Sunday Snippets

By Ali Abdaal

I’m Ali, a junior doctor, YouTuber and podcaster from Cambridge, UK. Every Sunday I write an email newsletter with some thoughts, life lessons and interesting articles I discovered on the internet that week.

Previous issues

The Value of Saying Yes

#126 Sep 13, 2020

The Power of Clarity

#125 Sep 7, 2020

A Simple Trick to Beat Procrastination

#124 Aug 31, 2020

#123

Aug 23, 2020

How to Build a Second Brain – Hey friends,In March 2019, I shared the concept of Building a Second Brain in this newsletter. I'd ju
#122

Aug 17, 2020

A Week of Unemployment – Hey friends, This week has been my first full week of unemployment. From Monday to Friday I haven’t h
#121

Aug 9, 2020

Learn in Public, It’s Great – Hey friends,Because I’m practising self-care and taking a break (read: feeling lazy), this week’s iss
#120

Aug 3, 2020

3 Nice Quotes – Hey friends,I came across 3 quotes this week that I liked. The first two are from Jeff Bezos' opening
#119

Jul 26, 2020

The Power of the Weekly Review – Hey friends, One of the staples of productivity is doing a Weekly Review. It involves taking a bit of
#118

Jul 20, 2020

Why I Skipped Last Week's Email – Hey friends,Last Sunday, for the first time in 117 weeks, I skipped an issue of this newsletter. Here
#117

Jul 5, 2020

The Top of my To-Do List – Hey friends,This week I stumbled across a fantastic, very short blog post from Paul Graham called The
#116

Jun 28, 2020

The Pilot, The Plane, The Engineer – Hey friends,I’ve just launched a brand new Skillshare class, The Principles of Productivity. It’s 1.5
#115

Jun 22, 2020

My Neurological Disease – Hey friends,Like you, I’m a long-term sufferer of the chronic health condition Shiny New App Syndrome
#114

Jun 15, 2020

The Ideal Life – Hey friends,I’ve been thinking a lot this week (and many other weeks) about what I want to do with my
#113

Jun 8, 2020

Changing how I think of time – Hey friends,For the second time in this newsletter's 113-week history, it totally slipped my mind on
#112

May 31, 2020

2x Speed Listening – Hey friends,If there’s a hill I’m going to die on, it’s that listening / watching stuff at 2-3x speed
#111

May 24, 2020

Couch to 1k - Daily Writing Challenge – Hey friends,I'm trying out a new experiment. For the next 30 days (at least), I'm going to write 1,00
#110

May 18, 2020

Ali’s Life Lessons – Hey friends,I wish I had something substantial to write this week but I’m a disorganised slob who has
#109

May 11, 2020

Homework for Life – Hey friends,I’m reading a book called Storyworthy and there’s a daily reflection exercise the author
#108

May 4, 2020

The Input-Output Framework – Hey friends,Sorry for the late email this week. For the first time in several years, I went on a bend
#107

Apr 27, 2020

Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator – Hey friends,This week, I watched a TED talk that’s been in my recommendations list for years - Tim Ur

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