<![CDATA[Charles So]]>https://blog.charles.sohttps://blog.charles.so/img/substack.pngCharles Sohttps://blog.charles.soSubstackSat, 11 Apr 2026 03:38:49 GMT<![CDATA[The start ]]>https://blog.charles.so/p/the-starthttps://blog.charles.so/p/the-startSat, 21 Dec 2024 15:56:25 GMTI’m not a good writer, I don’t have a following, and no one will ever read this… so why am I doing it?

We are all exposed to an insane amount of data and chaos, whether we seek it or it seeks us every single week. It’s likely a healthy thing for us to summarize the best parts, log it somewhere, and be able to compound it throughout a lifetime.

Even though I’m old now, nearly 40… I’ve missed out on almost 30 years of not compounding this data. This ends now. If I’m being honest, I likely won’t keep going with this for long… but let’s see where the dice lands.

Each week, I’m going to be writing a newsletter to myself, I’m going to try and keep a simple framework that is prompt enough for me to not have to think about what to write.. yet flexible enough not to become a robot.

Here is the framework,

  • What's Keeping Me Busy

  • What's On My Mind

  • Health Tracking

  • Wealth Tracking

  • Things I Learned

  • What Did I Read

  • New Discoveries

  • Next Week

Not every week I’ll hit each one, I want to reduce it down to at least around 5 of them. However, these are the ones I’ve thought about currently. I want to explain my reasoning behind them.

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What's Keeping Me Busy

Each week I want to track what I’m doing, what I’m focused on.. from week to week. It’s more about progression and seeing how it shifts weekly. Maybe in schizo or something, I don’t realize it.

What's On My Mind

As I want to track what I’m doing, I want to track what I’m thinking about.

Health Tracking & Wealth Tracking

Money and health are wealth, so I want to keep updated on both of those fronts

Things I Learned

Learning is important, when I was in my 20’s I was learning something new daily. As you age, you get into a routine, you’re focused on excursion rather than learning. However, I think this might make your brain hard.

The rest are mainly things I want to share with others and highlight.

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