 2022

12

Digital Writing Law #20: The Golden Intersection Is Answering The Reader’s Question & Telling Them A Story

typeshare.co/nicolascole/posts/digital-writing-law-20-the-golden-intersection-is-answering-the-readers-question--telling-them-a-story

Writing

Aug 23, 2022

6

The emerging theory of authentic leadership

nesslabs.com/the-emerging-theory-of-authentic-leadership?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-emerging-theory-of-authentic-leadership

Self-Improvement
Leadership

Aug 23, 2022

12

Evaluating Information: Find the Signal in the Noise

fs.blog/evaluating-information/

Thinking

Aug 23, 2022

16

The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information - Forte Labs

fortelabs.co/blog/para/

Knowledge Management

Aug 21, 2022

24

The Meta-Creator Ceiling

www.swyx.io/meta-creator-ceiling

Creator Economy

Aug 21, 2022

15

The Striver’s Curse

quillette.com/2022/08/16/the-strivers-curse/

Book Review
Life Lessons

Aug 21, 2022

18

Habit trackers: does tracking your habits actually work?

nesslabs.com/habit-trackers?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=habit-trackers

Self-Improvement
Habits

Aug 17, 2022

20

Transcript: The 4 things you need to be an expert

ytscribe.com/v/5eW6Eagr9XA/

Learning

Aug 17, 2022

38

When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective

jamesclear.com/the-downside-of-being-effective

Life Lessons
Productivity

Aug 10, 2022

17

What the Second-Happiest People Get Right

www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/chasing-happiness-leads-to-dissatisfaction/629427/?utm_source=feed

Advice
Understanding Yourself
Life Lessons

Aug 10, 2022

18

Accelerated Learning: Learn Faster and Remember More - Farnam Street

fs.blog/learning/

Learning

Aug 10, 2022

292

Learn Like an Athlete - David Perell

perell.com/essay/learn-like-an-athlete/

Learning

Aug 9, 2022

10

The Pyramid of Leisure

www.artofmanliness.com/living/leisure/the-pyramid-of-leisure/

Philosophy
Self-Improvement

Aug 9, 2022

282

How to make friends over the internet - Alexey Guzey

guzey.com/how-to-make-friends-over-the-internet/

Self-Improvement
Relationships

Aug 9, 2022

213

Three habits to master long-term thinking

bigthink.com/smart-skills/long-term-thinking/

Thinking
Book Excerpt

Aug 7, 2022

19

The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one

bigthink.com/smart-skills/5-hour-rule/

Self-Improvement
Learning

Aug 7, 2022

11

This is the Greatest Weightlifting Lesson I’ve Learned

jamesclear.com/slow-gains

Fitness
Self-Improvement

Aug 7, 2022

18

Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry

nesslabs.com/creative-burnout

Creativity

Aug 7, 2022

45

Is Reading Blogs Like This One Keeping You From Improving Your Life? - Scott H Young

www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2017/11/07/substitute-or-complement/

Advice
Self-Improvement

Aug 6, 2022

16

The paradoxical power of humility: how being humble is a strength

nesslabs.com/humility

Self-Improvement
Character

Aug 6, 2022

14

We need to kick our success addiction

bigthink.com/smart-skills/addiction-to-success/

Advice
Psychology
Book Excerpt

Aug 6, 2022

11

The Paradox of Personal Progress

anmolpaudel.com/reflections/2020/06/12/personal-progress-paradox.html

Learning
Self-Improvement

Aug 2, 2022

11

Why I Hate What’s Become Of ‘Learning In Public’

www.maggiedelano.com/2022/07/30/learning-in-public.html

Creator Economy
Internet

Aug 2, 2022

215

31 lessons from 31 years

robkhenderson.substack.com/p/31-lessons-from-31-years

Life Lessons
Self-Improvement

Aug 2, 2022

171

The arrival fallacy: why we should decouple our happiness from our goals

nesslabs.com/arrival-fallacy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arrival-fallacy

Self-Improvement

Jul 30, 2022

282

The Downside of Work-Life Balance

jamesclear.com/four-burners-theory

Decision Making
Self-Improvement

Jul 19, 2022

19

Over 10 Years of Trying to Manage Time and Improving My Productivity, What I Have Learned.

afruturist.medium.com/over-10-years-of-trying-to-manage-time-and-improving-my-productivity-what-i-have-learned-deb6a2ce1392

Productivity

Jul 19, 2022

16

Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event

jamesclear.com/creative-thinking

Creativity

Jul 16, 2022

355

Build your own mental gym

nesslabs.com/mental-gym

Self-Improvement

Jul 16, 2022

174

Why Quantity — Not Quality — Is What Will Make You Money as a Writer

writingcooperative.com/why-quantity-not-quality-is-what-will-make-you-money-as-a-writer-c5cd6fd011a5

Writing

Jul 15, 2022

7

Present bias: how instant gratification impacts your long-term goals

nesslabs.com/present-bias?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=present-bias

Decision Making
Psychology

Jul 15, 2022

12

Input / Output

nesslabs.com/creative-input-output

Creativity
Learning
Thinking

Jul 15, 2022

10

We are all caught in a pessimism trap but there is a way out | Psyche Ideas

psyche.co/ideas/we-are-all-caught-in-a-pessimism-trap-but-there-is-a-way-out?utm_source=rss-feed

Psychology

Jul 13, 2022

71

Stop Thinking and Start Doing: The Power of Practicing More

jamesclear.com/learning-vs-practicing

Learning

Jul 9, 2022

201

My summary of Tyler Cowen's approach to leading an intellectually fulfilling life

mysticalsilicon.substack.com/p/my-summary-of-tyler-cowens-approach?ref=refind&amp%3Bs=r&s=r

Self-Improvement
Learning

Jul 9, 2022

7

Create a Media Company Instead of a Blog

nick-nolan.medium.com/create-a-media-company-instead-of-a-blog-a6b68cb84bb5

Content Creation

Jul 9, 2022

14

7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You Read

jamesclear.com/reading-comprehension-strategies

Reading
Learning

Jul 4, 2022

446