A New Approach to Bring it All Together

When I first started this newsletter in late April of 2023, I had no idea where I was going or what I was going to write about.

Since then, I’ve written over 100 issues…

This is the first month I’ve written daily issues because it is now my content hub.

Everything flows downhill from here.

Every issue has been an iteration and a breakthrough.

Here’s my latest one…

Embrace that which complements you

I’ve resisted using AI to help me with discovering other angles because I wanted to learn the process myself first.

You can’t fix, modify, or automate that which you do not understand.

Between this newsletter and Medium, I’ve now written over 300 different articles.

That’s more than enough starting material to realize what I enjoy writing about.

I’ve met so many who have provided insight and encouragement along the way, including you.

I am deeply grateful for your help.

Recently, I decided to use the prompts from this article to find a way to truly encapsulate what I’ve been writing towards.

Here’s what’s I’ve realized after doing it.

Hit me baby (one more time)

I thought that every previous rebrand was another step towards connecting with you.

In reality, they’ve been the techniques, strategies, mindsets, and ideas that complemented the “why” of my writing:

I want to leave a lasting digital footprint for my children to use someday.

It’s a virtual handbook on my journey and to see that I wasn’t just a half-crazed parent managing a kiddy resort.

It’s meant to be a digital memoir of my life lessons and experiences.

However, it’s meant to help you with your challenges.

One of you shared that you admired my passion for setting aside time outside of my family life for this endeavor.

Another of you stated that you want to see my process for consistent execution.

So I am rebranding once more…because I realize now that prismatic thinking is a mindset and “splitting the infinite” is vague and clever, not clear and specific.

So here it is…

Re-introducing the theme…

This newsletter is The Digital Heirloom.

Each issue I’ve written has been with the intent to share life lessons while running a clean, safe, relatively organized household (even when I’ve been juggling a million things).

My intent is to teach, inspire, and connect with you by sharing my stories, processes, and systems to do so (without sacrificing my time with my family).

Why?

When I started it, I shared weekly on my thoughts and ideas of mind mining, versatility, and why learning is essential.

As I learned to write short, long, and now medium-form posts, I realized that critical thinking and writing were intertwined and required multiple angles of thought.

I also realized that physical fitness was the key to optimization (obvious, but unappreciated).

I wrote every single night.

I exercised and designed a system to reclaim my fitness levels.

From chaos to content, I’ve relentlessly captured, studied, drafted, published, and iterated ideas from across books, courses, posts, articles, and life experiences to share my journey.

This newsletter is the fount from which I share daily thoughts and ideas.

When, Where, How?

Once a week, I offer up an atomic format to capture what I’ve dug up across the platforms I like to lurk on (currently BlueSky, Medium, and Substack) that are related to writing, solopreneurship, and personal growth around critical thinking.

Outside of that, I will continue to write everyday about methods and strategies that I’ve discovered or have used to transform my own life.

Who is it for?

Whether you are a housewife with mountains of laundry or a dad managing your own kiddy resort or an empty nester with a young adult spreading their wings, it’s never too early or too late to start creating your digital archive to share with your loved ones and to the world.

Previous generations didn’t have this opportunity.

This newsletter is for career parents at every stage who want to, or are in the midst of, building their own content business.

Today, there are no limits on digital footprinting, and the potential for connecting with others is more important then ever when it seems like everything out here trying to drive us apart.

I want to be part of the solution.

What do you think?

I was penny-wise and pound foolish as they say.

I thought that I could do this whole thing myself, but the truth is that you need mentors, friends, and guides to enable you to see every possibility.

Writing has given me so much mentally, emotionally, and physically, and everything I’ve shared has been something I resonated with, enjoyed, remembered, or cherished.

If a hapless, stressed out, overwhelmed engineer, parent, and husband can manage to create a digital footprint that is slowly outpacing the other 40-odd people around the world who have the same name, then you certainly can as well.

Start creating your digital heirloom.