Happy Easter holidays!

Welcome to Weekly Wonderings, a newsletter exploring Digital Self-Actualization,

Thanks for the responses and suggestions to guide my upcoming second brain tour video, optimistically I could create it within the following two weeks but I also want to combine it with a synthesis of all PKM systems and an update for the ⛰️ Ultimate Starter Vault.

Here's a quick galactic overview of this edition:

• Simplify Obsidian with the Ultimate Minimalist Vault 🤔
• My first milestone working with Nick Milo and LYT 🔗
• A glossary for my digital galaxy 🏷️

Simplify Obsidian with the Ultimate Minimalist Vault 🤔

Feeling overwhelmed by all the different ways you can customize your Obsidian vault and notes?

Introducing the Ultimate Minimalist Vault, a vault that contains only the essential features you need to use Obsidian to its fullest potential!

Now, you might be thinking,

Why does it look EXACTLY like the default Obsidian vault!? 🤔

Trust me—there's a LOT more nuance to it.

A lot lot lot lot lot more nuance.

You can check my video on it here:

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My first milestone working with Nick Milo and LYT 🔗

Crazy how my 17-year-old self casually making videos for a high school class has led to me contributing to the forefront of personal knowledge management 🤯

For the past 2 months, I've been working with Nick and Keaton on version 2.5 of Obsidian Flight School, Linking Your Thinking's flagship product for getting up to speed with Obsidian 🤩

Here are some takeaways from going through the product and its actual development:

• In terms of Obsidian itself, I learned things despite using the app for 2 years 😅 I learned to become a left-handed ninja warrior—setting up as many common actions accessible through my left hand so I can keep my right on the mouse for navigation. The biggest change I made to apply this was to change my backwards and forwards note history navigation to Option+A and Option+S for backwards.
• The space pilot theme of the product and the entire learning experience were memorable and immersive! A combination of the writing tone, special badges, and visual presentation made me feel like I was engaging in an activity greater than learning Obsidian. Not going to lie, it was what inspired me to work on the metaphorical meaning of my brand aesthetic with explanations like a Digital Galaxy, which I feel will be ever more important when trying to expand my reach to a younger demographic 😎
• They do a really good job of teaching the basics to beginners in a way that is still fun for experienced users. Compared to my own product it is more practical, they really take the time to help you adopt the LYT principles and get familiar with Obsidian.
• I don't know if it's because it scratches my systems-oriented brain (which is being neglected after quitting my software development job 😅), but creating workflows in Obsidian has been one of the only consistent activities that encourage flow. Whether it be working on the Ultimate Starter Vault, Obsidian University, my personal vault, or this, I adopt a childlike wonder and exploratory nature.

Hopefully, I can continue to grow in this role while I work on future updates, enhancing their vision with my own perspective and Obsidian knowledge.

A glossary for my digital galaxy 🏷️

To help people understand the notes in ⛰️ My Digital Galaxy and better document the ⛰️ Ultimate Starter Vault, I've been creating glossary notes for each type of note (like Weekly Review). These are to document the different properties, headers, and workflows associated with each note type, to help provide an updated explanation for how I organize my knowledge.

Furthermore, I've been trying to synthesize all the essence of different personal knowledge management philosophies into a written form of understanding, which you can witness in USV PKM Synthesis.

My new shining stars 🌟

A place to share the new stars and constellations inside my digital galaxy

The source of my compelling drive​
I have been thoroughly enjoying listening to 🤴 HealthyGamerGG, my current inspiration for pursuing this educational Vtuber path. Being a previous gaming addict and academic loser, Dr. K turned to Eastern philosophy and eventually became a Harvard psychiatrist helping CEOs and millionaires with their mental health. But at the same time, he also helped those at the opposite end of the spectrum like:

• NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training)
• incels (those who believe that their lack of sexual opportunities is due to external circumstances)
• people with awful histories of abuse or mental health

Alarming facts related to the rise in mental health problems, the lack of institutional preparedness traditional mental health services provide for the emerging digital landscape, the corruption of values from influencers and capitalist incentives and their potential alleviation through Eastern philosophies, it resonates a lot with my personal brand mission of Digital Self-Actualization and it only fuels my drive to also contribute by sharing my own journey and the skills that have helped me grow from there. This relates to Create what you want to see more of in the world and How much of your creativity are you going to abandon to get more views.

If you want to explore more, you can just explore my note on 🤴 HealthyGamerGG.

But at the same time, as much as I am an idealist and want to help introduce avenues for learning and growth in a demographic of need, I can only control my actions but not their acceptance or willingness to change. I'm going to continue investing my soul, but expecting myself to actually make any change will only cause attachment and friction if I believe my current actions are not fitting for what is required.

How to create a compelling mission​
​The Golden Circle has let me update the organization of content in my note on Digital Self-Actualization.

Artificial Intelligence​
​Management will become expected as cognitive labour becomes outsourced.

Spontaneous progress on my Vtuber journey​
To help differentiate myself from other Vtubers, I started thinking of My unfair advantages I can accentuate, the unique things I can do during streams, finding creator inspirations to draw upon, and My Video Editing Style​

A fun thing I saw online​
I got a tattoo that says 'Comparison is the thief of joy', but then my brother got the same one, but in larger writing, made me so upset.

Final thoughts

It's nice to be back binging all my typing and reflection for the week by writing this newsletter. It gives me a place to share my thoughts, free of algorithmic consideration. So thank you for giving me a space to do so and I hope it's worthwhile on your end as well 😊

I'd like to leave you with a parting question:

I've been sharing a lot of my notes and thinking, what has been one of your own recent ones you are proud of?

Feel free to reply with it below!

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