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

Quantity over Quality

#132 Nov 23, 2020

The Power of Power Hour

#131 Nov 8, 2020

The Trap I Fell Into

#130 Oct 25, 2020

#129

Oct 11, 2020

Mimetic Traps – Hey friends,Quick thing before we launch into this week's Sunday Snippet - I'm getting an ever-increa
#128

Oct 4, 2020

An interesting realisation – Hey friends,I had an interesting realisation this week.It happened while I was at a shopping centre w
#127

Sep 21, 2020

How I Think About Goals – Hey friends,I recently had a conversation with Ben Hardy, author of the book Personality isn’t Perman
#126

Sep 13, 2020

The Value of Saying Yes – Hey friends,I'm on a road trip to Scotland with the boys this weekend, and so this week the newslette
#125

Sep 7, 2020

The Power of Clarity – Hey friends, Quick plug before we get into the meat - very excitingly, I'm speaking at the Teachable
#124

Aug 31, 2020

A Simple Trick to Beat Procrastination – Hey friends,As you know, I’m all about finding little hacks and mindset shifts that boost my producti
#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

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